The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-03-21

l fcin, i.aNUr u. ....s SdSScruln. first alderman; NiHns, [. ;;.ed seven ty: Consu. for the Argentine RerG lie Victor Poivelet. who wns executed ill i the presence of his wife and seven children: WaSseigc and his two sous: l MeSsrs. Gu>taye and Leon Nicai,v. two very old men: Jules Monin and others all shot in the cellar of their brewery: Mir Camille pistte and son. aged seventeen: Phllippart Piedfort his wife and daughter; Miss Marsig- ny. During the execution of about forty inhabitants of Dinant the Ger mans placed before the condemned their wives and children. It is thus that Madam -Aibin who had just given birth 10 Il child, three days previously. was brought on |; mattress by German soldiers to witness the execution of her husband her cries and supplica- tions were so pressing that her hus- l bands life W;lS spared.
 "On the 2Gth of August German sol dier> entered various Strret> (of Lou vain) and ordered the inhabitants of the houses to proceed to the Place de la Station, where the bodies of nearly. q dozen assaSsinatrd persons were ly- ing. Women and children were ScpH- rated from the men and forced to re- main on the Place de Ia Station dur ing the whole day. They had to wit ness the execution of many of their fellow citizens, who were for the most part shot at the side of the square, near the house of Mr. 1emaide. The women and children, after having r,- muiIed on the square for more than h hours, were allowed to depart. The GardeS Civiqies of Louv;ln were also taken prisonrrs and senl to Germany, to the camp of Munster. where they were held for several weeks.
 On Thursday, August p, order was given To the inhabitants to leave Lou vain because the city waS to he bonn barded. Old men, women. children, the sick, priests. nuns. were driven on the roads like cattle. More than 10, 000 of the inhabitants were driven as far its Tirlemoat, nearly r. niles from Louv:in.
 infants Shot in Mothers Arms.
 One of the most Sorcly tried com mulitics was that of the little village of Tamines, down ill what is knOwn as the Bornage the coal fields near Charleroi. Tnnines is Il mining vii- hge in the Sambre; il is a collection of small cottages shelterinG about D. GOO inhabitants, mostly all poor labor CTS.
 "rhe little graveyard in which the church stands bears it's mute teSti- inOny to the horror of the event. There are hundreds of new-IlI;,d~ graves, each with it's small wooden cross and it's hit of flowers; tine crosses are 50 close ly huttlled that there is scarcely room to walk between them. The crosses are alike and all bear the same date, the sinister date of August 22. 1314.'
 "But whether their hands were cut off or not, whether they were ilnpaed on bayonetS or not, children were shot down, by military order, in cold blood. Ill the awful crime of lllr Rock of Buy ard, there overlooking the Mouse be- low Dinnnt. infants in their mothers arms were shot down. without mercy. The deed, never surpassed in cruelty by any band of s;,vages. is described by the bishop of N;nur himself:
 "'Oue scene s,Ii'passes in horror all others; 1t is the fuSillade of the Rocher Buyard near Dinnnt. It ap- pears to have been ordered by Colonel Meister. This fusillade made many victims among the nearby parishes. especially those of deS kivases and Neii'e. It caused the death of nearly 90 persons, without distinction of age or sex. Among the victims were Da- bies in arms, boys and girls. fathers and mothers of families, even old men.
 Dead Children in Pile of Bodies.
 "'It was there that 12 children under the age of six perished from lhe fire of the eXccutionprS, six of them ;ts they lay in their mothers arms:
 ".The child tievet, three weeks old.
 "'NIaurice Betems, eleven months old.
 "'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old.
 "'Gilda Genon, eighteen months old. l
 "'Clara Struvay, tw" years and six months.
 ""rhe pile of bodies comprised also many children from six to fourteen years. Eight large families have en- tirely disappeared. Four have but one survivor. Those men that escaped Geath--;tnd many of wlioM were rid dled with bullets-werc obliged to bury in a summary and hnsty fashion their fathers. mothers, brothers or sis ters; then after having been relieved of their money and being placed in chains they were sent to Cassel Prus- Sia)."
 AIr. Hugh Gibson, the secretary of our legation in Belgium. visited Lou. vain during it's systematic destruction by the Germans. In "A Journal From | I in, n.,I, ,,ri.