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GERMAN WA Edited by Dana C. 1 versity; George C. of Wisconsin, and University c Issued by the Committt Other German soldiers, too, we are glad to see, show their horror at the j foul deeds "The inhabitants have fled in the | village. It was horrible. There was i clotted blood on all the beards, ana j what faces one saw, terrible to behold! The dead, sixty in all, were at { once buried. Among them were! * many old women, some old men, and j a half-delivered woman,?awful to see; j three children had clasped each other, and died thus. The altar and the j vaults of the church are shattered. J They had a telephone there to com- j municate with the enemy. This J morning, September 2, all the sur- i vivors were expelled, and I saw four little boys carrying a cradle, with a ! baby five or six months old in it, on ! two sticks. All this was terrible to see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt jjftor tlmnriprhnlt' Rvprvtbin^ is I ' given over to pillage; fowls and the; rest all killed. I saw a mother, too, i with her two children; one had a : 1 . ; great wound on the head and had lost an eye." (From the diary of j ] Lance-Corporal Paul Spielmann, of i 1 the Ersatz, First Brigade of Infantry ' of the Guard.) , ( , ( In the night the inhabitants of . i Liege became mutinous. Forty per- j ? sons were shot and 15 houses de-i i molshied. 10 soldiers shot. The ; f sights here make you cry) j ^ "On the 23rd August everything i quiet. The inhabitants have so far ; c given in. Seventy students were j t shot, 200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants returning to Liege. I, a "Aug. 24th. At noon with 36 men i s on sentry duty. Sentry duty | A 1, a no post allocated to me. Our1 occu- j E pation, apart from bathing, is eating j t and drinking. We live like God in \ Belgium." (From the diary of Joh. j r ? ~ ~ +U/-V 1 van uer ouuvui, icsci visi u: .mc < i Tenth Company, Thirty-ninth Re- a serve Infantry Regiment, Seventh i; Reserve Army Corps.) n \ "August 17th. In the afternoon I had a look at the little chateau be- v I longing to one of the King's secre- s [SHI I n ii ; 1 pir W2 do ! BUG1 \ 1 IK s sil Ik I ^PRACTICES Munro, Princeton UniSellery, University August C Krey, >f Minnesota ie on Public Information i j. taries (not at home). Our men had 1 l. ? l. 3 i: i i ,3 ? 1 ? tm ' uenaveu Hh.e icguiai \auudis. i ne\ ; had looted the cellar first, and then j 1 they had turned their attention to : the bedrooms and thrown things j J about all over the place. They had j 1 even made efforts to smash the safe ( open. Everything was topsy-turvy ! 1 ?magnificent furniture, silk, and j 1 even china. That's what happens j ( when the men are allowed to requi- j I sition for themselves. I am sure j ( they must have taken away a heap j ( of useless stuff simply for the pleas-'t ure of looting." 1 "Aug. 23rd. * * * Our men came j back and said that at the point 2 where the valley joined the Meuse c we could not get on any further as c the villagers were shooting at us i e from every house. We shot the whole lot?16 of them. They were drawn j 11 up in three ranks; the same shot did ! C for three at a time. I e * * * The men had already shown ! h their brutal instincts: * * * i s "The sight of the bodies of all the j c inhabitants who had been shot was I t indescribable. Every house in the i h ivhole village was destroyed. We ' 1 iragged the villagers one after an- j )ther out of the most unlikely cor-'s. lers. The men were shot as well j c is the women and children who were n the convent, since shots had been " ired from the convent windows and ve burnt it afterwards. j n "The inhabitants might have es-, ti aped the penalty by handing over tl he guilty and paying 15,000 francs. | n "The inhabitants fired on our men G igain. The division took drastic j h teps to stop the villages being burnt I h .nd the inhabitants being shot. The ! retty little village of Gue d'Ossus, o: towever, was apparently set on fire , tl nthout cause. A cyclist fell off his i p< nachine and his rifle went off. He I ti Liiliicuidiciv oaia He iiau ueeu snuu j t. All the inhabitants were burnt n the houses. I hope there will be j to more such horrors. ' ^ si "At Leppe apparently 200 men j a rere shot. There must have been 1 di ome innocent men among them. In j si PME $ tave just receiver Bamberg. Thes< irkets, and rangi lk of condition, int you to see th you good just tc i GIES, tave also receive the market, anc vays complete. RA future we shall have to hold