Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-24
The CRIMES
|OFCERMANY
Abstracted From
Authenticated Official
Reports.
Killing the Wounded

oath, have related how when lying on
the field Of battle, they saw their
wounded comrades finished off, by |
rifle or revolver shots, or by blows
from butt ends, or by bayonet stabs,
or kicked to death by German soldiers.
non commissioned officers. and even
by officers.
We cannot pause to analyze these
innumerable dispositions. There is
other evidence How often, when al
counter attack has put US in posses
sion of ground lost the day before,
have We found poor fellows finished
ofr'-with their threats cut, as in the
case Of the two sergeants of the Thirty
first Chasseurs at the Pass Of Sainte-
Marie. or with their own bayonets
driven into their mouths" like the
poor little fellow of the Seventeenth.
ION August 23rd, the Cure of Rem
ereville tended Lieutenant fToussaint
(who passed out first at the forestry
school in july. When he fell in bat
tie. this young officer was bayoneted
by all the Germans who passed near
him, and his body was a mass of
wounds from head to feet"
At Oudrigny "a German officer met
a French vehicle showing the Red
Cross flag, and loaded with ten
wounded. He deployed his company,
and fired two volleys at It."
| At Bonviller. an officer murdered
nine French wounded, stretched help
less in q barn. by shooting them
through the ear. Montigny- le- Tilleul,
M. Vital was caught in the act of tend
ing a French soldier. l. Sohier by
name, wounded in the head and side.
Such crime deserved punishment,
and the wretches first shot the orderly
and then the patient.
| At Ethe they set shed on fire and
ROASTED MORE THAN TWENTY
WOUNDED WHO WE'RE LYING
THERE
We all know the celebrated order of
General Stenger in the region OF Thia-
Vile (Meurthe- ct Moselle): mo pris-
oners are to be taken. All prisoners,
whether wounded or not must be
slaughtered"
It was not only in Lorraine that such
orders were given. Listen to the depo-
sitions Of German soldier: THE
same day we saw Is other Frenchmen
Lieutenant N told us to shoot them
as he did not know what else to dc
with them"
Read this letter found at L'Ecouvil-
Ion in a German trench which we re-
captured: EVERY day we take many
prisoners, but they are shot at once
as we no longer know where to pu,
them"
Think of the diary in which a Ger
man soldier near Peronne recorded hi.
Impressions of the day: They la.
In heaps Of 10 or IL, some dead ant
some still living. Those who coult
still walk were marched off. Those
,, who were wounded In the head OF
lungs. and could not lift themselve,
up, were finished off with bullet
That is the order which we got"
A German soldier. while being nurset
in a hospital at Nancy. confided t,
DR.. Roemer that the wound In hi
stomach had been inflicted on him b,
a German N. c. o. because he refused
to finish off a wounded Frenchman.
Wounded were not only massacret
ION the field of battle, BUT FELL
HOSPITALS WERE ALSO TIKI
SCENE OF ATROCITIES. At Gomery
In a casualty clearing station, undo
DR.. Sedillot. there were numerou
wounded remaining In the German
lines. A German officer with rs me,
visited the place and inspected 1t an,
retired. saying that alp was in order
But N. C. o. and a party of soldier
remained In the street outside. The
were excited and kept shouting, ut |
war to the DEATH" and making sign
of cutting threats. They rushed 1
and with their revolvers shot dow
DR.. sedillot (who happily survived
with others. to give evidence), and sc
fire to the place.
Maddened by the flames, the wound
- ed (many Of whom had had amputa
lions performed on them that yer
morning) leaped from the windows o
the first floor and fell into the garden
where the executioners picked thel
, up, gathering them In a bunch, an
shot them.
In this way Lieutenant Jeannin an
DR.. Charette were murdered, and frol
100 to 100 officers and soldiers-whos
wounds should have made them sacre
persisted from shot or fire after tel
rible sufferings.
When all Is said, however. 1t is bett,
to kill wounded soldiers by fire I
sword than by starvation. as the TO
lowing Incident shows: One hundre
wounded Frenchmen. together wit
g DIR. Bender, were brought to the Stens
barracks, and 1870 more came in short
afterwards; the latter, having bee
left out unattended on the BATTLEFIELD
for five days. were in a terrible cor
- dition.
l. Or. Bender in vain begged the Gel
20 mans for help in getting the woundt
It men out Of the ambulances into Il
IN hospital. The Boches refused. ar
10 simply went on sucking their pipe
4 Though wounded himself. the doctc
with the aid Of two male nurs
I'll (Frenchmen BOTH, had to do the who
III thing himself. For several days Il
" Boches gave them no food at all.
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