TIRLEMONT

town, Brabant, Belof Bru els. In World War was |occupied by the Germans after their | cavalry had been temporarily checked the Belgians, Aug. 13, 1914: during |Ger. occupation the church of Notre 6,300.|Dame du Lac, 13th-15th cent. was | 12™aged. but the town generally escaped | S°TOUs destruction. Pop. 18,000, object of challenging Britain’s su on the seas; cunningly frame mates so as to deceive the Reichstag; as grand admiral was Germany’s naval policy in the World War; advocated ruthle sub mar in e war: came into collision with the chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, 1917; and pub. Memoirs, 1919, had in to retire, which he maintained that Germany had lost the war because sh been enough, e had ‘not ruthle