The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04

MeSsrs. GuStave and Leon Nicaise, two very old men; Jules MOnin and others all shot in the cellar of their brewery; Mir. Camille Pistte and son, aged seventeen; Phillippart Piedfort. his wife and daughter; Miss Marsig- ny. During the execution of about forty inhabitants of Dinant the Ger mans placed before the condemned their wives and children. It Is thus that Madam Albin who had just given birth to child, three days previously was brought on d mattress by German soldiers to witness the execution of her husband; her cries and supplica- tions were so pressing that her hus- bands life was spared
 "On the 26th of August German sol diers entered various streets (Of Lou vain) and ordered the inhabitants of the houses to proceed to the Place de la Station, where the bodies of nearly q dozen assassinated persons were ly- ing. Women and children were Sepa- rated from the men and forced to re- main on the Place de Ia Station dur Ing the whole day. They had to wit ness the execution of many of their fellow citizens, who were for the most part shot at the side of the square, near the house of Mir. Hemaide. The women and children, after having re- mained on the square for more th0n 1l hours, were allowed to depart. The GardeS Civiques of LOuvain were also taken prisoners and sent to Germany to the camp of Munster. where they were held for several weeks. "On Thursday, August ?, order was given to the inhabitants to leave Lou vain because the city was to be bonn barded. old men, women. children, the sick, priests, nuns, were driven on the roads like cattle. More than 1O- 900 of the inhabitants were driven as far as Tirlemont, nearly 12 miles from LOuvain.
 Infants Shot in Mothers Arms.
 One of the most SOrely tried com munities was that of the little village of TalnlneS, down in what is known as the Borinage, the coal fields near ! CharlerOi. Tamnes is a mining vil- luge in the SaInbre; it is collection of small cottages shetering about B. 900 inhabitants, mostly all poor labor CTS.
 "The little graveyard in which the i church stands bears it's mute testi- | mony to the horror of the event. There are hundreds of new-made graves, each with SpnOlI yvOoHnp and 1 bit of flowers the crosses are so close 1 ly huddled that there Is scarcely room to walk between them. The crosses are alike and all bear the same date, the sinister date of August 9, 1914"
 But whether their hands were cut off or not, whether they were impaIed on bayOnets or not, children were shot down, by military order, in cold blood.
 In the awful crime of the Rock of Bay ard, there overlooking the Mouse be- l low Dinant, infants in their mothers arms were shot down without mercy. The deed, never surpassed in cruelty l by any band of savages, is described by the bishop of Namur himself: "'One scene surpasses in horror all others; it is the fusillade of the 1 RQCher Bayard near Dinant. It ap- l pears to have been ordered by Colonel Meister. This fusillade made many victims among the nearby parishes. 1 especially those of des Rivages and 1 Netfe. It caused the death of nearly i 90 persons without distinction of age or sex. Among the victims were ba- | bies in arms, boys and girls, fathers and mothers of families, even old men.
 Dead Children in Pile of Bodies. "'It was there that F children under the age of six perished from the fire of the executiOners, six of them as they lay in their mothers arms:
 1.-The child Fievet, three weeks old. Maurice Betems, eleven months old.
 "'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old. "'Gilda GenOn, eighteen months old. "'Gilda Marchot, two years old.
 "'Clara Struvay, two years and six months.
 "'The pile of bodies comprised also many children rom SIX 10 TOurteen years. Eight large families have en- tirely disappeared. Four have but one survivor. Those men that escaped death-and many of whom were rid dled with bullets-were obliged to bury in summary and nasty fashion their fathers, mothers, brothers or sis ters; then after having been relieved
 of their money and being placed in
 chains they were sent to Cassel (Prus-
 sia).'"
 MT. Hugh Gibson, the secretary of
 our legation in Belgium, visited Lou
 vain during It's systematic destruction
 by the Germans. In "A Journal From
 Our Legation in Belgium" New York,
 1917, pages 164-165, he relates what
 the German officers told him:
 "1t was story of clearing out civil
 fans from large part of the town,
 systematic routing out of men from
 cellars and garrets, wholesale shoot