Some were not so fortunate and by thousands, like flocks of sheep, they were rounded up and marched through the night to the concentration camps. We were not allowed to speak to any citizens of Louvain, but the Germans crowded the windows, boastful, gloating, eager to interpret.
We were free to move from one end of the train to the other, and for the two hours during which it circled the burning city war was before us in its most hateful aspect.
In other wars I have watched men on one hill top without haste fire at men on another hill, and im consequence good men were wasted, but in those fights there were no women or children and shells struck only vacant stretches of veldt or uninhabited mountain sides In the university were 150,000! volumes. Near it was a bronze statue of Father Damien, the priest of the leper colony at War Upon the Defenceless.
At Louvain it was war upon the defenceless, war upon churches, col-
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