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GRMAX WAR PRACTICES. (Continued from page2, column 4.) (at Dinant) without the least semblance of judgment. The names and number of the victims are not known, but they must be numerous. I have been unable to obtain precise details in this respect and the number of persons who have fled is unknown. Among the persons who were shot are: Mr. Defoin, mayor of Dinant; Sasserath, first alderman; Ximmer, aged 70; .counsel for the Argentine Republic, Victor Poncelet, who was executed in the presence of his wife and seven children; Wasseige and his two sons; Messrs. Gustave and Leon Nicaise, two very old men; Jules Monin and others were shot in the cellar of their brewery. Mr. Camille Pistte and son, aged 17; Phillippart, Piedfort, his wife and daughter; Miss Marsigny. During the execution of about forty inhabitants of Dinant, the Germans placed before the condemned their wives and children. It is thus that Madame Albin who had just given birth to a child, three days previously, was brought on a mattress by Ger man soldiers to witness the execution of her husband; her cries and supplications were so pressing that her husband's life was spared." "On the 26th of August German soldiers entered various streets (of Louvain) and ordered the inhabitants of the houses to proceed to the Place de la Station, where the bodies of nearly a dozen assassinated persons were lying. Women and children were separated from the men and forced to remain on the Place de la Station during the whole day. They / had to witness the execution of many of their fellow citizens, who were for the most part shot at the side of the square, near the house of Mr. Hemaide. The women and children, after having remained on the square for more than 15 hours, were allowed to depart. The Bardes Civiques of Louvain were also taken prisoners and sent to Germany, to the camp of Munster, where they were held for several weeks. "On Thursday, August 27th, order. was given to the inhabitants to leave Louvain because the city was to he bombarded. Old men, women, children, the sick, priests, nuns, were driven on the roads like cattle. More than 10,000 of the inhabitants were driven as far as Tirelmont, 18 kilometers from Louvain." "One of the most sorely tried communities was that of the little village of Tamines, down in what is known as the Borinage, the coal fields near Charleroi. Tamines is a mining vil \ lage in the Sambre; it is a collection of small cottages sheltering about 5,000 inhabitants, mostly all poor laborers. jf Massacres in Tamines. "The little graveyard in which the church stands bears its mute testimony to the horror of the event. There are hundreds of new made graves, each with its small wooden cross and its bit of flowers; the crosses are so closely huddled that there is scarcely room to walk between them. The crosses are alike and all bear the same date, the sinister date of August 22d, 1914." "But whether their hands were cut off or not, whether they were impaled on bayonets or not, children were shot down, by military order, in cold blood. In the awful crime of the Rock of Bayard, there overlooking the Meuse below Dinant, infants in their mother's arms were shot down without mercy. The deed, never surpassed in cruelty by any band of savages, is described by the Bishop of Namur himself: Slaughter of the Innocents at Rocher Bayard. "One scene surpasses in horror all others; it is the fusillade of the Rocher Bayard near Dinant. It appears to have been ordered by Colonel Meister. This fusillade made many victims among tn? nearpy pansnes, especially those of des Rivages and Neffe. It caused the death of nearly 90 persons, without distinction of age or sex. Among the victims were babies in arms, bpys and girls, fathers and mothers of families, even old men. "It was there that 12 children under the age of 6 perished from the fire of the executioners, 6 of them as they lay in their mothres' arms: "The child Fievet, 3 weeks old. "Maurice Betemps, 11 months old. "Nelly Pollet, 11 months old. "Gilda Genon, 18 months old. "Gilda Marchot, 2 .years old. "Clara Struvay, 2 years and 6 months. "The pile of bodies comprised also many children from 6 to 14 years. Eight large families have entirely disappeared. Four have but one sur-, vivor. Those men that escaped death?and many of whom were rid' .* died with bullets?were obliged to bury in a summary and hasty fashion their fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters; then after having been relieved of their money and being placed In chains they were sent to Cassel (Prussia)." Mr. Hugh Gibson, the secretary of our legation in Belgium, visited Louvain during its systematic destruction by the Germans. In A Journal from our Legation in Belgium, New York, 1917, pages 164-165. he relates what the German officers told him: "It was a story of cleaning out civilians from a large part of the town, a systematic routing out of men from cellars and garrets, wholesale shootings, the generous use of machine guns, and the free application of the torch?the whole story enough to make one see red. And for our guidance ~t was impressed on us that this would make people respect Germany and think twice about resisting her." German pastors and professors far from the excitement of the firing have defended this policy of frightfulness, e. g.: "We are not only compelled to accept the war that is forced upon us * * * but are even compelled to carry on this war with a cruelty, a ruthlessness, an employment of every imaginable device, unknown in any previous war." Pastor D. Baumgarten, in Deutsche Reden. in schwere Zeit, "German Speeches in Difficult Days." (To be continued.) I Claims J but V t "Most Miles Per Gallon" "Most Miles on Tires" Maxwell I IM^j. Imuiur Cars Touring Car .. $ 825 Roadsteri 825 Touring, with AllWeather Top. . 