au inquiry as to their guilt instead of shooting them. "In the evening we marched to .Maubert-Fontaine. Just as we were having our meal the alarm was sounded?everyone is very jumpy. "September 3rd. Still at Rethel. on guard over prisoners. * * * The houses are charming inside. The middle class in France has magnifi cent furniture. We found stylish pieces everywhere and beautiful silk, but in what a state * * * Good God! * * * Every bit of furniture broken, miners smashed. The Vandals themselves could not have done more damage. This place is a disgrace to our army. The inhabitants who fled could not have expected, of course, that all their goods would have been left intact after so many Croops had passed. But the column commanders are responsible for the greater part of the damage, as they could have prevented the looting and lestruction. The damage amounts o millions of marks; even the safes . iave been attacked. "In a solicitor's house, in which, | is luck would have it, all was in ex:ellent taste, including a collection j >f old lace and Eastern works of art, i (verything was smashed to bits. I r-milH nnt riolr tol-incr o little i * uvt A ion tuivia^ a. iiiiir nemento myself here and there.* * 5 ! )ne house was particularly elegant, | verything in the best taste. The : ta 11 was of light oak; I found a I plendid raincoat under the stair- j ase and a camera for Felix." (From j he diary of an officer in the One i undred seventy-eighth Regiment, j 'welfth Saxon Corps. ) But this horror apparently was not ; hared by the German commander in j hief, as evident from the following: j "ORDER To the People of Liege. "The population of Andenne, after j taking a display of peaceful inten-! ions towards our troops, attacked j iiem in the most treacherous man er. With my authorization, the i eneral commanding these troops ; as reduced the town to ashes and j as had 110 persons shot. "I bring this fact to the knowledge f the people of Liege in order that ley may know what fate to exect should they adopt a similar attude. I "Liege, 22nd August, 1914. "GENERAL VON BULOW." j The following "Order of the Day" lows how the town of Huy escaped like fate. Drunken German sol- i iers were frightened and began to j loot men and burn houses. The ] ii ?ipq ;nt i a shipment oi s mules were pe efrom 1,000 to 1.1 and tnere is n tem, whether y< > look at them. WAG d a shipment o 1 my stock of h My prices are NK BAMBERC II IOO< 1 commanding officer condemned this because it was not done by his orI . der and because two German soldiers were wounded. It is evident that massacres and arson were permitted j only when commanded by the officers. { "Last night a shooting affray took ! place. There is no evidence that the inhabitants of the town had any arms in their houses, nor is there evidence that the people took part in the I shooting: on the contrary, it seems ! that the soldiers were under the in! fluence of alcohol, and began to shoot ; in a senseless fear of hostile attack. "The behavior of the soldiers dur-> ! ing the night, with verv few ev i options, makes a scandalous ini-i pression. j "It is highly deplorable when! j officers or non-commissioned officers ! set houses on fire without permission or order of the commanding, or as the i case may be. the senior officer, or when bv their attitude they encour, * age the rank and file to burn and plunder. "I require that everywhere strict instructions shall be given with re- i gard to the treatment of the life and property of the civilian population. "I prohibit all shooting in the towns without the order of an of-1 ficer. "The miserable behaviour of the' men caused a non-commissioned offi-'' cer and a private to be seriously ; wounded by German bullets. "The Commanding Officer. MAJOR VOX BASSEWITZ." In his report of September 12,; 1017, to tie Secretary of Stq,te, Minivta-n 1 ioic' ?? miiulk uas much in leu or t?)e policy of frightfulness. The following passage refers to the.subject of massacres:. Germans Force Wives to Witness Husbands' Executions. "Summary executions took place j (Continued 011 page 6, column 1!) J . l . ... ^ E PORTABLE AND STATIONARY j ^ Ink gg Affii ^91 *3 MM R hm R hhh| ^pfl| 9 il . VP I I Ll ' AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood i Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines LAKOESTOCK LOMBARD j Foundry, _ Machine, Boiler Works, j Supply Store. AUGUSTA. GA. ; To Cure a Cold In One Day. rake LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. 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