The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-01-10

the presence of his wife and Seven
children; Wasseige and his two sons
Messrs. Gustave and Leon Nica1se,
two very old men; Jules Monln anu
others all shot in the cellar OF theiI
brewery: Mr.. Camille Pistte and son.
aged seventeen; Phillippart P1edfort'
his wife and daughter; Miss Marsig
nv. During the execution or ABOUT
forty inhabitants Of Dinant the Ter
mans placed before the condemned
their wives and children. 1t rs thus
that Madam Albin who had just gwen
birth to. child, three days previously
was brought on q mattress by German
soldiers to witness the execution oA
her husband; her cries and suppllca-
tons were so pressing tnaI nee nu"
bands life was spared.
ION the 26th of August German SUI
Gliers entered various streets (oI Lou
vain) and ordered the inhabitants Oh
the houses to proceed to the Place oe
Ia Station, where the bodies OF nearly
q dozen assassinated persons were ly-
ing. Women and children were sepa-
rated from the men and forced 10 re-
main on the Place de 10 Station our
ing the whole day. They had to VIII
ness the execution of many of their
fellow citizens, who were for the most
nart shot at the side of the square,
near the house of Mr.. Hemalde. Inc
women and children, after having re-
NAMED on the square for more IMAM
IL hours. were allowed to depart. Inc
Gardes Civiuues of Louvain were also
taken prisoners and sent to Germany
to the camp of Munster, where they
were held for several weeks.
ION Thursday, August 27, order was
given to the inhabitants to leave Lou
vain because the city was to be bonn
| harded. Old men, women, cnlluren'
the sick, priests, nuns, were driven on
the roads like cattle. More than H.
900 of the inhabitants were driven as
far as Tirlemont, nearly II miles from
| LOuvain.
Infants Shot in Mothers Arms.
"One of the most sOrely tried COM
munities was that CT the little village
of Tamines, down in what is known
| as the Berinage, the coal fields near
Charleroi. Tamines is mining VII
lage in the Sambre; it is a collection
of small cottages sheltering about D.
OOO inhabitants. mostly all poor labor
erS.
''The little graveyard in which the
church stands bears it's mute testl-
mony to the horror of the event. There
are hundreds of new-made graves, eacn
with it's small wooden cross and It's
hit of flowers: the crosses are so close
lv huddled that there is scarcely room
to walk between them. The crosses
are alike and all bear the same date
the sinister date of August ~, 1914.
''But whether their hands were GU
off or not, whether they were 1mpalec
) ON bayonets or not, children were sno
down. by military order, in cold blood
In the awful crime of the Rock or bay
ard, there overlooking the Meuse De
} low Dinant, infants in their motners
: arms were shot down without mercy
The deed. never surpassed in cruelt,
by any band of savages, is describes
1 by the bishop of Namur himself:
5 "sOne scene surpasses in horror 81
5 others: it is the fusillade of tn
). Rocher Bayard near Dinant. 1t az
e pears to have been ordered by COlone
e Meister. This fusillade made man
f victims among the nearby parishes
|. | especially those of deS Rivages an
t Neffe. It caused the death of nearl
e 80 persons, without distinction OF ag
l. or sex. Among the victims were bs
: bies in arms, boys and girls, father
S and mothers of families, even OF
o men.
l. Dead Children i'm Pile Of Bodies.
II eft was there that II children unde
S the age of six persisted from the Ill
g of the executioners, six of them
IS they lay in their mothers arms:
IS "The child Fievet, three weeks oil
"sNIaurice Betems, eleven month
Is old.
J. "'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old.
Of "'Gilda GenOn, eighteen mOnshs OF
t, "'Gilda MarchOt, two years old.
"'Clara Struvay, two years and
lie months.
""The pile of bodies comprised al
It, many children from six to fourte
Ill years. Eight large families have
id tirely disappeared. -Four have but o
q survivor. Those men that escap
ry death-and many of whom were ri
ed GIed with bulletS-Were Obl1ged
x bury in a summary and hasty FASH
their fathers, mothers, brothers or
lot tiers; then after having been reltev
in of their money and being placed
W. chains they were sent to Cassel (Pr7
sia).l"
Mr.. Hugh Gibson, the secretary
our legation in Belgium, visited L.
ter vain during it's systematic destructi
en- by the Germans. In "a Journal FIR
EN- Our Legation in Belgium" New 70
it'll 1917, pages 164-165, he relates wi
M the German officers told him:
the cit was a story OF clearing out CT
ons ians from large part Of the town
systematic routing out Of men fir
1ge cellars and garrets, wholesale she
hat ings, the generous use of mach
rNE