The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1914, Page 2

GERMANS SAID TO BE FOR ORTIFY INC G BRUSSELS FOR DEFENSE the white flag. When Belgian sol-|oners the Germa: -Frightfal Crimes Charged So en = GERMANS FIGHTIN STRONGEST POSITION SINCE MARNE BATTLE hs fire in Louvain began a little in, acts which respect neither ses jeode of which the city of Leuvatn | ind the surrounding localities and vicinity of Malinos have been the Ineatre. ‘The German army penetrated into i] "i the Hotel de Ville. ‘The “Cathedral MADE TO WORK IN THE FIELDS not want to give out figures which might be considered fan- the main right wing of the German army. devastation At 'Buicken comereus | tad have fallen in:’also the librery. | After a. frat massacre, somewhat at tastic, refrains from announcing the detalls of these cap- Inhabitants, Including the priest, a| inte In the seme at he aya | TaRdom. they shut the men into the) Cures.'” BELGIAN REPORT OF GERMANS’ CAMPAIGN. man more than eighty years old, was|aoldiers are circulating, ca women to go back to the houses and PARIS, Sept. 16 [United Press).—Genérals French and Seraeving et fre (oul towns pore Tmpde and Wolverthem t Poet mead Mawar the oMoer | leave the doors open during the pent:| Joffre are in complete accord, to keep up the pursuit of a Germans Send 60,000 More Troops em two 0 rough which it had passed. wounded Belgian soldiera were lying | Grinking like ther one mene tnd to Germany (| retreating enemy without any cessation. 5 ° be ei led thi ppear labo: + ~ tines the moment of their entrance | near a house which was burning. Tho! “in fe areots den horse re de- in the elds : aan done in ihe slave The armies of Gen. von Kluck and Gen. von Buelow to Belg ium to Guard Supp ly Lines to the city of Louvain the Germans | Germans threw these tw fortunate | CAying, horses ich are already in- | days o' jen times. Numerous cases Fegitattionsa \ehataas Gad Hoteate | tem into the raging P tia Ol Gaked and tive smell of the fire and were driven north in the greatest of confusion and the allies, ANTWERP, Sept. 16 (United Press).—The Germans are rushing fresh a for their troops. ‘They entéred every| The German troops, repulsed by our |e the Aqitying animals te such that | forced to or tie Germans heavily reinforced, have not spared themselves in their| troops tnto Belgium from Aix-la-Chapelle, but whether to strengthen the bank of the city and took | soldiers, entered Louvain in full| ‘The commission up to this writing| Numerous depositions re attempt to cut off the major portions of these armies. forces now here or which are to be sent to the south to fill the gape in eo bank Balances. The Ger-| panic. Various witnesses asnure we| Bas been unable to obtan any infor-| their march, and even in t man soldiers broke the doors of houses abandoned by their inhabit. ants, pillaged them und te@uiged in It is officially stated that dozens of German spies h ing is not yet known. th ding the fate of the Bur- | the German sp ave | the German right wing ts not y bree at semua teevae Garten seamen Torarding, 4 net, rogarding men and ‘women, In order te prevent been executed in the territory through which the Germans The Belgian forces again have retired to the outer ting et the Aatwerp viaed erroneously that the enemy wan fhe prominent ze ee er Tinony. proves that German detach-| retreated. Many of these men speak perfect English and! fortifications, where they are waiting developments. : here has been reinforced orgies. entering the town, By facts which have thus far been| ments do not hesitate to fly either a claim to be Americans Advices from Brussels say the garrison t | white flag or the Hed Cross flag, #0 an id he German: tructed in that viein The German authorities took nos-; Immediately the German garrison brought to its attention the commis. a fh our troops without being and the earthworks, which the Germans construct in that ity, have Fa a aya ab tha | withdrew toward the station, whore | Mcn, reaches the following conclu mapeded o p The Petit Journal prints a telegram from Berlin vial hoon strengthened. Additional rapid-fire guns have been mounted, co Kelm, the Vice Rector of the | it met with the German troops that aay GERMANS 18 ARE 8v8 BTEMATIC-| On fe other hand they fire on our | Copenhagen stating that the German Emperor will proceed Univorsity, the Dean of the ; had been repulsed and