Evening journal., 1918-02-15

Beyond Gerbeviller. at Moyen, they
carried away captive 60 Germany the
cure and the mayor. AT Magnieres. too,
The mayor was carried away, q number
0f houses were burnt, and a Bavarian
soldier violated a girl Of ~ At Xaffevil-
lers, In the Department Of the N0sges.
civilians were used as a screen. The
place was pillaged, and woman of
IS was violated DOncleres was pillaged.
and here a man OF "a, was shot and q
houses burnt AZ Nossbncourt 20 houses
were burnt and i6 inhabitants carried
away 10 Germany, OF whom died in
exile. At Nlenil-sur-Belvitte 80 houses
were burnt, an old man OF sixiy-one
was used as a screen, and 3 others were
shot At st. Barbe i0i houses were
burnt. after being pillaged, ont Of
about i50 and In one Of them a woman
" SO was burnt alive. The schOOlmas-
ter protested 10 the Bavarian command
ant that civilians had not been firing.
but the commandant would not listen.
and the burning went on-"a horrible
sight," as a private Of the 10th Regi-
ment wrote in his diary on Aug. 26
In the Vosges.
These places lay between the Meurthe
and the Mortagne. but other columns
ravaged the district between the
Meurthe and the Nezouse and pressed
up the Meurthe into the Nosges TO join
hands. II they could. with German
forces operating from Alsace.
AZ Baccarat, In the Department ~ the
Meurthe and Moselle, the Bavarians con
Quoted systematic pillage under the di-
rection Of their officers, and burned over
100 houses-ii2 were destroyed alto
gether, and only or Of them by
shells. These pigs Of Bavarians again"
said the Badeners who followed the
Bavarians into the town. 1--WE are not
the same race Yet 10 was a Badener
General Of Artillery who remarked to
an inhabitant: IL never thought you
had so much fine wine at Baccarat; we
have taken more than 10000 bottles.
At Domevre 1876 houses were burnt. a
hoy OF II was shot at and died Of his
wounds. and two other inhabitants
were shot, one OF them being - years
I'D. AZ Blamont, when the Germans
marched in on Aug. g. they shot a girl
working in the fields on Aug. i2 they
shot an ex-mayOr 50 years old ON Aug.
g they dragged on the mayor and
rround that there had been firing by
civilians: they kept their victims walt
ing In agony for a quarter Of an hour,
then the cafe proprietor was shot and
the mayor set free.
"Parux." writes a Bavarian dlarlst
on Aug. 10. was the first village burnt:
then we let go, and one village after
another went UP In flames. We cycled
across country till we came 20 some
road-ditches, where we ate cherries"
During the night Of Aug 1919" an
other dlarlst writes, the village Of ST.
Maurice was burnt 20 the ground by the
9th and 18th Lsndwehr as a punish
ment for having fired on German
troops. The village was surrounded
me man TO every yard-sO that no one
could get out. Then the Uhlans set fire
10 10, house by house Neither m3u.
woman, nor child was 90 escape only
most OF the live stock was carried of.
as that could be used. Anyone who
Nentured out was shot down. AT the i'm
habitants left In the village were burnt
With their houses
The conduct or the Bavarians at Ba
donviller is summarized by the French
Commission In their Fifth Report
"On Aug. ~, 1914, the 2d. 5th, 18TH and
10th Infantry Regiments entered Bad0n-a
viller, after hard fighting In the out
skirts. Their first act was TO Kill an In
offensive landowner. NJ. Marchal aged
G6. who was sitting quietly In front OF
his door.
soon afterwards an action which be
gan outside the town was carried into
The streets, where a handful Of French
riflemen were making a stand. and the
latter being forced to retreat, fired,
while still within range, on columns
which were coming up Go reinforce the
enemy. Infuriated by this firing, the
Germans alleged as usual, that civi-
lians had taken part In Il, and the or
der was given 90 ravage BadOnviller
with fire and sword. Captain Baumann,
~ the 18th REGIMENT showed himself
particularly dangerous. In order TO
1ulet him, NJ Benoit. ne mayor par
Ieved with him as best Ne could, assur-
'ng him that none OF his fellow-towns-
men had opened fire The officer then
ordered him 90 follow him through the
streets and have all doors and windows
thrown open. To make sure that, I'm so
far as his own house was concerned
the order should be carried out, the
mayor sent home his wife, who was
with her parents. Then he went to in
ierview the enemy general, to plead the
cause Of his townspeople. and to ask
that a stop should be put TO the acts
~ violence and arson that were already
beginning. The generals only reply was
10 allow a respite Of 20 minutes, before
The expiration Of which all the French
soldiers who had taken refuge in Ba-
donviller were TO be handed over, ana
AN the men TO assemble In front OF the
iown-hal. NJ. Benoit hastened 70 take
fhe necessary steps for collecting his
feHow-cihzens While thus employed he
vas passing his house, when an officer