AN ACT OF BARBARITY.
GERMANS DESTROY CITY OF LOUVAIN. A BREACH OF INTERACTIONAL LAW.
(Received Last A" ight, 5.5 o'clock.) The Germans have fired tli© city of an* Antwerp, and reduced it to ashes. The Press Bureau states that the destruction of Louvain is «„ unpardonable act of barbarity and vandalism. It can only bo supposed that in Ins desire to conceal the facts, and to oarer the bluncW his Sin men, the German commander seized upon the first idea occurring to him as an excuse-for an act unparalleled m tho history of civilisation Lo am is miles from the real fighting line. International £ the only legitimate aim m war, is the weakening of the enemy's irmv tS rules of warfare forbid the destruction and seizure of prone 4 S Tmperativoly called tor military necessities. By decoying ToifvaS £ Germans have committed a cr.mo for which there can bo no Tton"mot Humanity has suflercd a loss which can never bo replaced atone^ont *
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 4
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160AN ACT OF BARBARITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 4
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