The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-08

ernburg and Belgium. The injustice which we thus commit we will repair, as soon as our military object has been attained.
 eIt has been shown above how much value can be atfached to the assertion of the alleged intention of France to invade Belgium. That in- tention, and the realization Of that intention belong exclusively to Ger. many and they must be left in her possession. This is especially the case in view of the fact that the military dispositions undertaken by France, absolutely refute the allegations of the German Chancellor. So true is this that when the violation of Bel gian territory ecarae an accomplish ed fact, and when the King of Bell gium appealed under the terms of the treaty of 1859 for support, in main tainfng the neutrality of Belgium which these Powers had guaranteed,s France was so little prepared to in wade Belgium that it took her more than ten days to get her troops into the country.
 ssThe world is familiar with the way Germany has repaired in Bel giunn the injustice of which she was guilty to use the words Of the Ger man Chancellor.
 Under the pretext that her troops. were attacked by civilians and even
 
 lages have been razed to the ground Important towns whose boast it was to represent part of the common in her1tance of civilization were not spared. Their ponum ents, which have been respected during the cen which Belgium has been the tI1eater. were deliberately destroyed. Open cities were bon7barded Exhorbitant taxation was imposed upon conquer ed towns, and when the inhabitants were unable to pay the taxes, Q large fire That is what happened to Wavre, among other cities whose s. 500 inhabitants were unable to pay a tax of $500, 900. Ternonde, with 10,- 900 inhabitants, was utterly destroyed On the 18th of September, there only remained in that town 2S2 houses, out of T. 400 The town of Aerschot with 1000 inhabitants. is now nothing but a mass of ruins and more than 15O of it's inha bitants have been shot Dirigfb1e balloons have thrown bombs at night into Antwerp. It cannot. be maintained by those were were in the balloons that they were trying to hit the forts, as the forts are outside the of the town. and good distance outside them as we'll. Nor could the bombs thrown have had any effect upon the forts which are even stronger than those of lege
 There was no. warning of this bombardment fact which consti- tut es violation of Article 26 of the Fourth convention of the Hague, and more than a dozen speop1e were kill | ed, all of them non-combatants and | several of them women anad children l
 ssThe town Of Louvain. with it's 42.oo0 inhabitants, was one of the l centers of Belgian culture, It had no I mercy shown to 1t and has been near ly obIiterated- Several quarters of | the town were set on fire, the church l of St. Pierre, a marvellous example1 of Gothic art, the buildings of the | including the library with | more than 10000 volumes, of which | a large number were ancient manu- scripts, the collections belonging to | the University, nearly all the sci | entific institutions, and nearly all the | houses of the town were deliberately burned. They are now nothing more [ than heaps of ashes. Their destruc- | ton has been a loss to the whole civ liked world.
 The entire Belgo- German question today is dominated by the fact of | this violation of the neutrality of Bel giunn. Therefore, there is not a sin gle shot fired by a German soldier in Belgium, which is not nanifestIy and avowedly be1ying most sa cred things, the keeping of a solemn pledge, and the right for an honest nation that never wanted war, nor showed aggressive dispositions to be allowed toI i've it's peaceful and neu- traI life.
 Such is the Belgian case: Hu- manity will judge it.''
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