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The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, the Prian Minister, received an ovation when he rose to reply to the toast of His Majesty's Ministors at the Guildhall Banquet. He said:Nover has any Government in our history more needed the whole hearted confidence and unselfish co-operation of the community without distinction of party or class, and never figs that confidence been ungrudgingly expressed and that co- operation more generously offered.
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This was the seventh year in succession that he had responded for His Majesty's Ministers at the Guildhall. During that time not only our own country but the world outside had experienced many. strange vicissitudes It was not inappro priate to recall the European situation. It presented new features of startling and arresting significance which it had been left to time to unfold First there was the formal annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Advantage was then taken by Austria with the connivance of another Power to ride roughshod over weaker nationalities, and set aside the public law
of Europe, the first though not the most
That was Important of the causes which led to the present war. The other change in the European situation was the suddan emergenes in the Ottoman Empire of the Young Turk Party. They had brought about a bloodless revolution; they had deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid; they had established, we all believe, freedom and
constitutional government ·in the Ottoman Empire. Never were hopes so sanguinarily entertained doomed to a more bitter or more complete disappointment and after six years we are reluctantly. compelled to admit that the Young Turk has reproduced vices without either the vigour or versatility of the old régime.
When the war began we made it clear, in conjunction with our Allies, to the Turkish Government that, if they remained neutral, their Empire should not suffer in integrity or authority. The Turkish sintesen, vacillating in council from day to day, allowed their true interests to be undermined by German threats, by German ships, by German gold, and they were tempted to one futile outrage after another.
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THE SACK OF AERSCHOT!
FOURTH OFFICIAL REPORT.
The Commission appointed by the Belgian Government to inquire into violations of the rights of "nations, and presented its fourth report to M. Poullet, of the laws and customs of war, has Minister of Science and Art, temporarily Minister of Justice.
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OUTSIDE THE TOWN: 20MES OF VITIMS. In the rest of the town, through which we passed quickly, a few burnt houses could be seen here and there They are more numerous along the Louvain road, where we saw from time to time the "chorred remains of groups of two, three, and sometimes ns much as five drellings. Following this road for a distance severol ruins of cottages and villas, at the fort of the hill. miles towards Gelrode I noticed isolated
It is there, on the outskirts of the town.
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Lawless bombardment of Russian open ports and equally Jawless incursion into Egyptian territory continued until the Allies, after observing
I believe that I may affirm, even now, that unexampled patience in the face of veiled menaces and of the Commission, M. Cooreman, and victims of German fury. Black dots of more due to an organized pillage than to The report is signed by the President of a bank the spot where fell these innocent laborious and peaceful popriation is much After some searching found at the foot the total ruin which has wertaken this impudent equivocations, were compelled deals solely with the condition of blood still marked, on the stubble, the place fire which spared.
ber 17th, and is as follows:-
Sir,As on evacuated the town of Aerschot, the Con- confirms the testimony of the witnesses the executioners. The blood stains are as the German troops two yards distant from each other, which mission of Inquiry delegated one of its necording to which, at the last moment, the cibers, 31. Orts, Counsellor of Legation, executioners took from the ranks two out of which the torn was left. M. Orts sent us sort of inquiry, pointing out those who bad to examine personally the condition in every three men, chance, in default of any All the valuables which the ner had not the following report:--
to yield to the logic of facts and recognise Aerschot. It is dated Antwerp, Septem-occupied by each of them under the fire of town certain quarters of the
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According to the wishes of the Commission
to die.
everywhere the objects which failed to plundered almost all the hous, destroying During three weeks, the solliers gradually
satisfy their greed, while the officers kept for themselves the houses of the wealthy.
