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We were never disappointed. It is only the man who expects the
German army to forget something needful or necessary who is
disappointed.
It was late in the afternoon when we bade farewell to the three-hundred-
pound proprietress of the Belgian Lion and sought to reach the center of
the town through byways not yet blocked off by the marching regiments.
When we were perhaps halfway to our destination we met a town bellman
and a town crier, the latter being in the uniform of a Garde Civique.
The bellringer would ply his clapper until he drew a crowd, and then the
Garde Civique would halt in an open space at the junction of two or more
streets and read a proclamation from the burgomaster calling on all the
inhabitants to preserve their tranquillity and refrain from overt acts
against the Germans, under promise of safety if they obeyed and threat
of death at the hands of the Germans if they disregarded the warning.
This word-of-mouth method of spreading an order applied only to the
outlying sections.


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