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Show nana mmmn$ mm m mmm MISTAKE TO BRING TROOPS HOMK. SAYS . BRUSSELS VISITOR 1 1 WIIHESS OF liiir ISHEHE Madame Horta, Here in Interest of Belgium, Relates Incidents of German Occupation By Frank A. Hunt f"T"'HE war in Europe is no! 1 over." This was the note of warning sounded today by Mme. Victor Horta of Bnisaols, who is in 'the United States in the Interest of homeless Belvlsn ehll- dren and Tho s-nnhut He4 l.sk. yesterday. "As Ions; as the kaiser remains stive," she said. "tHere Is no hope, for peace America Is makna i re mlstaka In withdrawing hel troops." ' - v " Mme. Iforta the wife of VTefni Iforta. government architect of Hel. Horn To heap her deserlntlon ol the Oermsn occunatlon of Petrlum Is sr the rumble of the fflsnt (rum In the street, to the unnv of . mothers whose children havs been torn from their arms and to see de-eneirlna; de-eneirlna; men drasclnar their bodies hick to their homes broken and crip ei-a after slavery under German whips. HUMAN TIDAL WAVE. "I was In ftrussels si ths time ol the flermnn onnn" a Id Mr. Hort. to-lsv. "We d'd nt know th nlrht before that t Oermsns were com(ng, as the ne-nrers salHthev would ro dlrectlv to Franee and not rn. Koddn' It was as If a h'tmaa tidal wave b" "wert ove- the cltv. "0-er Tr.o.noo Oermsn eoldlen nassed throurh the t-n In twa days. The bouses trembled ss If In sn earthquake when th hure S-eenttmete' S-eenttmete' e-ons passed through th streets. Thev were passingf on U bomsrd Antwern. "'b'urely thev wMl em bark, f'n twfn will b tvn.' we said 'The French and KnfMsh will eav 'Iglum ' Fr ten vs we waited the news of vlcorv snd then nt -ones were crtmhed end we cnuld feel the snproach of a terrible cnlsm-for cnlsm-for news came that Antwerp had fullen. RING OF STEEL DRAWN. "And then the ring of steel whirr lasted for four years was drawn about Belgium. The wsr has revealed man heroes, but I want to say a word ehout Adoit.h, Max. mivor of Brussels Through his diplomacy and Intercession Interces-sion thoussnda of live were saved (nd the populace of Brussels acclaim him as their savior. He has just returned re-turned to Brussels after nearly four yeMrs spent Insa German dungeon." "! do not speak of things I hav heard about, but thincs I have seen with my own eyes. The descriptions of the unutterable misery of a nation you have read about many times. Here la an Individual case of German cruelty. I met a poorwoman carrying aMMPlFlIl!llillIIllL-n PijjLlL " WITNESS OF HUN (Continued from 1.' a child In hrr arms in I.ouvain. The b;ibv cried pitifully end I saw that one !-f Its fiiiKers burnt d to the bone. The mot her told nie that a Grman orficer had placed his ciKar against the child'a hand when the mother could not supply him with liquor. PARENTS MURDERED, ""I met another child in the street:;. I Hsk-d whire Its father ami mother were. She replied that they were ij-leep and th,it the (o rnian soldier ' bail cume to tliefr home. ( later tlif-covered tlif-covered that th child had beon found live beneath th' Itodie? of her par-' n la, tt-imm the UnniiMiut bad niiinlwrml in a most brutal nianner. ' Hum and kill as nuu'Ji as possible,' this wbh the written order Issued by a k fSermiin officer to his army at Lnu-;itn. Lnu-;itn. The allies have a copy of that Nsr. Tne night the order was Issued unpeople were sleeping, not dreaming dream-ing of the horror soon tn come. At midnfuht the cily was net afire In a thousand p'acf'H by the fieimans, f'itl- ; ens worn sht down ns they appeared at doors and window and they fell 1 b.Tk in tii the f i.itnt's to parish In n inoi horrible way. TREATMENT HORRIBLE. "Thousands of men and women were s nt from I.ouvain Into slavery. The ! tttht that brought the mont grief w whi-n the 'unfit' were sent hack to their ; home from Germany. From the lion ' 1. in on hands and km?es crawled j broken mm w ho had once been power- j Cd and lull of th juy nf life. I saw 1 ne hoy whom I had known. Hj was il ol man now and liis hair and ' heard had not bei-n cut for months. 