Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-03
vide areas Of Belgium and France Il

wide areas Of Belgium and france i'd |
which not n penny's worth Of wanton
destruction had been permitted to 0c-
cur, in which the ripe pears hung UNI
touched upon the garden walls; and I |
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were raw
aged; where the male villagers had
been shot 10 squads; where the miser-
able survivors had been left to den In
holes, like wild beasts"
Even Soldiers Mortified.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see, showed their horror at the foul
deeds committed in Belgium.
"The Inhabitants have fled in the vii
lage. 1t was horrible. There was clot-
ted blood on all the boards, and what
faces one saw, terrible to behold The
dead, 60 in oil, were at once buried.
Among them were many old women,
some old men, ard half-delivered
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar and tile vaults of the church
are shattered. They had telephone
there to communicate with the enemy.
This morning, September q oil the sur
vivOrs were expelled, and / saw four
little boys carrying cradle, with a
baby five or six months old in it, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt! Everything is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. i saw mother. too, with her
two children; one had great wound
on the head and had lost an eye"
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Spielman of the Ersatz. first bril-
gade of Infantry of the Guard)
In the night the inhabitants
of Liege became mutinous Forty per-
sons We're shot and 10 houses delnol-
lshed. 10 soldiers shot The sights here
make YOU cry.
"On the o3rd OF August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students We're shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re-
turning to Liege.
sentry duty. Sentry duty is a /, no post
nllocated to me. Our occupation. apart
from bathing. is eating and drinking.
We .ive like Gtil in Belgium" Ufron
the Diary or .loh van der School, re-
ss,i',iSi Of The Tenth company. Thirty.
nnt'i reserve infantry regiment, Sew
enih reserve army corpse
behaved Like Nanda,s."
August IL. In The afternoon ] had
n lslk ii lilo little chateau belonging
IL Gle Of the Kings secretaries (not 1T
l:oi.e>. On. ,Aen had behaved like
regular v;n,lals, They had Looted tie
cellar first, and thea they liid turned
tlivi' attention to the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over ;le place.
1iry bad even n;.de iruit'Vss efforts
To smash The safe open. Everything
was ;N-.,ilvN--nnigniiccn furni-
tii';'. SIR. and oven china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
rcquiSition for themselves. l ann sure
they must have taken away Il heap of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure of
loOIing."
august 9th crossed frontier. Inlmb-
ltants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no diff
ference noticeable.
august 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-
nal and Dinnnt, village of Disonge).
At IL O'Clock the order comes to adj
vancefatter the artillery has thorough
up PREPARED the gr4und ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment 17S
We're marching in front of us. Near
II small village the latter were fired on
by the inhabitants. About go inhab-
ilants were Shot and the village was
blrnt--,,rtiliery is continuously shoot
ing-thc village lies in Il large ravine.
just now, six O'clock in the afternoon,
the crossing of tile Nlaas begins near
ninant -. All villages, chateuuX,
and houses are burnt down during this
night 1t was /, beautiful sight to see
tl,r fires all round us in the distance.
! August 24.-In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead. From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth company, Eleventh jaeger bat
talon, M;uburg.)
All Male Inhabitants Shot.
"a shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. AT five O'clock we
We're ordered by the officer in COM
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny, because
of nj.