Private S----, 1st Batt. Glosters:--On August 26th, first day of retreat from Fevrel, we were leaving the trenches, B. Co. covering us on the left. It was just where Captain S---- was shot. Private L----, who had been shot twice, was bayoneted when lying on the ground by two Germans. I and the whole Company saw it. (31) Private B----, West Yorks:--On September 20th, 300 Germans ran up with a German officer and white flag, surrendering. About a thousand Germans followed and captured our Company of about 220. They bayoneted Sergeant-Major A---- after surrender of the Company, and shot majority of the Company. I was only three yards from Sergeant-Major when it happened. I fell over a hedge into a stone quarry and escaped. Here it was that Major I---- was killed. Later the Durhams came up and we got off. (32) Private (Lance-Corporal) C----, 1st East Lancs:--About September 6th, Château de Perense, near Jouasse, Seine et Marne, about 700 Germans, coming out of a wood, dropped their rifles and held up their hands; whistle sounded “cease fire.” Two Companies sent up to accept surrender, and when within about ten yards the Germans ran back to the wood and their troops in wood opened fire on the two companies (_i.e._ on about 450 men). (33) Private C---- (the same):--Passed through a village recently occupied by drunken Germans. Women raving. Saw two women with bruised faces and black eyes. Lieut. M---- said they had attempted to resist outrage by Germans. (34) Private M----, Notts and Derby:--On September 20th (Sunday) in trenches on Aisne, seventy Germans came up with white flag; we let them come up and then went out to take them. They then opened fire just as their reinforcements came up, and killed many men of the West Yorks, Notts and Derby, and Durhams. (35) The same:--On the Monday morning we went out to find our wounded and discovered an English soldier with ten or fourteen bayonet wounds--there had been no bayonet fighting with the Germans. (36) Private H----, 2nd Batt. Duke of Wellington’s:--On September 8th and 9th, at Nogent-sur-le-Marne, advancing through the Forest of Crecy, heard on all sides stories of women outraged. I was told by Mme. S---- (Veuve) an elderly lady, who was the widow of an Englishman and spoke English, that an officer had outraged her servant in the house. The servant stood by crying as Mme. S---- told the story. Mme. S---- gave me her address--here it is in my pocket-book:--4 rue de Lafaulette, Nogent-sur-le-Marne. (37) J. B----, Despatch Rider, Signal Co. 1st Div. R.E.:--About September 16th, near Paissy. At a distance of about 300 yards we saw through our glasses one of our despatch-riders (A---- of Signal Co., R.E.), shot while riding his motor-cycle; he fell off, and while lying on ground was speared by three Uhlans, one after the other. Uhlans attempted to burn him with his own petrol, but made off when they saw us coming. We found his body half-burned when we reached it. (38)