The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-06
Total for
district. 81. sO.ooo,ooo ,s.olss5o $40. 300

Total for
District. u, 900 sstoiss5o ,nosls.soo
subscriptions unofficially announced
yesterday include:
100000 Each-Berwind Interests r.
II. Macy Co, United States Food Prod
ucts Corporation, George F. Baker, Jr;
Bowery Savings Bank (additionaD Tray
lers Insurance Company (additionaD.
100000 Each-Eugene Meyer. Jr (addI-
tionaD Laekawanna Steel Company. Dry
DOCK Savings Bank (additionaD.
*25o,ooo-Peter Doelger Brewing Com
pany.
se34.2oO-Crowell Publishing Company.
sl5o.ooo-Foreign Transport and Mer-
sla5, oOO-Metal and Thermn Corpora
100000 Each-United States IIfs In.
surance Company, H. NJ. SHETLAND, George
Ehret; Royal Indemnity Company (addi-
.7s.s5o-Richard Hudnut- William r.
Warner Company
s7s.oo0-Buck Company.
ssS.ooo-Ford Motor Company.
$50, 6o0-Charles Baez.
$6o,oo0-Pennsylvania Coal and Cok.
Corporation.
$4,000 Each-sargent & Co, Computing.
Tabuiating and Recording Company Ros-
enwasser Bros, Locomobi!e COMPANY ~
America (addItionaD.
Louvafn's Mayor on Atrocities,
Chief interest at Victory Way yester-
day centred about the person and speech
or NJ Alfred Nerinex. Mayor OF Lou
vain, one OF the first of the Belgian
cities to feel the weight of the German
onslaught NJ Nerinex also smoke at
noon at the Sub-Treasury. In his
speech at Victory Way the Belgian
patriot told something Of his own ex-
pertenees with the German hordes. He
said in part:
Il have been asked to come and tell
you something about what happened in
my country not to tell you what your
duty is as American citizens at this
Juncture, but just to give you an illus
tration of what you have been SHARED
That is why we have a feeling OF graft
tude for your help. We were invaded
by the Germans in 1914: our towns
were taken by them without any kind of
tight They had not the slightest ex-
cuse for carrying ON any kind of war
rare with US, There was no resistance,
no army we had no preparation. They
settled themselves upon our homes.
In my home I had to put up seventy
fve men and they made my house so
dirty 1t took my niece several weeks 10
clean It up. That was only inconveni-
ence, however, but after four or five
days OF what I might call peaceful oc-
cupation, all a once at 8 O'Clock in the
evening, without giving us the slightest
warning. they started shooting all over
the town IN all our streets they had no
excuse for 1t; they made the only ex-
cuse they had themselves. Immediately
they began burning our houses; burned
the whole square at the railroad station,
and the whole street the whole thing
from the station TO the centre OF the
town. From the roof OF my house I saw
them set fire to the cathedral and i'm
mediately afterward to the university.
'In one short summer night thew
ruined 400, 900 books. the accumulated
treasures of sciences and art for five
centuries and when We came to nut
out that fire they prevented us from
doing It. At the same time they were
driving our poor people toward the
station and reported $500 of them in
cattle cars which took them into Ger
many. They killed 200 OF our people ;
they destroyed 100 houses. And az
forwards when | talked the thing over
with them they told us Well. some
of 1t may have been a mistake. but we
were Justified. We had TO terrorize your
country and enforce our ways OF waG-
ing warfare. II we hadn't done 1t IT
would have taken 100000 men TO keep
you pasEtSe. whereas at present we nave
done II With only 10000 men,
III their object had been war-like