Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-01-03

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were In fragments.
Not much more than an hour before
the zepp came. We had been sitting In
n room nj the house OF the local mill
tary commnndant. right under Il big
glnss-done skyllght. This house vas
nov n very pretty ruin, and Il vas just
as we'll that we left when we did. You
could not even lind a splinter Of the
big round table. The next time I sit
under u glass skylight In Dlxmude, I
want a lad with n live eye for Zepre-
Inns on guard outside.
Something about the brunch hend-
quarters ruins made us think Of break.
fast, which we had forgotten, 80 back
20 the hotel. Then we started back to
our lines. We were ordered to keep
to the main road all the way bnck. or
we would be shot on sight. and to re-
port to headquarters Immediately on
our return. | thought II the sight Of
me was so distnsteful to anybody. I
would not take the chance Of offend.
Ing, being anxious to be polite In such
cases. So we stuck to the main rOad.
Fritz did not give us any trouble and
we were back by five. with all hands
out 10 greet us when We hove In sight,
and a regular prodlgal son welcome on
tap, for we were later than they had
expected us, and they had made up
their minds that some accident had
happened.
While / was around Dlxmude, I saw
many living men and women and chill
dren who had been mutilated by tho
Germans, but most OF them were wom-
en- and children. Almost every n
of the mutllated men was too old for
military service. The others had been
killed. l guess.
But the Belglnns were not the only
ones who had suffered from German
kultur. Mnny French wounded were
tortured by the Huns. and we were
constantly finding the mutllated bodies
Of our troops. II was thought that the
Germans often mutllated n dead body
MS an example to the living.
The Germans had absolutely no re-
spect whatever for the Red Cross. For
instance, they captured n wagon lond-
ed with forty French wounded. and
shot every one of them. | saw the
dead bodies.
When the Germans came to Dix
nude they got all the men and women
and children and made them march
before them with their hands In the
air. Those who did not were knocked
down. After n while some of them saw
what they were going to get, and being
as game sports us | ever heard OF, tried
to fight. They were finished of ut
once. Of course.
The former "burgomaster hnd been
shot and finished of with m ax.
though he hud not resisted, because he
wanted to save the lives OF his clti-
zens. They told me of n case, In Dix
nude, where Il man came out Of his
house, trying TO carry his father, a
man OF eighty, TO the squire, where
they were ordered to report. The old
man could not rnise his hands. so they
dragged his son away from him,
Knocked the old man In the head with
an nx, and left him there to die, Those
who were spared were made 10 dig the
graves for the others.
There was n doctor there in Dix
nude. who certainly deserves a mill
tary cross II any man ever did. HC
was called from his house by the Ger
mans at o 80 one morning. lie left his
wife. who had had a baby two dnyi
before. I'm the house. He was taken tC
the square, lined up against II wal
with three other big men Of the town.
Then he saw his wife aud baby belEl
carried to the square on Il mattress by
four Germans. He begged to be al
lowed TO kiss his wife good-by, ant
they granted him permission. As h'
stepped AWAY, there was Il rattle and
the other men went West. They sho'
him, too, but though he was rlddleC
with bullets he lived. somehow, anC
begged the German officer TO let hin
accompany his wife to the prlsol
where they were taking her. This wal
granted too, but on the way, the!
heard the sound Of firing. The soldier
yelled, die F%rnnzOsen :" ana dropped
the mattress and ran. But II was onl.
some Of their W butchers at work.
Doctor Laurent carried his wife ant
baby TO an old aqueduct that was belnI
rebuilt by the creek. There they llve'
for three days and three nights, on tn
few herbs and the winter that Docto
Laurent snenked M and got mt night
Doctor Laurent snys that when tn
Germnns killed and cruclhed the civil
lans at Dlxmude, they first rohbel
them OF their witches, p%ocketbooks
rings and other things. There was