New-York tribune., 1915-01-24

rice amidst all those dead bodies be-
cause We had not tasted food since
morning"
Extract from proclamation Of Cen
eral Won Bulow posted at Litge on
August 22:
The inhabitants OF Andenne, after
having declared their peaceful inten-
uons. were guilty Of treachery II is
WITH my consent that the general com
mandng burned the whole village and
executed l00 inhabitants"
Extract from the proclamation OF
Major Dleckmann at GrivePnee on Sep
tember 4: "All who do not obey the
command Of nands up shall be shot at
once
Innocent Killed. Too.
Extract from the proclamation Of
Baron Won der Colt at Brussels on
October >: "lu the future the local.
ties nearest the point where railroad
or telegraph lines have been injured.
no matter whether the inhabitants are
accomplccs or not. shall be punished
without mercy Hostages shall be
taken from villages near such lines.
and at the first attempt TO injure the
rails or wires shall be forthwith shot"
From notebook, the signature illeg
lblc, Of a soldier of the llth Pioneer
battalion; "Langevillier. August 22
Village destroyed by Pioneers. Noticed
the bodies Of three women executed by
hanging from the branch of tree.
These are the first corpses | have yet
seen"
Another entry in the same diary
week later: I'VE destroyed eight
houses with their inhabitants In one
Of these two men with their wives and
girl Of eighteen were killed by bay
onet thrusts. This young girl nearly
Softened my heart. for her look was so
innocent. But it is impossible to mas
ter our feelings. for at such moments
one is no longer a human being. but a
brute
Extract from the diary of an officer
Of the l7Sth Regiment. 10Th Army
Corps. at Lisognes. Ardennes: Here a
Marburg Jaeger rifeman stood up three
women. one behind the other, and killed
rife" VIZ" ''' ''"'' VI ''''
First Lieutenant A. Eberlein. Ba-
yarian Infantry. describes the occupa-
tion of 81. Die at the end of August:
a good idea suggested itself TO me.
lu order TO avoid the enfilading fire in
the village | made the inhabitants sit
in chairs in the middle of the street
with their hands tied. whereupon The
onflade fire ceased. We then occupied
the houses opposite and got possession
OF the village. In the mean time every
inhabitant seen in the streets at once
was shot down"
Sergeant Hermann Levith, 160th In
fantry. eth Corps. noted: "Our third
company captured the village of Bieure.
We then pillaged and burned nearly all
the houses
A soldier. Sebastian Reishaupt. Sd
Eavarian Infantry. 1st Corps. notes {:
"Paruy Meurthe ct Mosello-This is
tho first village we have burned. After.
ward the dance began. and we burned
our bicycles across the meadows and
fields and sat down by the roadside and
ate cherries"
Threw Inoendiary Bombs.
Moritz Crosse. 177th Infantry. after
describing the sacking Of st. Nieth and
Dinant writes: "Afterward we threw
quantities Of incendiary bombs into
houses, and, it being Sunday. our mill
tary chorus gave concert singing"
Professor Bedier came across several
notebooks in which atrocities are de-
scribed with regret. and are accom-
panied by severe criticism OF the con-
duct Of fellow soldiers. Professor
Bedier withholds the names Of these
writer's TO avoid the chance of their
being punished. but publishes photo
graphs Of their notebooks. One Of
these. written by n soldier of the Goth
Landwehr Infantry, contains the fol-
lowing:
"Some of our men do not behave as
soldiers, but as highwaymen and
brgands. and dishonor our regiment
and our army"
A lieutenant Of the nth Infantry,
reserve infantry, writes: Our plo-
neers are bad lot and our artillery
men are a band Of robbers
A soldier of the 18th Reserve In
fantry. 1st Corps. writes: "Unfortu-
nately. am obliged to note things
that ought never to happen. Some OF
our men behave like beasts. One of
these men burst open the sacristy,
under lock and key, in which had been
kept the Holy Sacrament, and deliber-
ately despoiled IT,"
"Ja. ia, Krieg ist Krieg," arc the
words the German soldiers utter as an
excuse for all acts contrary TO the
Hague convention. Professor Bedier
saws that Marquis de Dampierre
graduate Of the Ecole de Chartres,
and a skilled archivist, is preparing
and will soon publish a volume in
which a large number of these German
soldiers notebooks will appear in Ger
man and in French, with photographs
Of the originals.
Professor Bedier's pamphlet, which
appears to-day, is regarded by impair
tial observers as proof of German vlo-
lations Of the Hague convention, as 1t
is exclusively German evidence.