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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 34 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 48633 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 belgian 17 Belgium 15 german 15 General 13 french 13 Brussels 12 Antwerp 9 british 8 St. 8 France 7 illustration 7 October 7 King 7 Army 6 Ypres 6 Louvain 6 Germans 6 Corps 5 Liége 5 Government 5 England 5 Division 5 August 4 flemish 4 Yser 4 Mr. 4 Major 4 Lieutenant 4 Ghent 4 French 4 Colonel 4 Battalion 3 man 3 War 3 Van 3 Sir 3 Regiment 3 Meuse 3 Governor 3 Europe 3 Canadian 3 Brigade 2 tell 2 scout 2 old 2 look 2 like 2 english 2 boy 2 american Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 _ see _ 15 germans did not 12 germans had not 9 war is over 7 germans do not 7 man did not 7 people did not 7 troops had already 6 germans were not 6 men did not 5 _ is _ 5 germans were evidently 5 germans were now 5 men were there 4 _ are _ 4 _ coming out 4 _ had _ 4 attack took place 4 belgium did not 4 belgium was not 4 enemy did not 4 enemy was able 4 germans are not 4 germans brought up 4 germans had now 4 people were not 4 time went on 4 troops did not 4 troops had not 4 war is not 3 belgium has always 3 belgium has not 3 country was not 3 enemy took advantage 3 enemy were already 3 fire was suddenly 3 general came out 3 germans have not 3 guns were now 3 houses were systematically 3 man was not 3 men were as 3 men were not 3 men were so 3 men were still 3 men were very 3 night came on 3 night passed by 3 night passed quietly 3 order was not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 day is no longer 2 germans had not yet 2 germans made no progress 2 people had no money 2 people were no longer 1 attack began no definite 1 attack had no doubt 1 attack was not so 1 attack were not yet 1 attacks made no headway 1 attacks were not only 1 belgium is no more 1 belgium was not directly 1 belgium was not merely 1 country has not many 1 country is not worthy 1 country was not directly 1 country was not so 1 days had not sufficient 1 enemies were not visible 1 enemy are no match 1 enemy did not even 1 enemy had no doubt 1 enemy had not yet 1 enemy have no time 1 enemy made no response 1 enemy was not long 1 fire is not enough 1 fire was not sufficient 1 general had no power 1 general made no difficulty 1 germans are not barbarians 1 germans are not content 1 germans are not so 1 germans are not yet 1 germans did not even 1 germans did not ever 1 germans do no harm 1 germans do not merely 1 germans had no artillery 1 germans had no right 1 germans had not even 1 germans have not yet 1 germans made no move 1 germans take no part 1 germans were no match 1 germans were not content 1 germans were not fully 1 germans were not only 1 germans were not there A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 46114 author = Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron title = Canada in Flanders, Volume I date = keywords = Army; Battalion; Brigade; Canada; Canadian; Colonel; D.C.M.; Division; French; General; Lieut; Major; Minister; Sir; St.; Ypres; british; german; mention summary = Commander-in-Chief--Canadians in the trenches--Our men take to Commander-in-Chief--Canadians in the trenches--Our men take to left saved--Canadians relieved--Story of 3rd Brigade--Gas attack on left saved--Canadians relieved--Story of 3rd Brigade--Gas attack on and the Canadian Division, officers and men, look forward to many of the German trench by the 10th Canadian Battalion, on the night of the left along the German line, bombing the enemy out of the trench. trench, several men of the 8th Battalion were wounded. attackers succeeded in reaching the enemy''s trench line running south orders from the General Officer Commanding the 2nd Canadian Infantry attacked, when the 2nd Canadian Battalion, under Lieut.-Colonel Watson, The trench line on the right of the attacking Battalion was held by the Along the line of trenches the General met many officers and men he Canadian Brigade obtained possession of the German front-line trenches On handing over the command of the 1st Canadian Division to General id = 46115 author = Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron title = Canada in Flanders, Volume II date = keywords = April; Battalion; Brigade; Canadian; Corps; Crater; Division; Eloi; General; June; Lieut; Major; Mounted; Rifles; Royal; St.; Wood; Ypres; british; german; sidenote summary = Canadian Division supports the British--Six huge craters created by General Seely commanded a Brigade holding the front trench line since battalions of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade in the trenches, and of doubtful fighting through from the trenches on the right of the St. Eloi position to the new line--and it was christened forthwith "The British Division and a new line well beyond the craters finally Canadians in a serious engagement--The old German line--The new British Canadians in a serious engagement--The old German line--The new British 27th in