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provision had l>eeii made for sys
tematic incendiarism at tlie very
outbreak of the war, and that the
burning and destruction were fre
quent where no military necessity
could lie alleged, l>eing indeed part
of a system of general tcrroriza
tlon.
"Fourth—That the rules and
usages of war Mere frequently
broken, particularly by the using
of civilians, including women and
children, as a shield for advauclng
forces exposed to tire, to a less de
gree l>y killing tlie wounded and
prisoners, and in the frequent
abuse of the Red Cross ami tlie
White Flag.
Murder, I, ust and Pillage
"Sensible as they are of the gravity
of these conclusions, the committee
conceive that they would be doing less
than their duty If they failed to re
cord them as fully established by the
evidence. Murder, lust and pillage
prevailed over many parts of Belgium
on a scale unparalleled in any war be
tween civilized nations during the last
three centuries.
" 'Our function is ended when we
have stated what the evidence estab
lishes, but we may be permitted to ex
press our belief that these disclosures
will not have been made In vain if
they touch and rouse the conscience of
mankind and we venture to hope that
as soon as the present war Is over, the
nations of the world in council will
consider what means can be provided
and sanctions devised to prevent the
recurrence of such horrors as our gen
eration is now witnessing.'
Conditions at l.icge
Taking up the conditions at Liege
Belgium, at the outset o fthe war!
the report gives a harrowing recitai
of occurrences at various points In the
devastated territory. At Havre on
August 4, the report says, "the murder
of an Innocent fugitive civilian was
a prelude to the burning and pillage
of the town and of other villages of
both sexes and to the organized mili
tary execution of batches of selected
males. Thus some fifty men escap
ing from burning houses were seized,
taken outside the town and shot. At
Melen, a hamlet west of Havre, forty
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men were shot. In one household
alone the father and mother (names
given) were shot, the daughter ifled
after being repeatedly outraged, and
the son was wounded.
"In Soumagne and Micheroux very
many civilians were summarily shot.
In a field belonging to a man named
E 56 or 57 were put to death.
A German officer said: 'You have
shot at us.' One of the villagers ask
ed to be allowed to speak, and said:
'lf you think these people fired, kill
me, but let them go.' The answer was
three volleys. The survivors were
bayoneted. Their corpses were seen
In the field that night by another wit
ness. One at least had been mutilated.
These were not the only victims in
Soumagne. The eye-witness of the
massacre saw, on his way home, twen
ty bodies, one that of a young girl of
13. Another witness saw nineteen
corpses in a meadow.
"At Heurle ie Romain all the male
inhabitants, including some bedridden
old men were imprisoned in the
church. The burgomaster's brother
and the priesl were bayonetted. The
village of Vise was completely de
stroyed. Officers directed the incen
diaries, who worked methodically with
benzine. Antiques and china were re
moved from the houses, before their
destruction, by officers, who guarded
the plunder, revolver in hand.
Diary Tells of Debauchery
I "Entries in a German diary show
that on August 19 the German soldiers
gave themselves up to debauchery in
the streets of and on the night
of the 20th a massacre took place In
the streets, x x* x Though the cause
of the massacre is in dispute, the re
sults are known with certainty. The
Rue des Pitteurs and houses in the
Place de l'Universite and the Qua! des
Pecheurs were systematically fired
with benzine; and many inhabitants
were burned alive in their houses,
their efforts to escape being prevented
by rifle fire. Twenty people were shot
while trying to escape, before the eyes
of one of the witnesses The Liege Fire
Brigade turned out but was not allow
ed to extinguish the fire. Its carts,
however, were usefully employed in
removing heaps of civilian corpses to
the Town Hall."
