The Dermott news., 1918-10-24

l could not even find d splinter of the big round table. The next tune l sit under Il glass skylight in DiNmude, l want lad with a live eye for Zeppe- iins on guard outside.
 Something about the branch head quarters ruins made us think of break faSt, which Ne 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 siaht of me WAS so diStastefHl to anybody l would not take the chance of offend ing, being anxious to be polite in such cases So we stuck to the main road.
 Frita did not give uS any trouble and We Were hack ny 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 niNmude,-i saw many living men and women and ehil- dren who had been mutated by the Germans. but most If them were Uom- en and children. Almost every one ot the mutilated men WIS too old for military service. The others had been killed, l guess.
 But tho EeIgiaus were not the only ones who had suffered from German kultur Many French wounded were tortured by the Huns. aud Ne Were constantly finding the mufflated bodies of our troops. IL Wa> thought that tlie Germans utteu uuatatcd dead body as an eNampleto the living.
 9he Germans had absolutely Ho res srect whatever for tbe Red Cross. For instance, thet captured a=#acea tead- ed wi1h forty French wounded. and shot every one ot lhcn | >aW the dead bodies.
 When the Germans came te Dix nude ihey got all the men and women and children and made chem march before them with their hands h the air Those who did not were knocked down After while some of them saw what they were going to get and being as game sports as ever heard of, tried to fight They were finished off Tt once ef course.
 The former hurgomaSter had been shot and finished off with an aX. though he had not resisted. because he wanted to save the lives of his cit- zens They told me of one ease, in Dix nude. where Il man caHe out of his house, trying to carry h5s father. | man of eighty. to tho square. where they were ordered to report. Tbe=old nan could nat raise lis hands, VI thcy dragged his son away from him, knocked the ofd man in the head with an aN. and left him there to die. Those Who were spared were made to dis the graves for the others.
 There WIS doctor there in Dix nude. who certainly deserves q mit- tary cross f any man ever did. He was eafIed from hfs house hy tbe Ger mans 1T j -&u one morning He hett his wife, #ho had had haby two days before m the house. IIc#Wa~ taken to the square. lined up against wall with three other bis mgn et the town, l Then h. >a0 his wife and batY being carried to the square on mattress hy four Germans. He begged to be al- lowed to kiss his wife Eood-hy. and they granted him perutss l.n. A he stepped aWaS. there Was rattle and the other men went West They shot him, too, hut though he was riddled with bullets hr 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 yelled. Die Franzosen ' and dropped the mattress and ran. But it was only some of their own butchers at work.
 Doctor Laurent carried his wife and baby to an old aqueduct that was being rebuilt by the creek. There they lived for three days and three nights on the few herbs and the water that Doctor Laurent Sueaked out and got at night. Doctor Laurent says that when the Germans Killed and crucided the civil. tans at ptXmude they first robbed thcm Of their watches, pockotbooks. rings and other things There was Il Madame TtlmanS there who had had three thousand francs stolen from her and Wps misnsed besides.
 These were just q very few ef the thues that happened at lust onta t.uee where the Germans got to worh with Their "fultur' So#you can picture the Feleiaus agreeing on German peace. while there iS Belgian attyc tu argue #ahont it They W.H remember tAt. Ger maus long time. think EHr thcy need hot Narry. there are a lot =af us who "i.l uet forget. either.