the time to put in safety, plate, family jewels, and money, have disappeared, and
the Turk as an open enemy. It is not the Turkish people, it is the Ottoinan Government, that has drawn the sword, and I do not hesitate to predict that that Government will perish by the sword. It is they and not we who have rung the death knell of the Ottoman dominions not only in Europe but in Asia. With this disappearance of Turkey will disappear, as I hope and believe, a blight which for generations past has withered some of the of Inquiry want to Aerschot or September earth and a humble wooden cross, raised no other object than to hide the traces of A few steps from there the newly arnod the people declare that the tres had often fairest regions. We have no quarrel with 1tb. During the general offensive move secretly by friendly hands, mark the apot somo particularly important theft Full the Mussulman subjects of the Sultan, ment which brought there towards Louvain where the bodies of 27 victims rest. Our Sovereige claims among his most our troops had only crossed the town without pit partially filled seemed to wait fo tuere direction of the Meuse,
The wagon loads of booty left Aeschot in the loyal subjects millions of men of Mosleme been reorganized, and the inhabitants I saw near the church, other tombs of befell this defenceless town, it originated.
stopping in it, the public services had not dead. (See photos 5 and 6.) faith. Nothing is further from our
As for the cause of the conmity which thoughts than to encourage a crusade had not yet returned to their homes, so that, civilians killed during the German cups according to the German military authorities, against their creed or their holy places when I arrived, I found Acrschot exacsly in tion, but in this town, deserted by its in the murder of an officer by a civilian We are prepared to defend them, should the state in which it had been left by the inhabitants, it was diffcd to find witnesses whom they name, and who was immediately the need arise, against all invaders and German Army, when it retired thirty hours of the events, so that I was unable to deter shot. maintain them. inviolate. But the
before. As far as I have been able to judge mine exactly the number of people in proved, as it has not been possible to find This fact remains, horever, to he Turkish Empire has committed suicide from personal observation, the testimonies Aerschot who perished by terman bulkts. and dug with its own hands its own describe very accurately the state of principal street was alone animated by the mind at present that by the invaders own anyone in Aerschot who admit the culpability collected by the Commission, notably, that of The town was indeed almost empty. The of Tieleman's son. It is enough to bear in Kruve,
Turning to financial and economic the town.. questions, Mr. Asquith explained the A
contintul pussage of merching troops. In admission Aerschot's destructor has been the bi-streets one could see from time to the result of a deliberato decision. In the measures taken by the Government Coming from Lierre one approaches the me a few families groaped on the threshold eyes of the German commander, the massacre
deal with the abnormal situa bridge over the Demer, where the road is, of their wrecked homes. tion at the beginning of the Warlined on both sides with houses belonging
In Aerschot, as everywhere, many assaults people, the tranportation of serorat hundred He thought that the results were very to small farmers and market gardeners. All women and girls have taken place. But others, the savage trentment licted on old satisfactory Foreign exchanges were these buildings, without exception, have been on this particular point any inquiries met men, woman, and children, the main of so working in the case of most countries burnt down. The out houses, stables, with great difficulties, as the victims painted many families, the burning and the sacking quite satisfactorily. The gold reserves shoepfalds, smithies, foil-houses-nothing out by public rumour and their rektives of a town of 8,00 souls constitute justifiable of the Bank of England, which were forty has been spared, and it is clear that the works Kenerally oppose complete silence to any reprisals for the set of a single individual. millions sterling on July 22nd and which of destruction has been accelerated by the festion put to them. had fallen on August 7th to £27,000,000, use of inflammable matter, as the fire had! The description of the harnt quarter con
September 12th; 1914.- now stand at the unprecedented figure of spread close to the ground, destroying only give a faint Impression of the devasta
*** COMPLETELY BACKED." £8,500,000. (Cheers.) The central gold cultivation, gardens, hedges, and fruit trees tion wrought in this unhappy town, for if reserve, after three months of war, within a radius of twenty to thirty yards Acrschot has specially suffered from fire, amounts to £80,000,000, exactly twice the around the mildings.
at which it stood at
The first houses 1 was able to verify that it has been the beyond the bridge are likewise destroyed. beginning of the crisis....
