Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1918-01-21


At Marcinelle, on Aug p. a party Of
uhlans were seen driving a body oil
nifty or sixty civilians before them
One old man, exhausted. was forced
along by blows At Couillet four civil
uans over sixty years old were killed
and eirhteen altogether on Aug. .
the day the Germans entered Coulllet
YOUNG man returning home In the
even ns found his fathe~. his mother
ard his nephew Ia child lying dead
in the horse MY fathers body had
eight bullet wounds in H. Of which
three were In the head and five in the
body Ny mothers body had five bullet
wounds in q. one IN the temple. one
in the back Of the skull, and three in
the back. My nephew had been killed
by a bayonet or sword-there were four
wounds in the head and one in the
stomach. There were twenty-seven bot
Ties lying in the room, al of which
were empty except one These bottles
had contained red wine" The father
had been killed by eight German ar
tillery officers because he had no bread
IN tho house. They had killed the moth
er after she had brought them the
wine. A few minutes later other Ger
mans broke into the house, carried of
the young man 10 Charleroi, and sent
him with nifty other Belgian civilians
in cattle-trucks 60 AiX-la-Chapelle
Here. after twelve days, a Bavarian
soldier helped him to escape When he
returned to Couillet he found that his
house had been burnt.
other German troops advanced
through Boignee, where they shot a
woman IN a field, and Pironchamps,
where they murdered four civilians,
including a man Of sixty and a girl OF
fifteen. At Gilly they murdered six civil
lians Two women were thrown into Q
cistern, and a bakers wife had her jaw
shattered by a bullet as she was stand
ing in her shop Twenty-three civilians
were killed az Farclennes. on the SAM
bre. Three Of them were over sixty
years old three were child~en-One i've
months old and In its mothers arms.
AT Chstelet a proclamat on. signed by
Baron Won Maltzahn. Commandant or
dered every inhabitant having in his
house a French or BelSan soldier.
wounded or not, 10 notify the same at
the Hotel-de-Ville, on penalty Of being
hanred himself and having his house
burnt down.
The Germans marched into Montirny-
sur Sambre on Aug. % First states
a BELGIAN witness, "came the cycl SIS
about twenty: then about nifty infan-
try then a good humid ed Belgian host
ages collected from the nelrhborng vii
lagos. two or three Of whom 1 knew
personally--one +. a priest. and an
other priest whose name do not know;
then more cycl' then more infantry
Then followed nearly three hundred
HOSTAGES. generally five In row,
THOUGH sometimes only four. There
was large new rope round them. and
the front, rear, and outside men had to
hold It in their hands They were es-
co~ted by soldiers with fixed bayonets
"A detachment halted in the street
and nut down their arms The Belgians
gave them everything they wanted
food. clears soar towels ! think-so
that they might have no harm done 70
them o. their houses and shops.
At this moment the French troops
holding the crossing Of the river opened
fire on the Ciermans with two machine
guns posted outside the town 1.-The in
slant the French fred" continues the
BELGIAN witness "the Germans set fire
TO houses an along the main street,
believe the total number was 1871 They
chased an the inhabitants out, saying
that there were French soldiers there.
There were no soldiers there and they
did not find a single one
"An these houses were totally des-
troyed The street opens out into o
circular place There they burned every
house except three, one OF the inhabi-
tants OF which spoke German and asked
them not TO- They each carried a little
bag containing pellets Of an explosive
nature They were q regular corps of
incendiaries, and each OF them he'd the
word Gibraltar on the left arm Of his
tunic There We're others who set fire
TO houses with petrol. but the regular
incendiaries used these explosive pei
lets. They were thrown in in handluls
and made the fire burn very iercely.
about 1915 p m. about 200 hostages
passed At about the same time they put
about nfty men, women and children
on the bridge over the Sambre. and
kept them there tin a. m The 200
hostages I saw at 1890 were from Mon
tgny Itself.
ION Saturday night Aug 22l many Of
The Germans were drunk The whole
town was full Of Them a school
prepared for Red Cross work, with beds
all ready but not yet occupied by
wounded, was burnt 10 was large
building belonging 20 the Christian
Brothers Four OF the latter were
among the hostages saw at 1890 m
and were very badly treated An officer,