the original British trenches and the new Canadian line beyond, position of the posts in the old German trench leading into Crater 2 The enemy''s final effort to capture Canadian trenches--The Higher The enemy''s final effort to capture Canadian trenches--The Higher the craters with the old British line by a communication trench. Commanders--Artillery pounds the German position--The enemy Commanders--Artillery pounds the German position--The enemy id = 49328 author = Breton, Willy title = The Belgian Front and Its Notable Features date = keywords = Army; Germans; Yser; belgian; enemy; illustration; line summary = THE BELGIAN ARMY''S ACTIVITIES SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE YSER. Yet the Belgian Army bravely faced the enemy, grimly determined to Belgian Army abandon its positions at La Gette and fall back on Antwerp, fortress into a proper condition for defence, the Belgian Army was happened to be the nearest line on which the Belgian Army could link up THE FRONT TO BE HELD--THE TASK BEFORE THE BELGIAN ARMY--GENERAL FEATURES To give a better idea of the work imposed on the Belgian Army it will be The trenches of the Belgian line are not the least like the narrow, deep The unit detailed for work in the front line of a given sector was, by the total length of the trenches which the Belgian Army had to make, as supplies required by the troops and the materials for the defence works [Illustration: A FRONT-LINE TRENCH IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF THE BELGIAN id = 58509 author = Buffin, Camille title = Brave Belgians date = keywords = Army; Artillery; August; Boches; Captain; Cavalry; Colonel; Commander; Company; Division; Dixmude; Fort; General; Germans; Lieutenant; Line; Liége; Major; October; Regiment; St.; Yser; belgian; chapter; french summary = firing began from the houses on the right bank near the river. retreat took place in perfect order, without the enemy being aware soldier went back a second time into the furnace to get a machine-gun then returned a third time to shoot two German cavalry men with his but indispensable in time of war, I ordered my men to break open the machine-guns replied with interest, whilst my men searched the houses The enemy firing had ceased and we now saw about fifteen wounded men in the fields; my men took aim and the machine-gun seemed to start At mid-day, our brave men suddenly cleared the parapet of their trench order, replying at the same time to the enemy''s firing. about ten men remained behind to continue firing until the last soldier firing now continued for some time on the left part of the Fort and the id = 12644 author = Cammaerts, Emile title = Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium date = keywords = Allies; Antwerp; Belgium; Bissing; Brussels; Cardinal; General; Governor; King; belgian; german summary = Two years of German occupation in Belgium It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule. the Belgian people when victory seemed close at hand, when news was of October, the Belgians, and specially the people of Brussels, had been as General Governor of Belgium, Baron von der Goltz declared that "he Belgian army, they had only a very small number of men at their disposal "respecting," in a German way, "the people''s patriotic feelings." The Belgians from the Allies, then at separating the people from King German economic policy in Belgium. Belgian industry and to throw out of work the greatest number of men German is made to fight or to work, ought not every Belgian, every Pole, certain factories which refuse _to work for the German Army_ under the Between the acts of the German administration in Belgium and Germans provoke in the Belgian prison is heard throughout the world, id = 27442 author = Cammaerts, Emile title = Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Brabant; Brussels; Charles; Countries; England; Europe; Flanders; France; General; Germany; Ghent; Holland; Liége; Louis; Low; Netherlands; Philip; Scheldt; Spain; St.; States; Van; belgian; european; flemish; french; spanish summary = etc.--Life in fifteenth-century Belgium--The early "Flemish to liberate Belgian trade--War of Austrian Succession--Charles countries, like France, a period of exceptional national prestige, mark peace negotiations in order to save their native country, Belgium lost Dutch Flanders, Northern Brabant and part of Limburg to Holland, French thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, such as St. Bavon (Ghent), Ste. Gudule (Brussels) and Notre Dame (Bruges), and even than the great Belgian humanist of the seventeenth century, calls Philip the Good Low Countries could not oppose the French advance without foreign help. fifteenth century to the time of the French Revolution, the Netherlands governed Belgium, she remained a foreigner to the people. time, in order to protect the Low Countries from French attacks, did towards the European Great Powers, and King Leopold several times time, and Belgian history became the subject of a great number of school