they found in their houses or in the streets.

The witness gives the names and addresses of eighteen persons whom he
knows to have been massacred.

Among them are:

The wife of Francois Luyck, 45 years old, and her 12-year-old daughter,
who were discovered in a sewer and shot.

The daughter of Jean Ouyen, 9 years old, who was shot.

Andre Willem, 23 years old, sexton, who was tied to a tree and burned
alive.

Joseph Reynders, forty years old, who was killed together with his
nephew, a lad of ten years.

Gustave Lodt, forty years old, and Jean Marken, also aged forty,
probably buried alive.

The witness testifies that he personally proceeded to exhume these two
bodies, and that he afterward buried them in the town cemetery.

The village of Rethy, near Turnhout, was the object of devastation and
shooting during the day of Aug. 22 by seventeen cavalrymen who had
penetrated into the village. A young woman of fifteen years was killed
by a bullet.

Still more horrible crimes, if that were possible, have been committed
by the German troops on account of their defeat at the hands of the
Belgian Army before Malines. The City of Louvain, with its artistic and
scientific riches, has not been spared.

New reports will be submitted very shortly.

GOOREMAN, President,
ERNST DE BUNSWYCK,
Secretary of the Commission.

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III.

Destruction of Louvain.

Antwerp, Aug. 31, 1914

To the Minister of Justice:

Sir: The Commission of Inquiry begs to make the following report on the
deeds of which the City of Louvain and the surrounding localities and
the vicinity of Malines have been the theatre.

The German Army penetrated into Louvain on Wednesday, Aug. 19, after
having set fire to the towns through which it had passed.

From the moment of their entrance into the City of Louvain the Germans
requisitioned lodgings and victuals for their troops. They entered every
private bank of the city and took over the bank balances. German
soldiers broke the doors of houses abandoned by their inhabitants,
pillaged them and indulged in orgies.

The German authorities took hostages--the Mayor of the city, Senator
Vander Kelm, the Vice Rector of the Catholic University, the Dean of the
city; magistrates and Aldermen were also detained. All arms, down to
fencing foils, had been handed over to the town administration and
deposited by the said authorities in the Church of St. Peter.