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12 THE DAYTON SUNDAY NEWS SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1918 gether in nearby field. It was not until late at night that we were allowed to enter the house, but only to be unable to leave it. We were obiiged to stay there until 8 o'clock. During this time, the Germans were rounding up the.men, witnessing farewells be-tsveen husbands and wives, then forc LOUVAIN-A STRICKEN CITY I Published by special arrangement with the MeCluro Ncwpacr Syndicate. I'opyright.

1918, bv Hr and Whitlock, under tho title "Mom- orios of Helgium Under tho German Occupation." All rights reserved. Copyrighted in Great ISritain, Canada and Australia. All rights reserved for France, Uolgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Kussia and the Scandinavian countries. 1 i 4 1 become of us! He answered coldly; 'You will be shot together with your daughter ami your Moan-while, the soldiers were bending their bayonets and showing tho frightened servants how well they could prick one. As the captain was leaving us, a soldier approached mo and said: 'Go into the Grand' Place, no harm will befall the 1 went back to get a coat, a hat; everything had already been stolen.

We left our home without anything. On reaching the square, we found all the inhabitants of the neighborhood; they were all weeping. Beside me, a young girl wa.i on the verge of collapse from sufferijig; her father and her two brothers had boon shot, the knees I translate his words almost rHEX. on Thurwlav morning 1 literally "we had the impression, which was not denied by the events, 27th of August, at nine oclixU the Germans announced that it that it was the rule of the arbitrary, and that the officers were abandoning the clerics tn the invective and was necessary to bombard the city, and they issued an order to all the to leave the city at once. It was lm; another comodv.

lor there na! red of the. soldiers, the latter in-wa no bombardment, and probably no jdulgcd themselves in such acts, attt-intontum of anv; a (run was fired two i tudes and conduct from the point or DiM-f times, that was all. Hutoi discipline alone, (teemed very ligniti the soldiers went from house to strange on the part of subordinates in hiihit.mts to the presence of their chiefs. The of 4 lyrj n.r nn time to tiienare. I ficers did not make a gesture or jv them uei-rtiission to tak any-1 wgn that would put an end to it.

and i in with i It -in lli I then beeim i their attitude was cqtiul to an upprov On Jill tho roadtilul or an rnrourajrnmont; novrral of anil she had been torn from the bedside of her dying mother; nine hourB later she found her mother dead. "We had been in the square for an hour, surrounded by soldiers. All the houses on the right side of the square were in flames. What one could observe was the perfect order and method with which these bandits worked; there was an absence of that savagery in pillaging of men left to themselves. 1 can declare that they acted by and with order.

While the houses were burning, one could eec soldiers enter the houses; carrying electric pocket iiio moide wont, i them even joined their invectives to old i.i. n. women, ch drcn. nuns, i tnose ot meir suDorninaies. The priests were assembled in jPT ing their victims to advance; three hundred meters further on, they were all released.

Before leaving its, the soldiers inquired whether the wife of the mayor of Aerschot was in the crowd. They were told while friends destroyed my pass, After their departure, I gained the next village, where at the peril of their lives, friends hid me, and later were bio to help me into Holland. "I learned that the Germans had been searching for me for weeks and that they had even offered a reward of $2,000 to the person who would disclose my whereabouts. I never know why the Germans wished to capture mc. "When my husband and his companions left the city hall, it was eleven p.

m. They were taken outside the city. A political adversary of my husband, Mr. Claes Van Nuffel, spoke up and begged the officer in command of the firing squad to spare the life of the mayor, saying that he did not belong to the same political party as my husband, but that Aerschot needed him anil that he offered his life in exchange of my husband's. The German officer was immovable.

My husband thanked Mr. Claos, saying that he would die in peace, that his life had been spent in trying to accomplish as much good as possible, that he did pot ask for his own life, but for that of his son, a child of fifteen, who would console his mother. They did not answer him. My brother-in-law be sceched them to spare the lives ot his brother and nephew. They would not listen to him.

