sentences:  He published a book on his experiences in Belgium, "The Germans in Belgium - Notes by a Dutch Eye-Witness" and afterwards traveled to France, working as a war-correspondent for various international newspapers and news-magazines.For saving fifty Belgian clergymen from German execution during the Rape of Belgium period, including the rector magnificus of the famous Catholic University of Leuven, he was decorated officer in the Belgian Order of the Crown.Later in September 1915, he left for Russia at the invitation of general Aleksei Brusilov where he was allowed to accompany the Russian 8th Army as a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.