The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . >^ Cortenberg^^Nosseghem LojiV^in^ I—3>::8 INVASION OF BELGIUM AND ALSACE-LORRAINE body. That the explosive was of the most powerful kind wasproved by the complete fragmentation of the shells which fell atthe palace, the Cathedral, and the Ex:change. The arsenal nar-rowly escaped destruction. At the Bo auical Gaidens, adjoiningthe Hospital of St. Elizabeth, the explosion shattered windows,sending fragments through the wall and shattering a crucifi
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . >^ Cortenberg^^Nosseghem LojiV^in^ I—3>::8 INVASION OF BELGIUM AND ALSACE-LORRAINE body. That the explosive was of the most powerful kind wasproved by the complete fragmentation of the shells which fell atthe palace, the Cathedral, and the Ex:change. The arsenal nar-rowly escaped destruction. At the Bo auical Gaidens, adjoiningthe Hospital of St. Elizabeth, the explosion shattered windows,sending fragments through the wall and shattering a crucifix whichhung over a sleeping child in the hospital. The locations of theexplosion all indicate that the object was the assassination of theroyal family. The condition at Antwerp was pathetic. Many. IAUT OF THE AT ANTWERP At the right is seen the cathedral spire, which the Emperor Charles V said •ought to be preserved In a glass case thousands of refugees from Malines, Liege, Louvain, and the sur-rounding country thronged the streets, carrying little handker-chief-bundles, containing their entire possessions. Forty militaryRed Cross hospitals were crowded with wounded soldiers. The Germans have broken the rules of The Haoue tribunaland have fired upon the white flag and upon Red Cross Red Cross officer Avas killed while buryina German dead. Chil-dren and old men have been bayoneted. The soldiers burned vil-lages of non-combatants, thereby repeating the tactics of theBoxer wars, in which Chinese villages were burned and their in-habitants murdered, when the ransom demanded by punitive expe-ditions was not paid. After the Zeppelin attacks Antwerp at night became theV. I—?^ 329 ON THE WESTERN FRONT darkest city in the world. Not the faintest glimmer of
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