at you have done.
Men have been sent to the Tower for less. If it were for any other
cause, I hesitate to think what would happen to you. But as it is, I can
only congratulate you on some very good work."

And that's how we got our food in time.

Fines are being imposed on towns on one pretext or another. The other
day two policemen got into a controversy with a German secret-service
agent who did not explain who he was, and got a good thumping for doing
various things that a civilian had no business to do. This morning von
Luettwitz comes out with this proclamation:

On the 28th of October, 1914, a legally constituted court martial
pronounced the following sentences:

(1) The policeman De Ryckere for having attacked, in the legal
exercise of his duties, an authorised agent of the German
Government, for having deliberately inflicted bodily hurt in two
instances with the aid of other persons, for having aided in the
escape of a prisoner and for having attacked a German soldier, was
condemned to five years' imprisonment.

(2) The policeman Seghers for having attacked, in the exercise of
his legal duties, an authorised agent of the German Government, for
having deliberately inflicted bodily hurt on this German agent, and
for having aided the escape of a prisoner (all these offences
constituting one charge), was condemned to three years' imprisonment.

The sentences were confirmed on October 31st by the Governor-General,
Baron von der Goltz.

The city of Brussels, not including its suburbs, has been punished
for the injury by its policeman De Ryckere to a German soldier, by
an additional fine of Five Million Francs.

The Governor of Brussels,
BARON VON LUeTTWITZ,
_General_.

Brussels, November 1, 1914.

Last night we dined at Ctesse. N----'s to celebrate everybody's safe
return.

* * * * *

_Brussels, Sunday, November 8, 1914._--Barges of food are beginning to
come in, and we have the place filled with people with real business
concerning the food and a lot of the usual "halo-grabbers" anxious to
give advice or edge into some sort of non-working position where they
can reap a little credit.

We are put on German time to-day.

On November 4th the Governor-Gene