A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 79

the natural motives behind the decision later which conducted the Belgian army
the German occupation of Brussels 20 August to fall again
north-westwards on Antwerp instead of southwards to connect the Allies to
Mons and Charleroi. The isolation didn't involve the ineffectiveness, and
then street as the Marne the Allies experimented the benefit of Belgian
fighting to Antwerp. Three following sortieses alarmed the Germans for
the safety of them far-flung correct and his/her communications, and
reserves diverted by their forehead in France to their back in Belgium
(sees Map p. 34). The first ones started on 24 August and flock the Germans
from Malines, while 2000 British marineses disembarked to Ostend. Then the
Belgian right stretched out a hand toward the English and it captured
Alost, while the left struck to Cortenburg on the line among
Brussels and Louvain. The communications of the capital were this way
threatened on three sides, and the Germans had to recall at least
three of their body from France. It was this interference with them
plain vital in France, it joined with the panic produced by the Belgian
you advance that the Germans it provoked in their barbarities to Louvain,
Malines and Termonde. Schrecklichkeit was to dissuade the despicable one
Manages Belgian to spoil a German and mighty success. That was the sight
of the German personnel and a soldiery prone whether to ransack and
robbery, small encouragement had need to extend to bourgeois, women and
children the violence that their leaders organized against cathedrals
and city.

Panic produces plots in all the countries--in the minds of the
prey to the panic, and German without doubt he/she believed in the histories of bourgeois
conspiracies that they justified their military crimes. Greater
Von Manteuffel ordered the systematic destruction of Louvain with his,
ancient university and magnificent library. The Cathedral and Palais
the de Executes to Malines it was ruined from bombardment after the Belgian
troops had left him;  and Termonde burned because a fine was not paid
in duration. Massacres, while ransacking, and outrage reached a license that only