pursued by the ty, Magistrates and Aldermen were | Belgians troopr. | @etained. All arma, down to fenciag foils bad been handed over ambulances and ill-treat our am- manding the roads to the south and west, which Is believed to indicate da teat Hen uote seupatton et Dulane nurses, They, ill-treat and M4 East Prussia and assume chief command against the Letdre = nes trom the heavy allied force known to be in the neigh- territory is systematically followed by hic he ‘ussians. stend. woome to indicat o 4 is ut times preceded and accom. | seein to be particularly the object ‘of ve abate Qutt fe collision took place between the two gg by- nots of violence agninst|their attacks. Last, but not least, It was stated at the General Staff day that during the last twenty- in German regiments. From that mo-| the Civil population, which acts of|/we ol nd amid them Uy tna eeetay BRITISH REPORT ON ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN. tour hours the Germans have sent upward of 60,000 additional troops into if ih Tit HEL bi ote | Est iit : j z< town administration and de- by authorities in| ment, under pretext that the Louvain | (jOlenen are Contrary 10 tile Sonv eat lat Weehter, and we are also in re- Belgium, indicating a determination on the part of the Germans to hold icted by bullets of the variety TACKED BY GERMAN TROOPS, {84 which would hardly have beon |@verywnere the same. They advance in toned 2b ry e " sca cendabadicaeiauaegtenaiennss Inca neleaboring vilage, Corben |Dosellle Inarmuch an all the tanabi- Mone, che Toude mhooting Inoenales |e ne te aod watinonals tn wup-| Oe Attack on Germans’ Right Wing. A SIGNED, past, Bad been obliged to hand thelr | Which the Germans traverse. ‘ BUNSWY trae over tothe Jocn) suthoritieg), | 28, ie tawne and villages where Hiner DE BUNEWTE. | omcial statement was given out to-day by the WarOftice: | Germans Officially Claim Victory Ane, wie enroute raven | ne Caren, nnis Soe Sew | ohio ta Setar ee! coonzuanetmiarise | “The general position on the Aisne continues favorable bas seen the body of a single civilian Mak Re “The enemy has delivered several counter attacks, es- BERLIN, Sept. 16 (wireless to Sayville, L. 1.)—According at the place where the affray hap- Commission es sport pecially against the First Army Corps, but these have been en ‘ 10 o’elock at night. Afterward the Mi A h place on Aug. 25, attacked and destroyed a German field Germans sét fire to the city on assacre at ersc. ot “The Germans give way slowly before our troops and the] hospital, killing the physicians in charge, the nurses and fire were entered by Ger: “a threw aie pads ue, sion in Inquiry into the masseore of /Y,Qermane taken it “The enemy's loss is very heavy. We have taken 2,000 Fifty-two pieces of artillery, captured from the British, cecnaton. ‘The largest ‘part of the| “The Commission of Inquiry on vio) Aersrhnt has inno wise participated!” — LONDON, Sept. 16 [United Press].—The allied lines i have arrived at Hamburg. ae at ioe ihogall phew lation of the taws of nations and theif the hostilities, that ao shot wan) 7S ahr Pha ines in tere of the “Vin Ranta,” com. | awe of customs of warfare, after 20) aire in pointing out the Improba- ave been forced by the first detachment of the |emphasizes the fact that the Germans have now succeeded prising the modern houses, the|!mpartial and careful tnvestigation,| bility of the German versio rd-| Indian troops, who made the trip by way of the Suez Canal|in checking the entire offensive movement of the allies in cotati re ee Lucbal fied on “Ht appeara from precios and con-| £92, of extremely These troops, it is understood, are cavalry, and they will It is stated that the German army is now entrenched Q Setets night in new strong positions and that at a number of points | region of Aersohot the Germans have/ Aug. 19. Still more improbable is the ty of the population fled in ti ‘hed that if— hich is not lines back on their supports. sumed by flames. eyes hale: pastage the German peedeedaby ‘a Soffer Haaitean hit left wing is declared to be the presence of a superior French , ahootl: inoffensive 3 Siisos was Quay toma aidha Calton nace WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.