Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-13
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Of boy OF or with his hant
nearly severed.
Two young women were lying il
the back yard of a house. one hat
her breasts cut off, the other hat
been stabbed.
"A young man had been hacked
with bayonet until his entrials pro.
truded. He also had his hands join.
ed in the attitude OF prayer.
I'm Semptsts. the corpse OF man
with legs cut off. was seen byta wit
ness who also saw a 17-year-oId girl
dressed only In a chemise aud in great
distress. she alleged that she herself
and other girls had been dragged into
Il field. stripped naked and violated
and that some Of them had been kill
ed with "A bayonet.
AT Blewyt a mans naked body
was tied up to ring In the wall in
the back yard of a house. He was
dead and his corpse was mutilated In
a manner too horrible to- record. A
woman's naked body was also found
ed in a stable abuttng on the same
back yard.
"At Haescht child Of with its
stomach cut open by bayonet was
lying near house. AT Werchter the
corpses OF a man and woman and
four younger persons were found in
one house. 1t is said that they had
been murdered because one OF the
latter, girl, would not permit the
Germans to outrage her"
Taking up conditions at Aershot
and the surrounding district during
September, the report says:
AT Haerscht several children had
been murdered one child. 2 or 3
years old. was found nailed to the
door of a farm house by its hands
and feet, crime which seems all
most incredible. but the evidence for
which we feel bound TO accept. In the
garden of this house was the body of
a girl. who. had been shot In the
forehead.
"At Eppeghem the dead body of a
child of 2. was pinned to the ground
with d German lance. The same wit
ness saw a mutilated woman alive
near Weerde on the. same day
A chapter is given to the terrible
conditions at Louvain, where the re-
port states massacre and destruc-
ton went OMIT citizens were
hNOl uflu UAiitlH ia htt anu
compelled TO 90 with the troops Sol
diers went through the streets say
ing Man Hat Geschossen." One sol
der was seen going along shooting in
the air.
The massacre of civilians at Lou
vain was not confined to its citizens.
Large crowds of people were brought
into Louvain from the surrounding
hot a nd
Gelrod, but also from other places.
For example, witness describes how
many women and children were taken
in carts to Louvain, and there placed
liz a stable. or the hundreds OF peo-
pie thus taken from the various vil-
lagos and brought to Louvain as pris-
oners, some were massacred there,
others were forced TO march along
with citizens of Louvain through va
rious places, some being ultimately
sent to the Belgian lines at Melines,
others were taken in trucks to Co
logne, others were released
Some were marched through Co.
logne afterwards for the people to see.
Ropes were put around the necks
Of some and they were told they
would be hanged. An order then
came that they were to be shot in !
stead of hanged. A firing squad was
prepared, and five or six prisoners
were put up, but were not shot
This taking Of the inhabitants, In
groups and marching them to various /
places. must evidently have been done t
under the direction of a higher mill t
tary authority. The i'll treatment of /
the prisoners was under the eyes and
often under the direction or sanction
Of officers. and officers themselves
took part in it,
1T Is to be noticed that cases oe-
cur in the dispositions in which hu-
name acts by individual officers and
soldiers are mentioned or in which Of
ficers are said TO have expressed re-
gret at being obliged to carry out or
ders for cruel action against the civil
ians. Similarly, we find entries in
diaries which reveal a genuine pity for
the population and disgust at the con-
duct of the army II appears that u
German non commissioned Officer
stated definitely that he was acting
under orders and executing them with
great unwillingness. A commissioned
officer on being asked at Lohvaln by
a witness--a highly educated man.
about the horrible acts commltted by
the soldiers, said he was merely exc
cutting orders, and that he himself
would be shot If he did not execute
them.
I'VE are driven to the conclusion
That the marrying of the villages in
the district. the burning of O large
part of Louvain, the massaeres there,
The marching out of the prisoners,
and the transport to Cologne tall done
without inquiry as to whether the
persons seized or killed had
any wrongful act were
lue to a calculated policy carried out ,
and deliberately, not
merely with the sanction, but under
he direction of higher military au-
Lhorities. and were not due to any
or resistance by the civil
an population
A division Of the report is given to ,
liaries of German soldiers. The en-
nv Of a sergeant of the first guards !
'egiment, who received the iron cross, /
says under date of August 10: "A /
of 800 Belgians came /
Trough Duisburg in the morning. OF {