935 5-Pass. Sedan . . . 1275 6-Pass. Town Car 1275 All prices f. o. b. Detroit Wire wheels regular equipment ' wirh Sedan and Town Cm v n i I Bamberg Auto Co. Q. FRARNK BAMBEG, President Bamberg, S. C. Ijj jggggHgHMHM?HHBHHIIHH6^eeaau<Mad8h6te!JEKHB3SL5 ^re All Ri Inlv rrnn # AAAJ Ok A WJ Any maker may claim for his product a. privilege. He may even think his claim You read the advertisements, so you knc modest in that regard. If you believe them all, they all make si In your experience, that theory doesn't Maxwell is different. We never claim anything we cannot pro"* As a matter of fact we never have claim not already been proved in public test a Maxwell claims are not therefore claims ments of fact?oroven facts. ~ ? - A- They are, in every case, matters of officii For example: The famous 22,000-mile Maxwell every minute under observation That still* remains a world's record?the That particular test proved about all thai car. Among other things it still stands the w Just consider?44 days and nights with* miles per hour! And that, not by a $2,000 car, but by a i You will recall perhaps that a famous hij continental trip made 28 miles average < hours. Now compare those two feats?one of le You know automobiles?which was the \ Is there any comparison on grounds eith< Proves you don't need to pay more tha can desire in a motor car?if you select For that Maxwell Non-3top ran was n country roads and through city traffic? And?listen to this. So certain were we of the condition of feat, we announced that at the stroke o: would stop in front of the City Hall, Lo seal. Five seconds after he had pulled the switc 44 days and nights continuous running thousand mile jaunt to visit various Ms How. is that for precision?certainty of a of applause from the assembled thousanc Hill climbing??this Maxwell holds pract especially in the West where the real hills The Mount Wilson record?nine and on taken by a stock Maxwell. Two months ago a 12-cylinder car beat t Then?three days later?a stock Maxwe record by thirty seconds! Pretty close rlimb?wasn't it? So Maxwell still holds the Mount Wilsor Ready to defend it against all comers too, any stock or special chassis. Economy?also a matter of official recor Others may claim?Maxwell proves. Thousands of Maxwell owners throughoi: averaged 29.4 miles per gallon of gasolin Not dealers or factory experts, mind yo driving their own Maxwells. Nor were they new Maxwells?the contesi many of which had seen tens of thousanc Nor could they choose their own road c encountered in the various sections of ti Good roads and bad?level country and i sunshine and rain?asphalt and mud. And the average was 29.4 miles per gallo: * ^~A ay* s There's economy ior yuu. n.uu umat* < laboratory test. But that isn't all. The greatest achievement of this Maxwel bility and economy all in the same run. In that 44 days-and-nights Non-Stop n either speed or economy, it still remains a averaged 22 miles per gallon and 25 miles ] Now you know that speed costs?and th slow-speed?closed-throttle, thin-mixture You know too that you can obtain econc for that one condition. Speed you can get by building for speed. But to obtain that combination of spe< reliability shown in that 44-days Nor. Sto ght? fs Count 11 the qualities there are. That is his s are justified. )w that makers, as a rule, are not over iper-cars. hold. 7e. ed anything for this Maxwell that has ind under official observation. in the ordinary sense?they are state\ - al record attested under oatn. Non-Stop run was made with the of the A. A. A. officials. world's record of reliability. t anyone could ask or desire of a motor 'orld's long distance speed record, out a stop, at an average speed of 25 stock model Maxwell listing at $825.? $h powered, high priced six in a transaver a period of five days and eleven i ss than six days, the other of 44 days, greater test? | =r of speed or endurance? S n $825 to obtain all the qualities you S a Maxwell. 9 iaHp. not on a track but over rough B average of all kinds of going. 1 the Maxwell at the end of that great I t f eleven on a certain morning, the car s Angeles, for the Mayor to break the :h plug and stopped the motor after the ;, she was started again and off on a ixwell dealers. ction? That incident brought a storm is. ically every record worth mentioning? ; are. _ 1 ir ?;i? c f\r\r\ r?4. 9 e-nan miics, u,vuu iccl ucvauuui?woo h hat record by two minutes. 11 11 went out and beat that 12-cylinder . j I going for such a distance and such a II. 1 honors. j I at any time?a stock Maxwell against [ I it the United States on the same day j I u, but owners?thousands of them? II t was made by 1915,16, and 17 models, j I Is miles of service?three years' use. 11 >r weather conditions?all kinds were le country. mountainous regions?heat and cold? n! ictual average driving conditions?not 1 was in its showing of speed and reliam, though no thought was given to ? " ** t>r* * i .1 -J. ^ 1 *k n S3 tact ot omciai.record mat tne lviaxweu m per hour. 1 at economy tests are usually made at I conditions. I >my of fuel by building and adjusting H I Any engineer can do that. S zd and economy with the wonderful 1 p run?that car must be a Maxwell. B fl