Newport daily independent., 1918-01-07

or nell. The mother Shrleked and moaned, and moaned and shieked, but could not make a move forward to save her first-born from it's terrible fate, as she, too, was held firmly by two German soldiers.
 That was not all The mothers dress had been torn almost entircly / from her body and her naked body exposed. Lust gleamed in the eyes of the Germans as they carried her into the room back of the shop. Her husband raved like mad man, but was powerless. The soldiers went in- to the room one after another. Two men with rifles and lances stood out side the shop and threatened with death any or all of the villagers who came within the sound of their voices. But no one came to the rescue. The villagers were unarmed, cowed, yet a few concealed back of the shop heard and comprehended
 The ordeal of the mother ended with her death. She was then drag ged out of the room at the back of the shop and her body hung by her breasts, was suspended beside the quarters of her child.
 The father was now insane. The lieutenant said to him: "Now, you have fresh meat Let this be lesson to all such dogs as you.' Ct was a lesson-a lesson in German.)
 The lieutenant gave another order. The father was shot dead with re- volver. His body, head down, was hung upon the meat hooks, and there the Germans left them, to further terrorize the villagers in their cam paign of frightfulness.
 On the next day a force of the French army, some 5000 strong, returned to the village of--- and among the sights shown them by the inhabitants were the bodies of the butcher, his wife and their child, still hanging from the hooks in the little blood-bespattered shop. The depositions of villagers and suffi- cient number of French soldiers were taken and are now in the archives at Paris. The incident was narrated to me by a Belgian officer who heard the Story first-hand from a number of French officers who beheld the bodies on the hooks, just as they were left by the Germans, who, before their de- parture, threatened that any of the inhabitants of the village who remov- ed the "fresh meat" should suffer the same fate.
 q personally saw" said the Bel gian, ''the remains of Q burned house in-- and the charred bodies of two French soldiers who had been incinerated in it. What I was told is this: "In the fighting at
 two wounded French soldiers were left behind after furious charge by an overwhelming German force. The Germans then set about destroying the town. They poured petroleum up- on the more inflammable buildings, for in those early days of the war the Germans had no thought of saving petroleum, and set these houses on fire. The wounded Frenchmen were soon discovered in the hiding place to which they had crept and were thrown into the flames of one of the houses. They were burned alive, but the flames left enough of their uni forms to identify them as French sol diers. Dispositions were also taken in ithi, sse and are in the French ar chives. g@,
 sI will tell you of another Incident the truth of which was vouched for tc me by persons know. Before tht war custom existed whereby "a Bel gian boy was taken into Gegmar family which had bey child of about the same age, and the German chlle was taken by the Belgian family, the exchange being made for the purpose of teaching each child the language of the other nation. In this particu- lar case which am about to tell you Belgian family had German boy in their keeping, their own boy being in the houshold of the German par ents of the boy who was in their care When the war was precipitated the Belgians supplied the German boy with a new outfit of clothing, bought railway ticket for him to the towf where his parents lived, supplied hin with enough food for the journey and sent him off with a note to his