At Graesbeek, ten miles from Brussels, we first saw houses on fire.

They continued with us to Liege.
Village after village had been completely wrecked.

In his march to the sea Sherman lived on the country.

He did not destroy it, and as against the burning of Columbia must be placed to the discredit of the Germans the wiping out of an entire countryside.
For many miles we saw procession after procession of peasants fleeing from one burning village, which had been their home, to other villages, to find only blackened walls and smouldering ashes.

In no part of northern Europe is there a countryside fairer than that between Aix-la-Chapelle and Brussels, but the Germans had made of it a graveyard.