~The Bel- | respect, admiration and oordiality. force. The operations about Verdun, however, are being field. SHOT AT FLEEING CITIZENS IN| test against alleged German atroci-| S@tly honored that you should have on t, North of Aerechot, 32 THE TOWN. ties tn Belgium qas received in the} CRe%eD US aa the friends before whom The official statement denies emphatically the claims of 4 his who fled, and/ quiet had repeated! ‘ed hi consequence to yourselves, in the con- | Marne. brelbgpertry pacar were killed; fellow-cltisens, 6 ‘means ioe neolarn President Wilson. Accompanied by| fidence that your chuse would, be The war indemnities claimed by the German tr ‘oops in were vietbl faritant of the town, that in cage of} ers assembled at the State Depart-| spirit in which it wae conceived and|towns traversed in Belgian and France reaches a total of NTERING THE TOWN. still in evidence when the Germans| received by Secretary Bryan, who| Carton de Wiart of the Commis- ry : ey: peneteated tate entered the city, and they were shown | then took them over to the White| sion presented to President Wilson Only a very small percentage of this sum, however, has ett rt commission: Prosident, ; hich the foll je benedict »2 bad raped Side of Asreshor tntulaad to tie mee “Permit me to say with what sin- apeareas ee ee Seek six inhabitants whom they caused to a. ae ‘ Gians, @ people for whom the people|ciared neutral in perpetuity. This R Ci ° F; li leave their houses. In the evening, | are () oti int ere Picci tad seein ee neutrality, guaranteed by the powers, eport oming rom Ber un ivMtiana hi 1 be of medical certificates testify- . . their lines of communication through Belgium at any cost. Only skir- ; acuane. WOukn Wikhe asian to ceniidaietaa ty al witb ha Seah re ine Germans that the wounds must have been Indian Troops Join Sir John French mishing w in progress in Belgium to-day rt of these facts will be published. Sil, Gah 100 ObRIN rcead sean rn ume ee | kate LONDON, Sept. 16 [Central News Cable].—The following GERMAN REPORT ON THE CAMPAIGN Germans fitat of all ° persons who accompanied her wore! Mofeover, not one of the witnesses |eaness then they begin to shoot COUNT GOBLET dALVIELLA. | for the Allies. Over the Allies Around Verdun pened. The bombarding tasted unti! repulsed, to an official report, French troops, in fighting which took Kigalbe which had tot taken) _ mcial findings of the Commis-|!'Hoplatl on the evening of Aug. 12,/ French armies on our right and left. wounded soldiers. seem to have been provided for the | Asrechot follows appears that the civil population of| prisoners.” The official statement issued to-day at the War Office red by them; that all the witnesses Cathedral of #t. Peter, the University | Can make the following report of 112) OO Tor intteen and and were rushed to the front from south France by rail. France. curring testimony that in the entire) German officer during Jestions, the largest part of the ecien: ° ‘ tide institutions and the town the- Med vaenela airocttiak: Yertion’of the conspiracy, organised ‘Wile on Tel the Germans have succeeded in driving the French-British atten, were at the moment being con- ty ° The reason for the withdrawal of a portion of the German . the Gi Place it might hi A Wi li MORATTOSION CHanate. [Toor mt fre 0 farme end hours | Maopene ys tray alos German ccounting Will Come or who were working in the frighten’ the populace. gian commission which comes to pro-| “You are most welcome and wi ressed, it is stated. road, pI \ houses of the village were set on fire: | aroreover, the Burgomaster, a very| wast Room of the White House by| 70% °M!d lay any matter of vital the French of a sweeping victory at the battle of the River ‘and all thia while no Belgian troops @nd circulars ‘eased to every in-| Minister Havenith, the commission-| understood and mot in the GERMANS SHOT BELGIANS IN| any hostility. These posters were] Ment just before 3 P. M. and were! intended.” $144,300,000. Aeract.ot, « town of 6,000 inhabitants, “The German troops which were | #0Use. President Wilson said to the| the atatement alluded to by the been paid. e orrors. They shot upon flesing cit-| cere pleasure I recetve you as rep-| “Ever since } : Ge b d L yf . N did the Germans | jz, ‘er since her independence was ™m Rates vik aa a they shot five or| vate Boveen all this withoet prove! Fevsentatives of the King of the Bel-| first established Berlin has been de- rmans A anaon leg ers A group of seventy-five persons, |pretending that a superior German has recently been violated by one mong whom were several notables of | omcer had been killed on the ‘Grand the city, such as Father Coloboet and! piace’ by the son of the Burgomaster, @ Spanish priest, and also an Amert-| 50 acoording to another version of can priest, were conducted during the }ing story, that a conspiracy had been for vom tier entertain by Later of them. Had we consented to BERLIN, VIA ROME, Sept. 16 (United Press).