The Carlisle independent., 1918-09-12

were allowed to think that the white flag would be respected. but no sooner were they all out than they were seized
 and the women publicly violated in the
 square after which the men were shot 4 paralytic was shot as he sat in his armchair, and boy of fourteen was
 taken by the legs and pulled apart. At one place. a man was tied by the arms to the ceiling of his room and set afre. His trunk was completely car. bonized. but his head and arms were unburned. At the same place, the body of a ffteen-year-old boy was found, pierced by more than twenty bayonet thrusts. Other dead were found with their hands still in the air leaning up against walls.
 At another place the Germans shelled the town for day and then entered and sacked it. The women i and children were turned loose. with out being allowed to take anything with them. and forced to leave the town. Nearly five hundred men were
 deported 10 Germany. Three, who were almost exhausted by hunger, tried 10 escape. They were bayoneted and clubbed 10 death. Twelve men. who had&aken refuge in farm, were tied together and shot in a mass. Another group of six were tied together and shot, after the Germans had put out their eyes and tortured them with bayonets. Three others were brought before their wives and children and sabered
 The Belgian told me he was at Ma. mur when the Germans began smelling it. The bombardment lasted the whole of August q and %, 1914. They cen. tered their fire on the prison, the hos pital. and the railway station They entered the town ar four o'clock in the afternoon of August g. During the first twenty-four hours. they behaved themselves. but on the 24th they began firing al anyone they pleased, and set fire 70 different houses on five of the principal squares.
 Then they ordered every one to leave his house. and those who did not were shot. The others. about four hundred in all. were drawn up in front of the church, close to the river bank. The Belgian said he could never forget how they all looked.
 T can remember just how it was he said. There were eight men. whom I knew very well. standing in a TOW with several priests. Next came two good friends of mine named Balbau and Guillaume, with Balbau's seven teen-year-old son: then two men who had taken refuge in 6 barn and hao been discovered and blinded; then two other men whom I had never seen be fore.
 Tt was awful to see the way the women were crying-'Shoot me too shoot me with my husband"
 "The men were lined up on the edge of the hollow, which runs from the high road to the bottom of the village One of them was leaning on the shoul. ders of an old priest. and he was cry. ing. I am 100 young-I can't face death bravely'
 'I couldn't bear the sight any longer I cred my eyes. I heard the volley an6 the bodies falling. Then some one cried, Look, they're all down. But a few escaped
 This Belgian had escaped by hiding he could not remember how many days-in an old cart filled with manure and rubbish. He had chewed old hides l for food. had swan across the river and hid in a mud bank for almost g l week longer. and finally got to France |
 He took il very hard when we talked about Dixmude. and I told him that the old church was just shot to pieces l He asked about q painting called the Elaboration of the Magi." ana one o1 | the other prisoners told us it had been | saved and transported to Germany. Ii | that is true. and they do not destroy | it meanwhile, we will get it back, don't | worry.
 My wound was just clean gunshot wound and not very serious, so. al though it was not completely healed | they let me go after three weeks. But | before I went, I saw something that no man of US will ever forget. Some of them took vows just like the men of the legion have told about.
 One Of the patients was a German doctor. who had been picked up in No Mans Land, very seriously wounded He was given the same treatment as any of Us, that is. the very best. but finally. the doctors gave him up. They thought he would die slowly, and that it might take several weeks.
 But there was a nurse there, who took special interest in his case, and she stayed up day and night for some time and finally brought him through. The case was very well known, and everybody said she had performed He got better slowly.
 Then q few weeks later, when he was out Of danger and was able to