The cruelties practiced in this
guerrilla warfare, even by women and priests, toward wounded
soldiers, and doctors and hospital nurses--physicians were killed
and lazarets fired on--were such that eventually my Generals were
compelled to adopt the strongest measures to punish the guilty and
frighten the bloodthirsty population from continuing their shameful
deeds.
Some villages and even the old town of Louvain, with the exception
of its beautiful town hall, (Hotel de Ville,) had to be destroyed
for the protection of my troops.
My heart bleeds when I see such measures inevitable and when I
think of the many innocent people who have lost their houses and
property as a result of the misdeeds of the guilty.
WILHELM I. R.
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REPLY TO THE KAISER.
Made by President Wilson at Washington, Sept. 16.
I received your Imperial Majesty's important communication of the
7th and have read it with the gravest interest and concern. I am
honored that you should have turned to me for an impartial judgment
as the representative of a people truly disinterested as respects
the present war and truly desirous of knowing and accepting the
truth.
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