THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. THIELT, 5/xii/14. (_Le Bien Public, 11th December, 1914._) BY ORDER OF THE MILITARY AUTHORITY. The inhabitants of Dieghem are strictly forbidden to assemble in groups. Moreover, the inhabitants are required to bring to the Secretariat, Chaussée d'Haecht 48, those persons whom they believe to be strangers to the commune, in order to verify their identity. THE BURGOMASTER, G. DE CONNICK. (_Posted at Dieghem, October 1914._) ON THE ORDER OF THE GERMAN MILITARY AUTHORITY. The Commissary of the Arrondissement of Verviers calls the attention of the communal administrations and the inhabitants of his jurisdiction to the following regulations:-- The severest penalties will be inflicted upon offenders: whosoever shall damage the roads, telephones, or telegraphs will be HANGED. The same penalty will be inflicted on every person in whose house arms, ammunitions, and explosives shall be found. The house in which these objects are discovered will be destroyed by fire, and all the men encountered on the premises will be HANGED. Rigorous penalties will be inflicted on localities in which roads, telephones, and telegraphs shall be damaged. For their own safety the inhabitants of communes are invited to make known to the commandants of _étapes_ those persons suspected of disobeying the present order or of opposing the measures taken. On the other hand, those communes which remain tranquil, and in which this order is strictly obeyed, will enjoy the full protection of the German Government. VON ROSENBERG, _Colonel commanding the 29th Brigade_. VERVIERS, _22nd August, 1914_. Those who are _believed_ to be strangers; those who are _suspected_ of acting contrary to orders ... it is a régime of organized suspicion, a reign of terror, informing erected into a governmental process.