100 Massacred
Taking up the valleys of the Meuse
anit Sambre, the report gives lengthy
details of terrible conditions described
by witnesses at Andenne, and says:
"About 400 people lost their lives
in this massacre, some on the banks
6f the Meuse, where they were shot
According- to orders given and some in
the cellars of the houses where they
had taken refuge. Eight men belong
ing to one family were murdered. An
other man was placed close to a ma
chine gun which was tired through
him. His wife brought his body home
on a wheel-barrow. The Germans
broke into her house and ransacked it,
and piled up all the eatables In a heap
on the floor and relieved themselves
upon it.
"A hairdresser was murdered in his
kitchen where he was sitting with a
child on eaeh knee. A paralytic was
murdered in his garden. After this
came the general sack of the town.
Many of the inhabitants who escaped
the massacre were kept as prisoners
and compelled to clear the houses of
corpses and bury them in trenches.
These prisoners were subsequently
used as a shelter and protection for a
pontoon bridge which the Germans
had built across the river and were
so used to prevent the Belgian forts
from tiring upon it.
"A few days later the Germans cele
brated a Fete Nocturne in the
square. Hot wine, looted in the town,
was drunk, and the women were com
pelled to give three cheers for the
Kaiser and to sing "Deutschland Über
Alles."
Similar details are recited at much
length in reference to the districts of
Namur, Charlerot and the town of
Dinant. At the latter point, the re
port says, "unarmed civilians were
killed in masses. About 90 bodies
were seen lying on top of one another
in a grass square opposite the convent.
They included many relatives of a
witness whose depositions is given,
x x x It is stated that besides the
90 corpses referred to, 60 corpses of
civilians were recovered from a hole
In the brewery yard and that 48 bodies
of women and children were found in
a garden. The town was systemati
cally set on fire by hand grenades.
"We have no reason to believe that
the civilian population of Dinant Rave
any provocation, or that any other
defense can be put forward to justify
the treatment inflicted upon its citi
zens."
"Scenes of Chronic Outrage"
The Committee states that it has
received a great mass of evidence on
"scenes of chronic outrage" in the
territory bounded by the town Aer
shot, Vilvorde and Lou vain. It states
that the total number of outrages Is so
great that the committee cannot re
fer to them all. The report states
that the battle of Malines was the oc
casion later of "numerous murders
committed by the German army in re
treating through the villages; and in
the second place it led to the massa
cres, plunderings and burnings at Lou
vain." The report adds:
"The committee is specially im
pressed by the character of the out
rages committed in the smaller vil
lages. Many of these are exceptional
ly shocking and cannot be regarded
as contemplated or described by the
responsible commanders of the troops
by whom they were committed. The
inference, however, which we draw
from these occurrences is that when
once troops have been encouraged in
a career of terrorism, the more sav
age and brutal natures of whom there
are some in every large army, are lia
ble to run to wild excess, mpre par
ticularly in those regions where they
are least subject to observation anil
control." xxx
"Evidence goes to show that deaths
In these villages were due not to ac
cident but to deliberate purpose. The
wounds were generally stabs or cuts,
and for the most part appear to have
been inflicted with a bayonet.
"In Malines many bodies were seen.
One witness saw a German soldier cut
a woman's breast after he had mur
dered her, and saw many other dead
bodies of women in the street, x x x
In Hofstadt two witnesses speak of
having seen the body of a young man
pierced by bayonet thrusts with the
wrists cut also.
"On a side road the corpse of al
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civilian was seen on his doorstep with
a bayonet wound in his stomach, and
by his side the dead body of a boy
of Ave or six with his hand nearly sev
ered.
Women Mutilated
"Two young women were lying in
the backyard of a house. One had
her breasts cut off, the other had been
stabbed.
The report recites page after page
of similar horrors.
The committee says of one Ger
man diary: "By this time killing not
in a tight would seem to have passed
into a habit."
.100 are Shot
The report adds that the most im
portant entry is contained in diary No.
19. This contains no names and ad
dresses. but names referred to In the
diary indicate that the entries were
made by an officer of the First Regi
ment of Foot Guards. The entry made
at Fermeton on August 24 says: "We
took about 1,000 prisoners, at least
500 were shot. The village was burnt
because inhabitants had also shot. Two
civilians were shot at once.
