THE SACK OF LOUVAIN.
HOKRIEBLE STORIES .OF GERMAN
BAIIB4HITY.
Keoeived; 5-45 p.'m,. Sept. 1
.-■ -LCKNDON, August 31. | An Oxford undergraduate, who- was '' present it the sa^k of Louvain, states I 'that when'he -entered the" town on Fri- .!:, day ,■ morning, the greater ct£ the j' town■ wa> ablaze.; Houses -vvero tumibl-'! ing into the stress and iG^rmans were looking among th* ruins. Dead littered .the streets. At thnt time the Hoter^e Villa vva*. intact, officers stating that they intended to reserve it. At Oortenbur^ the undergraduate witnessed the sy^matlc burning ofhouses in revenge for- the" inhabitants fining on Uhlans. ITe saw five civilians shot while escaping"from burning dwell- , ings. A GERMAN iCPOLOGIT. Field Marshal Wi Moltk c denies that the troops nave committed atrocities. | Where hnrd measures were taken they " had been provoked by the participation • of tlie civrt ocipulatjon, including women. {
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20161, 2 September 1914, Page 5
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