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The Germans also found it conven- j
ient on many occasions to secure civ- j
ilians, both men and women, wno
could be forced to march or stand
in front of the troops, so that the
countrymen .of the civilians would,
be compelled first to kill their own
people if they resisted the Germans, j
This usage is illustrated in the fol- j
lowing:
LETTER OF LIEUT. EBERLEIN. |
"October 7, 1914. I
"But we arrested three other civi-!
lians, and then I had a brilliant idea.
We gave them chairs, and we then j
ordered them to go and sit out in the:
middle of the street. On their part,!
pitiful entreaties; on ours, a few
blows from the butt end of the rifle, j
Little by little one becomes terribly j
callous at this business. At last they j
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were an seaieu uuisiut? m mc oucci.
I do not know what anguished pray- j
ers they may have said but I noticed j
that their hands were convulsively
clasped the whole time. I pitied j
these fellows, but the method was |
immediately effective.
"The flank fire from the houses J
quickly diminished, so that we were
able to occupy the opposite house
and thus to dominate the principal j
street. Every living being who show- j
ed himself in the street was shot. The j
artillery on its side had done good j
work all this time, and when, to- j
ward 7 o'clock in the evening, the j
brigade advanced to the assault to \
relieve us I was in a position to re- |
port that Saint Die had been cleared
of the enemy.
"Later on I learned that the regi- j
w?i=,T>+ rtf rocorvo Tchi^h pnfprpd Saint!
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Die further to the north had tried I
the same experiment. The four civi-j
lians whom they had compelled in(
the same way to sit out in the street j
were killed by French bullets. I my- j
self saw them lying in the middle i
of the street near the hospital."
"A. Eberlein,
"First Lieutenant." |
Letter published on the 7th Oc-,
tober, 1914, in the "Vorabendblatt"j
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Minister Whitlock, in his report of i
September 12, 1917, to the Secretary
of State, gives an instance of this!
German practice of seeking protec- j
tion. ;
Xo Respect to the Cassock.
"The Germans attacked Hougaerde
on the ISth August; the Belgian |
troops were.holding the Gette Bridge]
in the village. The Germans forced!
the parish priest of Autgaerden to j
walk in front of them as a shield, j
As they neared the barricade the!
Belgian soldiers fired and the priest j
was killed. After the retreat of the j
Belgians the Germans shot four men, j
burned 50 houses, and looted 100."!
Hugh Gibson, in A Journal from j
our Legation in Belgium, page 155, j
gives another incident:
"Two old priests have staggered j
into the legation more dead j
than alive after having been com- j
pelled to walk ahead of the Ger-!
man troops for miles as a sort ofj
protecting screen. One of them j
is ill, and it is said that he may j
die as a result of what he has gone
through."
STATEMENT OF CARDINAL MER- j
CIER AND HIS FELLOW
BISHOPS.
"At the time of the invasion Bel- j
gian civilians, in twenty places, were i
made to take part in operations of j
war against their own country. At 1
Termonde, Lebbeke, Dinant, and >
elsewhere in many places, peaceable j
citizens, women, and children were j
forced to march in front of German j
regiments or to make a screen before
them.
Cardinal Mercier's Judgment on the
System of Hostages.
"The system of hostages was carried
out with a fierce cruelty. The
proclamation of August 4th, quoted
above, declared, without circumlocution:
'Hostages will be freely takan
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"An official proclamation, posted'
at Liege, in the early days of Au-|
gust, ran thus: 'Every aggression,
committed against the German troops
by any person other than soldiers
in uniform not only exposes the guilty
person to be immediately shot, j
but will also entail the severest re-1
prisals against all the inhabitants, |
and especially against those natives';
of Liege who have been detained as.
hostages in the citadel of Liege by;
the commandant of the German;
troops.'
"The hostages are Monsignor Rut- j
ten, Bishop of Liege; M. Kleyer,
;
burgomaster of Liege; the senators, i
representatives, and the permanent i
deputy and sheriff of Liege."
The above quotation is taken from j
An Appeal to Truth, addressed Nov. j
24, 1915, by Cardinal Mercier and;
the other bishops of Belgium to the
cardinals, archbishops, and bishops
of Germany and Austria-Hungary, j
Will Irwin On Brutality of German j
Drive Trough Belgium.
"Some ten or a dozen American j
correspondents, of whom I was one, |
witnessed the first German drive!
through Belgium. Most of us were!
so appalled and horrified by what
we saw as to become anti-German
for life." Will Irwin in Saturday i
Evening Post, Oct. 6, 1917, p. 41.
III. Fines.
The contacting nations, including:
Germany, who signed the Conventions
of the Second Peace Conference,
at the Hague, 1907, pledged them-1
selves to the following: I
Germany's Promises in Hague Con- j
tions.
"Article L. No general penalty;
pecuniary or otherwise, shall be in-!
flicted upon the population on ac-j|
count of the acts of individuals for j
which they cannot be regarded asj
jointly and severally responsible." I
"Article LII. Requisitions in kind j
and services shall not be demanded j
from municipalities ox inhabitants j
except for the needs of the army of I
occupation. They shall be in pro- j
portion to the resources of the coun-1
try, and of such a nature as not to |
involve tfte mnaoitants in tne oonga-i
tion of taking part in military operations
against their own country."
German Violations of Hague Conventions.
The German authorities have violated
these articles from the very
beginning. As soon as they invaded
Belgium, heavy fines were laid upon
individual communities as reprisals
for some act against the German
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