under his flag of truce, signalled the desired information and then
fell. Soon after, fell the fort. The Germans had found the desired
range, and shot. At Antwerp a single shell was able to put an entire
fortress out of business.

It is the Landwehr and the older men that have been called by Germany
to do duty in Belgium, while the younger troops are sent back and forth
between the eastern and western frontier defences.

An American who has lately been all through Belgium, representing both
commercial interests and charity work, tells me;--

"I left America absolutely neutral. I was not a student of the war or
of the cause of the war. What I saw in Belgium convinced me that the
Allies must win and will win. I am no longer neutral. What I saw in
Belgium of the wanton destruction of villages, towns, and cities has
prejudiced me as no argument could have done. The Allies' losses will
begin when they take the offensive against the German works which are
now being constructed. Soon England will have 600,000 more men on the
Continent and there will be more doing.

"The losses of the Germans have been two or three times the losses of
the Allies in the Belgian trenches, because the Germans have been the
attacking parties. If the Allies become the attacking parties they
will have to sustain the heavy losses. But I cannot see it otherwise
than that the Allies must win. The crime against Belgium is the
greatest crime since Calvary, and it has set the whole world against
Germany.

"It is not only a crime, but it was a military error, for to-day