PILLAGING, DESTRUCTION, AND MURDER.
A BRUTAL ACT 01-' I{KYE.XGTC. (Received Last. Night, 5.5 o'clock.) COPENHAGEN. August 29 Tin- destruction <>f Louvain is fully confirmed. Refugees state that the Germans, chagrined owing to tho defeat of Tuesday, when it was necessary for them to cover up their comrades' mistake, commemvd pillaging, destroying, and expelling the inhabitants at the point of the bayonet. The murdered include English and American clergymen. "The buildings destroyed include the magnificent cathedral, and tha university library of 200,000 volumes. The "Berliner Tagob!att"_ announces that Louvialn has been hitteilv punished for its civilian uprising.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 4
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