France. Armée. Légion étrangère; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
It is a record of robbery, rape, repression and murder that will taint
the German blood for generations, from Prince Eitel Fritz, the son of
the Kaiser, who looted the Chateau Brierry Avocourt, down to the under
officers, who searched private residences, which, open to the captors,
it was forbidden to lock. It is a record of shame and dishonor, of
brutal force, without a saving element of mercy. They struck their
helpless victims singly, in groups, in hecatombs.
Individually, they followed the systematic teaching of organized
butchery. The world knows about the murder of Miss Cavell, the Red Cross
nurse; of Eugene Jacquet, the Freemason; of Captain Fryatt, the civilian
sea-captain. This little book records the death of many others, innocent
martyrs to the same glorious cause.
At Foret the public school teacher refused to tread the French flag
underfoot and was shot.
At Schaffen, A Willem was burned alive, two others were interred alive.
Madame Luykx and daughter, twelve years of age, refuging together in a
cave, were shot. J. Reynolds and his nephew of ten years were shot, out
in the street.
At Sompius, an old man, Jacquimin, 70 years of age, was tied to his bed
by an officer and left there three days. He died shortly after his
deliverance.
At Monceau-Sur-Sambre they shut up the two brothers S. in a shed and
burned them alive.
At Momemy, M. Adam was thrown alive into the fire, then shot at with
rifles and Mme. Cousine, after being shot, was thrown into the fire and
roasted.
At Maixe, M. Demange, wounded in both knees, fell helpless in his house,
and they set fire to it.
At Triancourt, Mme. Maupoix, 75 years old, was kicked to death because
not enough loot was found in her closet.
At Conis, Madame Dalissier, 73 years, who declared she had no money, was
shot through the body fifteen times.
At Rouyes, a farmer refused to tell where he got some French military
clothes. An officer shot him twice.
At Crezancy, M. Le Saint, 18 years of age, was killed by an officer
because some day he would be a soldier.
At Embermenil, Mme. Masson was shot because her servant, an idiot, gave
a wrong direction. The madame, pregnant, was made to sit on a chair
while they executed her.
At Ethe one hundred and ninety-seven were executed, among them two
priests, who were shot because they were accused of hiding arms.
At Marqueglise, a superior officer stopped four young boys, and, saying
that the Belgians were dirty people, he shot each one in succession. One
was killed outright.
At Pin, the Uhlans met two young boys, whom they tied to their horses,
then urged them to a gallop. Some kilometers away, the bodies were
found, the skin worn away from the knees, one with throat cut, both with
many bullet holes through the head.
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