of Belgian Letters was a new departure: French and Flemish id = 46968 author = Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917 title = The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium; Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies date = keywords = Allan; Antwerp; Belgium; Bumpus; Giraffe; Holland; Kaiser; Thad; Uhlans; belgian; boy; dutch; german; scout; tell summary = "We''ve given you our promise, Bumpus," said the one called Thad, "that "Will Great Britain fight, do you think, Thad?" asked Giraffe, in "Bumpus is afraid of you, Thad!" cried Giraffe; "he thinks you may make "Don''t be so rash, Bumpus!" Giraffe warned him, while Thad said: "Thad never forgets he''s a Boy Scout, and able to find things out in a "There''s one thing sure, Thad," said Giraffe, who had been prowling Looking that way, presently Thad discovered that Giraffe had actually Allan was Thad''s bed-fellow, which of course left Bumpus and Giraffe to "If you look close, Thad," Giraffe said, ignoring Bumpus completely now, doesn''t it, Thad?" asked Allan, who was at his side, with Giraffe "Tell him, Giraffe, if you can," said Thad, "that as Boy Scouts, over in "Come, let''s be getting away from here, boys," said Thad. Thad told Giraffe to get in along with Bumpus while he and Allan made id = 37668 author = Coster, Charles de title = Flemish Legends date = keywords = Anne; Blaeskaek; Gans; God; Gonde; Halewyn; Jesus; Lord; Magtelt; Master; Mie; Pieter; Roel; Sir; Smetse; miserable summary = "Thank thee kindly," said Smetse, "thou art too generous, Master "Ah," said the smith, "you come from the devil, Lord?" "''Tis good of you," said Smetse, "ye shall have the promised royal. Meanwhile Smetse went to his wife and said to her with great "I know it," said Smetse, "thou hast been a good and true wife." "My lord," said Smetse, "I beg you not to be angry with my good wife, "Come, Smetse," said the devil, "''tis the hour." "Smith," said the devil, looking at Smetse with great contempt, "Yes, My Lord," said the good man. "Ah," said the good wife, "here is my Lord Lucifer and all his devils!" "Come in," he said, "good wife." But seeing Smetse''s "I know thee, good wife," said he; "thou wast in thy "This is good, Smetse," said My Lord Jesus; "but hast thou no other "Smetse," said My Lord Jesus, "this is very good. id = 46215 author = Dane, Edmund (Military historian) title = The Battles in Flanders, from Ypres to Neuve Chapelle date = keywords = Allied; Army; Bassee; Corps; General; Lille; Lys; October; Sir; Ypres; Yser; british; french; german summary = British Force on the northern wing of the German armies in any sense attempt to throw troops in force over the Lys. On the other hand, the immediate purpose of the Germans is equally the British troops moving to the attack the conditions put the German The German troops were among the best of the enemy''s forces, and the October 16 attacked by the troops of the British 2nd Army Corps. On October 20 the 1st British Army Corps reached Ypres from St. Omer. of Ypres, the troops of the British 1st Army Corps were attacked by British bayonet work these German troops had already seen enough. and south-east, the Germans had as lines of attack these four routes: On the main ridge to the south-east of Ypres, the Germans massed a the German line they were told off to attack the guns had not done the Such was the attack upon the German first line. id = 11730 author = Davis, Richard Harding title = With the Allies date = keywords = Belgium; Brussels; England; English; France; General; Germans; London; Louvain; Mr.; Paris; Rheims; Rupert; War; american; french summary = The war offices of France and Russia would not permit an American have seen men during the last hours of a six days'' walking match. Germans thought I was an English officer who had followed them and every time I showed my pass to a German it would tell him I was At Louvain that night the Germans were like men after an orgy. the War Office that five thousand are "missing," you like to think of To make sure, I asked French, English, and American army officers a mile from the Place Godinot I passed houses wrecked by shells of the German-American citizen, and, since the war began, with his In war time two o''clock in the morning is no hour for honest men the German army had been bred and trained for the purposes of war, German, French, Belgian, and English armies in the field, Belgium in id = 37712 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = The Crime of the Congo date = keywords = A.B.I.R.; Belgium; Boma; Commissary; Commission; Congo; Europe; Free; Government; King; Leopold; Mr.; State; belgian; british; man; native; rubber summary = wrought in the Congo lands by King Leopold of Belgium and his followers to own work, Stanley laboured hard among the native chiefs, and returned to the fall of the Arab power the Congo Free State was only called upon to Already the Congo State was largely the outcome of Belgian work and of King Leopold let it be known that he had left the Congo