GERMAN CHUIBERS. „WARNED JAST - JUNE, Mr. Asquith pointed out that the Bank of bullets; on August 19th, when the Belgian and I went through their various landings: Cape Town Correspondent shows ther
Besides, their fronts bear innumerable traces
completely sacked, Rale, after fluctuations, now was about Army retreated on Antwerp, this spot was through the windows and the broken doors, Germany was preparing for var as carly
I entered several houses, thosen haphtaard,
The following message from 7'he Limes level with the quotation at which it stood the scene of a very violent rearguard fight. at this time last year, Food prices had. been kept on a fairly normal level, and, right, and one inters the town by a winding torn, and soiled in the vilest manner the 28th, while the Austro-Hungarian Note The road of ferre then turns to the Everywhere the fornitulis overturned, Francis Ferdinand did not occur till June I glanced into a number other dwellings, as June 14th: The murder of the Archduke though trade had been curtailed in some street which leads to the Marketplace. For wallpaper hangs in rags from the walk, the
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ORDERS BY NAJOB WAKEMAN, 0,C.n.x.V.R. 1.-Parade to-night as ordered.
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2 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Companies will parado at 5,15 m. on the Cricket Ground on Tuesday, the 17th inst. Dress: Drill order. 3-N.C.0, will parade at 5.15 p.m. of the Cricket Ground on Friday, the 20th inst. 4.-Recruits will parade at 5.15 pm, on the Cricket Ground on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday until passed out.
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directions, unemployment had been rather the whole length of this street is, for doors of cellars are broken open, all looks to Servia was not presented until July below than above the crerage. connection, Mr. Asquith paid a tribute have been burnt. The fire spread into the drawers emptied, linen and
In this distance of about 500 yards all the houses have been forced open, all cupboards and 23rd. Thus, a fortnight before there was to the co-operation of City financiers inside streets which lead to it right and left, incongruens objects scattered on the floors, instructions to be observed in case of a any conceivable pretext for ▷ European relieving the situation. He announced so that, on that side of the town, a whole
quarrel, we find Germany issuing secret that His Majesty the King, in recognition quarter has been destroyed.
A31 that
together with incredible number of of this service, had conferred a Peerage remains of the houses caught by the fames empty bottles.
war" which she pretends has been thrust upon Mr. Walter Cunliffe, Governor of are the four walls, between which the fallen have been slashed, the works of art breken. The message says —
In the houses of the well-to-do, the pictures upon her ho the Bank of England.
Mr. Asquith told his hearers that they roof for forehead of birt On the dons of one of them, a large, fine striking Dlustration of the complete- should not be moved unduly by the wreckinge, from which emerge a few objects building belonging to Drone coldness of the German plans for mobilization
in iron or other motal, blackened by the conflicting fortunes cf the campaign, fire; the photographs 1, 2, and 3 give an still read, though partly ellased, the fellow has come to my knowledge C which was going to be a long struggle idea of the aspect of this quarter-
ing inscription traced in chalk Bitte deses
WASHINGTON, September 27th. There is certainly nothing in the
A German cruiser, the Ebir, was in
The potentiality for trouble in the As we went up this street in the ranks of Los zu sehen da wirklich friedliche gute dock at Cape Town a few days before the transfer of foreign ships to the Americ warfare of these hundred days to damp an imantry column, walls and gables were Leute [Please spare this house, as the outbreak of war, and got away just in registry is lessened by the extremely our hope, depress our confidence, or trumbling at every moment, under the action cupants are peaceful and good people.] time. An intercepted letter addressed to moderate and sensible attitude of the impair our resolve. Our enemies have of the strong wind which was blowing (8) Bannach Wachtricister. I entered the commander contained certain instrue authorities herepay atte tried in turn three separate objectives, yesterday, each time causing a dull sound the house, which was said to have beentions from Berlin, which were dated June namely Paris, Warsaw and Calais, from and raising a cloud of dust. The confuse occupied by officers which the solicitads of 14th. These instructions revealed a the transfer of the German Kosmos
They have reinsed as yet to approve. each of which in turn they had retired tangle of loose telephone wires, the rabbis one u them seemed to have saved from the complete system for coaling the German liner San Francisco, baulked, frustrated by the invincible steadfastness of the Allies. But this is scattered on the ground, the broken glas oral ruin. On reaching the threshad a Nayy on the outbreak of wor through
pointing vut, emplatic not enough. We shall not sheath the grating under the hoats completed the wad of spilt wine drew our attention to secret service agents in Cape Town, New inse
statement that hundreds of empty and broken bottles which York, and Chicago required from one of the belligerent.