Toward five o'clock, on the 20th of August, they forced the victims to kneel, and an instant later the best that life held for me had ceased to exist." priests, the s-irk, even women just horn child-birth-driven like cattle. Ten tlio is.ukI of them in one body were forced to inarch to Tirle-mont, eighteen kilometers from noi'h'iiK nifinv found their field, and made to sit back to back on the grass, while the passing soldiers constantly menaced them with death. An hour passed and an officer came, counted the prisoners, divided them I jiii i I r- 1 II imps, they searched the buildimr. on- the li rst wav'to r.ru;;sels. It 'was a tragic into groups, and ordered i muni' f.

ll In- the roadside; i croup to stand in line. r. tS 1 went mad; some wandered for1 "All the members of this croup are UtaulMaAitL (lavs in tin licds ami woods around; hostages," said the officer, "and will sortie mi tin streams. I accompany a column of supplies. If a The menders oi the Garde Civique, and single shot in fired against the column, hundreds ot women ami children, were i all will he shot.

sent to a prison camp at mister, in Till-: PRIESTS Wild HOKE THE Germany, and kept there for months, 1 -l -j I llt Dolirifirt 1 cxnumet. as m-m i While thev wore waiting for the column to arrive, the oherleutnant sud- jranc-iuouis. one nun-u, unless it were the occupants of the ening windows and throwing down mattresses and blankets, which were given to the poor. From time to time the soldiers shouted to us; 'You're going to be shot, you re going to be Meanwhile, soldiers were coming out of our house, their arms laden with bottles of wine; they were opening the windows of our rooms and taking everything they could find there. 1 turned away from this scene of pillage.

By the light of the fires, my eyes encountered my husband, my son and my brother-in-law, accompanied by other gentlemen, who were being led to execution. I shall never forget that scene, nor the gaze of my husband looking for a last time at his house and asking himself where were his wife and (laughter; and so that he should not lose courage, could not call to him: 'Here I "About 2 p. in. they said to us: 'The jdcnlv remembered the two priests KfST WOIY0C0 6i.Of SOLDtrKS horror, like calm. It was then that Gibson and Uulle, Mr.

Sven IViusette, the Swedish charge d'affaires, and Itlount, drove out to Louvain in Hlount's little car. They fount! evidences of the fury'of the destruction, houses still blazing and soldiers pillaging them. While they were standing in the rue tie la Station talking to a German officer, shots wore suddenly fired, and tho German officer led them to the railway station, where for half houses in the demense ol the IJucj I whom he had thrown into the ditch One of them was Father Dupierreux, d'Aivnberg, a German, at Heverle-ter-Hank, where the duke has a chateau vounc ecclesiastic muuchi. hi- ui Many of these houses In searching him, found a pri i vale diarv. He still had his Ked Cross chalk: laeo).

orassartl, and lilts was vtnienuy un it The priests whom Villalobar iv, ilrom ins arm ami me i i 4 SUCCeeueil in linnauiik. iiuiL tui'i- i I anA in nio-ht in 1 hf H'OMST lilt lit( llt'On I K' me mgm were in umuhr f'nrmiin. dm-en out along the road to the west Mills, (1 1 out, Ut man of Louvain, toward Tervueren. They "A Red Cross! A Red Crosa! We .1 ttii.i i l'rtcc LIEUT. STUTSMAN NOW IN NEW YORK an hour they took refuge in the freight depot.

During all that time they could hear firing outside. The Gei-mans claimed that they were being fired upon by lielgian civilians from the upper windows of houses in the rue do la Station, but the lielirians of Lou womon ran crn hnmn1 A 2 mn 1-, l. mans are. pursuing they cried. A were nearly mnetv, among tnem u.c nv nun rector, the vice-re'cior-itnd the profes- And he ordered that a large cross be toi-s of the univorsitv and the rector traced in red chalk on I'ather Dupier-of the American College; and there I reux's back, and when it was done, he few minutes later, tho Grand' I 'lace llflim.

was still filled with soldiers, I accepted a neighbor's hospitality. We had barely reached her home, when Germans came to inform us that we must leave re-entored tho house, I glanced into the Graiiil' Place and saw distinctly two columns of smoke, followed by a number of rifle shots. My court-yard i city immediately; it was about to vain always insisted that the firing from the upper windows was done by German soldiers placed there for the purpose of impressing the diplomatic representatives of neutral powers. According to information received by friends in this city, First Lieutenant L. E.