Free State in his State within this district, (1) natives can only gather rubber on received by the general public from the Congo Free State concerned the Having shown in these two examples the way in which the Congo Free State sent in every direction, forcing natives to make rubber and to bring Congo Free State--rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form. rubber--said he had often told the sentinels not to kill the people. "The State soldiers brought in seven hands, and reported having shot id = 57177 author = Dyson, Will title = Australia at War A Winter Record Made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres, During the Campaigns of 1916 and 1917 date = keywords = Dyson; Somme; illustration; like; man; thing summary = To you, like cave men rough-hewn of the mud, In such cases men might say that great artists were draws can be traced the lines of a sort of nakedness, like that of the ''E is greasy but a white man is the old Battalion Cook.''_ criminally young to prove themselves men as the old man left to prove _"The foot traffic, the men coming and going from divisional baths, them still the eternal mystery of no man''s land, men walking in their [Illustration: _Coming out on the Somme._] [Illustration: _Labour Battalion Man._] everything, like things that have got neither eyes to see terrible make their heroism look like a thing they find easy. the injury of this world war to say that the men fighting it find it of war--a landscape the like of which man has never gazed upon since _"It is men like myself--timid peepers into forbidden places, who look id = 16518 author = Fitzgerald, Percy title = A Day''s Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg date = keywords = Belgium; Calais; Dessein; France; english; flemish; french; illustration; like; old; place; town summary = rose of the bright streets abroad, their quaint old towers, and seen--sea and land, old towns in different countries, strange people, The little old harbour, like that of some fishing-place, offered thought of the brave little vessels, which through day and night, year Crossing the _place_ again, I come on the grim old church, built by It seemed like an old country-house transferred to town. are a few little shops, a few old houses, but the generality have from the old town with a sort of regret, having seen a great deal. This old town has other curious things to exhibit, such as the Like the old Calais watch-tower, it was piquant bell-tower seen rising above trees and houses, long before we When they had gone their way, I set off on mine up to the old town. The streets of this old town, as it is remarked by one of the Guide id = 36075 author = Fox, Frank title = The King''s Pilgrimage date = keywords = Army; Cemetery; France; King; War; Ypres; british; french; illustration summary = Larkin, was met visiting the Canadian graves there; the King gave him a nine thousand British soldiers buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, over six across Belgium and France the King knew during the days of the war. old Military Cemetery, which the King visited, was opened in May, 1915, in 9,795 British and Dominion graves, 892 French, 2 Belgian, 52 American, and In October, 1919, the graves from the British Cemetery at The cemetery now contains 56 British graves, 20 Australians, the King as he inspected the graves passing close to them. these in turn the King visited the graves of their Dominions, and spoke to From Etaples Cemetery the King cemetery the King and Queen were received by General de Castelnau, ranks of graves, advanced to the Cross of Sacrifice, and the King placed Majesty, Dominion and British graves lay side by side, and the King id = 54296 author = Germany. Auswärtiges Amt title = The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915 date = keywords = App; August; Battalion; Captain; Company; Corps; Court; Dinant; General; Infantry; Lieutenant; Louvain; Major; Meuse; Military; Officer; Regiment; Reserve; belgian; case; german; person summary = In Anderlues shots were fired from a house by a French soldier and corner house; one saw the smoke rise up after the shot was fired. command to make ready, a shot was suddenly fired at us from a house Meiningen, war volunteer, 4th Company, Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 233, after taking the oath, made the following declaration: the roof of a house a civilian who had fired with a shot-gun. I plainly saw a shot fired from the house opposite." He then pointed troops were fired on from the houses of the town by persons in civilian entered the houses out of which shots had been fired, by the order of we German soldiers only fired on the houses after the inhabitants had I saw that we German soldiers were fired on from two houses in and from houses near the military hospital, the shots being fired The shots were fired from the houses by civilians, id = 18959 author = Gibson, Hugh title = A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium date = keywords = Antwerp; August; Belgium; Brussels; Cavell; Colonel; Consul; France; General; Government; Governor; Hôtel; King; Lancken; Legation; Leval; Liège; Louvain; Minister; Miss; Queen; belgian; british; french; german; illustration summary = German Minister, driving home from the Foreign Office to his Legation. morning, the German Minister last night presented to the Belgian I came back to the Legation and told my people that the way was clear Germans who for one reason or another had not got away on our train kept go down to the German Consulate-General, where we had people waiting to My day''s work began with a visit to the German Legation. German troops will pass through Brussels to-day and the following Germans even at a time like this, and when we came to Bulle the officer of German troops to take him to the Belgian lines, and he left in a One of the officers I saw to-day told me that the Germans were If the flags had been ordered down the day the Germans came We are put on German time to-day. id = 25836 author = Gleason, Arthur title = Young Hilda at the Wars date = keywords = Barkleigh; Bracher; Commandant; Corps; Doctor; Dr.; Furnes; Hilda; Mrs.; Pervyse; Scotch; Smith; belgian summary = "It''s a poor time to get pupils," said the fair-haired Hilda, "I don''t "Not even a little bit," replied Hilda, "but I''m ready to do dirty work. One day, the Doctor got hold of Smith, a London boy driver, and Hilda, "Well, have you worked out a plan to cure this idleness," said Mrs. Bracher, thundering into the room, like a charge of cavalry. "Such a day," said Hilda, "yes, we''ve got a plan. "The soldiers are there," replied Hilda; "they come in from the trenches "By no means," said Hilda; "those two women deserve all that is coming "Furnes isn''t so prosperous, you know," said Hilda, "even if we did run "The car is full," said Hilda; "you have more wounded?" "The same old story," said Hilda; "no place for the old in war-time. "Come," said Hilda; "we have found a home." "It is time to go," said Hilda; "they will send another shell. id = 29991 author = Goldfrap, John Henry title = The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Brussels; CHAPTER; Meredith; Merritt; Rob; Steven; Tubby; belgian; boy; german; look; scout; tell summary = While Rob Blake and his two chums, Tubby Hopkins and Merritt Crawford, What makes you look at me like that, Rob?" and Merritt as he asked this Tubby, chancing to glimpse Rob''s face about the time they drew near the Five minutes later Rob and Merritt joined Tubby at the same time. "Oh!" said Tubby, grasping the idea, "then, Rob, you think our guide than Merritt possessed in Rob and Tubby, who were ready to go through keeping of Tubby, Rob and Merritt busied themselves with fixing up the "Rob, don''t you see they''re heading right this way?" whispered Tubby "Are the Belgian troops coming, Rob?" asked Tubby, finding it impossible Neither Rob nor Merritt had waited to give Tubby any answer when he made "I surely hope you learn good news, Rob!" Tubby sighed, as he thought of "Come on, boys, let''s see where we can help out!" said Rob, trying to id = 56316 author = Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland) title = The Campaign Round Liège date = keywords = Antwerp; August; Belgium; Brussels; France; General; Government; Liège; Luxemburg; Meuse; Mr.; Namur; belgian; british; french; german summary = of German troops from Cologne and other places to north-east France Liège; and the German advance on Namur coincided in point of time with the French armies who attacked and not the German--except in the eighteen German army corps had advanced through Belgium, and that only At the same time the German army penetrated French territory at two reported here that the German troops, when entering Belgian territory, the Belgian troops were putting up a fine defence against the German Early on Wednesday morning, by force of numbers, the German advance The Belgian War Office stated that the German invaders, having French join Belgians--Details of the Battles--German Spy System--Raids Already the advance guard was fighting near Liège, and the Germans detachments of German covering troops were sent forward to the Belgian When German troops invaded our country, the Belgian Government issued between the German and Belgian forces, which were fighting at close id = 33929 author = Le Goffic, Charles title = Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) date = keywords = Admiral; Antwerp; Commander; Dixmude; Dr.; General; Germans; Lieutenant; Marines; October; Regiment; Second; Yser; belgian; day; french summary = retreat; Second-Lieutenant Gautier,[19] commanding a machine-gun section, allowed a German attack to advance to within 60 metres, "to the enemy, he only left his lines three times: to support a French prisoner, speaking the day after the fall of Dixmude. Admiral, who had come up to the firing line, ordered Commander Varney to fighting for five days," wrote Second-Lieutenant Gautier on October 22. company of a dead Belgian and a wounded German, who, when he woke up, the same time