6. _Marshal von der Goltz_, military governor of Belgium. In a notice signed by him and posted up on the 5th October, 1914, at Brussels, the marshal decreed the penalty of death against the inhabitants, whether guilty or not, in places near which the telegraph wires had been cut or the railway destroyed. 7. _General von Bülow_, commander-in-chief of the Second German army. This general ordered the first bombardment of Reims: on the 22nd August, after the sack of Ardennes, he had the following notice posted up: “It was with my consent that the general-in-chief had the whole locality burnt and that about a hundred persons were shot.” On the 25th August, at Namur, another proclamation from his hand read as follows: “Belgian and French soldiers must be given up as prisoners of war before four o’clock, before the prison. Citizens who do not obey will be sentenced to forced labour for life in Germany. A strict inspection of houses will begin at four o’clock. _Every soldier found will be immediately shot._ Arms, powder, dynamite, must be given up at four o’clock. _The penalty for default will be a fusillade_. All the streets will be occupied by a German guard, who will take ten hostages in every street. _If any outbreak takes place in the street, the ten hostages will be shot._” 8. The Austrian _General Horschstein_, commander of the 6th army corps operating against the Serbians. He is the author of the following order, issued on the 14th August at Rouma: “Seeing the hostile attitude of the inhabitants of Klenak and Chabatz, we must, in all Serbian localities which have either been occupied or will be occupied, take hostages who will be kept close to our troops. _In cases where the inhabitants commit any offence, or make any attack, or are guilty of any treachery, the hostages will immediately be put to death and the locality ravaged by fire. The headquarters staff alone has the right to fire any locality situate in our territory._ This order will be published by the civil authorities.” 9. _General Heeringen_, commander of the German army of Champagne. He continued the bombardment of Reims, and was the cause of the destruction of the cathedral. 10. _General Klauss_, was the cause of the butcheries at Gerbeviller and Traimbois. 11. _General Forbender_, the author of the monstrous and inhuman proclamation by which Lunéville found itself mulcted in taxes. 12 and 13. _General Durach_ and the _Prince of Wittenstein_, commanders of the Wurtemburg troops and Uhlans during the burning of Clermont in Argonne. 14. The Baden _General Fabricius_. He emptied the cellars of Baccarat. 15. _General de Seydewitz._ He was present, and did not interfere to prevent it, at the pillage of Châlons-sur-Marne, ordered by one of his subalterns.