The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-12-28
ATROCITIES BY
HUNS PROVED
BY WHITLOCk
American Minister Furnishes Proof of Barbes Inflicted o HUNS
on Civilans-Tels of Many Carried Into Slavery.
By Milton BrOnner.

Brussels file in the archives OF the State Department
They add tesmOny-if proof needed-tha all
of the atrocities charged to the Germans are based upon
hideous facts and not merely the inamed imagination
Of hostile populations
Nhtloc in his capacity diplomat of power still
peace with Germany reported facts to his superior Off
GERS They did not want propaganda stories either for or
against anyone. Washington wanted to know what
going on in Belgium
Whtlock reported the with much accuracy
it possible orhm to pet it. And he got it rsthand
becau the American legation the clearing house thru
which the victims of the Huns passed.
Whitlocks Reports, Locked Up for Long Time,
For long time Whtlocks reports have been locked up
Now they are released foming part of s4page book
German War Practices, issued by George Creels Commit
tee on Public Information and edited by Prof D. Munro
Of Princeton University.
Whtloc's first dispatches regarding the crlelties of
the Germans were sent in 1914 when the kaisers egons
were spreading death and terror before them
summary executions took place at Dinan" he wrote
without the least sembance of judgment The and
number of the victims not known but they must be n
Among the persons who were shot are M Defon
mayor of Dmant Sassacrath first alderman Nmmer aged
7O consul for the Argentine Republic; Victor Ponceet who
was executed in the of his wife and chill
dren G9stave and Leon Ncaise two very old men,
Jules Monin and others shot in the cellar of their
brewery Camille Pistte and his son, aged IL Philpart
Pedfort, his wife and daughter; Miss Marsigny.
Wives and Children Placed by Germans
Before Men They Condemned to Death
During the execution OF about 40 inhabitants of Din
ant the Gemans placed before the condemned their wives
and children 1t is thus that Madame Ain, who had just
given birth to child three days previously brought on
mattress by German soldiers to witness the execution of
her husband her cries and suppcaons pressing
that her husbands life spared.
"On the 26th day of August German soldiers entered
various streets of Louvan and ordered the inhabitants of
the houses to proceed to the Place de Station where the
bodies OF nearly dozen assasnated persons lying.
Women and children had to witness the execution of
many of their fellow citizens who for the most part
shot at the side of the square The women and children
after having remained on the for than Is hours
allowed to depart.
The civil guards of Louvain were taken prisoners and
sent to Germany to the camp of Muenster where they
held for several weeks.
Hundreds of Graves All Bearing Same Date
Tell of German Frghtfuness in Village
Zone of the most sorey tried communities was that of
the little village of Tamnes down in what is known the
Bornage, the coal fields of Charleroi
"Tamnes is mining village collection of small cot
ages sheerng about 5000 inhabitants mostly all poor la
borers. The little graveyard in which the church stands
bears its mute testimony to the horror of the event There
hundreds of newmade graves each with it's small wood
en- cross and its bit of flowers the closely hud
They alike and all bear the date the sinister date
Of Aug %, 1914.
whether their hands were cut off or not whether they
impaled bayonets not children shot down
by military order in cold blood In the awful crime of the
Rock of Bayard there overlooking the Meuse below Dnan
infants in their mothers shot down without
"The Decd never surpassed in cruelty by any hand of
thus descbed by the bishop of Namur himself:
One surpasses in horror an others; it is the fus
lade of the Rock of Bayard appears to have been order
ed by Colonel Meister This fusade caused the death of
nearly 80 persons without distinction of age Among
the victims babies in boys and girls fathers and
mothers OF families, even old men,
"'t there that - children under the age of six
perished from the fire of the execuoners six of them
1.-The child Feve weeks old.
Maurice Betempts, II months old.
"'Nely Pollet, II months old.
"'Nely Pollet, II months old.
"'Glda Jenon, Is months old.
Zelda Marchot, years old.
Clara Struvay, 2 years and months.
Eight Large Families
Entirely Wiped Out
The pile of bodies comprised also many children from
6o IA years Eight large families have entirely disappear
ed -Four have but survivor Those that escaped
deah-and many of whom riddled with buletswere
obliged to bury in and hasty fashion their faith
mothers brothers sisters then after having been
eved of their and being placed in chains they
sent to Cassel, Prussia
Whitlock also touches upon the horrors at Louvain
saying:
"On Thursday, Aug 27, order given to the nhabi
ouvan because the city to be bombarded
Old children the sick priests driv
en- the roads like cattle More than 10 900 driven
far as Tirlemont Is kilometers from Bouvain."
Germans Force Priest
to Serve Shield
Whock confirms the charge that the Germans shield
ed themselves behind the bodies of the Belgans:
sThe Germans attacked Hougaerd Aug 1S; the Bel
gan troops holding the Gette bridge in the village