Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-23
THE CRIMES
|OFCERMANY
Abstracted From
Authenticated Official
Reports.
OUTRAGES ON WOMEN
AND CHILDREN

positive evidence. many of these cases
may never come to light. L, requires
a. concentration Of special circum-
stances for such acts to be committed
in public-and the bullet and the torch
have removed much first-hand testi-
mony.
The Official reports, giving state
ments OF victims and of witnesses of
these outrages and disclosures from
diaries of prisoners and other sources,
fairly reek with instances of outrages
upon women and children by German
officers and soldiers, openly counten-
anced at times. II not participated in,
by high authorities, in some cases
leaders in the great German institu-
lions Of learning that had been the
pride Of the world.
Sometimes these attacks were in
dividual and sometimes committed by
groups of men. At Melen- Labouxhe
Margaret w. was violated by 20 Ger
man soldiers and then shot by the side
of her father and mother.
THESE FIENDS DID NOT EVEN
RESPECT NUNS. There is ample evil
dence on that score. but one does not
have to go beyond the moving letter of
Cardinal MERCER to Won Kissing. my
conscience" he wrote, 'forbids my
divulging to any tribunal the infor-
nation. alas only too wen substan-
tiated, which l possess. Outrages on
nuns have been committed - ="
Even grandmothers were not spared.
At Louppy the. mother and her two
daughters were simultaneously raped,
Sometimes the outrages were con-
inn ,vvfi 1Aof A yt,,,x he
martrydom of little Irma G. lasted six
hours. until death relieved her Of her
sufferings. When her father tried to
rescue her he was shot and her mother
was seriously wounded.
"A clergyman of Dixmude says:
"The burgomaster of Handsome was
shot for trying to protect his daugh-
ter"
Women and children were driven
before German forces. The British
had orders not to fire on civilians in
front of the enemy, so the Germans
We're in position to advance, as at
Mons, behind the protection of women
and boys and girls, many of whom
were shot down for trying to escape.
In Morelle the Germans were seen
(sworn testimony to shoot middle
aged civilian who was helping n
wounded French soldier through the
streets and at the same time a lame
boy aged 13 and a girl whom they had
first seduced.
At Lahovssoye they raped a woman
aged 65 and at Mericourt-s sur Somme
three German soldiers dragged a girl
of II into a cellar and violated her in
succession.
At Rebais they hanged a woman be-
cause she resisted their attempts to
violate her. With her feet about 20
inches from the ground she cut the
rope with her penknife. When sha
fell the brutes beat her. but an officer
saved her life.
A priest says that a woman whose
body was found between Rebais and
CouIommiers had been outraged after
which she was stabbed to death.
Near the same place a woman was
violated in the presence of her hus-
band and children and at Jouy-sur-
NORM two Germans violated a girl OF
Is while the mother was kept off with
the payonet by each soldier In turn.
Four Germans, one an officer. at
Eerte- Gaucher killed NJ. Quenescourt
when he tried TO protect a woman. She
testifies: THE officer then made me
strip completely naked and violated
me-" Several similar instances In the
same locality are cited.
At Sancy- les Proyins a woman was
violated by a German soldier who had
been taken in for the night as a mat
ter of humanity
In the market place Of Gembloux
the body of Belgian woman was
pinned to the door of house by a
sword driven through her chest. The
body was naked and the breasts had
been cut off.
At Gilly two women were thrown in
to a cistern.
At Connigis q girl was violated by
several German soldiers In the pre-
sence Of her foster parents.
Five women were discovered In a
cellar. "AM stripped Naked" they
were ordered by the Germans. one
attempted to get away. The soldiers
fired. Two women were wounded, one
dying the next day.
At Baizil German soldiers tried un-
successfully to violate the two daush-
| tiers of a household ana tnen shot
their mother because the girls escaped.
At Morelles some people asked per-
mission of German soldiers to rescue
from a burning house a woman VINO
was in bed with a broken leg. They
refused and she was burned alive.
At Auve q woman aged ~ was
burned inside church.
Mile. Cote, near Tannay, was most
outPageously treated. among otner
things being dragged by the hair.
At vitry-en- Perthois German SOL
diers violated q woman aged ~, VINO
died from the effects.
Mile. Process, her mother, her grand
mother, aged II, and her aunt, aged
81, were attacked In their homo 81
Triaucourt. Mile. Process escaped. Tne
other women were killed. tho Ger
mans that night played the plano near
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