Stutsman, who has been stationed at Chicago, has been transferred to New York city. He had been in Chicago for three months, taking a course in orthopedic surgery' under Major John Ridlon. He is now with Major JRussell Hibbs at the New York orthopedic hospital, receiving information in the sanie line. uy nuisrn and soldiers, who were firing in the air were about seventy members of a said: Jesuite community at Louvain, which "His case is settled. (bon affaire for davs had given food and lodging est reglee).

to German ofi iters, had nursed the And so it was. Two soldiers led wounded, German and lielgian, and Father Dupierreux forward; he was buried Uie dead. Some of them vre pale, but he was calm; he held a tiw, Civis Iwarinir ifix in his bands. An officer and a be bombarded. We were forced to flee in the direction of Killaer.

With some fifty women and children, we were obliged to walk along a road strewn with the bodies of poor Belgian soldiers, civilians, horses, in the midst of burned houses; on the way, we passed like lunatics. My husband, my children, the servants and myself, had only time to rush into a cellar, hustled by soldiers, who took refuge in our house, firing the while. After a few moments of indescribable anguish, one I do not know who it was that fired. German soldiers for three davs bad been firing from the upper windows of houses they were looting, antl they did it afterwards. If after throe of the German eal.

They set out, on non-commissioned officer followed. A hundreds ot automobiles filled with ot the aides-de-camp came downstairs was covered with German troops, seeing which my son lowered the shade; they immediately fired into the window; a Indict richochetted antl wounded him in the leg. "About ten o'clock the German commander ordered my husband to 3ic city hall; when he arrived, they called him a and, with the greatest brutality, exacted the lowering of the national flag; he was then obliged to translate into German the posters that had been placarded in town, requiring the surrender of firearms ami advising the population to keep quiet. "Meanwhile, officers visited me, asking me for hospitality; there were three of them, a general (Stenger, commanding 8th infantry brigade) and two aides; they were conducted to apartments; their rooms faced the shouting: 'The general is dead; I want fike bravery con TIOLENE the motor oil that's clean. GASOLINE, power in every drop.

The Ohio Cities Gas Co. foot of for Brussels; they nan reached 'I ervu 'vn. There the soldiers lit lied searched them, taking ewav every they bad, including tlvn rs of and tore the Hod brar.sards from their arms, ovs. who were in masses, such horrors, of such murderous destruction, any Belgians could have been found in the upper stories of houses ant were still armed and firing, of that the Germans have never produced any evidence, and they made no arrests, did not even shoot the The general had been struck by a German bullet as he stood on the balcony. My husband said to me: 'This will be serious for I RAISE BELGIAN HARES rati I sisted in leveling their revolvers at women who lacked even enough money to buy a loaf of bread! Finally, after an hour's walk, we were able to find a farmhouse still standing.

We had scarcely reached it, when we were forbidden to enter by a German patrol that forced us to remain huddled to- grasped his hand antl said: 'v lurr-wti fttrk and ycfti ft. on pftir nm Miisieherrin for nil voa niN, Contract aad) 'inecKi is. W.tti 1 priest wtin a KTiowieiiKe vi viriinau was called upon to translate from Father Uupierreux's dairy. "If you omit or change the sense of a single word you will be shot, too!" said the oherleutnant. The priest read a few lines referring to the burning of the University of Louvain and the library as acts worthy of the Vandals, and then the oberleutnant stopped the reading.

Father Dupierreux was ordered to step a few paces in advance a firing sipiad was detailed: the priests were ordered to fix their eyes upon the priest as he stood there, crucifix in hand; the order was given to fire; tho volley flushed, and Father Dupierreux uunett and menaieu uu-in with guns, and lie tried to into tbo (locket of the at that time, on such a charge. jne ivntnif tirioitu hoi fun tsMcmum Ihe (own, 'indeed, was nlim. fin. tiltl i. 4Xj0M.

317 MIMMUKU.WIM tf.niaiic ii, one of the iiriests, and two sorted, though the shooting and the burning and the pillage continued until august when Professor Ner-inckx, of the University of 1 Ihe captain turned my husband over to the soldiers, who shoved him about anil dragged him away. I threw myself before the cantain, saying: 'Sir, you can see that neither my husband nor my on has fired, since they are 'That makes no difference, Madame, he is "My son induced us to move to an oi th? psie.it.- were pushed into a ditch by an ai gry oberleutnant and Oi dei'ii. ui re ia.it tin re. "I'iO 1 tlv.t said the es-uite I'ai calmly and in his Mutely n- rc itcli, told me of bis experi- entereti into negotiation's with Major von Manteuffel, organized a teninor. BUY A LIBERTY BOND HAVE A LOOK our Years of War HAVE A 100X NO ADVANCE IN PRICE! Grand' Place; they could watch the troops resting there.

