The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-27
BY j. ID. WATSON

DelSlul1 ana adJacent territory, is even more
damnng against Germany than the sinking
of the Lusitania.
This report, without the Lusitania disaster
to prove the wild beast methods of the
Kalser's war forces would have been be-
heved throughout America, for Lord Bryce
is too well known here for us to doubt for a
moment that any report receiving his sane
ton would be beyond conservative state
ment OF actual facts duly proved
AS diplomat with worldwide reputa-
ton, as a historian thorough and impartial,
and with Improbable integrity. Lord Bryce
shows that the German soldiers have prac-
tlced crimes much worse upon the civil popu-
latlon of helpless Belgium than the crime of
drowning women with their infant children
In many instances the diaries of German
soldiers are quoted to corroborate the testi-
mony of the witnesses, and one of these
diaries has the following:
In one house whole collection of weapons
was found. The inhabitants, without excep-
ton, were brought out and shot This shoot
ing was Misunderstanding, as they all knelt
down and prayed but that was no ground for
mercy. A few shots rang out, and they fell
back into the green grass and slept forever"
The evidence shows that at Liege the
houses were Systematically fired with benzine.
and many inhabitants were burnt alive in
their homes; their efforts to escape being pre-
vented by rifle fire which killed twenty of the
inhabitants.
The Liege Fire Brigade turned out. con-
tlnues the report, but was not allowed to ex-
tlnguish the fire. Its CARTS however. were
usefully employed in removing heaps of
civilian corpses to the Town Hall. The fire
burnt on through the night, and the murders
continued on the following day, Thirty two
civilians were killed on that day in the Place
ole TUnlverslte alone, and a witness states
that this was followed by the attack in open
day of fifteen or twenty women on tables in
the square itself.
And so the report goes on covering the
different sections or districts traversed by the
German soldiers.
At one place blind man was murdered,
at another helpless cripple, at another in
vallds at Eppeghem the dead body of two
year-old child was seen pinned to the ground
with German lance; at Weerde a mutiated
woman was left alive on the roadside; at
Louvaln, the murder, rape and arson is be-
You'd description; and SO it is all the way
through; done Systematically to strike terror
into the hearts of the populations; done by
express orders of officers high in command;
done under orders that set the day for the
crimes to commence and the day for them to
end.
lance-corporal in the Rifles says the re-
port who was on patrol duty with five pri-
Yates, searched house, in which they took
ten Uhlans prisoners. They found two women
and two children; one woman was dead but
not yet cold, and her arm had been cut off
just below the elbow her clothing was dis
arranged. The other woman was alive but
unconscious, and her right leg had been cut
off above the knee. The boy of about five
had been killed, as had the little girl of six,
and one arm of each had been cut off.
In another instance, it is shown that it was