When, after unheard-of exertions, we dragged ourselves across the frontier, we let ourselves fall exhausted in a meadow, where we slept, a leaden slumber, protected and watched by the Germans, from morning to sunset. (ROBERT HEYMANN, _Sturmnacht in Loewen_, pp. 8-13.) As will be seen, this is a story to make the flesh creep. Still, it seems to us to present certain difficulties. (_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.? (_h_) It is delightful to note that in enumerating the precious possessions of the convent the Jesuit fathers occupy the very last place, after the pictures and the gold plate! But this impertinence is more apparent than real; for the narrator has just stated that the 150 Jesuit fathers were packed, together with the pictures and the sacred vessels, in _eight_ motor-cars! Evidently they were very tiny Jesuits. It must have been their minuteness that saved them; for the author has reminded us that Jesuits (of ordinary size) are not admitted into Germany; but these, happily, passed unperceived. (_i_) It was not Saturday, but Friday. It is by such inventions--presented as the narratives of eye-witnesses, and not as romances--that the Germans excite against us both their troops and their home population. The method has given excellent results; nothing gives better proof of its efficiency than the first paragraph of the story of _The Battle of Charleroi_, in which we read that at the beginning of August many trucks passed through Belgium which bore the inscription:-- _Gegen Frankreich mit Mut, Gegen Belgiën mit Wut._ (Against France with courage; against Belgium with rage.) Which shows to what a pitch the minds of the German troops had been excited against us. _A "French Dirigible" Captured by the Germans._