_Malines._--"One day when the Germans were not actually bombarding the town, I left my house to go to my mother's house in High Street. My husband was with me. I saw eight German soldiers, and they were drunk. They were singing and making a lot of noise and dancing about. As the German soldiers came along the street I saw a small child, whether boy or girl I could not see, come out of a house. The child was about 2 years of age. The child came into the middle of the street so as to be in the way of the soldiers. The soldiers were walking in twos. The first line of two passed the child. One of the second line, the man on the left, stepped aside and drove his bayonet with both hands into the child's stomach, lifting the child into the air on his bayonet and carrying it away on his bayonet, he and his comrades still singing. The child screamed when the soldier struck it with his bayonet, but not afterwards." 4. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF THE AGED, THE CRIPPLED AND THE INFIRM. [Sidenote: 11] At _Denée_, on August 28th, a Belgian soldier who had been taken prisoner saw three civilian fellow-prisoners shot. One was a cripple and another an old man of 80, who was paralysed. It was alleged by two German soldiers that these men had shot at them with rifles. Neither of them had rifles, nor had they anything in their pockets. The witness actually saw the Germans search them and nothing was found. [Sidenote: 20] _Louvain._--"Subsequently my master--an old gentleman--was bayoneted and shot."... Among other persons whose houses were burnt was an old man of 90, lying dangerously ill, who was taken out on his mattress and left lying in his garden all night. He died shortly after in the hospital. [Sidenote: 18] The journey to Louvain is thus described by a witness: "We were all marched off to Louvain, walking. There were some very old people, amongst others a man 90 years of age. The very old people were drawn in carts and barrows by the younger men. There was an officer with a bicycle, who shouted, as people fell out by the side of the road, 'Shoot them.'" [Sidenote: 8] At _Heure le Romain_ ... some bedridden old men were imprisoned in the church. [Sidenote: 11] _Andenne._--A paralytic was murdered in his garden. [Sidenote: 29] _Beaumetz._--They saw two old men--between 60 and 70 years of age--and one old woman lying close to each other in the garden. All three had the scalps cut right through.... They were still bleeding. 5. THE USE OF CIVILIANS AS SCREENS. [Sidenote: 33] The Committee had before them a considerable body of evidence with reference to the practice of the Germans of using civilians and sometimes military prisoners as screens from behind which they could fire upon the Belgian troops, in the hope that the Belgians would not return the fire for fear of killing or wounding their own fellow-countrymen. [Sidenote: 31]