GRMAX WAR PRACTICES.
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(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."
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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.
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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
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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:
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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?
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s are justified.
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in the ordinary sense?they are state\
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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
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greater test? |
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average of all kinds of going. 1
the Maxwell at the end of that great I t
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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.
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