Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-18
We Turn Back 20 Savasery.

A cable message from Major Louis
Livingston Seaman to The Indepen-
dent tells of the pitiful army OF Bel
gian refugees. He cables:
Among the war charities none is
more deserving than the Double White
Cross. organized at Osten principally.
but also at Aurel. Batonyi and other
towns. Americans, in the name Of
charity and neutrality. purpose the
relief of destitute refugees from the
sacked and burned Belgian towns and
villages. Over 10000 passed through
Antwerp during my stay there All
these have been shipped to localities
along Ostend railway line, in antieipa-
ton of the siege of Antwerp. More
than $4,000 poured into Client Bruges
is also oyererowded.
THE terminal of the railway is Os-
tend, from which port communication
with England is still open. This is
also crowded with refugees. Some
have been shipped to England, hut as
passage is refused to children under
Is Ostend is -congested. More
than 500, the victims of inhuman
cruelty are now housed in bath cabins
brought up from the beach and placed
in gardens of the Royal Villa. Some
came from the siege of Louvain and
the vicinity Of Malines and Tirlemont,
all being absolutely destitute. In
several cabins l saw mothers with
from five to eight children. They are
strong and well now, but starvation is
their fate unless succor is forthcom-
ing.
Il beg that help may be promptly
sent, for they will soon be hungry and
winter is near. The American con-
sui at Ostend. H. A. Johnson, has
agreed to receive funds and remit to
authorized Persons. Please ask the
help of the Associated Press that the
need may be given wide publicity.
Il was with the Burgomaster of
Client yesterday when the German
forces were approaching the city.
believe that the admirable work of
the American consul and his repre-
sentative van Hee at Client, and of
our peace committee, was a powerful
factor in saving Client from submit
ting to humiliating terms and from
possible destruction, in spite of the
wounding Of two German soldiers by
Belgian soldiers in front of the Ameri-
can consulate"
Suffering Belgium has paid the
price of her resentment of the Ger
man War Lords perfidy Every mall
now brings description and pictures
of the destruction and horrors in the
path of the great German army. And
where the army has not devastated
the Zeppelin airships have dropped
death and terror from the skies. This
weeks Independent shows a half tone
reproduction Of a photograph of the
home OF an Antwerp physician where
two girls were killed, the doctor seri-
ously injured and the house wrecked
by a bomb from the sky.
The days Of horror in Belgium in
recent weeks can never be told to tbs
world, but the world will be giver
evidence enough to indelibly fix on ths
minds OF Christian civilization the
wickedness of its own liberation o.
war. Can the man of intelligenc,
today who does not cry aloud agains
war and the eommercialism tina
fathers it. ever hope to enter tn,
Kingdom of Heaven?
Read this from Belgiun's appeal II
the United States:
Among the documents which w
have submitted to the President o
the United States and which tn
public viii read in their entirety
there is ample evidence that sine
the invasion " Belgium began th'
German commanders have commit