The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-28
ROCKIES USE PRISONERS AS
su1FIDs FOR MACHINE GUNS.
Make observations Behind women
and ChIldren-Dispatch Enemy
wouuded without Mercy And LII
One Instance Roasted ~ Ill
Small Hut (

One Instance Roasted 20 In A
Small Hut
rbora are great numbers OF wound
Who IN their solemn oath, nave
related how, when lying on tne Ilel9
nj battle, they saw their Wounueu
comrades finished off, by rifle OF re-
vo1ver shots, or by blows from DuLt1
ends or by bayonet staDs' VI hion ~
IN death by German solalers, NV h1
commissioned officers anu even
officers. D., on.@v-,.. these
we CaI hIo denositions. There IS
n1tor evidence. How Often "hen
ocn1t has put us IN posses
49, ~ Ground lost the day De1o[e'
Slon ,-o found poor fellows "tlnlSneu
L e,, Win their throats cut, as IN tLe
vi of the two Sergeants Oh INC
TE2r first Chasseurs at the Pass ol
6 !nt Marie. or with their own pay
n4s driven into their mouths, ike
noor little fellow OF the seven
taon+b The enemy often runs ahoh
fika this. On August % the Cure Vi
pnn,ernrville tended Lieutenant l"uS-
oin+ (who passed Out first at Ine
Forestry School in july -" neh nc
foil in battle, this young onlcel
havoneted by all the Lernlan7 WY
Dassed near him, and his body was {,
macq of wounds from heao 10 leet.
At Oudrigny "a German onlCel p rie
Ga French vehicle showing tne leG1
Cross flag, and loaded WIN ~ "oulI Ia
ed He deployed his ccmpany, '
fired two volleys at IL. Al Do-,i1
v:1Inr an officer murdered 1llo
E 80 vounded. stretched helpless
f. horn bv shooting them through
+ho oar On 23d of August at Mon
tignv-Ia-TilIeul. NJ. Vital was caugnt
W. tho act of tending a French sol
diar 7. Sohier by name, wounded III
tbe head and side. Sucn a crime ue-
earvnd punishment, and the WretcheS
fi,st shot. the orderly and then the
patiG66t. ,,a-.fire. and
. roasted more tnah ~
we're lying there; o,ohrotad order
W. TonaraI Stenger in the region "
tn (Meurthe-et-Mose An
.;nonors are to be taken ~
P 1i9 whether wounded OF no''
must be slaughtered. that
u was not only in Lorraine 'nt o.
.,,oh orders we're given. lAsoI Idior.
no deposition of a German -, o o+har
"The same day we saw 10 to,J Nc
Ernnchmen. Lieutenant n. toi 1lnoT,
ahont them as he did not hhoN
wba+ else to do with theH. ,r7oou-
Dood This letter found at H. 1Cou
-.ilIon in German trench "hlcn We
rncantured: Every day we t''n ~
go nrisoners. but they are shoS a.
nIon' &c wa no longer know WHEY
to put them. ,,,icb q Ger
linn A,dior near Peronne recorueo
ma niai ;,,,nrnssions of the day: lhey
in9 in heaps of 10 or II, some uG .+C
10y coma still living. Those WIZ az
an" e+iIl walk we're marcneu -,
\ 49, 49, Who we're wounded in the ne11
me- I,,rge and could not ut mem
et 81 IN were finished on win
h,Tnot That is the order "hlc" w.
II German soldier, while Oe n,,
nursG%., in a hospital at Nahcy So
fided y DR.. Roemer that the ct M1"n OF
in, his 5v So GsF%s1Hr had been because because h
refused to finish OF a. wounde'
Frenchman. .,,, sa.Ioo,
Let us call to mind the innun ler
able instances when the BocheS ~
mn their hands. or waved = "fn'
FLAG and cried. "Kamerad, prete' pd
mo tn surrender; thus drawing Ru
I,nsusDecting men toward them a n'
then suddenly moving aside, 10 lea6Ms'
1hc field open to party or rlileiI Wel
or . machine gun hidden away pen Ml'
them These are the tricks OF co E
ards. which were constantly
Moved at the beginning or the wa #l
and our men Cat the cost OF man I'M
virtimsD learned at last to gU"l MFt
AGAINST them. But they have don Ii
even more cOwardly things than IN
There was the German otflceF WiilR
IN DrOtect himself from danger WIN
taking observations, put three cam
drnn around him. At Merry, :" per
sons. women and children, were com
pelled to walk at the side or boIA'
column to protect 1t from pellS eli
filaded. Near Malines, SIX GERMAN
soldiers who we're taking with 'he,!
five young girls, on meeting Del
gian patrol, placed the girls all Touil"
them to prevent the enemy from III
ing. At Jodoigne they put cure IN
front of them and made him walk
with his arms folded, and they did
the same at Hougaerde to another
cure who was killed. A similar fate
befell several civilians at Mons.
At Erpe, on September Il, a Ger
man column. attacked by a Bel&lan
motor-machine gun, took out or the
houses 20 to % men and young peo-
ple Including child of 49,, ana
made them walk in front Of the md
die of the road. The machlne-Sun-
ers. seeing civilians in front OF them,
ceased firing At A1ost, German
company attached the bridge. In
front marched some so civilians with
a machine gun hidden behind them.
At Nirly. with the butt-ends OF thelr
rifles. they drove in front OF them
500 men, women and children toward
the English who in consequence
dared not fire; and in this way the
Eighty-fourth and Elghty-hltn
Schleswig Regiments were able TO
continue their heroic march as lar
az Maubeuge.
The towards chiefly used clVlllanS
NJ shields. but sometimes they also
made use of prisoners. At keyem'
they pushed 100 Belgian soldiers III
front of them, some with their handa
tied, and others with their arms IN
the air. At DiXmude, they advanced
under shelter of 40 disarmed ma
rines who had been taken prisoners
49, in