by bullets; a woman coming out of her house had been
stricken down in the same manner.

A witness whose declaration has been received by Edward Hertslet, son of
Sir Cecil Hertslet, Consul General of Great Britain in Antwerp,
testifies to have seen not far from Malines on Aug. 26 (that is, during
the last attack of the Belgian troops) an old man attached by the arms
to a beam of a barn. The body was completely burned; the head, the arms,
and the feet were intact. Further on was a body all over stabbed with
bayonet thrusts. Numerous corpses of peasants were found in positions of
supplication, arms lifted and hands folded in prayer. The Belgian Consul
to Unganda, who had entered the Belgian Army as a volunteer, reports
that everywhere the Germans had passed through the country was
devastated. The few inhabitants who remained in the villages told of
horrors committed by the enemy. Thus in Wacherzeel seven Germans are
said to have consecutively attacked a woman, afterward killing her. In
the same village they had stripped a young boy, threatening him with
death by pointing a revolver at his breast, piercing him with their
lances, and chasing him into the open fields and shooting after him,
without, however, hitting him.

Everywhere there was ruin and devastation. At Bulcken numerous
inhabitants, including the priest, a man more than 80 years old, were
killed.

Between Impde and Wolverthem two wounded Belgian soldiers were lying
near a house which was burning. The Germans threw these two unfortunate
men into the raging fire.

The German troops repulsed by our soldiers entered Louvain in full
panic. Various witnesses assure us that at that moment the German
garrison occupying Louvain was advised erroneously that the enemy was
entering the town. Immediately the German garrison withdrew toward the
station, where it met with the German troops that had been repulsed and
pursued by the Belgian troops. Everything seems to indicate that a
collision took place between the two German regiments. From that moment,
under pretext that the Louvain civilians had fired upon them, a fact
which is contradicted by all witnesses, and which would hardly have been
possible inasmuch as all the inhabitants of Louvain, for several days
past, had been obliged to hand their arms over to the local
authorities, the German soldiers began to bombard the city. Moreover,
not one of the witnesses has seen the body of a single civilian at the
place where t