—An official @ respect, and express my hope that | anand: trality for the bene- wa any lave aun come a A hee cae nekenl y ie tee 8 ie — issued here says that the Germans have abandoned earning and deserving their regard. | would have betrayed our obligations | “Be ee te wr 7. Aug, 24, to [the Mor peessusbatdbongscel | 2 “You are not mistaken in believing, sward the othors, and it was the {No reason is known here for the reported statement that the square in front of the station. dant by the Bugomaster and his that the people of this country lovd| sense of our international obliga- the Germans have abandoned Liege and there is no confirma- The men were brutally separated ray fed Germans took every man|!t was due probably to the tact that] Justice, seek the true paths of Prog-| tions, as well as that of our dignity tion from any other source. It ia been reported that the Ge: from their wives and ohildren, and leasiy ean inside Aerachot; they led the clvilians ha had fired at them. @ fact| ress, and have @ passionate regard/anq honor that has driven us to re- y : po! e abd after having received the most aboml-/T 00 “ie T'S time, nome distance Mist hie denied by the witnesses.| tor the rights of humanity. iaianee; man lines of communication had been threatened, but in neither ent and after repented (6116 town, grouped them in lines of| laged everything “It le @ matter of profound pride| The consequences suffered by tho the London nor the Paris statements has there been any intima- ee eee wove ae far|fou® men, and, making them run| their hands on during:shie Paammage,” | to me that I am permitted for 8] Belgian mation were not confined tion of any operatiuns of any kind in Belgium excepting those ' g “Up to this writings fasion | ti prese! - as the Sen A Caner aan ahead of them, shot them and killed) of nquiry ag been ‘unable to obtain sah uri vekeanat cng aia | purely to the harm oocasioned by to be their spokesman, and I am| the forced h of invadin, which were being conducted by the Belgians. It is possible them afterward with their beyonets. | the testimony of inhabitants of Diest @ forced mare an in s They were lone Pata Acotpy 4 |More than forty men were found thus} nd Tiremont, which towns were oc- pabaash that your king should bavelarmy. This army not only seiza! that the troops at Liege have been sent south in France, where ing the night ie ing cupled by the Mans on the 18th/ turned to me in timo of distress a5/@ great portion of our territory, but the battle has been renewed, with the G t clock a German officer came to in- | massacred. and 19th of August, 1914, and which| to one who would wish on behalf of le has ewed, with the Germans on the defensive. ] form them that they might all confess} ‘They gave up the town to be pil-| aro cut off et ogee it committed incredible acts of vio- Hi the people be represents to consider . ivate residences ‘However, habitants it lence the nature of which 1s con- and save themselves and that they'/ Iaged, taking from prive Schatten neat Dies have Peels ie be SOE pra, EDENAY trary to the rights of mankind. PLAY FUNERAL DIARGE TO ipvn Tetused absolutely $9: max #800 sta’ ma) abominations | of mankind of @ nation wi deome| I jeman y the vermans as a war ture and forcing safes. The following | were committed in ‘locality and| itself wronged. Shepp be Inhabitants and crit.