where sword, which we havo not lightly drawn, impression of devastation.M
ship filled the hall, the staircase, and even the The commander of the Eber was given nations it will be the duty of the new until Belgium recovers in full measure
The Grand Place has suffered loss. The more than all that she has sacrifted Gülden Huisand the three houses dose Yard opening on the garden.
The rcms the names of shippers and bankers with owner to prove in the Prize Court that
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(cheers) until France is adequately to that of the burgomaster Tielemans have were in indescribable disorder. I walked on whom he could deal confidentially, the the transfer is bonâ fide. In other words, secured against the menace of aggression, been burnt. The latter in still standing, And a bed of torn clothes, of pieces of wool from essence of the plan being that a collier they recognize the justice of our contens nationalities of Europe are placed on an in the square, bears the traces of the fir 10 every room, by the bed, still more empty for England, but really to mcel a German transferred ship will not be user in R
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foundation, until the which broke out on the evening of Augint dozens of wine glasses covered the table and Naturally, so far as Cape Town is It is hoped here that this will render
bottles. The drawing room was full of them, warship at an agreed rendezvous, unneutral way. military domination of Prussia is fully 19th, on account, as reported at derschot, of sideboards, hy which steed tattered arm concerned, the arrangements have been almost impossible the improper transfer and finally destroyed. (Prolonged panic raised by drunken soldiers,
chairs and sofas, whilst in a corner a pano, upect owing to the discovery and this, of the interned German liners. cheers,)
The church presents a lamentable aspect, with stained key-board, seemed to have been perhaps, explains why German cruisers transfer of ships already owned by That is a great task worthy of a great is three doors, as well as that of the sacristy smashed by boots. All showed that the place have been more in evidenc in North Americans, though sailing under a foreign nation. It means for its accomplishment have been more or less consumed. The door had leeg, during many days and nights, the Atlantic waters than in the southern flag, a simultaneously simplified by the that every man among u-old or young, of the nave and side door on the right, both scene of the vilest debauches and rich or poor, busy or leisured, learned or of massive oak, seem to have been forced houts,
ocean Evidence has also come to light announcement that continuous American drinking simple should give what he has and do in by a battering ram after the flames had In the market place, the house of the system of communication from an Government as prima facie evidence of within the last few days which points to ownership will be accepted by the Eritish what he ans (Preluged cheers)-weakened them In the interior, the altais, notary offered a similar spectacle and arranged base in Cape Town by means the validity of the changa Renter.
confessionals, harmoniams, and candelabra according to what a sergeant of gendarmes of carrier pigeons with German South The conservative Journal of Commerce are broken, the collection boxes are forced who attempted with his men to restore West Africa open, the woolen Gothic, staties which somo order to this chaos-told me, the same decorated the columns of the save hare description applies to most of the house
American ownership. The New York- activities to vesels
rges the Government to confine its been torn down, others have been partially belonging to good families, in which the
Times goes furlier and cays if the United already under destroyed by fin. The floor was littere German officers made their abode inhabitants who were (as we know) that comes, the importance of the damage done
without offending its Friends it is letter. States cannot get a mercantile marine with hay on which a great number of A full inquiry will establish, when the time up in the church-kave slept for many days to the town and to the people of Acrschot.
to go without.-Times.
SHIPPING REPORT.
The Bricisa str. Haitur reposts Strong N.E. mensood and rough sex with
clear weather..
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rents have been made for the supply of It is probably in this way that arrange petrol for the two Windhoek teroplanes, use the border since the outbreak of which have been seen on severd occasions
war.