(a) There is no convent of Jesuits near Liége about 600 yards from one of the southern forts (Boncelles, Embourg, and Chaudfontaine).
(b) The Jesuit brothers are not compelled to keep silence. No doubt the author chose the Jesuits because the order is excluded from Germany, so that he would expect his compatriots to know nothing of the rule of the Jesuit communities.
(c) How did these brothers, who read no newspapers and never spoke, know of the existence of dirigibles?
But apart from all this, the facts are incorrect. At no time did a dirigible fly over Liége during the siege.
The people of Liége saw a German dirigible for the first time on the 1st September, 1914, at 10 p.m. On the following day, at 6 p.m., they saw another.
(d) Therefore fires could not have been lit by the bombs from these dirigibles.
(e) Where have stained-glass windows ever been seen to bulge like sails under the shock of an explosion capable of cracking walls over 30 inches in thickness?
(f) Nothing had happened so far to give any one the idea that the convent was about to be pillaged.
(g) Since when have the Jesuit convents owned farms, etc., or been equipped with hay-forks, manure-forks, spades, hay-carts, etc.?