the body of A.M.,
(a woman.) She had been shot. I saw an officer pull her corpse
underneath a wagon."

Another witness, who was taken from Aerschot, also describes the
occurrence:

"I was afterward taken with a large number of other civilians
and placed in the church at Louvain. Then we were taken to
Station Street, Louvain. There were about 1,500 civilians of
both sexes, and we had been marched from Aerschot to Louvain.
When we were in Station Street I felt that something was about
to happen, and I tried to shelter in a doorway. The German
soldiers then fired a mitrailleuse and their rifles upon the
people, and the people fell on all sides. Two men next to me
were killed. I afterward saw some one give a signal, and the
firing ceased. I then ran away with a married woman named B.,
(whose maiden name was A.M.,) aged 29, who belonged to
Aerschot, but we were again captured. She was shot by the side
of me, and I saw her fall. Several other people were shot at
the same time. I again ran away, and in my flight saw children
falling out of their mothers' arms. I cannot say whether they
were shot, or whether they fell from their mothers' arms in
the great panic which ensued. I, however, saw children
bleeding."

JOURNEY TO COLOGNE.

The greatest number of prisoners from Louvain, however, were assembled
at the station and taken by trains to Cologne. Several witnesses
describe their sufferings and the ill-treatment they received on the
journey. One of the first trains started in the afternoon. It consisted
of cattle trucks, about 100 being in each truck. It took three days to
get to Cologne. The prisoners had nothing to eat but a few biscuits
each, and they were not allowed to get out for water and none was given.
On a wagon the words "Civilians who shot at the soldiers at Louvain"
were written. Some were marched through Cologne afterward for the people
to see. Ropes were put about the necks of some and they were told they
would be hanged. An order then came that they were to be shot instead of
hanged. A firing squad was prepared and five or six prisoners were put
up, but were not shot. After being kept a week at Cologne some of these
prisoners were taken back--this time only thirty or forty in a
truck--and allowed to go free on arriving at Limburg. Several witnesses
who were taken in other trains to Cologne describe their e