the enemy''s infantry attacked our trenches regularly at the Belgian troops: the German attack was driven back by the fire of the I thought that the Germans had forced the sailors'' trenches "The Germans had taken some French trenches, and shells were raining trench," wrote Lieutenant Gamas a few days later, "when the order came A counter-attack ordered by the officer in command of the defence and id = 41090 author = Le Queux, William title = At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium date = keywords = Aimee; Arnaud; Baron; Baroness; Belgium; Brussels; Dinant; Edmond; Europe; French; Kaiser; Liege; Mademoiselle; Meuse; Rigaux; Valentin; belgian; german summary = black-haired, narrow-eyed man, Monsieur Rigaux, whose praises the Baron "But do you really fear war, Edmond?" asked the girl at last, having We have held up our hand to stop the great War Lord of Germany. With him sat his friend, Arnaud Rigaux, a dandified thin-faced man, a told, one of the few men in Brussels who knew the German intentions, and "In four days we shall be in Belgium," the German officer whispered. The man who had sold his country for German gold stood for a few seconds filled with Belgian soldiers, prisoners in German hands. The Germans have shot down dozens of men and women, "To Brussels," replied Rigaux, in German. May God place His curse upon these Germans?" cried the old Rigaux, the great Brussels financier, was a secret agent of the German Aimee, who knew German, heard one of the men exclaim, as they id = 51716 author = Massart, Jean title = Belgians Under the German Eagle date = keywords = Andenne; Antwerp; Army; August; Belgium; Brussels; Committee; Convention; December; England; February; France; General; Government; Governor; Hague; Herr; January; King; Liége; Louvain; Malines; N.R.C.; Namur; November; October; September; War; belgian; french; german summary = (C) Newspapers published in Belgium under the German censorship. Military Employment of Belgians by the Germans--Measures German army across Belgium in case of war with France.[7] In military which the German authorities had posted up in Belgium during the month Belgian Army; this is what the German prisoners interned at Bruges tell soldier in a Bruges hospital relates that the Belgians treat the German illegal attacks of the Belgian population upon the regular German Belgian or Allied soldiers, the Germans proceed to execution. _The Pretended Cruelty of Belgian Civilians toward the German Army._ The German soldiers taken prisoner by the Belgians were those which the Germans have forced the Belgian wounded or prisoners to shields." When the Belgians attacked the German troops ten civilians Antwerp, the Germans posted up statements in Brussels that the Belgian German press was accusing every Belgian of being a franc-tireur, the Belgian authorities and the German army. id = 4242 author = Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) title = Belgium date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Bruges; Brussels; Ghent; Louvain; Malines; St.; belgian; flemish summary = pictures of the great thirteenth-century churches at Dixmude, Dinant, Flemish market-place, with its unbroken lines of old white-brick churches of St. Nicholas, with its huge square tower, and of St. Walburge, with its long ridge of lofty roof; and with its Hotel de merely, like Dunkirk, in the architecture of its great brick church, and canopies (I wonder, do they still survive) at the church of St. Gertrude at Louvain; for Belgium presents few examples of mediaeval antiquity; whilst some fairly big towns, such as Malines and Bruges, Bruges, when considered with reference to the church, or town hall, picture-galleries of the works of great Flemish masters. Hardly a single street in Bruges is thus without old-world charm; but Ypres and Bruges--with typical Belgian churches. centre from which most of the other great cities of Belgium--Malines, church, with a miracle-working Virgin, and a little red-brick town hall the best example in the world of an old-fashioned city business house id = 19692 author = Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson) title = Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Brussels; Colour; England; French; King; St.; belgian; child; illustration summary = All day long in summer the _digue_ of each town is crowded by people town called Ghent; but instead of being dead like Bruges, it is alive Like Bruges and Ghent, and, indeed, every town in Belgium, Antwerp is when a Belgian lady has a friend calling on her, young children, who law in Belgium, and parents, if they like, may leave their children In some Belgian towns the children of the poor go round on Christmas On New Year''s Day all Belgians call on their friends to wish them "A they know on New Year''s Day. A Belgian lady once told me that it working-people in the same way as the first day of the year. (the day of all the children), as it is called in Flemish, which is day Belgian children are supposed to change places with their parents, now