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"Human Documents" of Battle
By Men Who Saw or Took Part.
Written in the hurry and confusion of battle, and without the opportunity at hand to check up the impressions given, it is of course likely that these dispatches from special correspondents may contain many things which history will correct. But as human documents they have no equal, and history will not be able, however she may correct matters of detail and partisan feeling, to offer anything which will give a more vivid impression of the glare and roar of battle than do these letters, penned by men actually in or near the firing line at the moment of great events. As such The Times offers them, not as frozen history, but as history in the making, and has no apologies to make for an error of fact here and there, for those very errors are in a way testimony that adds value to the story—the story of honest and hard-driven human beings writing what was passing before their eyes.
The German Entry Into Brussels
By John Boon of The London Daily Mail.
BRUSSELS, via Alost, Aug. 20. (Thursday,) 10 P.M.
The Germans entered Brussels shortly after 2 P.M. today without firing a shot.
Yielding to the dictates of reason and humanity, the civil Government at the last moment disbanded the Civic Guard, which the Germans would not recognize. The soldiers and ordinary police were then entrusted with the maintenance of order.
After a day of wild panic and slumberless nights the citizens remained at their windows. Few sought their couches.