Shortly after they went out; the chambermaid called me to see the condition in which they had loft their rooms; the worst burjr- ary communal administration Kim. oeoded in re-establishinor some nvf nf fell to the ground, dead. authority. Orders were issued to tho other cellar; a half hour later he said to me: 'Mother, I hear them looking for 'Well, then, let us go up; let us bravely moot our "The same captain was there. iar count not nave upset the iurniture as the Germans had done; not a single drawer bad escaped inspection, not a paper had remained intact.

The explanation of this conduct was given to Antitcpttt Oil, Known a Snake Oil 'Madame, 1 must take vour He It was about two o'clock. I he priests were loaded into, great filthy carts, used ordinarily for transporting ewino, or on transport wagons. There were five groups of. them. The procession started, and for six hours, from two to eight, from Tervueren to Hal, passing through the suburbs of Brussels, the carts rumbled, the priests, as one of them said, shown "like criminals to the population." They were given nothing to eat, not allowed even a drink of water.

As they passed 1,000,000 ROLLS Pain in Few Will Positively Relieve troops by Major von Manteuffel to cease firing, ami order was restored; it was forbidden to burn homes any more; placards were posted on them, or on certain of them, bearing these words: "Dieses Haus ist zu Schutzon. Ks ist strong vorboten, ohne Gen-ehmigung dor Kommanduntur, Ilauser zu belrelen otler'in Brand su setzen. "Die Elappon-Kommandantur." Minutes. 4 KITCHENS BED AND LIVING PARLORS R00P.1S 3 n. I 3 me later on.

the general asked me the name of the Belgian colonel that 1 hail received the evening before, insisted on learning to which branch of the service he belonged, etc. I replied: 'I don't know his name any more than 1 do yours; I don't know whence he came or where he was going, any more than 1 know your "The German -army continued to pass by. They were arresting all men. About four o'clock my husband came took my son, fifteen years old! And as my son walked with difficulty, owing to his wound, ho kicked him along: I closed my eyes in order not to see; I felt myself dying with pain. It was atrocious.

I believe he has had my son taken to his father in the city hall. LEFT ALONE. "The captain's rage was not yet appeased; ho returned for me and' forced me to accompany him from the cellars to the attics, claiming that the sol HC Ron LSSZC Per Roll through Brussels they were seen and tuns notiso must be protected. It recognized; and two men, tne.ir laces is sinewy lorhidiien to enter the blanched with" horror, came to the houses or to burn them without the Duplex and OATMEAL 9c per Roll OATMEALS 15c per Roll Legation, to report it. Hal they consent oi the Kommandantur) Try it rirht now foi li ism.

Nurl(jn, 'lltlbllin, Mirp, utill nmi mjIUii jo, lit pkim ill Ilie hmd. Inuk iiiul linli, corns, buriiona, nr. Allor iim- unilicntiun ruin diKiiiijieurs lmut if liy msiiir. A Hw tx-niKly usiil inln nully mid for t'muii, Sine Thruut. na iiiul Tiincilitin.

'l'iiis uil Is coiH'tiM to the must jii-ne-tiBtiii remi'ily knuwn. lis niift inimoliHte cltctt in relivviiuz imin is due to the tuft tl-st it )ifiK'tru. io the fltcti l.arta at once- As nn illunt ration untie ten iittm tin the tiiei'P nt sole louther i.nl it nil! 'ir. I this fiibstiirue through mid ttirnuyh tn thicc minute. AcmV.

no mihstituti- Thin in-cut oil la ttuini-ti icti TOioi- only. Kvrry bottle uuiiiitn titfJ 5r. and Sl.Ou a bottle or money ri fundid ut Jti)Lina' drug i-torps. Adv. Imported Ihe number of citizens of I in lurantNl full length.

