The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-01-11

Aug 24th- In every village one mas
only heaps Of ruins and many dead
From the dairy Of Maibern, Fourth
Co., Eleventh. lager Battalion, Mar
burgJ
"A shell burst near the 1lth Com
pany. and wounded seven men, three
very seriously. At five o'clock we were
ordered By the officer in command OF
the regiment TO shoot all the male In
habitants OF Nomeny, because the
population was foolishly attempting to
stay the advance OF the German troops
by force Of arms. We broke into the
houses, and seized all who resisted, in
order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had not
been already destroyed by the French
artillery and our own were set on fire
by US, so that nearly the whole town
was reduced to ashes. II is terrible
sight to see helpless women and chill
dren utterly destitute, herded together
and driven into France" From the
dairy OF Private Fischer, Eighth Ba-
varian Regiment of Infantry. 33rd Re-
serve Division.)
Other German soldiers. too, We are
glad to see, show their horror at the
foul deeds.
THE inhabitants have fled in the
village 1t was horrible. There was
clotted blood on all the boards. and
what faces one saw, terrible to behold.
The dead, sixty in all. were at once
buried. Among them were many old
women. some old men. and half de-
livered woman, awful to see; three
children had clasped each other, and
died thus. The altar and the vaults OF
the church are shattered. They had a
telephone there to communicate with
the enemy. This morning, September
2, all the survivors were expelled, and
I saw four little boys carrying a era
die with baby five or six months old
In 1t. on two sticks. All this was terri
BILE to see. Shot after shot. Thuderboit
after thunderbolt, Everything given to
pillage; fowls and the rest all killed.
dren; one had a great wound on the
head and had lost an eye" (From the
dairy OF Lance-Corporal Paul Spiel
man, of the Ersatz, First Brigade OF
Infantry of the Guard.)
In the night the inhabitants of Liege
became mutinous. Forty persons were
shot and Is houses demolished, 10 SOL
diers shot. The sights here make you
cry.
"On the 23rd OF August. Everything
quiet. The inhabitants have SO far CIV
en- in. Seventy students were shot. 200
kept prisoners. Inhabitants returning
to Liege.
Aug. oath. At noon with sc men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty Is Al. no post
allocated to me. Our occupation. apart
from bathing, Is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium" From
the dairy of job. van der School, re-
servist OF the Tenth Company, 18th
Reserve Infantry Regiment, 7th Army
Corps.l
August 18th. In the afternoon l had
look at the little chateau belonging
to one of the kings secretaries mot
at home.) Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first, and then they had turned
their attention to the bed rooms and
thrown things about all over the place.
They had even made fruitless efforts
to smash the safe open. Everything
was neutrality-suspicious. furniture
with silks and even China That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
requisition for themselves. l am sure
they must have taken away heap Of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure
OF looting."
Aug. 23rd.- Our men came back