This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... reached the first Belgian outpost. He explained. All were allowed to pass. The only food the unhappy fugitives had had for four days was two potatoes each. Every minute the Germans had told them that they would be shot next day. We may ask how it can be possible for human beings to torture other human ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... reached the first Belgian outpost. He explained. All were allowed to pass. The only food the unhappy fugitives had had for four days was two potatoes each. Every minute the Germans had told them that they would be shot next day. We may ask how it can be possible for human beings to torture other human beings in such a fashion. And yet this was not the worst. Several thousand men, women and children were taken to Cologne, and ill-treated for a whole week, with unparalleled cruelty. The following is the history of a first group as related by a witness who, obeying the order to leave the town, set off on Thursday morning in the direction of Aerschot. At Rotselaer they were all arrested, men, women and children, to the number of two thousand eight hundred. The men were separated from the women and, children, and were informed that they were to be shot; then they were marched back to Louvain. They spent the night near the railway station in the rain, without food or shelter. The German soldiers had robbed them of everything, money, papers, jewellery, umbrellas and overcoats. On the morning of Friday, the 28th, they were put into a train; eighty of them were squeezed into cattle-trucks, in which there was sufficient space for about thirty, and the floors of which were covered with a thick layer of manure. They did not arrive at Cologne till the afternoon of the following Monday, having had nothing to eat or drink on the way and not having been allowed to leave the trucks during the journey. A man went mad in one of these moving hells; two others tried to commit suicide; some twenty were passing blood. In another truck on the second day after leaving Louvain, a man tore the lining out of his coat, and gnawed it to assuage his hunger; he took...
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1st edn. 8vo. Rebound in later green cloth with new endpapers (small accession number sticker at tail of spine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 115 (ex school library with bookplate on front paste-down and usual stamps and markings).