1 No care had betn given the men In i "IT way and th-y were kept under! ondition that would sicken beasts to U:e death. J "1 went into I. riant while the city ia still burning. Out of H city of, 70o population. 942 v. ei lined up , L-aiiist a church wall and shot. Twen- ' i,-inne of rhese were children under I JO months uf -ice. W hat possible harm) ould these little children have done 1 tiie I Tons? What possible ex ruse could they have h:id t' t this terrible o t tf I b.rb TIMll? HORROR OF DESOLA HON. ' ' "Thousands of men and women wete ' p il us a K-recii (,r the (;rtn;tn ol- t dlers In 1 lie f n l ai ouy point. I w ;!)(, ihr.uph Flandrrs fudds on mv j w iv from Hnip.-eiK to Ar.lWei(. Hun-"! dreds of bod'.-F h.tit not be 11 huned deeply enough, .tiiil every few roils a' hand protrude I f nun a shallow grave I. -r a portion of tin: form was visible, j Before, the fi-ldn had been the most I ieautifitl in Europe, wuh'flowei at ( thia time .f ye,r. Now. they wre a ion r f desiiitiori which do tongue ; lv -oirtd describe. j kMme. Horta said IftOftO ehljdren had 1 t-iieyed into Holland froin , Belgium. J-their J-their relatives being either- dead or (ost. At a dock where thotts;ndaTf --efpneees stood, a mother her baby" xnd, flurniiMMg th it the soMfer - liad . ouslied It into the water, .she' leaped ! pilw the wat"r and srt-k from sight. 1 MoJte than l'..0.sno i-Widren were cared L for- in freed 1 i i.t i Five million teoi,te have leen cared for lv Mr. Hoover's nrganiZ'ition. according'' . to ' Miss?. Horta, .ind 1.4U0 000 .f thenej were children. .l 3ARRIERS REMOVED. ? Ai an Illustration of what Tlerm'aaj ' risslty has done. Ime. Hrta staled 4 .bi in ni-iny cities, of lietgiurn there 1' s liot a child nnJtr 1 or 4 years off ag. She stated tht politics hdd t nre divided the Flemish, French .and" I Reitrians, and that then had exist e( j "aitciful barriers- between differeiit : people. Now, she stated, suffering had eveicd all ranks, r'ejiioved all twrriers ; nd made the na'u n on. Kine Al- Wrt Is their great hero jtnd the most , fv;d man in Euiope. . After Mme. Horta had fpent over a , eir in atrugif ling h reJi-ve the misery j ( rf "ahe orphans she left Helgium and ; , t.-reted on a lecture Uur ot the wor'd.j , Kr where, she stated. rh has met I w'tb the most hearty arid .jeneroua re-1 1 KpwiMe when she appealed for aid. She ; A lectured in scores r.f American -ins and is now returning to lirus- eUL Victor Horta wiir"f'av a prominent jt vt in tht reconstruction cf K'dsjmaj. . ci 'addition to f ing goreTprner.t ar- 1 wmi Meet, be was president uf the t'oileg. j A-' Architecture In Hrussefs. Mme. t 1 Horta had planned to lecture n Salt Iake. hut on account of the Influenza tW he will fte onHlde in do So. JOY IN BELGIUM. ' I am going dirertly., bark to Ret-ginni," Ret-ginni," she saidA "Picture the Joy of m people who under the German yoke have had no. communication with the outside world for four ewrs; no newspapers news-papers except German publications: no telephone or telegraph service, always living tn fearV now suddenly re I eased as fi bm a dark prison." Mine. Horta founded the King Albert fha First home fir lielginni orphans, (hjldren ran le 1 dopteii by paying : a rtionth for their auort. Pu-tures are seat to the oenelactors ot ttie children whom they adopt. The home was f.rst in17 Holland, hut Is .now in peicfnm |