| FORCE TOWN HEADS TO tev. day the lined up—three by three—the| in the adjoining commiMities, Lumen| “7 thank you for the document you| Mere defenseless women and chil- ‘Thoy were taken outside the town villagers whom they had arrested the/and Molenstede. | The whole regton| nave put in my hande containing the| 27% Were outraged, open and unde- PAY $20,000 WAR LEVY.) to be shot, and the Germans played day Defore, taking one man out of Stean’ howr'e "at oe from ‘Dreee result of an investigation made by a fended towns were Oessroyed,. biste- Chopin's fineral march as @ lest cach line, These they led to & di®| nag begun their work of destrustion, | judicial committee appointed by the|Tcal and religious monuments were} 1 onpon, gept, 16,—The Times cor-|threst to Induce them to pay. tance of about 100 metres from the} all along the highway from Diest to n Government to look into the| Te@uced to dust, and the famous lt- ‘The English, however, saved their town, taking with them the Burgo-| Beeringen. Turning upon Diest, ter of which you have come to| DFaty of the University of Louvain |"**Pondent in Coulommiers, Depart: | ives, as retreat was ordered before would be shot half an hour later, all they could take, breaking furnt- But at half past 4 o'clock they were been plerced yonet allowed to go and shortly afterward afterward, while pS ent ee iat they were again arrested by a Ger- Spas soaked him with petreloum ana) ™A® brigade, which forced them to locked him in a house which they set march in front of them to Malines. man Answering a question on the part of ere An bees se tay 4 ciel had one of the prisoners, a German officer told them that they were going to| master of the town, Mr. Tielmans,| they set fire to everything they could Tt ohail have Gy * | was given to the flames, ment of Seine-et-Marne, France, says|the threatened execution could be taste some of the Belgian grape-shot| and his #on, aged fifteen and a half Pe Re age 8 er ita Deen anelystlann ly Ave pete “In this frightful holocaust, which {tte Mayor and Prosecutor of that| carried out before Antwerp. At last they were! years, and his brother, and shot them.| schaffen, the Germans set fire to| consideration. is sweeping all over Europe, the Mberated on Thursday afternoon at) “Later on they forced the remaining| the town, maasacring the few inhal the entrance of Malines. villagers to dig boles to bury their|!tants who remained bebind, and “You will | am sure, not expect| United States has adopted @ neutral attitude, inet, eon of Sir Cect! Mertslet, Consul- | THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS SENT] victims. agin they found in their houses or| me te eay more, Presently—t meer Thad a wie us teaioe thas your of Great Britain in Antwerp, TO GERMANY. “Forthree whole days they contin-|" “The witness gives the namen and Ses YY ef accounting will then| country, standing apart from either Further testimony shows that sev-| ued to pillage and set fire to every- | addresses of elghteen porsons whom h loo hf ranted,| one of the beiligerents, is in t eral thousand male inbabitante of | thing in sight. he knows to have been massacred, | °m® when, g 5 the nations of Europe will assemble | Position to judge without bias and to determine @ settioment. Where| partiality the conditions under which A the last attags of the Belgian trooped, | touvain, who had escaped the shoot-| “About 160 inhabitants of Aerschot|NAMES OF THE VICTIMS GIVEN old man attached by she arms to/ing and burning were sent towards| are supposed to have been thus mas- BY COMMISSION. b committed their| the war is being waged. deam of a barn. The body was| Germany. We do not at this writing | sacred, “Among them are: weenie Sere Ay relative reepon-|, “It was at the request, even at the know for what purpose, MOS8T OF THE CITY 18 TOTALLY | | “The wifo of Francois Luyok, forty-| sinitity involved will be assessed. initiative, of the United States that ‘The fire continued for several days. DESTROYED. five years old, and her twelve-year- y all civilized nations have formulated ‘An eye witness, who on Aug. 30, left] “The largest part of aha city is to- | 014 daughter, who were discovered ‘The nation: the werld have and adopted at The Hague a law TUTTI FR! CTRAM KISHEs; ina er and shot, “The nations of the werld have! regulating the right and usages of One tit rly blendinge Louvain, deacribes the state of the! tally destroyed, five times the Ger- ‘The daughter of Joan Ouyen, nine plan for euch a reckoning and settle: | "it nae to believe that clty as follows: “From Weert St.