Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-18
PEOPLE TORN FROM HOMES
AND SENT into GERMANY
French, In Official Report, Give De.
tails OF Fresh Outrages by
kaiser's Troops.
VISIT RETAKEN TERRITORY
Investigate Conditions Among Strlck.
en- Population of Northern France.
Ensiaving OF Inhabitants Carried
Out Under Orders of Command.
ny c. II.

S'''bS iuiicI DhTllCuldEb ol
German outragcs. including tho en-
shaving and spoliation Of the popula-
tion. was Issued this week. 1t is
signed by George Paycllc. first presi-
dent OF tho Chancery Court: Armand
Mollard. minister plc~nipotentiary;
Georges MarinEer. counselor OF state.
and Edmond Paillot, counselor of tho
Supreme Court.
Some striking excerpts follow:
Since April IL we had pursued our
inquiry In the territories gently lib
Grated, and our conviction has been
confirmed that all the violations of
human right. OF which the German
armies have been guilty. have been
committed under orders issued by the
high command.
I'm every district the measures of
unjust rigor and cruelty towards tho
people,. tho same processes OF devasta-
ton and briEandage. have been en-
ployed simultaneously. and in the Same
conditions. Everywhere populations
have been ransomed and deported. man
ufacturing plants destroyed. houses torn
down or burnt. furniture stolen or
wrecked. trees cut down. wells poisoned
and agricultural implements smashed
or taken away.
There Is not a single locality whose
Inhabitants OF both sexes from six
teen TO sixty years have not been torn
from their homes and sent to Germany
or further to tho ntrth of France with
no moro regard for the grief OF their
families thaE for the welfare OF young
girls delivered up to the most dis
quletins hazards
AT Douilly. a young woman who
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lad to leave her bed and go. AS with
her cheeks streaming with tears she
passed before the door OF Nine. Wager.
the latter. seeing she was scarcely
dressed. threw a shawl over the girls
shoulders to protect her from the cold.
niid watched her departure. convinced
she would never see her again.
sHRTKs OF WOMAN
"UPsET- OFFICER
'Cne day IN November. 1915, AFTER
the evacuation OF a par. OF the popu-
~iation. a very excited woman arrived
at the City Hall OF Chauny. She
was s%hrieking End tearing her hair.
The Mayor took her TO Reserve Officer
Do, gschmidt, a Berlin lawyer. rerre-
sentinE the ~commandatur. but tho
latter told her to shut up. as she both
tEcQ MIN ana upset eNerSDOoS.
Then. addressing the magistrate who
tried to soften him. the officer said:
Mr.. Mayor. you know very we'll I have
told you many times. and / now tell
you once for all. the words huma nifty
and pity arc blotted out of the die
tionary You understand. don't your"
Various German army orders TO tho
French civilians are quoted in the re-
mort Soma n aeSarag NJ thAun orIaro
follow:
ANY attempt to escape or 10 be-
have insubordinately may provoke the
use of firearms without warning.
Sentences OF detention. prison up
to three months. and fines up to 1000
marks may be inflicted by the COM
mandant OF the district. The deten-
ton must be carried out so that the
prisoner shall not escape his work;
his sentence must be purged In later
hours. and he will not receive pay for
that period.
All %workmen, women and children
Of fifteen must work in the field every
day. including Sunday. from 4 =. NJ.
to p. NJ.
"In every district a certain num-
Der OF notables. whose names will be
published. will answer with their lives
for tho security OF the railroads in
their districts. Furthermore. every
district in which a railroad line has
heen damaged or destroyed shall BIO
fined or otherwise punished.
Elm certain circumstances the whole
district may be evacuated, the men
being taken to prisoners cam $. and
the rest OF the population distributed
over other localities.
ANY inhabitant who shelters or helps
stragglers without Immediately max
ing such declaration of notice to the
German authorities will be sho.
ALSO the district will be heavily
fined"
TOWNS AND PEOPLE
INCREASINGLY ROBBED
Tho report continues: 'Tn all the in
vaded districts and during the entire
period OF the German occupation. both
the municipalities and the individuals
have been INCREASINGLY robbed The
minute the German high command ar
rived in Ncsle. the village was expect
ed to pay a fine of $4,000, without
giving the town a chance to raise the
money Tho acting Mayor. NJ. Obry.
two members OF the municipal coun-
ell n ono OF the biggest landed pro-
prietors were thrown into a cellar half
filled with water and kept there for
six hours, until tho fine was forthcom-
ing.
"a few days later. another fine of
$1,000 was assessed against the village
because three old horse-pistols were
discovered in an abandoned house.
Three shotguns found in another house
a week later brought down n fine of
$4,000. while the unfortunate poase5sor
was first sentenced Ito death and then
escaped with a heavy prison sentence.
'Ncsle was also forced to subscribe
to a district bond ISSUE a scheme for
the subscription to funds for the main
tenance OF the Kaiser's troops wherein
all villages were forced to join.
Just before tho evacuation of Nesle.
the P%russians. who had already sacked
a majority OF the houses. particularly
those occupied by the members OF the
general staff. put the finishing touches