ATROCITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 7

ATROCITIES.

LOUVAINERS ILL-TREATED. RAILED LIKE CATTLE. SHAFEFULLY INSULTED. LONDON, Sept, 6. Whole columns of .the newspapers are filled descriptions of the manner in which the burgesses of Louvain were thrust at the bayonet point into filthy waggons that had been used for the transport of horses, the door shut, and only fugitive rays of light filtering through the chinks. The journey to Cologne in one case took fifty hours, and the prisoners, foodless and drinfelesSj were marched through jeering crowds to the exhibition gardens iu Cologne, .men and women hurling vile epithets and shouts of "Kill them," and even children kicking the prisoners as they passed. They breakfasted next morning on a small portion of black bread, and then for some reason were sent back to Belgium. .They arrived ravenous, and when rleleased ate turnips and beetroots in the fields. Refugees describe Louvain as a modern Pompeii. NAMUR. PEOPLE STARVING. AMSTERDAM, Sept. '5. A telegram from Berlin states that the hotels in Namur are converted into barracks. The whole square was burnt down, and the magnificent Town Sail demolished. Troops are guarding the bakeries from starving citizens, and the troops are dependent on vast stores of preserved food taken from the conquered forts. PROTESTS. PARIS, Sept. 4. France has made an additional protest to the Powers against Germany's numerous violations of international law, with details of murders, cruelties, and devastations. ROME, Sept. 4. A deputation of fifteen members of all parties petitioned the Ministry to join the United States in protest against Germany's repeated violations of international law.