valley of the Sambre through Tamines and Charleroi to Mons. Meanwhile a force under General von Hausen had advanced upon Dinant, by Laroche, Marche, and Achene, and on Aug. 15 made an unsuccessful assault upon that town.  A few days later the attack was renewed and with success, and, Dinant captured, von Hausen’s army streamed into France by Bouvines and Rethel, firing and looting the villages and shooting the inhabitants as they passed through.

The evidence with regard to the Province of Namur is less voluminous than that relating to the north of Belgium.  This is largely due to the fact that the testimony of soldiers is seldom available, as the towns and villages once occupied by the Germans were seldom reoccupied by the opposing troops, and the number of refugees who have reached England from the Namur district is comparatively small.

ANDENNE.

Andenne is a small town on the Meuse between Liege and Namur, lying opposite the village of Seilles, (with which it is connected by a bridge over the river,) and was one of the earlier places reached on the German advance up the Meuse.  In order to understand the story of the massacre which occurred there on Thursday Aug. 20, the following facts should be borne in mind:  The German advance was hotly contested by Belgian and French troops.  From daybreak onward on the 19th of August the Eighth Belgian Regiment of the Line were fighting with the German troops on the left bank of the Meuse on the heights of Seilles.  At 8 A.M. on the 19th the Belgians found further resistance impossible in the district, and retired under shelter of the forts of Namur.  As they retired they blew up Andenne Bridge.  The first Germans arrived at Andenne at about 10 A.M., when ten or twelve Uhlans rode into the town.  They went to the bridge and found it was destroyed.  They then retired, but returned about half an hour afterward.  Soon after that several thousand Germans entered the town and made arrangements to spend the night there.  Thus, on the evening of the 19th of August, a large body of German troops were in possession of the town, which they had entered without any resistance on the part of the allied armies or of the civilian population.

About 4:30 on the next afternoon shots were fired from the left bank of the Meuse and replied to by the Germans in Andenne.  The village of Andenne had been isolated from the district on the left bank of the Meuse by the destruction of the bridge, and there is nothing to suggest that the firing on the left came from the inhabitants of Andenne.  Almost immediately, however, the slaughter of these inhabitants began, and continued for over two hours and intermittently during the night.  Machine guns were brought into play.  The German troops were said to be for the most part drunk, and they certainly murdered and ravaged unchecked.  A reference to the German diaries in the appendix will give some idea of the extent to which the army gave itself up to drink through the month of August.