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VALLEYS OF MEUSE AND SAMBRE.
While the First Army, under the command of General Alexander von Kluck,
was mastering the passages of the Meuse between Vise and Namur, and
carrying out the scheme of devastation which has already been described,
detachments of the Second German Army, under General von Buelow, were
proceeding up the Meuse valley toward Namur. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, the
town of Huy, which stands half way between Namur and Liege, was seized.
On Aug. 20 German guns opened fire on Namur itself. Three days later the
city was evacuated by its defenders, and the Germans proceeded along the
valley of the Sambre through Tamines and Charleroi to Mons. Meanwhile a
force under General von Hausen had advanced upon Dinant, by Laroche,
Marche, and Achene, and on Aug. 15 made an unsuccessful assault upon
that town. A few days later the attack was renewed and with success,
and, Dinant captured, von Hausen's army streamed into France by Bouvines
and Rethel, firing and looting the villages and shooting the inhabitants
as they passed through.
The evidence with regard to the Province of Namur is less voluminous
than that relating to the north of Belgium.
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