Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-14
LONG BEACH sAN1TARIUM
Long Eeo b, Cal

was our skepticism reduced. There might be some eNasgeration m one witness possible dclusion in another. . inaccuracies in a third When. how ever VIC found that thines which at Irst seemed improbable were testified 70 by many witnesses coming from dinereut places the points in which they al agreed became more and evi- denly uue When this concurrence of testimony showed itself in hm- dreas of depositions, the truth of the broad facts stood out beyond question Tho force of Che evidence Is cumula- i've"
 Murosr Prelude to PiHaeo
 Taking uD the conditions a. Liess Belgium at the outset of the war the report gives narrowing recital Of occurrences at farious points in the deNagtated t9c1toU Al Nerve. on August 2 .he report says 'the mur. der of an innocent fugitive civilian Nlas prelude .o che burning and pil- .agc Of ;Le town and Of other villages
 u the uei-uborlo0J, to the mdi5crm- hate shooting ol civilians Ul both sex es. and Co JGe organized military exc, cutioI oi patches oI selected males. Thus. some fifty men escaping from burning houses were seized. taken pulside the town and shot. At Neleu a hamlet west Of Nerve forty men were shot In one household alone the father and mother Cnames given) were shot The daughter died after repeatedly outraged and the son was wounded
 'ln Roumasue and MicberouN yeU many civilians were summarly shot. ln field belonging to man named 7 nity-siA ol nity-seyeu were put 10 death A German officer said: You have 30 shot at us. One ol the 1 villagers asked 10 be allowed to speak. and said IT you think these people tired, kiil me, but let them go The ' answer was three yolleys. The sur yiyors were bayonetted Their corps es were seen in the field that night by another witness. One at least had been mullated Those were not the only victims at Soumague. The eye witness of the. massacre saw. on his way home twenty bodies. one that ol a young girl Of l3 Another wines saw nineteen corpaes in a meadow.
 At Heure le Romain all the male
 inhabitants including some bedridden
 old men, were imprisoned in the shurch The burgomaster. brothei md the priest were bayoneued The illase of Wise was completely de- 5troyed Officers directed the incen- | diaries, who worked methodicauy witi ! 3euzine. Antiques and china were re-
 moved ilom the house before theI
 destruction by officers. who guarded
 the pluuder revolver ln hand.
 Debauohery ey soidiers Entries in a German diary show
 that on August 19, the German sol- liers save themselyes up to debaucb cry D Che streets Of Lego asd on the night of the goth massacre is in dis pute, che results are known witch cer- ,aiuty The Rue des Pitteurs and houses in the Place de LUnNersitG ! and thc QUai des Pecheurs were sys- iematically fired with benzine and many inhabitants were burned alive
 in their houses in their efforts to es ape being prevented by rifle fire Twenty people were shot while trying
 To escape before the eyes of ono Of the witnesses The Liege fire brigade { turned out but was not allowed Co ex- tiuguish tbe fire. lts carts, however.
 were uselully employed in removing
 heaps Of civilian corpses to Che town
 hall"