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Show HORRORS OF MR TOLD BY FLEEING REFUGEES Holland has become the asylum of Europe. People expelled from half a doxen countries are pouring into this country by every route. From the Dutch-Belgian frontier, from Vise to Llee. the country Is a wilderness. The villages of Berneux snd Mouland were destroyed by shell, fire and flames. A corresp jndent who traveled over the battlefield in on automobile found evidence of a riesnerate defense on the part of the Inhabitants and savage sav-age vengeance meted out by the German Ger-man soldierB. The correspondent fm oven bodies of civilians In a ditch. An old man with an umbrella still In his grasp was found dead on a road. Army wagons had passed over him. The bodies of scores of German soldiers sol-diers lay along the otde of the road. All their household goods had beer abandoned by the fleeing inhabitants. |