Conditions in France
Another division of the .report is
on the "killing of noncombatants in
France." This is not as detailed as
the case of Belgium, as the commit
tee states that the French official re
port gives the most complete account
as to the invaded districts In France.
It adds:
"The evidence before us proves that,
in the parts of France referred to,
murder of unoffending civilians and
other acts of cruelty, including aggra
vated cases of rape, carried out under
threat of death, and sometimes actual
ly followed by murder of the victim,
were committed by some of the Ger
man troops."
A special chapter is given to the
statement of women an 4 children.
The latter, it is said, frequently re
ceived milder treatment than the men.
But many instances are given of "cal
culated crive.lt>'. often going the length
of murder, towards the women and
children." At Aerschot, it says, wo
men and children were herded into the
church which had recently been used
as a stable, detained for forty-eight
hours with no food othei; than coarse
bread and denied the common decen
cies of life. "In other cases women
and children were marched for long
distances, the laggards being pricked
by the attending I'hlans. A iady com
plains of having been brutally kicked
by a private. Others were struck with
the butt end of rifles. At I.iege women
and children were chased about the
streets by soldiers. A witness gives a
story, very circumstantial in its de
tails, of how women were publicly at
tacked in the market place of the
city, five young German officers as
sisting." Another witness tells of a
carousal of officers, at which the wo
man of the house was shot dead, and
hdr husband then compelled to dig a
grave In the garden and there bury his
wife. The report goes on:
"In the evidence before us there are
cases tending to show that aggravated
crimes against women were sometimes 1
severely punished. One witness re
ports that a young girl who was being
pursued by a drunken soldier at Lou
vain appealed tq a German officer, and
that the offender was then and there
shot; another described how an of
ficer of the Thirty-second Regiment of
the line was led out to execution for
the violation of two young girls, but
reprieved at the request or with the
consent of the girls' mothers. These
instances are sufficient to show that
the maltreatment of wofuen was no
part of the military scheme of the in
vaders, however, much it may appear
to have been the inevitable result of
the system of terror deliberately
adopted in certain regions.
"In this tale of horrors hideous
forms of mutilation occur with some
frequency in the depositions, two of
which may be connected In some in
stances with a perverted form of sex
ual Instinct.
"We find many well-established
cases of the slaughter (often accom
panied by mutilation) of whole fami
lies, including not infrequently that of
quite small children. In two cases It
seems to be clear that preparations
were made to burn a family alive.
These crimes were committed over
a period of many weeks and simul
taneously in many places, and the
authorities must have known or ought
to have known that cruelties of this
character were being perpetrated, nor
can any one doubt that they could
have been stopped by swift and decis
ive action on the part of the heads of
the German army.
"It is clearly shown that many of
fenses'were committed against infants
and quite young children. On one oc
casion children were even roped to
gether and used as a military screen
' against the enemy, on another three
soldiers went Into action carrying
small children to protect themselves
from flank lire. A shocking case of
the murder of a baby by a drunken
soldier at Mallnes is reported by one
eye-witness and confirmed by an
other.
"We cannot tell whether these acts
of cruelty to children were part of a
scheme for inducing submission by In
spiring terror. In Louvain, where the
system of terrorizing was carried to
the furtherest limit, outrages on chil
dren were uncommon. The same,
however, cannot be said of some of
the smaller villages which were sub
jected to the system. In Hofstadt and
Sempst, in Haecht. Rotselaer and Wes
pelaer, many children were murdered.
Nor can it be said of the village of
Tamines where three small children
(whose names are given by an eye
witness of the crime) were slaughter
ed on the green for no apparent pur
pose. It Is difficult to imagine the
motives which may have prompted
such acts. Whether or not Belgian
civilians fired on German soldiers,
young children at any rate did not
fire."
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New York, May 12.—The Ounard
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