The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-09

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ders and that he himself would be shot
II he did not execute them"
Listen to other witnesses:
"A woman was shot as she was
beating on door for admittance.''
"A man had his hands tied behind
his back and he was shot as he ran
down the street."
Il saw twenty men lined up and
shot"
Il saw the body Of woman cut in
| two, with a child still alive beside
| her."
AN aged concierge was cast alive
into the burning ruins Of the house 1t
was his duty to guard"
Il saw in a nook of wall the
corpse of girl twelve or thirteen
wears old who had been burned alive"
'Ecclesiastics were singled out"
says the writer. Insults were hurled
ut them: Swine 'Beastly Papisis,'
You swine. About 40 ecclesias;ics
were gathered together. says an eye
witness. including Monsisnor La
deauze. rector OF Louvain university:
Monsignor Becker, the principal OF the
American seminary, and Monsignor
Willemsen, former president of the
American college. Then Father Du-
pierrcux, Jesuit student, % years
Did, was led before them under guard.
and one OF their number was called
rorward to translate aloud into Ger
nan paper that had been found on
Father DupierreuXs person. The
paper compared the conduct OF the
Germans at Louvain to the conduct Of
Genseric and the Saracens and the
burning of the library to the burning
of the library at Alexandria.
THE officer cut the trans!a ton
ordered to advance toward the wood.
Four soldiers were lined up in front
OF him and the twenty six prisoners
were ordered to face about to witness
the execution.
Father Dupierreux,' states Father
Schill, who had been forced to trans
late the document had listened to the
reading with complete calm. He kept |
his eyes on the crucifix. The COM
mand rang out: Aim! FIRE. We
heard one report. The father fell on
his back. A last shudder ran through
his limbs, Then the spectators were
ordered to turn about again while an
charged his pistol into the ear. The
bullet came out through the eye
These are not the worst of the pic
lures drawn by Mr.. Toynbee. There
are others unprintable.
At Haecht, he said, the Belgian |
soldiers found a woman stripped to
the waist and her breasts cut off.
There was a child with its stomach |
slashed open with a bayonet. and an
oth,r--two or three years old-nailed |
to a door by hands and feet.
At Elewyt, a small town. Belgian |
troops returning after the German re-
treat from Malines, found the body Of
man tied naked to a ring in a wall |
His head was riddled with bullets.
there was a bayonet wound in his
woman, also mutilated after violation. |
was found naked on the ground
AT Hofstade." writes Mr.. ToynbeeI
from a part of the report of Viscount
3rycc's commission on German atroci- |
ties, there was an old woman mutt
lated with a bayonct There was a |
young pregnant woman who had been |
ripped open. A boy was found dead in !,
an attitude of supplication. Both his !
hands were cut off.
Il went with an artilleryman. !
states another Belgian soldier. TO find ,
his parents who had lived in Hofstadc
On forcing the door We found lying
on the floor the dead bodies of a
man. a woman, a girl and a boy, who.
the artillcryman said. were his father. |
mother. brother and sister. Each of
them had both feet cut off just above |
the ankle, and both hands just above !
the wrist.
In Malincs itself. records another |
part Of the report, a child of two came |
out in the street as eight drunken |
German soldiers were marching by. |
"A man in the second file stepped
aside and drove his bayonct with both
hands into the child's stomach He
lifted the child into the air on his
bayonct and carried it away, he and
his comrades still singing. The child
screamed when the soldier struck 1t
with the bayonet. but not afterwards.
This incident is reported by two eye
Witnesses
This, then, is German mlitarism at
work. This is the thing the kaiser
would justify by the might OF arms.
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