Evening journal., 1918-01-19

Therein Are Compiled from
AT Monceau," as a German diarist
describes it, when our work was
done, we assembled outside the town.
where the whole population had been
gathered together for sentence, and all
those who were found with weapons
in their possession lsicl were shot.
The remainder, including the Burgo-
master. and numbering several hundred
altOgether, were driven before the Ger
mans IS screen in their advance
across the Ssmbre. "rhe soldiers
states one Of these p~'soners. STRUCK
us with their rine-h 1 and buyonets
The Uhlans rode US VI and struck
us with their lances saw one man
whose whole body wae slashed by
stabs from the lance We were driven
up the Rue de Trazegnies In the middle
Of the flames. The houses on either side
Of the street were burning At the
FIRST halting place ilVe of the prisoners
were singled out and shot I'VE heard
the reports, and the flring-party re-
turned to continue their meal Others
were playing gramophQnes and accor-
dions taken from the pilaged houses.
We were then placed In ranks
Of four, followed by eignr soldiers with
loaded rifles We were warned that II
q single shot were fred by civilians
OF soldiers, we should all be shot.
"When we were approaching the
railway station at Marchienne-au-Pont.
the soldiers saw several civilians in The
street and fired at them, happily with
out result We continued on our way
In the middle Of the flames. from time
10 time we had TO turn aside to avoid
the corpses Of civilians and horses ly-
ing in the streets" Twenty-four civil
lians were massacred at Marchienne
one of them was an old woman OF "a,
and another a girl Of ~. who had cried
."Vive rAngleterre.' mistakine the Ger
mans for British troops This girls
body was seen two days later lying in
a neld 1T was quite naked, and The
breast was cut and covered with
blood"
AT last" continues the witness, 1--WE
arrived at Montigny- y-le-Tilleul. where
we were shut up for the night In "a
small barn About 0fty people from
Montigny-young men, old men, women,
and babies in arms-were crowded In
there as well We were so crowded
that we could not move. The heat was
lntolerable
Five more Of the prisoners from Mon
ceau were shot that night, and two
inhabitants of Montigny were shot as
we'll But next morning the prisoners
from Montigny were released, and only
those from Monceau were driven on
against the French positions at Gozee,
which the Germans were marching TO
attack "All the big farms in the dis
trlct OF Gozee and Thuillies were pill
laged. and the nne horses carried
away"
Meanwhile. further east. other
columns Of Won Bulow's were marching
on Charleroi. At G0sselios they seized
thirty civilians and drove them forward
10 Jumet "The Germans entered Ju-
met" states a witness, on Aus. %. I
saw mem driving before them, TO a
place where French troops were en-
trenched, about 100 Belgian civilians, in
cluding some persons knew There
were several women among them, and
I noticed one child. The French fired
on them, but none were killed IT,
civilians were kept in fine in front @
the Germans by cavalry on either sid
Of them. When the French began O.
FIRE, the Germans fired on the civilian
who were at hand and killed severa
! was fired on, but not hit TIE &c.
mans fired into the houses on eithl
side Of the road" Ten civilians wei
killed at Jumet. AT a house close z
mine,' continues the witness, "ile Ge
mans banged on the door, and when m
neighbor opened 10 90 them he was sho
IN the face and killed" but the wors
violences were committed again
women. One woman was driven al0n
with blows from rifle-butts ana add7
with other women and children froI
Jumet to the screen Another hidng
her cellar. was wounded by eight hul
lets and died in hospital Another. bid
ing 10 an oven, was wounded, and die
the following day Another woman wa
wounded In the nose another In Oh
back, another In the knee. another %
the face. Six women testified 20 hayin
been shot at and wounded by the Ger.
mans without proyOcation In one
house at Jumet, on the BrusseIs road
i've women were living-the yOunge
sixteen, the eldest siXty-eight "Th
Germans put US in a field they state
where they bound us 20 five mel
They told us that we should be shot
We remained there apout twent.
minutes. During this time the soldier
kept levelling their riues at us anl
threatening us with their bayonets"
ADV ancing from Jumet to Lodellnsart
the Germans were received by FrencI
machine-gun FIRE and ran amok A
Lodelinsart twenty-four civilians wer,
killed u saw there states the las
witness, "the dead bodies OF two youn
men. They had been shot The neigh