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.
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