Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1918-01-31

"Our witnesses have detailed 10 us
several ouirages on women In one
case we have evidence concerning the
rape OF a girl by four soldiers. a Bel
sian quartermaster and sendarmes saw
the dauehter of the proprietor Of the
hotel in which he was staying outraged
BY two German soldiers, without be
ing able to intervene for her protecilon'
at I O'Clock In the morning..
MANY inhabitants OF Namur perlshed
during the fire and the fusillade. Some
aged people were left in the burning
houses: others were killed ~ the
streets or shot In their own dwellings.
IN all, rs civilians persisted In one or
other Of these ways on Aus. % = ana
%"
we crossed Namur during the bonn
bardment Of the town" states a Bel
gian soldier, land the streets were full
Of the corpses of men, some Belgian
soldiers, priests, women and children.
I also saw the headless corpses OF a
woman and child lying over balcony
Of a house in one Of the streets. think
they had been killed during the bonn
hardment Of the town In a street at
Namur and my two comrades 1--WE had
chaneed into civilian clothes meanilme)
mixed with a crowd of about 100 peo-
Die. when the German soldiers came up
from side streets and without a word
Of warming fired on the unarmed peo-
pie. Only ten persons escaped being
one Of them
When Namur had fallen it was the
turn Of the villages on the north, shell
tered hitherto by the circle OF the Ma
muir forts. At Champion. on Aug. p,
10 houses were burnt and the popula-
ton imprisoned in the church for shots
which German patrols, on their own
confession, had fired into the air. In
the Canton OF Nsmur Nord IS people
were killed and il9 houses destroyed
altogether.
Through Dinant TO Champagne.
This was how Won Bulow's left flank
carried out its work from Liege 10 Ma
muir; beyond Namur, in the angle be
tween the Ssmbre and the Mouse, Won
Bulow Joined hands with Won Hansen,
whose Saxon army had crossed the
Aleuse above the junction of the two
rivers.
The Saxons entered Belgium at Gou-
Wy, near the head-waters Of the Ourthe
Here" writes a German diarlst on
Aug. s, 'there was firing by Belgians
on German troops so we pillaged the
goodies station straight away. Some
cases there. Eggs, shirts, and anything
eatable dragged out of the cases The
safe quilted and the money divided
among the men. Securities torn up"
"A child and on old woman were
shot, writes another near Erezee. "a
wounded Belgian was carried away
half-dead. All revolving and horrible.
From where we are biyouacking we
see the burning houses in the valley
70 Is revolving North OF our
route we. passed another large village
reduced TO ashes
AT Brabant, writes a third, on Aug
80, whatever did not come Of ITS own
accord was plundered-fowls eggs
milk, pigeons, calves Many jolly hap.
pcnings during the plundering.
Aug 20.-The cavalry and the Mar
burg Jaegers are playing the devil IN
The surrounding villages"
AT Spontin," writes a fourth on
Aus %, "a company Of the 10th Regi-
ment and the i0sth had orders TO stay
behind and search the village, take the
Inhabitants prisoners, and burn the
hou-es. AZ the entrance 20 the village,
on the right, lay two young girls, one
dead the other severely wounded. The
priest, too, was shot In front Of the
station. Thirty other men were shot
according TO martial law, and 30 made
prisoners
And So plundering and burning and
Hlling. the Saxons descended on Din
ant. 10 force the passage Of the Meusc
At Dinant COG civilians-men. women,
and children-vere massacred. mostly
between the morning and evening of
Aug. % The circum tances are dcs-
cribed in a report from NJ TschoGen,
the Public Prosecutor Of Dinant, who
survived this terrible day and returned
70 bear witness after three months dc
tention in a German prison camp -
From Aug. 6-that is. before the ar
rival Of the FIRST French troops, who
came from Givet-German cavalry APP
pearod at Dinant and Anseremme.
These patrols sometimes penetrated
into the heart Of the town, and were
met BY rifle fire when they came into
contact with the Belgian troops who
were then holding both banks Of ihC
Meuse.
as they occurred. / mention them mere.
IS because they show that the populact
entirely abstained from attacks on The
enemy.
ION Aug. 6, at Anseremme .Dinani
and Anseremme, although two separate
communes. form a single group Of
houses. Belgian engineers FREQ on a
hussar patrol and wounded a horse.
AZ Furfooz the dismounted soldier
took a farmers horse in exchange for
his wounded one.
The same day or the day after, three
hussars appeared in the Rue de Jacques
fCiney road. The Belgian carabineers
OF chasseurs wounded one and took him
prisoner. and also another. whose horse
was hit The third escaped. These men
belonged to a Hanoverian regiment.
on the 18TH, at aux Rivages' din
ant a detachment Of the i4sth French
Infantry annihilated a cavalry patrol.
only one man escaping About the same
date another detachment opened fire at
Ponds de Leffe.' Two German cavalry
men weTa killed
On Aug. IS the Germans attempted
to force the Mouse at Anseremme, Din
ant, and Bouvignes, but were repulsed.
During the day several German detach-
menis entered the city, but did not
modest the townsfolk at all
The city and its inhabitants had
very little 10 suler from this engage
"A USE THE OLD
- ~NEM ADCH