In the hamlet of _Fécher_ the whole population--about 1,000 women, children and men--was penned into the church on Aug. 5th, and next morning the men (412 of them) were herded off as a living screen for the German troops advancing between the forts (the first man to come out of the church being wantonly shot down as an example to the rest). The 411 were driven by bye-roads to the Chartreuse Monastery, above the Meuse, overlooking the bridge into the city of Liége, and on the 7th they were planted as hostages on the bridge while the Germans marched across. They were held there without food or shelter or relief for a hundred hours. At _Micheroux_[24] 9 people were killed and 17 houses destroyed. These villages were all outside the eastern line of forts, but the places inside the line, between the forts and Liége, were devastated to an equal degree. At Fléron[25] 15 civilians were killed and 152 houses destroyed.[26] At _Retinnes_[27] 41 civilians were killed and 118 houses destroyed.[26] At _Queue du Bois_[28] 11 civilians were killed and 35 houses destroyed. At _Evegnée_ 2 civilians were killed and 5 houses destroyed. At _Cerexhe_[29] 4 women and children were burnt alive in a house, and 2 houses destroyed. At _Bellaire_[30] 4 people were killed and 15 houses destroyed. At _Jupille_[31] 8 people were killed and 1 house destroyed. These villages were saved none of the horrors of war by the surrender of the forts. (iv) _On the Verviers Road._ The Germans converged on the forts by more southerly roads as well. At _Dolhain_,[32] on the road from Eupen to Verviers, 28 houses were burnt on Aug. 8th and several civilians killed. At _Metten_,[33] near Verviers, a German soldier confesses that he and his comrades “were ordered to search a house from which shots had been fired, but found nothing in the house but two women and a child.... I did not see the women fire. The women were told that nothing would be done to them, because they were crying so bitterly. We brought the women out and took them to the major, and then we were ordered to shoot the women.... When the mother was dead, the major gave the order to shoot the child, so that the child should not be left alone in the world. The child’s eyes were bandaged. I took part in this because we were ordered to do it by Major Kastendick and Captain Dultingen....” But Verviers and the Verviers road remained comparatively unscathed. Far worse was done by the Germans who descended on the Vesdre from Malmédy, south-eastward, over the hills. (v) _On the Malmédy Road._