Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-11
COMMISSION COMES TO AMERICA
TO PRESENT PROTEST TO
PRESIDENT WILSON.
SPECIFIC CASES OF BRUTAL
ACTS OF SOLDIERS ARE CITED
Secretary Of Commission Tells of Al
legged Murder Of Belgian Civilians
and Of Killing of Wounded Belgian
Officer on Battle Field-Declares
Brutal Without Provocation.

New York, Sept. 11.-A partial list OF
the alleged German atrocities in Bel
GUM, against which the Belgian king
has sent protest to President Wilson.
was made public today by Count Louis
de Lichtervelde. secretary of the Bel
gian commission, bearing the protest.
The commission reached this city today
on it's way to Washington.
AT Linsmeau, when the Germans
entered the village. two uniformed
gendarmes attacked the Germans" the
count said. I'm revenge the village was
invaded on the night of Aug. 10, two
farms were destroyed; the crops were
destroyed or carried away; six houses
were burned, and all the men were COM
PEELED to hand over their arms.
1T was found that none had been dis
charged recently and finally the men
were separated into three detachments.
Two Of the detachments disappeared,
the third. consisting Of eleven men, was
driven at the point Of a bayonet to q
ditch. and when they were piled in the
German soldiers set on them and beat
their brains out with the butt Lends Of
their rifles. The eleven battered bodies
were found later by Belgian troops.
Murder Wounded Belgian Officer.
ION Aug. II. after the battle of
Haelen. Colonel Van Damme, COM
mander Of a Belgian regiment, was ly-
ing wounded on a battle field. He was
unable to move. Several German SOL
diers found him and placing their re-
volvers against his mouth. blew his
head OF.
AT voucelles the German troops
went into battle carrying the Belgian
flag.
ION Aug. 10 the German cavalry
raided the town of velen while the In
habitants slept. One instance of wha .
they did may be cited in the case of a
man named Deglimme, whose house
was fired and looted. He and his wife
were taken from the house half naked
She was dragged away in one direction,
he in another. She was released when
two miles away ana told to run. When
she ran the German soldiers fired at
her, but she escaped the bullets and
staggered back to the site of her ruined
home in pitiful condition. Her llLs.
band also was released and fired on
when he ran. He was found .nortally
wounded next day on the roatl outside
the town.
Gives Kaiser the Lie.
Count Lichtervelde said he had read
the statement attributed 60 the German
emperor in which 1t was said that harsh
treatment of Belgians was made neces-
sary in some cases because Belgium
civilians fired on German soldiers.
81 do not see how it Is possible for
man to lie so," Count Lichtervelde
said.
Poincare Replies to Wilhelm.
Washington Sept. 11.-President
Poincare of France has cabled to Pres
ident Wilson reply to the protest Of
Emperor William, which charged that
the allies had been using DUN dunn bull
lets.
The French president declared that
Emperor William was attempting to
shift the responsibility Of the use Of
DUN dunn bullets by Germany practi-
cally since the outbreak Of the war.
President Poincare used most vigor-
Gus terms in referring to Emperor Will
liams statement, speaking of them as
a calumny. He charged, moreover,
that the message OF the emperor was
in his opinion, the excuse for commit
ting further atrocities by the Ger
mans
President Poincare assured president
rules of civilized warfare and pointed
to the violation Of these rules by Ger
many.