called Belgium is that very long ago it was divided into a great id = 46248 author = Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson) title = Belgium date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Bishop; Brabant; Bruges; Brussels; COLOUR; Charles; Church; Count; Duke; England; Flanders; France; Ghent; Hôtel; King; Liége; Louis; Netherlands; Philip; Place; Prince; Rue; St.; Ville; Ypres; flemish; french; illustrations; page summary = Old House in the Grande Place, Brussels 216 THE MARKET-PLACE AND BELFRY--EARLY HISTORY OF BRUGES THE MARKET-PLACE AND BELFRY--EARLY HISTORY OF BRUGES ''In the Market-Place of Bruges stands the Belfry old and brown; with Bruges and Ghent; and near this was, in ancient days, the Porte de many houses with towers which gave the Bruges of that time almost the the Market-Place of Bruges or on the boulevards of Brussels or Antwerp. course of time houses began to appear on the banks of the river near In the year 1689 Vauban speaks of Ypres as a place ''formerly great, the following century the town of Scarphout, in West Flanders, was EARLY HISTORY OF LIÉGE--BISHOP NOTGER--THE COURT OF PEACE As to the town of Liége in early times, the story goes that one day Jean de Horne was Bishop of Liége for twenty-three years, during which the Bishops'' Palace, which stands in the Place St. Lambert at Liége id = 3642 author = Perkins, Lucy Fitch title = The Belgian Twins date = keywords = Father; Hove; Jan; Marie; Mother; Smet; Van summary = Marie were the twin son and daughter of Father and Mother Van Hove, and "Come, then, my starvelings," said Mother Van Hove, pinching Marie''s "Hurry, now, my man," said Father Van Hove to Jan. Father Van Hove turned to his wife, and to Jan and Marie, who were Now for the first time Mother Van Hove gave way to grief, and Jan "Look what a man we have!" cried Mother Van Hove as Jan appeared. "Marie," cried her mother, "our Jan has earned a good breakfast! "Work makes the time pass quickly," said Mother Van Hove cheerfully. said Mother Van Hove to the Twins--"the cathedral bells of Malines! At last Jan said, "Do you think Father De Smet would let me help drive Jan and Marie ran over the plank at once, and Mother De Smet soon Father and Mother Van Hove listened to Jan and Marie as they told of id = 11394 author = Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) title = Fighting in Flanders date = keywords = Antwerp; Belgium; Brussels; Consul; General; Ghent; Government; Hee; Louvain; Mr.; Thompson; Van; american; belgian; british; car; city; german summary = When I left Antwerp after the German occupation I was as pro-Belgian Belgian cavalry unexpectedly ran into a heavy force of Germans, hands of the Germans somewhere on the Belgian frontier. a cafe, a German officer who was passing ordered his arrest as a German line the car slackened speed and stopped. of the German troops in other Belgian cities had aroused grave through the German line, killing three men and wounding a dozen The burgomaster had not been back an hour when a military motorcar containing two armed German soldiers appeared in the city entered the city from the south a Belgian armoured motor-car, the propriety of my taking a Belgian military driver into the German Belgian cavalry commander got his Germans where he wanted the Belgian field army and the combined German forces in Northern dozen motor-cars filled with German soldiers entered through the that Antwerp is now a German city. id = 46116 author = Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir title = Canada in Flanders, Volume III date = keywords = Battalion; Brigade; Canadian; Colonel; Courcelette; Division; General; Lieutenant; October; Regina; Road; Trench; german summary = the 5th Canadian Machine-Gun Company, 1 brigade bombing officer, and 1 line, and the 3rd Division, on the left, had two Battalions of one their objective in Regina Trench with their left on Twenty-three Road. The Brigade attacked with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles on the right left respectively, the Canadian Corps attacked on a two-division Division would co-operate by effecting the capture of Regina Trench The 46th Battalion, on the right, attacked the line objective a new German trench north of Courcelette--the 1st Division to co-operation with the British Brigade on the Canadian left, attack and 8th Brigade patrols busy along the line of Regina Trench. At 7 a.m. the 44th Battalion attack the portion of Regina Trench Canadian right and the enemy place a barrage on the 10th Brigade lines. The British Division attack on the Canadian left, and the enemy place a Our artillery bombarding the German line, the new trench north of id = 44234 author = Schwink, Otto title = Ypres 1914: An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff date = keywords = Army; Cavalry; Corps; Division; French; General; Infantry; November; October; Reserve; YPRES; british; german summary = to the Fourth Army.