When we reached Louvain the entire heart of the city wae destroyed and the fire had reached the Boulevard Tirlemont, which faces the railroad station. The night was windless and the sparks rose in steady pillars, falling back into,|the furnace which they prong. In their work the soldiers were moving from the heart of the city to the outskirts street by street and from house to house. In each building, so the German soldiers told me, they began at the first floor and when that was burning steadily passed on to the one next. There were no exceptions, whether it wae re, chapel or private residence, it was destroyed.
The occupants had been warned to go, and in each deserted shop or house the furniture wae piled, the torch wae stuck under it and into the air went the savings of years, together with souven dren and parents and heirlooms that passed from generation to generation, The people had time only to fill a pillow case and fly
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