Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-06-27
THE CRIMES OF GERMANY
Official Inquiries of Great Brit
ian, France Russia and Belgium

tNote.-Specific violations of in
ternational law by Germany. as
shown by official reports and deposit
lions from actual witnesses in Bel
gium.)
Postofiice Official (D-S5), Weerie.
i saw two little children (girls,) |
three or four years old. standing be-
side the road with a woman who ap- |
peared to be their mother. AS the
Germans came up two of them drove
their bayonets through the bodies o.
the two children killing them. Close
beside the road there was small
farm homestead burning. and the
bodies of the two children were pitch
ed into the flames by the soldiers
who killed them.
Belgian Soldier D-SS), Eppeg-
hem.-At Eppeghem in the middle of
September. l saw the dead body of
child about two years of age out
side the village near the road to vii
vorde. A German lance, similar to
those used by the Uhlans and other
German cavalry. was in the child's
body and was stuck into the ground
through the body
Meerbeek'-I and my two comrades
were at the spot where the three
crosses are marked. We saw a Ger
man soldier come out of the wood
and fire three separate times at
little girl of from four to six years
of age who was at the point marked
A. Seeing that he failed to hit the
child by firing at her and that she
stood quite still, he ran at her and
bayoneted her in the stomach. At
the sight of this we rushed up, and
the German soldier threw up his
hands as sign of surrender, but I
killed him with the butt end of my
rife
British Soldier L-18) {, France.
One day at the beginning of Sep
TENDER on the retreat from Mons We
passed through small village. l
do not know the name of the village.
The regiment halted for about ten
minutes, and / went into a kind of
rine. 1t was a sort of yard behind
houses and was filled with rubbish.
On the ground were two boys bod
ies. One was abou. eight and the
other would De five or six. The bod
les were lying together The hands
had been cut off of both bodies. The
stumps were torn and the blood was
black About four feet away from
the bodies was the body of a girl
about ten years old. She had jag
ged wound in the stomach.
British northumberland Officer
G-2). scissors, France.-We were
searching the houses for German
stragglers. The first house in the
village | entered with a section was q
farmhouse; it seemed to belong &c
= well-to-do man. We found in il
the corpses of a man $3.50. dressed
as a farmer. woman of about 40
) and two girls one Is and one 10. and
a boy about s. They were all lyinf
TIC Sdilt " vail
British Northumberland Officer
+ Ns-3). Marine. France.-We were il
a small village searching for patro
of Uhlans at $3.50 p. ma small
village of about so houses. We founC
them in a house; about 10 got out
side, but we did not let them ge
e to their horses and we killed then
I all. On the ground floor in thu
!, front room-it was a house of abou
: six rooms-there were 90 Uhlans
i who Immediately put up their hand
: and we took them prisoners. On tn
: floor in the corner near the fresid
\ | saw two women and two children
i One was dead. the one judged to b.
: the elder. Her left arm had beel
cut off just below the elbow. TIL
q younger woman was just alive bu
s quite unconscious. Her right LEI
y had been cut off above the knee. TIL
y boys left hand was cut off at tn
wrist and the girls right hand a
J. the same place.
}, British Soldier OL-tS). Retres
y from Mons.-I remember we put Il
: for that night at Chailvet. The Oh
lans must have been through il. w
saw women and children lying deaC
= One or two of the bodies of wome
had no heads