After to-day no more prisoners will be taken. All prisoners are to be killed. Wounded, with or without arms, are to be killed. Even prisoners already grouped in convoys are to be killed. Let not a single living enemy remain behind us. Oberlieutenant und Kompagnie-Chef STOY; Oberst und Regiments Kommandeur NEUBAUER; General-Major und Brigade-Kommandeur STENGER.[70] With reference to the above Order, Professor Joseph Bédier says: "Some thirty soldiers of Stenger's Brigade (112th and 142nd Regt. of the Baden Infantry), were examined in our prisoners' camps. I have read their evidence, which they gave upon oath and signed. All confirm the statement that this order of the day was given them on August 26, in one unit by Major Mosebach, in another by Lieut. Curtius, &c.; the majority did not know whether the order was carried out, but three of them say they saw it done in the forest of Thiaville, where ten or twelve wounded French soldiers who had already been spared by a battalion were despatched. Two others saw the order carried out on the Thiaville road, where some wounded found in a ditch by a company were finished off."[71] 3. The following are extracts from a Proclamation posted by the Germans at Namur on August 25, 1914:-- (3) Every street will be occupied by a German Guard, who will take ten hostages from each street, whom they will keep under surveillance. If there is any rising in the street the ten hostages will be shot. (4) Doors may not be locked, and at night after eight o'clock there must be lights in three windows in every house. (5) It is forbidden to be in the street after eight o'clock. The inhabitants of Namur must understand that there is no greater and more horrible crime than to compromise the existence of the town and the life of its citizens by criminal acts against the German Army. The Commander of the Town, VON BULOW.[72] 4. On October 5 the following Proclamation was posted in Brussels "and probably in most of the Communes of the Kingdom." During the evening of September 25, the railway line and the telegraph wires were destroyed on the line Lovenjoul-Vertryck. In consequence of this, these two localities have had to render an account of this, and had to give hostages in the morning of September 30. In future, the localities nearest to the place where similar acts take place will be punished without pity; _it matters little if they are accomplices or not_. For this purpose _hostages have been taken_ from all localities near the railway line thus menaced, and at the first attempt to destroy the railway line, or the telephone or telegraph wires, _they will be immediately shot_.