13 yards to Uw triple roll. 30 inrhw wide. All fiat coUra. No AdTahrr in Pricoa en OATMEALS Wken Sold Witiioat BoraVn, in. 'So far, so good, but I am diers had been fired on.

He was able no sain to me. He took some clears to I to see that the moms U'Pi'o Pmrsfv nrwl SAMPLE BOOKS MAILED FREE wore overtaken by General von orders and released. THE SHOTS CEASK. Back in Louvain, however, the rage was abating. Friday, the 28th, there was, if not calm, such a diminution of the storm that it seemed, after all the slain was two hundred and ten, of both sexes and all ages, from infants of three months to persons of eighty years.

Several thousand were taken prisoner; over sis hundred, of which one hundred were women and children, were deported to Germany. pve to he sentinels guarding the the windows shut. Turin this in-i house. 1 he position ol the doorway I spection, he continued to threaten us to the street through the garden en-1 with his Browning. My daughter1 abled us to catch sight of the general i placed herself between us.

But this on the balcony. 1 remarked to my was not sufficient to make him realize husband that what he was doing his cowardice. When we reached the might displease the authorities. As 1 1 vestibule I said to him: 'What is to I 1 417 E. FIFTH DAVTOH.

OHIO Until 0 ftftlMitf Until No Branch Stores 8 O'clock Addrraa All Mail to 172S-24-2S Vine Strwt. The Germans report that five officers, 2:5 Tuen and 1)5 horses ere killed i or wounded. ineinnati. Ohio. eras OTITSS DIELBV EOS IE FIKOERITOH Two thousand houses were together with the buildings of the University, the library with its precious1 manuscripts, and the Church of St.

Peter. THE AERSCHOT STORY. General von Utttwitz had heard that the son of the Hurgomaster of Louvain I Off DOLLAR 0 OR" RANGE TO YOUR HOME BUY Had Killed a German general. Iiut the Burgomaster of Louvain had no son, and no German general or other of- i i fifP3fift Your Family's Health I 20 YEARS IN THE PRUDEN BLDO S. E.

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i The story of a general shot by the son of a burgomaster was a variant of the account of a tragedy that had oc-: curred in Acrschot on the 19th, where the fifteen-year-old son of the Burgo-1 master had been killed by a firing; squad, not because he hat! shot a gen-' BUY YOUR GARLAND GAS RANGE NOW! Prices Ranging From Gold Crowns, Porcelain Crowns, Bridge Work, ri oral, nut because a colonel had been rvvei Burkitt's Plate Work, Gold r-Filling, Porcelain 1 snot, pronatily liy llolgtan soldiers re-; treating through the town. This storv Drug flew all over Belgium, with embellish i Fillings, Artificial Store ments and improvements; the colonel occame-a general, thereby increasing! xiiiamel, Am at Fillings. i wwmsjmzmmm FRtCK msr a tin mum mo K'avjiy oi me onense, antl the boy became a man, increasinir the tvsnnn. sibtlity, and finally, bv the time the story got down into the Province of! mamur, the son of the Burgomaster became the daughter of the Burgomns-j i 1111.1-11011 inn me iiui ror 01 1110 deed. The story was only a week oltl llfe $1.00 Cash, 50c a Week.

fl W3 I Kange to your home. wnen General von Luttwitz it But the story has been best told bv the one who knew it best, Madame Tiele- mans, wite ot the Burconiastor nf i Aerschot, whose boy telling her to be i i i VAitth rY -v i -rVtxM iron -tpi Diave was torn from her and shot, as i was ner nusoand. this is the declaration of Mine. leiemans, widow of the mavor of Aerschot: '-mumm, ZTT, .7. l.imml I Here are the facts as I saw them, when the Germans seized Aerschot.

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i I -i i 1 i lav i I I 1 oiujuDia mii fi i IB cnurcn witn my children because bul-1 lets were falling in the streets; we installed ourselves in a drawing-room iacing me urantj nace (citv hall square). Toward nine o'clock, lielgian soldiers appeared from one of the side streets, their faces covered with blood, 1 v'. ti i Easy supporting one another. 1 opened the i I I I irfiw mm mm MWmuUm.B I I cnus I w-intiow and inquired what was han- jpcnlng: 'We are retreating, the (ier-j a.tJUllfi'TYPBTf'M--' ''''ii i I Ej i. mi i.ni,i,.,.

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