Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-20
The CRIMES
|OFCERMANY
Abstracted From
Authenticated Official
Reports.

discover any kind or pretext.
the Germans often. especially after
looting, set everything on fire so ASI
TO MAKE ALL TRACES DIsAP-
PEAR. Sometimes, as at Courtacon,
they compelled the inhabitants to pro-
vide the material for burning their
own houses; or, as at Recuuienies.
forced prisoners ito set the houses OF
the doctor and mayor on fire with
lighted straw" But generally they
do the work themselves. They have a
special service for this. and all the re-
quisite incendiary material is carefully
prepared; torches. grenades, fuses. OF,
pumps, firebrands, satchels of pa STILES
containing very inflammable COM
pressed powder, etc. German science
has applied itself to the perfectfng of
the technique of incendiarism. The
village is set alight by a drilled
method. Those concerned act quite
coolly, as matter of duty. as though
in accordance with a drill scheme laid
down and perfected beforehand.
OF course. fire once let loose. these
people have to see that it does it's
work completely: accordingly, at Lou
vain. they destroyed the fire engines |
and fire escapes; at Namur, they
stopped the flremen at the very mo-
ment they were preparing to do their
duty.
In this way they sometimes willfully
burned down whole blocks of dwell
ings duneville): sometimes an en-
tire district CLOS houses at Senlis, 112
at BaccaraD' sometimes almost a
whole town itself (more than 800
houses at Gerbeviller, 500 at Ser
maize, 1900 at Dinant, 1900 at Lou
vain). On other occasions they did
not leave house standing (Nomeny,
Clermont- en- Argonne, Sommeilles.).
The complete list Of buildings, cot
tages, farms, villas, factories, or chat
eaux, burned wilfully in this way by
hand. will be formidable one,
to tens of thousands.
REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY
OCCURS. AT AER-
SCHOT WOMEN HAD. TO WIT
NESS THE SIGHT OF THE CON-
HOLDING THEIR
UP. THEIR TORTURE
LASTED SIX HOURS" At Crevic,
the Germans began their sinister work
by burning a chateau which they knew
belonged to General Lyautey. The
troops. commanded by an officer,
shouted out for Madame and Made
moiselle Lyautey that they might cut
theirs heads Gff."
The houses destroyed by fire were
not always uninhabited. At Make, M.
Demange, wounded in both knees,
dragged himself along and fell pros
trate in his kitchen; his house was
set on fire ana Madame Demange was
forcibly prevented from going to the
rescue OF her husband, who persisted
in the flames. AT NOMENY, MAD
AME COUSIN. AFTER BEING SHOT,
WAS THROWN INTO THE BURN
ING BUILDING AND ROASTED. AT
THE SAME PLACE, NJ. ADAM WAS
THROWN ALIVE INTO THE
Let US note in connection
with him, to their credit an act of ;
humanity. Finding that
the unhappy man was not being burned
fast enough. they ended his misery In :
the flames by shooting him. At Mon II
ceau- sur Sambre. where they set fire
to 300 houses. they confined the two
brothers 8. in a shed. and the unfor-
tunate men were burned alive.
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The soldiers diaries are filled with
Init Of kvoa 30 ii
which we now quote. Returned by II
which was burnt as we
passed through. because the engineers
found telephone there connected up
with the French. The whole village
in the street, except one small house; II
an with her six children, her arms
every, day 1t is the same thing
PARUX. THE first village burnt
lin Lorraine. on the 10th Of August; Il
after that the fun began. Villages in
one after the other" Another
simply states: "Somnepy
carnage. The village entirely
burnt; THE FRENCH THROWN
INTO THE BURNING HOUSES; II
Wv lIAINo Win lI1E NLSl. III
Another recalls theatrical memories
"The village IL ablaze; It reminds one
of the conflagration Of Walhalla in the
Twilight of the Gods"
Here Is a poet speaking: "The SOL
diers set up the red cock q. g., fire)
upon the houses, just as they like"
This poet 10 moved and speaks of the
pure vandalism" on the part of his
companions In arms.
And, again musician writes:
Throwing Of incendiary srenades into
the houses; a military concert in the
evenins--nun danket ale Golti (row
we all thank our God.)'
Finally a Bavarian: THE village
tSaint- Maurice. Meurthe- ct Moselle) H
was surrounded and the soldiers posted
one yard apart so THAT NO ONE
COULD ESCAPE. Then the Uhlans
set fire to the place. NO MAN. WON
AN OR CHILD COULD POSSIBLY
FGCApT nplv thA ratt1a vvoro ro- II