The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-29
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eERMANY---DEMOCRATIc TENDENCIES.
BELGIUM.


BelGium-Now Complications in tho War
Arrival Of Yresh Troops from Prussia. "
BOUILL0N, Sept. IL 1870.
Those who Q few days ago were rejoicing at the
near termination of this war will find themselves
greatly mistaken. As Prussfan oficer said to me
the other day, fear we are only at the commence
ment, and very far from the end OF our European
troubles. And, what is more, believe that ere many
days over we shall see fresh complications and
new difficulties connected with the affairs OF these
countries. In palmer words there is no doubt
thar Prussia is seeking for pretext to violate the
neutrality or Belgium. Within the last forty.eght
hours no less than three Official complaints have
been made from Bismarck to King Leopold to the
effect that the Prussian wounded soldiers going
through Belgium were by no means so wei treated
as the French. The first and second Of these
complaints were investigated here in Bouillon by
Belgian officers; the third has been sent In such
peremptory tone that General Chazal, the Com.
manderinChief OF the Belgian army, has been
dered here TO make all inquiries and arrived here to-
day. When q very strong Power tries to pick a
quarrel with weak one the task is not hard one
1t is the old story Of
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
The Prussan wounded men have been passing
through this place for the last ten days at the rate
Of 900 and upwards day. They come in carts or
to Tirlemont where they take the railway through
Belgium Tor rather through the rest Of Belgium, for
Boullon is In Belglum) to Germany. Why the Bel.
Rlan government should allow them to 90 through at
all Is more than can make out for 1t Is certainly
violation Of the treaty. There also some wounded
Frenchmen here, but these are In different cate
CORY. They cannot be sent on for there Is no place
TO send them to. They are all men who
when wounded, fed into Belgian terri
tory, were there disarmed by the Belgian
troops and sent on here. There is no doubt that
the sympathies OF the Belgian people are entirely
with the French, and dare say that the latter re-
ceive little acts of kindness which the former do
not from the people. But am quite certain that
the Belgian authorities make no difference whatever
between the two and that in the hospitals ana as
to food the one is quite well treated the other
But since their victories the Prussians have certainly
shown that-to use familiar North of England ex-
pression-tney "cannot stand beans" that u.s. they
get beyond all bounds when they are prosperous.
PRussIAN ARROGANCE.
1t seems that q few days ago Q Prussian soldier
going through BOuillon was riding the horse of a
French farmer who had taken refuge In this town.
The latter saw his own animal In the possession o.
another and tried to take 1t from him. The Prusslan
were both taken before the BurgomeIster or Mayorr
!, the horse s had been stolen, declared n' that
mitted upon soil IN which ne. being Belgian, had
no authority, and committed the unfortunate
Then 1t was that the son Of Gaul, not being
able to recover his property, eased his mind
low coantrymen nation Of thieves S Ms He w sel
overheard by 9 Prussfan of1cer ana a formal com
Belgium. The other complaints are even more
trivial than this one but they are all made in tone
a Ia RI
DICK quarrel with her weaker neighbOr. So mucn
is this the that should not surprised any
her army across the Belgian frontier.
CONDUCT OF THE PRUSSIANS.
pers-three OF them English and two OF them Ame-
rlcansM dlned together here. One x other Of them
war IN Xmerc e @en IN ay IN dss a ne
d1a 1857 IN Abysslnia in Bohemia In 1866 in Mexico
when the French went there and IN Syria when the
massacre OF the Christians In 1850 took place. They
all agreed that they had never army Of such
inveterae thieves one that behaved SO badly to the
devs pleasure for doing harm for the ' pleasure
thereof as the Prussians. Dr. Russell, the special
correspondent OF the London Times, passed through
here few days ago on his way to Join the Third
seems utterly ignorant Of the injury the troops OF
have In many instances outraged the women, and
fearful case OF this kind accompanied with the
days ago, ana as yet has not even been inquired
into.
BURNING A. TOWN.
The very first thing the Prussian soldiers do when
they take village Is to swear that the population
that s the inhabltants-of the place have fired upon
declare this to be reason enough that the town
should be pillaged and generally burnt The village
Of ss is case II point met 81 dinner here
place. He assured me that the night before the
battle Of Sedan he and the mayor Of the village Tor
called together the Inhabitants and urged them not
20 nre upon the Prussians should the latter enter
about half dozen who belonged to the Guard Mo-
bile, and who said they would only use their arms to
help the French troops II there was fighting
In their streets 1t so happened at an early
period Of the battle that number OF French soldiers
were driven into the town. These took refuge in
Of course fired at the Prussians, and were fred at
by them. They were joined by the half dozen or so
men Of the town who belonged to the Guard Mobile.
This was enough for the Prusslans. When the fight
was over they deliberately and systematically set
IRE to every house In the town. including the church.
which was very fine one, and they as deliberately
SHOT, IN COLD BLOOD,
with less care than most men would destroy mad
dog, all the male inhabitants they could find and two
women, making in all sixty-two persons thus muir
dered In the one town. What here repeat is not
from mere hearsay. have made the most careful
inquiry upon the spot before believed the story,
true All these tales OF
HORRIBLE BRUTALITTEs
committed by the Prussians-and I could ill
couple OF columns OF the HERALD with mere list of
them-are Of course heard n Belgium. The people
the same language and profess the same faith as
their French neighbOrs The country f. SO full OF
refugees from France that even In the large towns
OF Lege, Louvain, Namur and Brussels, not lodg-
ing can be had for love or money. Is IL TO be won.
dered at, then, II the Belgian take more notice OF
q French than Prussian solderY What has really
annoyed the Prussians IL That directly after the
battle OF Sedan O number OF French soldiers took
refuge In the Belgian territory. They were at once
brought In BY the Belgian troops, made to lay
down their arms, and then forwarded to
the Interior While ethey were here ana
at the other frontier towns the Belgian
people and the Belgian soldiers treated
them to food, drink, clothes and tobacco. BUT all
the Prussians that arrived they received with sol.
emn silence although safely say that TO SIN
gle occasion were they ever insulted annoyed In
any way. But this has greatly vexed the Prussians.
who seem quite unable to understand how any one
can admire any one except themselves. The
COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE BELGtANs
which have been made by the Prussians are most
childish, and certainly do not come well from the
chiefs OF an army that has plundered, pfered and
indeed utterly ruined every part OF France Into which
o. Bouillon but some Prussan officer drives