Ecclesiastics were singled out for special maltreatment. This professor, and twelve other priests or monks with him, was stopped by German troops encamped at _Lovenjoul_. They were informed that they were going to be shot for “having incited the population.”--“A soldier,” states the professor, “called me ‘Black Devil’ and pushed me roughly into a dirty little stable.”--“I was thrust into a pig-stye,” states one of his fellow-victims,[317] “from which a pig had just been removed before my eyes.... There I was compelled to undress completely. German soldiers searched my clothes and took all I had. Thereupon the other ecclesiastics were brought to the stye; two of them were stripped like me; all were searched and robbed of all they had. The soldiers kept everything of value--watches, money and so on--and only returned us trifles. Our breviaries were thrown into the manure. Some of the ecclesiastics were robbed of large sums--one had 6,000 francs on him, another more than 4,000. All were brutally handled and received blows.” They were saved from death by the professor’s mother, who appealed to a German officer with more sense of justice than his colleagues, and they were thankful to rejoin the other refugees. A second stream of refugees was pouring out of Louvain by the _Tervueren Road_,[318] towards the south-west. “On the road,” states a professor,[319] “we had to raise our arms each time we met soldiers. An officer in a motor-car levelled his revolver at us. He threatened fiercely a young man walking by himself who only raised one arm--he was carrying a portmanteau in the other hand, which he had to put down in a hurry. At _Tervueren_ we were searched several times over, and then took the electric tram for Brussels....”