New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-30
BELGIANS QUIT CITY
TO ESCAPE CRUELTY
Aost Abandoned by Military Order Answer to Con,
duct of Germans Elsewhere-TermondeW Wiped
s7g-~e 0ds@=Defenceless Not Spared.
TBy Cable to The Tribune.l

Ghent Sept What aspects remarkable
the Belgian campaign The present
place yesterday by of Belgian military authorities Aost
inhabitants been evacuated by the entire civilian
population Not Belgian in place by to-day
the crime Of Termond 1t is answer
implications scahg its results Termonde seven
miles to the north was wiped out completeness known TO
history and in the process hundreds persons pesed To
Alost similar the government has
taken the wise though remarkable step ordering complete
ment of the and child If the Huns
destroy they will be douby cursed Not soul remains to 'h
llenge their
Sunday the shadow OF the coming terror in Aos
surrounding villages When the place entered by the German
force quiet sePu1rc The last man out
miles from the edge the town He
was elderly Engshman riding around bicycle to find what dam
had been earlier the Gothic church
Of St Martin. He accosted by Belgian officer
you your throat slit come out OF this said the soldier
husling him into a armored car
DOORS ALL LEFT OPEN.
What happened there guessed but known
German advance guard came in it found all the doors OF all
the houses all the furniture with e" exceptions waiting all inc
ready be eaten all the wine to be drunk all the
beds be slept n all that army could desire to satisfy IT'S love
One NAV picture the sodiery drinking the Of Aos last night
they of Termonde Png bottles high around the
Flemish Prudens DuSe and where two days ago
the flying popuace been along the road to Client
ing grmppe pennes exhausted mute is not possible yet to
ban fully Of what led up the great evacuation
but on Sunday fifty disguised refugees
from villages aed They and melted Then more
appeared, bringing their ouSeholu goouS VII" ci' OIL e
Belgian laners and cyclists the of
M town and the streets were full peop many preparing
their own free will for which erward became compulsory and
universal Suddenly around their little carts flung
from the contents ana poua nan o ad INTO SOL
diers and civilians alike.
SEVERAL WOMEN KILLED
On the Client yesterday afternoon
nieous her among thousands this amentabe
professions She chd en- shot here and here
she said touching and forehead Several also were
killed On Sunday in Aost
the villages the morning for Ghent From dybrca
ward they reamd high road Yet piabe crowd
ESCAPED At 10 o'clock the shells began drop
into the town said have been struck but badly
damaged.
At one point Client less than miles from the
the correspondent watched the food Of misery roll by As far as
the eye the broad highway teemed with painfully moving
D.op bowed the weight their treasured
possessions Some children offered chocolates but they refused
them imagining be poisoned by Germans Most OF these little
were closely trucks that they could hardy
move limb The sight foreigner the road would make them
wall and away their faces
The scream armored tearing by the sight OF the
artillery pod along rising ground hum Of aeroPaues overhead
miaeuSeshe were nothing 10 te lot 'H
ere the children great They had interest lett o steel
o I'M, th sight Of strange sound Of unaccuotomed
tongue made them weep.