Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-20
TOCENTS SLAIN
Y THOUSANDS, IS
BELGIAN CHARGE
SO Massacred by Germans,
! 5Jnprovoked But Drunk,
Be- &c eclares Commission to
Investigate Alleged Atroc-
tiles.

.hsv LONDON. Nov. 2O.-Another report of
citxhe Belgian commission which has been
81 Investigating reports of German atrocl-
ssai ties was made public today by the press
: tlbureau. 1t says:
"a when the Germans captured Tamines
,iss they sacked and burned the village. Th.
Az fleeing peasants who stopped In their
a. flight were shot down. on the following
pnhIday a crowd of between 400 and 500
,,howere collected in front Of a church. A
: tbe ierman detachment opened fire against
- :. +lem with rifles. but this was found too
: ~ low. so machine guns were brought up
he. IL fell Many Of those who had been
/. merely wounded were bayonetted. Some
-, crawled to the nearby river to stanch the
flow OF blood from their wounds with
!, running water. number Of villagers
= we're compelled to bury the corpses and
y often. while doing this gruesome work
they came upon the body Of relatives
'h Women were compelled to witness these
4 awful. spectaeles.
''Vomen were compelled to witness the
r burial of nearly 400 Identified bodies
- While the bodies were being carried TO
the graves the arm of one OF the sup
- posed corpses was seen to move. A Ger
~ man doctor examined the man, but or
dered him to be buried with the dead
y During the burning of 26i houses many
n women and children were stined ana
n many others we're shot down. More than
- $500 persons were massacred, the Ger
- mans claiming that shots had been fired
~ upon their troops from the houses
fh 'sThe Germans sacked and destroyed
Lspant and decimated the population from
NFAugust a to the 25th, although no hostile
ow get had been committed by the inhabit-
,rer ants. The Germans entered Dinant on
the 21st. unfortunately firing and bay
I, 1enetting and burning houses.
- The soldiers OF the lOsth Regiment
~ faided a church and drove out the wor-
shippers The women We're separated from
~ the men and 50 OF the latter were shot
when the captives tried 10 escape,
after being herded like sheep into the
~ streets, they were shot down without
mercy. Women and children We're driven
aiilSe animals and struck with the butt end
. a.of rifles when they lagged.
I'm some instances women and children
- . we're placed before ranks Of infantry In
- some instances noncombatants were COM
9~ PEELED to stand before kneeling German
soldiers. the latter being protected by the
van Of human flesh before them.
stfs eNo injuries were made BY the Ger
2 Iaans into these atrocities and there was
40 pretense Of a trial"
FtN Tic report further recites that German
ppA soldiers fred into heap OF civilian
sse wounded, killing 81 Of them. Corpses were
IS. - buried eyerywhere. IN streets. neids AMI
Eardeus.
~ Continuing. the report says:
g q eAll the men OF the Fau0erg and Delne
we're executed en- masse. Twelve civilians
were found hidden In cellar and all
aere amous tha victims
The passage Of the German troops
ihruuKh lhe Belgian province OF Luxem-
arz was marked with the worst eNcesses-
Ns Iaslaees we're systematically arrested In
ary province Homes we're plundered,
the northern parts Of the province lie
z.z,1 property we're senerahY devastated
81 81 s. FROM sz4 10 100 houses were de-
aa4sn nsea. Misunderstanding plants were
- 4naa seven hundred Inhabitants were
silaed ana hundreds were taken prison
Wan Bat fea Beisian refugees remain
altered throaghout the country and
ars dying of hunger.
ta Germans were systematic IL their
lzazlszn ln LlzeHb1fs. Aore than
Il eels shat Throughout the entire
Ihe Qeople Of Axiom made
nIaH e ths Kaiser hut NeEe taken
ESD zhea without trial
~ lzns EeI4Ian ellf-
a4 a peaas