[2] It may be noted that a German cavalry division the attack of our new Fourth Army against the left flank of the enemy. and 235th Reserve Infantry Regiments, attacking from north, east and Army, began an attack with its 5th Reserve Division, supported by Army Order directed the 46th Reserve Division to the south-west against the 3rd Cavalry Division, fighting on the right wing of the Sixth Army, Division should cross the YSER, north of DIXMUDE, in order to attack The divisions of Deimling''s XV Corps attacked with the right wing on The 6th Reserve Division had attacked the place from north and east, divisions of the Corps advanced to the attack and, in co-operation with the morning of 24th October the Reserve Division attacked the line of who had held up the attack of the 46th Reserve Division north-west of id = 26645 author = Shervill, W. P. title = Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns date = keywords = Belgium; Benson; Corporal; Dale; Dubec; Durend; Germans; Liége; Max; Monsieur; Schenk; Shaw; belgian; work summary = M. Schenk looked at Max in a way that made the latter momentarily think the second time Max invited his friend Dale to come over to Liége and Max and Dale at last felt as though the world must be coming to an end. Max and Dale hurried the people they had rescued away from the scene of "Refusing to work, by the look of the armed guards yonder," replied Max, To Max, the great campaign he had in mind against Schenk and the Germans The third night after the break with Schenk, Max and Dale set out from "I know, Mother," replied Max in a quiet voice, and with a far-away look For some two weeks Max and Dale worked in the filling-shops, observing After a whispered word or two, Dale left Max and worked his way round "I think we have seen the last we shall see of Schenk, Dale," Max id = 2843 author = Thackeray, William Makepeace title = Little Travels and Roadside Sketches date = keywords = Duke; Rubens; english; french; great; little; look; man; old; picture; time summary = dinner; then tea with huge family jugs of milk; and the little people to me to be a great deal more pious than Rubens''s big pictures; just as A couple of days of Rubens and his church pictures makes one thoroughly amusing to see one little fellow of eight years old smoking, with much small a place as this one falls in with them a dozen times a day--"Have working-dress of black satin, LOOKING YOUR HAT OFF, as it were. plain, a quaint old chair or two, and little pictures of favorite saints is pleasant to look at the smiling, cheerful old Beguine, and think no little old-fashioned, red-bricked, gable-ended, shining-windowed Convent is on a little place planted round with trees, and that seems to be the old towers and pinnacles, tall gables, bright canals, and pretty little for us that the Prussians came up!" says one little gentleman, looking id = 53730 author = Vandercook, Margaret title = The Red Cross Girls in Belgium date = keywords = Barbara; Belgium; Brussels; Cross; Dick; Eugenia; Mildred; Nona; Red; Thornton; german; girl summary = Running further forward, Barbara slipped her arm inside Eugenia''s. girls arrived in Brussels, Barbara had little to do except make Dick spoke in his old light-hearted fashion, although Barbara could see wanted to tell you, Barbara, but Nona felt it best not to. Barbara glanced toward Nona and then at Dick. On the same afternoon of Dick Thornton''s coming into Belgium Eugenia "We received our orders for work this afternoon, Eugenia dear," Barbara Eugenia had guessed correctly in thinking Barbara was tired. Dick Thornton had taken Barbara''s hand and was looking searchingly into Eugenia was waiting this time near the place where Barbara was compelled Eugenia took Barbara''s face between her beautiful, firm hands and gazed Then Barbara and Eugenia were interrupted by two persons coming toward "I have something I''d like to tell you, Barbara, before Nona and Mildred So it had been both Eugenia''s and Barbara''s fancy to go back for a time id = 36213 author = nan title = Ypres and the Battles of Ypres date = keywords = April; BRIG.-GEN; British; Corps; Germans; October; Road; Rue; SIR; St.; Ypres; french; illustration summary = GERMANS CAPTURED THE MESSINES-WYTSCHAETE RIDGE, AND THE BRITISH FELL The Germans continued to bombard Ypres with large calibre shells, [Illustration: THE FIRST GERMAN POISON-GAS ATTACK _(April 24, 1915.)_] On the right of the Ypres-Roulers Road, the British encountered a very The British then attacked the second German lines. [Illustration: FRENCH TROOPS PASSING IN FRONT OF THE RUINS OF YPRES the Lys. While, in the first German offensive the British right had [Illustration: THE GERMANS ATTACK THE CHAIN OF HILLS WHICH PROTECT [Illustration: GERMAN POSITION NORTH OF YPRES, CAPTURED BY BELGIAN [Illustration: BRITISH CEMETERY ON THE PLOEGSTEERT ROAD AT MESSINES] [Illustration: BRITISH CEMETERY JUST OUTSIDE YPRES, ON THE ROAD TO _To the right and left of the road from Ypres to Menin, beyond Hooge, [Illustration: MERVILLE CHURCH, AS THE GERMAN SHELLS LEFT IT [Illustration: GERMAN CEMETERY ON THE RIGHT OF THE ROAD FROM LA BASSÉE