The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-11-14


| now very pretty ruin, and it was just
as well that we left when we did. You
could not even find splinter OF the
big round table. The next time I sill
under glass skylight in Dixmude,
want lad with live eye for Zeppe
Inns on guard outside.
something about the branch heaG-
! quarters ruins made us think of break.
rast, which we had forgotten, so back
TO the hotel. Then we started back to
our lines. We were ordered to keep
to the main road all the way back, or
we would be- shot on sight, and to re-
port to headquarters Immediately on
:. our return. / thought if the sight Of
me was - <::stasteful to anybody, I
would not take the chance Of offend
ing, being anxious to be polite in such
| cases. So we stuck to the main road.
Fritz did not give us any trouble and
we we're back by five, with all hands
out to greet us when we hove in sight,
and regular prOdigal son welcome on
tap, for we were later than they had
expected us, and they had made up
their minds that some accident had
happened.
While was around Dixmude, saw
many living men and women and chill.
dren who had been mutilated by the
Germans but most of them were wom-
en- and children. Almost every one
u The Dutilated men was too old for
military service The others had beeu
killed, guess,
But the BelglMIs were not the Only
ones who had suffered from German
kultur. Many French wounded were
tortured by the Huns, and we were
constantly finding the mutilated bodies
of our troops. 1t was thought that the
Germans often mutilated Il dead body
as an example to the living
The Germans had absolutely no re.
spect whatever for the Red Cross. For
instance, they captured a wagon load
ed with forty French wounded, and
shot every one OF them. l saw the
dead bodies.
When the Germans came to DIX
nude they got all the men and women
and children and made them march
before them with their hands i'll the
air. Those who did not were knocked
what they were going to get, and being
as game sports as ever heard of, tried
to fight. They were finished off at
once, of course.
The former burgOmaster had been
shot and finished off with an AK,
though he had not resisted. because he
wanted to save the lives of his citi-
Zens. They told me of one case. in Dix
nude, where a man came out of his
house, trying to carry his father,
man of eighty, to the square, where
they were ordered to report. The old
man could not raise his hands, so they
dragged his son away from him,
knocked the old man in the head with
an ak, and left him there to die. Those
who were spared were made to dig the
graves for the others.
There was doctor there in Dix
nude, who certainly deserves q mill
tary cross if any man ever did. He
was called from his house by the Ger
mans at ) 30 one morning. He left his
wife, who had had baby two days
before, in the house. He was taken to
the square, linea up against wall
with three other big men of the town.
Then he saw his wife and baby being
carried to the square on mattress by
four Germans. He begged to be al
lowed to kiss his wife gOOd-by, and
they granted him permission. AS he
stepped away, there was q rattle and
the other men went West. They shot
him, too, but though he was riddled
with bullets he lived, somehow, and
begged the German officer to let him
accompany his wife to the prison
where they were taking her. This was
granted too, but on the way, they
heard the sound of firing. The soldiers
'elled, ode Franzosen!" and dropped
he mattress and ran. But it was only
some of their own butchers at work
Doctor Laurent carried his wife and
,aby to an old aqueduct that was being
ebuilt by the creek. There they lived
or three days and three nights, on the
ew herbs and the water that Doctor
sncaked 0vt and got at night.
Doctor Laurent says that when the
Germans killed and crucified the civil.
ans at Dixmude, they first robbed
hem of their watches, pocketbools,
ings and other things. There was a
1adame Tilmans there who had had
hree thousand francs stolen from her
nd was misused besides.
These were just very few of the
Kings that happened at just one place
here the Germans got to work with
heir "kultur." So you can picture the
'elgians agreeing on a German peace
lille there is a Belgian alive to argue
bout it. They will remember the Gen
lans long time, I think. But they
eed not worry: there are lot of u
no will not forget either