It is clearly shown that many offences were committed against infants and quite young children. On one occasion children were even roped together and used as a military screen against the enemy, on another three soldiers went into action carrying small children to protect themselves from flank fire. [Sidenote: 18] At _Haecht_ several children had been murdered; one of two or three years old was found nailed to the door of a farmhouse by its hands and feet, a crime which seems almost incredible, but the evidence for which we feel bound to accept. In the garden of this house was the body of a girl who had been shot in the forehead. [Sidenote: 18] _Capelle-au-Bois._--Two children were murdered in a cart, and their corpses were seen by many witnesses at different stages of the cart's journey. [Sidenote: 11] _Tamines._--One witness describes how she saw a Belgian boy of fifteen shot on the village green, and a day or two later on the same green a little girl and her two brothers (name given) who were looking at the German soldiers were killed before her eyes for no apparent reason. [Sidenote: 17] _Boort Meerbeek._--A German soldier was seen to fire three times at a little girl of five years old. Having failed to hit her, he subsequently bayoneted her. He was killed with the butt end of a rifle by a Belgian soldier who had seen him commit this murder from a distance. [Sidenote: 17] _Weerde._--Two children were killed in a village--apparently Weerde--quite wantonly as they were standing in the road with their mother. They were three or four years old, and were killed with the bayonet. [Sidenote: 19] _Eppeghem._--The dead body of a child of two was seen pinned to the ground with a German lance. [Sidenote: 17] _Hofstade._--On a side road ... was seen ... the dead body of a boy of five or six with his hands nearly severed. [Sidenote: 33] In _Hofstade_ and _Sempst_, in _Haecht_, _Rotselaar_ and _Wespelaar_, many children were murdered. [Sidenote: 21] _Louvain_ (August 28th).--One woman went mad, some children died, others were born.... (August 29th, outside Louvain): Some corpses were those of children who had been shot. [Sidenote: 30] _A small village._--There were two little children--a boy about 4 or 5, and a girl of about 6 or 7. The boy's left hand was cut off at the wrist and the girl's right hand at the same place. They were both quite dead. [Sidenote: 32]