The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-01-31

There coed blood all the Boards and what faces
terrible to behold The dead sixty In ALL were at once
buried Among them many old women some old men,
and half delivered woman awful to three children had
claped each other and died thus The altar and the vaults
of the church shattered They had telephone there to
communicate with the enemy. This morning, September
all the survivors expelled and four little boys
carrying cradle with baby five months old In It, on
two sticks. All this terrible to Shot after shot
Thundebo after hunderbolt Everything is given over to
|pase fowls and the rest all killed mother too
with her children had great wound the head
and had lost an eye from diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Spemann of the Ersatz First Brigade of Infantry OF
the Guard)
In the night the inhabitants of Liege became mu-
nous Forty persons shot and Is houses demolished
10 soldiers shot. The sights here make you cry
'On the 23rd August everything quiet The inhabitants
have far given Seventy students shot, 200 kept
prisoners Inhabitants returning to Liege.
"Aug. Oath At with SO sentry duty. Sentry
duty post allocated to Our occupation apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking We live like God in
Belgium From the diary of job der School, reservist
of the Tenth Company Thirty Reserve Infantry Reg
ment, Seventh Resfrve Army Corpse
august 18th In the afternoon had look at the little
chateau belonging of the Kings secretaries not
honey. Our men had behaved like regular vandas They
had looted the cellar first and then they had turned their at
enton to the bedrooms thrown things about all
the place. They had made uitess efforts smash the
safe open Everything topsyturvy magnificent furn
ure silk and china That's what happens when the
men allowed to requston for themselves they
must have taken heap of useless stuff simply for the
pleasure of looting.'
"Aug 23rd = Our back and said that at
the point where the valley joined the Mouse could get
any further the villages shooting every
house We shot the whole o16 of them They drawn
up in three ranks; the shot did for three a time
The men had already shown their brutal instincts;
The sight of bodies the inhabitants who had been
shot ndescrbab Every house in the whole village
destroyed We dragged the villagers after another
the most unlikely The shot well the
and children who in the convent since shots had
windows: after
wards.
The inhabitants might have escaped the penalty by hand
ing over the guilty and paying $4,000 francs.
The inhabitants fired again The division took
drastic steps stop the villages being burnt and the nhab
that's being shot The pretty little village of Cue dOssus
however, apparently set fire without cycst
fell off his machine and his rife off, He Immediately
said he had been shot All the inhabitants burnt
the houses hope there will be such horrors.
AT Leppe apparently 200 shot There have
been some innocent among them In future shall
have hold inquiry to their guilt instead of shooting
them
"In the evening marched to Maubert-Fontaine Just
having meal the alarm sounded-everyone
is very jumpy.
September 3rd Still at Rehe ON guard over prisoners
The houses charming inside The middle class
in France has magnificent furniture We found stylish pieces
everywhere and beautiful silk, but in what state
Good God! Every bit of furniture broken, mirrors
The themselves could not have done more
damage. This place is disgrace to army The inhab
an who fled could not have expected of course that all
goods would have been left intact after troops had
passed But the column commanders responsible the
part of the damage they could have
ootng and destruction The damage amounts millions of
marks; the safes have been attacked
'In solicitors house, in which, luck would have it. all
in excellent TASTE including collection of old lace
Eastern works of art, everything smashed to bits
81 could not resist taking little myself and
there One house particularly elegant everything
in the best taste The hall of light oak found splendid
raincoa under the staircase and for Felix From
the diary of officer the hundred Reg
men Twelfth Saxon Corps.)
But this horror apparently shared by the German
commander in chief, as rs evident from the following:
II late Dancing STOCK HOGS WANTED.