Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-23

of them told me that by the shock of, those awful sixteen inch shells, ev- erybody was. feeling as if his brain was thrown away from his skull
 When his fort was blown up the com mander of the fort, of Lonoin had his ear drums burst and was burnt all over his body. Together with General Lamar he was lying unconscious un- der rubbish when they picked up and brought to the hospital as prisoners of war.
 The Treacherous Germans.
 The commander of the fort of Lo- noin told me how treacherously the Germans got the range of his fort Be- cause one day the Germans had fired without result, on Aug. 15 g German officer. bearer of a white flag, came fn order to induce the commander to surrender.
 The answer was what it had to be;
 plain refusal, After this officer had gone, shells began to be fired accu- rately, showing that the German gun hers, unable to aim at the forts they could notfsee. got the direction of their target from the sacred white flag ot truce. ee es .lt5Tc -ssr::f
 In the first days of the war the loss- 6, per cent. It is impossible to give an estimate.a of German losses, as they sent back to Germany many corpses by automobile trucks. German losses anyway, were very heavy on account of the Prussiana method of mass at tacl1s against our field and fort artil- lery and against our infan.rymen German soldiers were firing very in- accurately, the rifle being held at the hip, while our soldiers, knowing that l ammunition was limited, took. care | fu1 aim Sometimes our fsoldiers were utterly l tired of killing. know. that fact from a friend who was in command of .
 battery of field artillery located in the l interval between Evagnes and Fieron
 It is likely that casualties suffered b5 Germans amounted to 35,000 although
 it is impossible to tell exactly.
 German Behavior After Entering Liege. ] The first care of the Germans upo1 entering the city was to levy >st0, 900, 900 as contribution of war. Ordeal for the. inhabitants were only at thei very beginning. During the neigh
 between August 9th and 7th, unde false pretense thGt somebody had fir ed at the Germans. machine guns wer put in action in the very center .: tn city and several lots of houses wer burned. German soldiers had fo that purpose incendiary disks an
 made use of them generally after be ing intoxicated, so arson was tver frequent. Inhabitants of burning hous
 es were killed by machine guns bull
 lets when trying to escape. from thei
 dwellings. They had a choice be
 tween death from burns or from bull
 lets.
 ;l A monstrous specimen of arbitar
 cruelty in the proclamation pIacarde in the communes- of Beyne- -Heusa. Bois- -Breux, Grivegnes, in the vi cinity of 'Liege. September sth, 1S1
 Here is an extract:
 From the 7th of September I wi | permit the people of aforesaid com munes to go into their homes, To as , sure against abuse of this permission mayors of Beyne- Heus;iy and Grivee } nes must make a list immediately {
 people who will be held as hostage in the fort of Fleron. The lives of these hostages deepen upon the peaceable behavior of the 1T l habitants of these communes. :, Twill designate the people who al to be held from noon one day to noe } the next as hostages. If the sut stitution is@ not made in time the ho' Il tage will have to remain for anoth, 2 24 hours in the, fort. After expirs f tion of the extra 24 hours. the hostas