New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-29
GERMANS REPORT THAT'S
THEY RAZED LOUVAM
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The refugees tell only Of the horrors they can Civ.
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defeated n Nne the previous day and fell back Louvsn
disorder reaching the town in the evening German iuse' were fred
,o IN error m their The Germans at this misfortune
their cagrn defeat to have haed the oarbar
who set Systematically massacre the population and desft
the CITY whose monuments belonged much to civilization 70 Belgium
1T possible 10 put upon paper t"e accounts e uses as
th were Qiycnn gestures and broken ordinations rather than
nothing that last night when the retreatns German soldiers
egan 70 arrive suddenly and began
pag destroy None Of the horrors OF the worst incidents
warfare TO have been lacking TO te uns Of the
twentieth century They gave full their cruelty lust AND
Gendsh spirit destruction spang neither women caen nor %
tiers religion the beautiful monuments OF medN'a pey Fsm
what was told nc nothing of Louyan but ruins nor Of ans
81, possible that when the story be told be
found that the quite for all the accounts S
ocopc fleeing lives those people four
onares who were in the city during night and who actually
the hands Germans escaped Their relation Of the iac
what follows this dispatch for likely to be accurate
sober They inclined think German rage at the dea
Alalncs which afamc the barbarian passions
They emphaicaiy that since the unopposcd
Of Iovan BY the the civil population had
The attack the unaed population came &
denly rns the street and going from house to o
pagng ravishng numbering and setting houses e Neither
respected Almost all the c'sS were s'' 'u"g oS
English I'd American clergyman The mon'tTou work eonnrd
through the night
In the morning those officials taken refuge
the point OF the bayonet but were not %
The OF murderous rage had evidently passed ~
On the road from Antwerp crowds ptiu refugee;
could be seen-nun fleeing cosr and from
hurches; the bed, the aged nerng along
with the help children all who could article
In collected seventeen children
evidently several families Another andcart held old
who being pushed along by her gandcd MI w
cng Antwerp the city refuge the city which shudde
darkness throughout the nights fear Of bombs
Among fugitvcs ambulance, OF the Belgian army
which wounded being carried soou' to the hospitals
Washington Aug 2S-Fom protest burning
violation OF international law and the laws
humanity submitted the Department late to-day by the Bel
W. aventh The minister deeply moved when heb
Secretary Bryan Office where for the last few weeks his visits have
record Of pathetic history for his country
Il bring this knowledge the United States said the minister f
for only Belgium who has to mourn This thing concerns the
whole world" :.
The the old Church OF St Pierre mentioned IN STATE
The Belgian legation also the destruction OF the c"a
OF Gothic art" the Hotel de Vile
which lies in The famous Province OF Brabnt OF which
was the capital fourteenth century the Of the Duke
Braban century The university, which the hnh
Belgium was by Duke John " Of Brabant 1923 The Cnf
St the richest and
OF pointed Gothic architecture the country