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The Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Jesuit priest reports escape from Louvain's destruction: 11 scholastics at risk; one shot, others saved in Brussels by American minister's threat of war declaration. (Reported London, Sept. 11.)
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(By Associated Press.)
London, Sept. 11.-A Jesuit priest, who escaped from Louvain before the destruction of that city, has written to his father, Philip Cooley, of this city, as follows:
"All our people escaped except eleven scholastics. One of these was shot at once and he had a diary of the war on his person. The others were taken to Brussels where they were to have been shot, but the American minister stepped in and stopped it. He told the Germans that his government would declare war if any of these persons were shot."
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Louvain
Event Date
Sept. 11
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one scholastic shot; the other ten scholastics taken to brussels and spared from being shot due to intervention by the american minister
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A Jesuit priest escaped from Louvain before its destruction and wrote to his father Philip Cooley in London. All their people escaped except eleven scholastics. One was shot immediately with a diary of the war on his person. The others were taken to Brussels to be shot, but the American minister intervened, warning the Germans that his government would declare war if any were shot.