THE MISTAKE OF A GUARD.
GERMANS SHOOT THEIR OWN MEN. (Received Last N lglit, 5.5 o'clock.) V LONDON, August 29. The Belgian Minister states that the Germans, after securing a check, nrUVirlrAW to Louvain in disorder. A German guard mistook the retroaters for Belgians and fired upon th 6, The Germans afterwards pretended that the inhabitants had fired, *"# iXabitS. The? mX$-on£ of some men, shot several notable citizens, and «mted tb? tow!*, including famous buildings, with bombs. Louvain is now a heap of ashes
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 August 1914, Page 5
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