The citizens who know where a store of arms is located must inform the Burgomaster, under penalty of enforced labor for life.
(3) Each street will be occupied by a German guard who will take ten hostages in each street, whom they will keep in custody.
If any outrage is committed in the street, the ten hostages will be shot.
(4) Doors must not be locked, and at night after 8 o'clock three windows must be lighted in each house.
(5) It is forbidden to remain in the street after 8 o'clock. The people of Namur must understand that there is no greater nor more horrible crime than to endanger the existence of the city and the life of its inhabitants by attacks upon the German Army.
The Commandant of the City.
(Signed) VON BUELOW.
Namur, 25th of August, 1914. (Imprimerie Chantraine.)
LETTER ADDRESSED ON AUG. 27, 1914, BY LIEUT. GEN. VON NIEBER TO THE BURGOMASTER OF WAVRE.
On Aug. 22, 1914, the General commanding the Second Army, Herr von Bülow, imposed upon the City of Wavre a war levy of three million francs, to be paid before Sept. 1, as expiation for its unqualifiable behavior (contrary to the law of nations and the usages of war) in making a surprise attack on the German troops.
The General in command of the Second Army has just given to the General commanding this station of the Second Army the order to send in without delay, this contribution which it should pay on account of its conduct.