Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-21
The GRIMES
|OFCERMANY
Abstracted From
Authenticated Official
Reports.
MURDER

mere simply nenJlOn Ine JuQ1c1al muir
ders OF Miss Cavell. Eugene Jacquet,
Battisti, and others. in order to honor
the memory OF those noble victims.
For the same reason, as they are now
we'll known to everyone, we content
ourselves with merely recalling the
criminal torpedoing of the Lusitania,
Ancona, Portugal. Amiral- Ganteaume
all merchant steamers. with
out any military character whatever,
employed in carrying passengers of
every nationality. and the last named
crowded with refugees.
We may pass over the crimes COM
mitted from a distance, so to speak,
on unfortified towns, with fieldpieces.
long range guns. aeroplanes and Zeppe-
Inns, merely noting that the Germans
were the first to fire shells into the
center of towns Unfortunately. II
they made an exception, 1t was to aim
at the cathedral square, when people
were leaving after mass, as at Nancy.
or into the market place at the time
when women are busiest. as they did
at Luneville
We only mention here such outrages
as were committed at close quarters
with hand weapons. bayonets or rifles.
The list is a long one. VIII the exact
number Of victims ever be known?
In Belgium alone Il has been proved
that up to now moro than 5000 civil
ians have been assassinated; grown
men, old people. women and children.
They slaughtered their victims some
times one by one, sometimes in groups
often in masses. They were not con-
tent only with killing. At one place
they organized round the massacre
such tragic scenes, and at another dis
played such refinements of cruelty,
that reason falters in face of their
acts. and asks what terrible madness
has brought this race to such low
depths? Is 1t possible? Yes. 1t Is.
Judge by the following examples:
At Foret, tho village schoolmaster
was shot for refusing to trample under
foot the national flag. torn down from
the front of the school. In this case,
and many OF the following ones, the
reader is requested to note, and re-
member, the motive for the murders.
At Schaffen, A. Willem was tied to a
tree and burned alive, and two other
unfortunate men were buried alive
Madame Luykx and her little girl, IL
years old, were shot together in cell
lar. ]. Reynders and his young ne
phew. 10 years Of age, were both shot
in the street. At Sompuis, an old man
named Jacquemin, aged 10, was bound
to his bed by an officer and left there
without food for three days. dying
soon after his release.
A westphalian prisoner states: 1.-THE
commanding officer ordered us to
shoot two women, and we did so. One
Of them was holding a child by the
hand, and In falling she dragged the
child over with her. The officer gave
orders to shoot the child, because II
could not be left alone In the world.
At Rouves, q government clerk refused
to tell q Bavarian officer the numbers
of the French regiments in the neigh
borhood. The officer killed him with
two shots from his revolver. Al
Crexancy, another officer shot with
his own hand young Lesaint. Is years
old. ITO prevent his being soldier Ia
ter on
At EmbermenH, Madame Massor
was shot for having, In absolute goot
faith, given some wrong information
AS she was obviously in a state o.
pregnancy they made her sit down or
bench to meet her fate.
At Ethe. two priests were shot ''fol
having buried some weapons" A
Marqueglise, a superior officer ordered
the arrest Of four young fugitives
Learning that two of them came from
Belgium. he exclaimed: 1.-THE Bel
gians are filthy people," and withou
more ado took his revolver and sho
them one after the other. Three wer'
killed outright. the fourth expired tn,
following day.
j From the crowd of fugitiyes which
left Louvain In flames, the priest,
were singled out, and searched. Oh
one of them, Jesuit father, by nam,
Dupierreux, they found note bool
containing the following note I,
French; when l used to read abou
the Huns under Attila devastatin.
towns, l smiled. smile no longer nov
tlIl HdNc Becn Win lily OWh cycp III
hordes of today setting fire to tn
churches and library of Louvain." Il
front Of the assembled troops tn
priests were placed in a semi circl
round the Jesuit father. The incrim
mating phrase was read out. and the
translated into German. The lieuten
ant said that 1t constituted an incite
ment to murder. and that the Jesul
must be shot on the spot The sen
: tence was carried out forthwith. an
the other priests. his companion
were made to bury him where he fel
At Pin. some Uhlans found tw
: young boys on the road. They tie
them by the arms to their horses an
galioped off. The bodies Of the poe
lads were found few miles away
their knees were literally crushed;
one had his throat cut and both ha
: several bullets In their heads. A
t sermaize. a laborer. named Brocar
? and his son, were arrested. His vii