The third batch “conveyed elsewhere” from Louvain on August 26th consisted of the Garde Civique.[306] All members of this body were summoned by proclamation to present themselves at the _Hôtel-de-Ville_ at 2.0 p.m.[307] The 95 men who reported themselves were informed that they were prisoners, taken to the _Station_, and entrained in two goods-vans. There were 250 other deportees on the train, including the Gardes Civiques of _Beyghem_ and _Grimberghen_, and about a hundred women and children. They did not reach the internment camp at _Münster_ till the night of the 28th, and on the journey they were almost starved. At _Cologne Station_ a German Red Cross worker refused one of the women, who asked her in German for a little milk to feed her sick baby fourteen months old.[308] In the camp at _Münster_ all the men were crowded promiscuously into a single wooden shed. The floor was strewn with straw (already old), which was never changed. The blankets (also old, and too thin to keep out the cold) were never disinfected or washed. There was no lighting or heating. The food was insufficient and disgusting. The sanitary arrangements were indecent. And the deportees had to live under these conditions for months, in the clothes they stood in, though many had come in slippers and shirt-sleeves--the proclamation having taken them completely by surprise. In neighbouring huts there were the 400 Russian students from _Liége_, 600 or 700 people from _Visé_, the Gardes Civiques of _Hasselt_ and _Tongres_, people from _Haccourt_ and from several communes in the _Province of Limburg_--about 1,700 prisoners in all. On October 4th an article in the _Berliner Tageblatt_, signed by a German general, admitted that “only two of the prisoners at _Münster_ were under suspicion of having fired”; but none of the prisoners from Louvain were released till October 30th, and then only cripples and men over seventy years of age. The rest were retained, including a man with a wooden leg....