Indeed, we did not try.

It made for subsequent sanity to carry for the time a drugged and stupefied imagination.
Barring only Huy, where there had been some sharp street fighting, as attested by shelled buildings and sandbag barricades yet resting on housetops and in window sills, we encountered in the first stage of our journey no considerable evidences of havoc until late in the afternoon, when we reached Dinant.

I do not understand why the contemporary chronicles of events did not give more space to Dinant at the time of its destruction, and why they have not given it more space subsequently.
I presume the reason lies in the fact that the same terrible week which included the burning of Louvain included also the burning of Dinant; and in the world-wide cry of protestation and distress which arose with the smoke of the greater calamity the smaller voice of grief for little ruined Dinant was almost lost.

Yet, area considered, no place in Belgium that I have visited--and this does not exclude Louvain--suffered such wholesale demolition as Dinant.
Before war began, the town had something less than eight thousand inhabitants.

When I got there it had less than four thousand, by the best available estimates.