Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-10

the Borinage, the coal fields of Char
leroi.
The Tragedy Of Tamines.
"Tamines is milling village, coll
lection of small cottages sheltering
about 5000 inhabitants. mostly all
poor laborers. The little graveyard.
in which the church stands, bears it's
mute testimony to tho horror OF the
event. There are hundreds Of new
made graves, each with its small
wooden cross and its bit of flowers:
the crosses are so closely huddled that
there is scarcely room to walk te-
tween them. They are alike and all
bear the same date, the sinister date
Of August 22. 1914.
"But whether their hands were cut
off or not, whether they were i'm
paled on bayonets or not, children
were shot down by military order in
cold blood. In the awful crime of the
Rock of Bayard, there overlooking the
Meuse below Dinant, infants in their
mothers arms were shot down with
out mercy.
N'Ap NNN'' hNfVI ptdStN lil
city by any band of savages, is le-
scrbed by the bishop of Namur him
self:
Ninety Persons Shot Down.
"One scene surpasses In horror al
others; 1t is the fusilfade of the Rock
Bayard near Dinant. 1t appears to
! have been ordered by Colonel Meister.
This fusillade caused the death OF
nearly ninety persons without distinc-
| Tins were babies In arms boys and
girls, fathers and mothers OF families.
even old men.
ut was there that twelve children
under the age of perished from the
fire of the executioners, six of them
as they lay in their mothers arms:
THE child Fievet, weeks old.
Maurice Betemps, II mouths old.
Nelly Pollet, II months old.
"Gilda Jenon, rs months old.
"Gilda Marchot, years old
CLARA Struvay, years and 6
months.
Many Children Butchercd.
THE pile Of bodies comprised also
many children from to IA years.
Eight large families have entirely dis
appeared Four have but one sur
vivor. Those men that escaped death
and many of whom were riddled
with bullets-were obliged to bury in
a summary and hasty fashion their
fathers. mothers, brothers or sisters:
then after having been relieved of
their money and being placed in
chains. they we're sent to Cassel Prus-
sia"
Whitloek also touches upon the
horrors at Louvain. saying:
"on Thursday, August 81. order was
given to the inhabitants to leave Lou.
vain because the city was to be bonn
barded. Old men, women, children.
the sick. priests, nuns were driven on
the roads like cattle. More than TO-
900 were driven as far as Tirlemont.
eighteen kilometers from Louvain."
Shield Behind Belgians.
Our Belgian minister confirms the
charge that the Germans shielded
themselves behind the bodies of the
natives--a practice they have now re-
sumed in their march into Italy:
"The Germans attacked Housserde
on August IS; the Belgian troops were
holding the Gette bridge in the viii
| lage. The Germans forced the parish
priest of Autgaerden to walk in front
of them as shield. AS they neared
! the barricade the Belgian soldiers
fired and the priest was killed. After
! the retreat of the Belgians the Ger
mans shot four men and burned fifty
houses and looted 100"
For time the protests of neutral
nations and the outcries Of a shocked
world seemed TO cow the Germans.
The wholesale massacres, lootings and
burnings ceased. But in the winter
Of 1916 they perfected new form Of
deviltry, Their own supply Of labor
; depleted, the Huns conceived the idea
Of deporting Belgians and Frcnchmen