Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-12-28

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icy Of frightfulness. The following
passages refer to the subject Of mas
sacrcs;
summary executions took place Cat
Dinant) without the least semblance
Of judgment. The names and number
Of the victims are not known, but they
must be numerous. ! have been I'M
able to obtain precise details in this
respect and the number of persons
who have fed is unknown. Among the
persons who were shot are: Mr.. De
fOln, mayor of Dinant Sasserath,
first alderman; Nimmer. aged seven
ty: Consul for the Argentine Republic
Victor Poncelet, who was executed In
the presence of his wife and seven
children Wasseige and his two sons
Messrs. Gustave and Leon Nicalse,
two very old men; Jules Monin and
others all shot In the cellar OF their
brewery Mr.. Camille Pistte and son,
aged seventeen %Phillippart Piedfort,
his wife and daughter Miss Marslg-
ny. During the execution of about
forty Inhabitants OF Dinnnt the Ger
mans placed before the condemned
their wives and children. II is thus
that Madam Albin who had just given
birth to a child. three days previously.
was brought on a mattress by German
soldiers to witness the execution Of
her husband; her cries and supplica-
lions were so pressing that her hus-
bands life was spared"
Forced to Witness Executions.
ION the 26th Of August German sol
dlers entered various streets (of Lou
vain) and ordered the inhabitants OF
the houses 20 proceed to the Place de
Ia Station, where the bodies of nearly
a dozen assassinated persons were ly-
ing. Women and children were sepa-
rated from the men and forced to re-
main on the Place de In Station dur
ing the whole day. They had to wit
ness the execution of many Of their
fellow citizens, who were for the most
part shot at the side of the square,
neal the house of Mr.. Hemaide. The
women and children, after having re-
NAMED OF the square for more than
Is hours, were allowed to depart. The
Gardes CiviQues of Louvain were also
taken prisoners and sent to Germany,
TO the camp Of Munster, where they
were held for several weeks.
ION Thursday. August p, 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-
600 Of the inhabitants were driven as
far as Tirlemont, nearly 10 miles from
LOuyain.
Infants Shot in Mothers Arms.
zone of the most sorely tried com
munitles was that of the little village
of Tamines, down in Whit is known
as the Borinage, the coal fields near
CharlerOi. Tamines is a mining vii
lage in the Sambre it is a collection
of small cottages shelterlng about o.
900 inhabitants, mostly all poor labor
ers..
THE little graveyard in which the
church stands bears its mute testi-
mOny to the 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 close
ly huddled hat there is scarcely room
to walk between them. The crosses
are alike and all bear the same date
the sinister date of August %, 1914"
But whether their hands were cut
of or not. whether they were impaled
on bayOnets or not, children were shot
down, by military order, in cold blood
In the awful crime of the Rock of Bay.
ard, there overlooking the Mouse be
low Dlnant, infants in their mothers
arms were shot down without mercy
The deed, never surpassed in cruelty
by any band of savages, is described
by the bishop Of NAmur himself;
lone scene surpasses in horror all
others; It is the fusillade OF the
Rocher Bayard near Dlnant. 1t ap
pears to have been ordered by ColOne
Meister. This fusillade made many
victims among the nearby parishes
especially those of des Rivages anC
Neffe. II caused the death of nearly
90 persons, without distinction of age
or sex, Among the victims were ba
bies in arms. boys and girls. fathers
and mothers of families. even old
Dead Children in Pile Of Bodies.
at was there hat 10 children undel
the age of six persisted from the fir,
Of the executiOners, six of them al
they lay in their mothers arms:
"'The child Fievet, three weeks old
Maurice Betems. eleven months
old.
"'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old.
zelda Genon. eighteen months old
zelda Marchot, two years old.
"fClara Struvay. two years and siI
months.
1.-THE pile Of bodies comprised also
many children from six to fourteen
years. Eight large families have en-
tirely disappeared. Four have but one
survivor. Those men that escaped
death-and many of whom were rid
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