The Sack of Louvain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 17, 7 September 1914, Page 6

The Sack of Louvain

AMERICAN AUTHOR’S PERSONAL VIEW OF THE OUTRAGE.

(Received 8.50 a.m.)

London, September 6

Mr Will Irwin, the American author, with three American war correspondents, witnessed the sack of Louvain. Mr Irwin states that the destruction and the massacres originated through youths firing at the Germans from the houses. Every such,house was burnt down and the .occupants slaughtered. The destruction was carried out remorselessly and was completed *on trie sbeond day ot occupation—street bystreet, and house fjy house. Only 2000 German , soldi er.s ; werp , engaged, but thbl' Were d/iink with blood, not with liquor. Mi\Tywin believes that the Germans )ul are not defying the rules At warfare, but are applying them. The' entifchess of the brutality is unknown in civilised warfare. ;The inhabitants who have not fled from tbo ruins of their towns and villages have been left starving, destitute, and stunned.