The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-07-11
CHAPTER II.

~.nt to Aix-la- Chappelle to a hos
mi met many more wounded men
a had fought in Belgium. All were
/ ~ opinion that the Belgian dead
r..hered as many civilians as SOL
-. Even if the German soldiers
~ sought in Belgium do not admit
cruelties committed against the
I.l.;ans. it cannot be denied that at
A 80 per cent Of the cruelties
I.mn to the world to have been COM
[.Aed In Belgium We're only too true.
young soldier who lay next to me
!. ne hospital told me that his COM
m during a street fight In Liege,
q given orders to kill everybody
,s,out discrimination. SystematicM-
! eue house after another was set on
The inhabitants either fell in the
..es or became the victims In the
nets to the gun barrels of the Ger
- kultur-bearers.
Il The time | doubted the words of
!, peighbOr, even though l had seen
~ German warfare meant. After
~ DAYS l was released from the
,aatal and again restored to my de-
Ament. Partly by auto, partly by
n reached my detachment by ten
.deck In the evening. Our transport
mel this time over Trier to Luxem-
= The little grand duchy of Lux
uhurx was overrun entirely by Ger
. soldiers. The Germans who had
y their homes in Luxembourg had
4ything taken away from them, es-
Tally The farmers, all food, without
nsrght Of payment, SO that in Luxem-
n at this time there was shortage
fcod. The people here as well as
Belgium were very friendly, yet they
rbered terrible bitterness against
y German government, which had
I'D It's troops like band of robbers
70 munierers over their peaceful
smtry.
Belgium aud Luxembourg, the two
n unhappy victims of the damnable
fman politics and its drunkenness
D power:
That the Luxembourg citizens detest-
Germany an incident showed me
ieh happened in the village Of Mar
Hh. We were in friendly CONVEX
Non with Luxembourg farmer. Two
Nrs approached and listened. One
o0r, captain, asked the LuXem-
Her .Wilat do you think of the
d, md OF tie quickness of Germany?
Ne Is OILY one Germany. isn't
ae?'
les replied the farmer. THANK
y Lprd."
Tor those four words the farmer
~ arrested at once and transported
suefltaay as court prisoner. |
ND never learn what became of
ii
me ss,nle evening we were trans
wed in automobiles and on the eve
rs u August 20, 1914, we reached
Y detachment, which was about 30
3es from the Belgian city of Neuve
1ieau. The regiment to which be-
nsed did not take part in any opera
y after the fall Of Liege, but was
nT0rted to this part of Belgium.
y ] learn for the first time how
" was the loss in my company In
Lsess n.hting. We lost lSI me.i IN
ant wounded.
ms night we slept in an open field.
I'VE O'Clock the next morning we
thed again until four o'clock In
afternoon, when we were given q
was about ten O'Clock in the eve.
= when we received orders to adj
e. Weswere all ready to proceed
9 another order came for us to re-
9 q our bivouac overnight. Dur
ne night we heard laundering OF
aon which became more violent
oettle Of Neuve Chateau, which
continued from August % to Au'
4 1914. had begun.
l0ur o'clock on the morning OF
~ We resumed our march. Al
Chateau the French army had
aiered the Fourth German army
aere was, as always, minor out
ad patrol fighting. BY and by
masses of troops participated
y We took our part in the battle
evening of August %, the figh'
seioped into one of the mosl
AIRY of the world war.
"a We arrived the French occu
aost three-quarters of the town
ssery had set. the main part Of
Shateau on fire and only tht
y residence section in the west
g OF the city escaped at tina,
All night long the house-to
hting continued, but when a
august % the city was In Ger
mos the enormous cost to til,
could finally be determined.
ees, cellars, streets and side
we're leaped with dead ant
The houses were in ruins
siis. In which hardly anything
undamaged that was of an,
thousands became beg
=. sae terrible night. Women ant
sauiers and citizens were ly
The pitiless shells and bul
- hurled them from life int
fk void. True impartialit.
y the killing. There was
oaian lying next to Il Belgian