[Sidenote: 12] _Montigny-sur-Sambre._--On the Monday morning 27 civilians from one parish alone were seen lying dead in the hospital. [Sidenote: 12] At _Monceau-sur-Sambre_, on August 21st, a young man of 18 was shot in his garden. His father and brother were seized in their house and shot in the courtyard of a neighbouring country house. The son was shot first. The father was compelled to stand close to the feet of his son's corpse and to fix his eyes upon him while he himself was shot. [Sidenote: 11] At _Temploux_, on August 23rd, a Professor of Modern Languages at the College of Namur was shot at his front door by a German officer. Before he died he asked the officer the reason for this brutality, and the officer replied that he had lost his temper because some civilians had fired upon the Germans as they entered the village. This allegation was not proved.... After the murder the house was burnt. [Sidenote: 17] _Elewyt._--A man's naked body was tied up to a ring in the wall in the backyard of a house. He was dead, and his corpse was mutilated in a manner too horrible to record. A woman's naked body was also found in a stable abutting on the same backyard. [Sidenote: 24] Bombardier Wetzel, of the 2nd Mounted Battery, 1st Kurhessian Field Artillery Regiment, No. 11, records an incident which happened in French territory near Lille on October 11th: "We had no fight, but we caught about 20 men and shot them." By this time killing not in a fight would seem to have passed into a habit. 2. WOMEN MURDERED AND OUTRAGED. [Sidenote: 30] From the very first women were not safe. At Liège women and children were chased about the street by soldiers. One witness gives a story, very circumstantial in its details, of how women were publicly raped in the market place of the city, five young German officers assisting. [Sidenote: 11] _Tamines._--A witness describes how he saw the public square littered with corpses, and after a search found those of his wife and child, a little girl of 7. [Sidenote: 24] _Wetteren Hospital._--At this hospital was an old woman of 80 completely transfixed by a bayonet. [Sidenote: 17] _Sempst._--Witness saw a girl of 17 dressed only in a chemise and in great distress. She alleged that she herself and other girls had been dragged into a field, stripped naked and violated, and that some of them had then been killed with the bayonet. [Sidenote: 17] _Eppeghem._--On August 25th a pregnant woman who had been wounded with a bayonet was discovered in the convent. She was dying. [Sidenote: 19] _Louvain._--"In the middle of the night I heard a knock at the outer door of the stable, which led into a little street, and heard a woman's voice crying for help. I opened the door, and just as I was going to let her in, a rifle shot fired from the street by a German soldier rang out and the woman fell dead at my feet." [Sidenote: 21]