Evening journal., 1918-01-25


At Charmed the Germans, arriving on
Sept 3, pillaged the houses and cellars
and burned a chateau. A woman was
violated by a soldier. lie stretched me
on a table," she states, "and grlpped
me by the throat At Jaulgonne, on
the same date, the Prusslan Guard pill
laged property worth about 25O.OOO
francs and killed two civilians-one 81
and the other 6i years Old The former
was found lying shot in a field; the
second was seen by the Germans talk
ing TO a French soldier who escaped)
and was seized as a hosiage-he was
killed next morning. "One of the Ger
MANS states a witness, gave him a
bayonet stroke in the side There was
a dreadful rafting In his throat, and
they finished him off with revolver
shot 70 the forehead - found two
wounds" states the man who after
wards buried him, zone in the stomach,
through which the intestines were pro-
truding, and another in the head" on
sept. 3 the Germans also entered VAR
ennes. We are received with a heavy
flre," states one OF the disrists quoted
above who had marched thither from
Noyon. 1T has cost the battalion four
dead and several wounded Corpses are
lying about everywhere in the street
Sept. 6. the village is set on fire, be-
cause civilians have Joined in the
shooting"
Crossing the Marne. Won Bulow's
troops murdered, at Mezy-Aioulns. an
old man Of p At Crezancy they pill
laged a chateeu-the damage was esti-
mated by an expert at 1851 francs
The owner was not present-fOrtun-
ately for himself, for a shopkeeper at
Crezancy. who protested against the
lootng Of his shop, was driven or
blindfolded and stumbling, but urged
on by blows and bayonet thrusts, 10
Charly. where he was shot. Another
inhabitant Of Crezancy was also taken
20 Charly and killed "He had a lance
thrust or bayOnet-thrust near the
heart" Another young man Of Is
was drasged out Of a house and shot
on Sept g. fhe day the Germans ar
rived. After the murder the German
officer inquired whether the victim
were a soldier, and remarked. on learn
ing that he was not: We'll, he might
have become one, anyway At Conni-
eis the Germans murdered a man and
violated a girl In the presence Of her
mother-in-law. t3king 1t In turns 20
keep her father-in-law at a distance
her husband was with the colors.
Passing out Of the Department Of the
Aisne into the Department Of the
Marne, Won Bulow's Army came 20
Montmirail, on the Petit NORM Some
OF his officers lodged in the neighbor-
ing Chateau Of Beaumont-iheir traces
were the words "EXcellenz" Major
Won Ledebur," Graf Waldersee. g.
chalked up on the doors, and the state
in which they left the chateau. In the
town Of Montmirail, on the night Of
Sept. Z, a non-commissioned officer as
saulted a lady in the house where he
was billeted when l called for help,
she states, my father, aged Il, rushed
up to protect me. At this moment
about fifteen or twenty soldiers who
were billeted on one Of our neighbor:
broke open our front door. seized my
father. dragged him into the street
and shot him 70 death. They began
trampling furiously on his body, anc
my daughter, aged i3, opened her win
dow TO see what was making so much
noise. She was struck by a bullet
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died in agony after q hours"
At Fontaine-Armee, In the Commune
Of Rieux, they pillaged a farm and shoi
the farmer, who would not leave his
fields. His wife found his body. He
had received shots In the head which
had blown out his eyes. A sum Of S0l
francs which he had on him had dis
appeared"
At Gault-le-Foret they carried of q
garde-champetre and shot him in
nelghboring village. A farmer, his wife
and his little son Of eleven were flee
ing from their farm for fear It shoulC
be burnt over their heads. As they fec
the farmer was shot dead. the wife
received q bullet In the thigh, and The
child was hit in the calf and died Z
week later of gangrene.
At Champguyon they burned tftee1
houses, using hand-grenades, petrol
and one Of their special inflammatorl
liquids. They shot three civilians II
cold blood, besides two French prison
ers of war One man was dragged e
his death before the eyes Of his wife
the blood was pouring from his ears
could do nothing TO help him, for hi
tormentors thrust their ri1e-muzzles a
my throat"
At Esternay. on Sept G. the Germans
pillaged nlne-tenths Of the houses