who, in spite of our repeated warnings, even after the fall of Luettich,
(Liege,) have done nothing to induce them to a peaceful attitude.

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Official German Statement Published in Berlin, Sept. 7.

Belgium is officially spreading false representations about the
occurrences through which the City of Louvain was made to suffer. It is
claimed that German troops, having been repulsed by Belgians making a
sortie from Antwerp, were fired upon by mistake by the German garrison
of Louvain and that in this way fighting occurred there. But events
prove incontestably that the Germans repulsed the Belgian sortie.

During this battle before Antwerp an undoubtedly organized attack was
made upon the German troops at many places in Louvain, after apparently
friendly relations between the Germans and the citizens of the town had
seemed for twenty-four hours to be beginning. The attack was at first
against a Landwehr battalion composed of older men of quiet disposition
and themselves mostly fathers of families; also against sections of the
General Staff that had remained in the city, and upon moving columns of
troops. The Germans had many wounded and killed. They won the upper
hand, however, owing to the arrival of fresh troops by rail, who were
fired upon at the station. The truth of the foregoing statements is
established beyond all cavil. The City Hall was saved, but further
attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful.

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LOUVAIN'S ART TREASURES.

Official Report by Superior Confidential Councilor von Falke After
Inspection of Louvain, Sept. 17.

The ancient Tuchhalle, which was used for university and library
purposes, was completely destroyed by fire, with the exception of the
front and rear facades in Gothic and Renaissance style. The library,
with its very valuable treasures of manuscripts and books, was therefore
a total loss. Officials of the library who might have called attention
to the saving of the imperiled treasures were not present when the
adjoining houses on both sides of the hall caught fire, and no hope
exists that any of the books or manuscripts, or even parts thereof,
might be found in the ruins.

Apart from this--by far the worst damage--and the partial destruction
by fire of the Cathedral of St. Peter no other losses of extraordinary
importance took place at Louvain.

The Rathaus, or City Hall, in late