| mans tried to set fire to the large old, who was shot. : ch a plan cannet com: he ht presto pheood im positions of supplication, | Georges,” he says, “I have met no-| church, the interior of which has ong Andre, Willen, twenty-three yea mere MinsA aunt 9 Mien cones’ semi | abolished the family of civitised "aor | Pree Belelaa, Onaeal_to| vilaswrn htung to cach comer thar] woen hare seen carried away. | #54, burned alive final arbiter In auch matters, will sup: | Bee eat cine has always {| CEATTTE villagera, lifting to each comer thair | tor 4 “Joseph Reyndere, forty years old, It would be unwise, it wo LATES! A delisiousl who had entered the Belgian white flag, even fro mthose that had | nough wearing ho Hed Cross badge, | WES Was Killed, together with hi -o aman tor promfene nnd an inoameative [B | Geter ateetta tes, as & volunteer, reports that been set on fire, and rage of them|wern not respected. “One of theni|"*Etiaiave Lodta, tory ‘years old, | hewever fortunately separated frem | attachment for the laws of humanity, ter ‘were found hanging from the ruins." | reports that German troops fired «| Therefore it has won a moral influ- “At Weert St. Georges I inquired| Upon him while he was collecting | 54, AAS MATS Ale AOD Forty: Abe nrseers atruggiat Is weowl ne in ence that is recognised by the entire & from the inhabltante tho cause of| Wnyed to Aro even though he din: | grt ne, witness teatifies that he person. | 2" world, It 1 for this reason that Bel- : a in the villages told of hor-|the German reprienis. They all as-| played his [ted Cross armband. through the country was The few inhabitants who ally. proceeded to exhume these two| of any nation, which, like thie, hae | gium, bound as HY a h you iy tise a in the contest, to form or ex: | Of commerce and Increasing frien epmmitted by the enemy, Thus,| sured mo that absolutely none of| Moreover, during the entire day of | (ouem and that he Sherward buries ats final ii " pete 5 ship, turns to the American people at ‘Wacherseel, seven Germann are| the Inhabitants had fired; that all/the 19th, whilo he was engaged In|” ‘The village of Rethy, near Turnhout, |e" Lyla sbbiapdlal this ‘time to let it know the ren) truth ‘ - J fs arms had been previously given up, | hospital service, he threatened | wan the object of devastation and I need not assure you that this present situation, / 400 Broome Ht. te Hpve consecutively violated @/ and that the Germans bad taken|and ill-used. ‘A German officer, | shootine durin the daa 2 by | conclusion, in which I instinctively| “Resolved to continue its unfilnch- Crowes Ty id SA 10 9,m, shooting lay of Aug, 22 by MR Rast wid ne. afterward killing her. In the| vengeance on the population becauso | among others, took him by the head, | seventeen cavalry men who nen pene-| feel that you will yourselves @oncur, | ihe dofense of Its soverelgnty and in- chee iO p.m 0 village they had stripped a/®& Eaeee saciee of the Gendarme) thrusting aguinst his forehead the | trated into village. A you oman] ig spoken frankly because in warm dependence ,it deem@ it a duty to ane ny 4 him with | Co Tolan, butt of a revolver. A wagon driver, | of Atteen yours was killed by 5 Dullet. bring to the attentiomiof the civilised | ai ontainer é he onuatig, which remained|the son of the local tax collector, SRNEST DE BU YCK, | friendship, and as the best means of| worid the innumerable grave breaches ‘Tne “ppecified welght includes the container in 4 in Louvai - . 5 with in the suburb | wearing the insignia of the Red Bec: ft the C na perfect understanding between ya, right of mankind of which she has Of Heverle, where they are ull piled ' Cros, was killed in th 10d) COORMMAN, Presi feen’s viola @ Rue de| (signed) COOREMAN, President. ‘an understanding based upon mutual . above the American ( ‘ollage, anid the BO (Continued From Fiew Page be welcomed, as the French cavalry horses are reported as Against Germansin Louvain sxcoption of the Town Halt Tote de [gtrperatcr cf the sede Which (Ny Of stragglers whto were hidden iu the forests. badly worn out by their constant use ever since the war ; | Ville) and the depot , begun. 19M. d chas! tim into th fleld ith hs Uprit: fe the Scsawier: Bete re | anid ebesting otter hie, without, news Germans tee ‘treat tryin te ote a" ity. but tale a antare Bf the oceasior, ie Sree eeecittme 1 tem eumoners or ©, Ute Wal It is believed they will reinforce Sir John French, who is | Bir: The commission of inquiry bege | ver, hitting htm, seem rather to. maintain ‘it by | te, decimate the population, to rillasy material captured by us 60 far has been possible. reported as initiating an enveloping movement to cut off o make the following report on the EVERYWHERE THERE WAS DE have nepal eee iy 2 Ee i then | “It is for this reason that the Minister of War, who does | "¢P®! VABTATION,