The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-17

German troops. and I'm different places
doctors ana nurses and ambulances
were fired on
AT times the Gcrmans went into
the battle with u Belgian Tag.
while digging trenches. and with
The white flag hoistcd. belgian soldiers
were set on by Germans and shot.
Another time, near tho fort at
LonEcin, Il group of German infantry
hoistcd the white flag. and whom the
Belgian soldiers approached them to
take them prisoners they were fired
on ut close range.
MASSACNE OF AEItSCIIOT
DESCRIBED RY BE;LGIANS
THE massacre OF Acrschot:
Acrschot, town of 5000 inhahi-
tants was invested by the Germans in
the morning Of August 10 No Belgian
troops remained. No sooner had the
Germans entered the city when they
began by shooting several inoifensivc
civilians. In the evening, claiming
that u superior German officer had
been shot by the son Of the burg omas-
ter. or, according to another version
Of their story, that a conspiracy had
been Matched against tho German com
inandant by the burgomustcr and his
family, the Germans took hold OF every
man IN the city, carrying them nifty
AT Il time. within some distance OF the
town. There they grouped them i'm
lines of four men. made them run ahead
OF them and fired upon them, killing
them aftcrward with their bayoncts
More than forty mon were found thus
mastered.
They pllaEcd tho whole town.
The following morning they took one
man out of every three whom they had
arrested tho previous evening. and.
reading them outside tho city. shot
them. Among these were the buryo-
master OF the town, his nftecn-yenr-
,ilH l,S.
Then they compelled the remaining
Villagers 10 dig holes 10 bury their
victims.
For three whole days they con-
/ tinued to pillagc and set fire to every
thing in their way
About $50 inhabitants of Aorscbo,
arc supposed to have thus persisted.
The largest part of the city is de-
stroNed. Five times the Germans tried
To set fire 10 the big church. having
sacked the interior of it's contents. The
town records We're DESTROYED or car
ricd off.
~ must De borne in mind tl,a, tho
civil population OF .Acrschot had been
repeatedly warned by their kurcomas.
ter not to offer any Resistance n,. CON,
init any hostile act towards The in.
vaders. The Germans shot at the nee
ins QUEENS set fire 10 private houses
make the victimzcd citizens declare
that they themselves had set fire te
thclr homes.
The destruction OF Louvain:
The German army penetrated into
i-ouvain after having set tire to tho
surrounding towns and villages
from the moment Of their entrance
INTO IN" city. they reuuisitioned lodginp
ana iood Tor their troops. They entered
every private bank and looted it's re.
serve. IhcT entered private residences
ana sacked and pillagcd them, and in.
dnlGcd in orgies of all kinds
they took hostages; all tho promi.
ueh' men oi The city were detained
omen and children were outraged
and ill-trcated by the soldiers.
WHOLE CITY WARNED
TO Make NO RESISTANCE
-. freNlohs 10 the German invasion
me whole city had been warned re.
inc icrlnan troops, or to oppose hostil,
acts. More than that, ali arms be
longing TO civilians down to fencin,
iohs, had been ordered deposited scv1
cral days previously, in the CITY Hail
and there was not Il weapon found Oh
amy civilian.
ON Angus, - an engagement took
place in the ncishborhood of Louvaii
between German ana Belgian troops
ne Germans, rcpulscd and pursue,
ny nc Belgian troops, rctreatcd to.
wards l-ouvain in fun panic Man>
Witnesses testify that at that moment
Tue Gerinnn garrison in Louvain was
crronconsly Informed that Bcluitns
Wer" entering the city. lmmcdiateIy
inc German garrison. stationed at Lou
VAIN, withdrew towards The station
Mncrc they FLASHED with their owr