silly enough to get caught with kodaks or
cameras.

According to what we were told, the Germans entered the town from the
direction of Ciney, on the evening of August 21st, and began firing into
the windows of the houses. The Germans admit this, but say that there
were French troops in the town and this was the only way they could get
them out. A few people were killed, but there was nothing that evening
in the nature of a general massacre. Although the next day was
comparatively quiet, a good part of the population took refuge in the
surrounding hills.

On Sunday morning, the 23rd, the German troops set out to pillage and
shoot. They drove the people into the street, and set fire to their
houses. Those who tried to run away were shot down in their tracks. The
congregation was taken from the church, and fifty of the men were shot.
All the civilians who could be rounded up were driven into the big
square and kept there until evening. About six o'clock the women were
lined up on one side of the square and kept in line by soldiers. On the
other side, the men were lined up along a wall, in two rows, the first
kneeling. Then, under command of an officer, two volleys were fired into
them. The dead and wounded were left together until the Germans got
round to burying them, when practically all were dead. This was only one
of several wholesale executions. The Germans do not seem to contradict
the essential facts, but merely put forward the plea that most of the
damage was incidental to the fighting which took place between the armed
forces. Altogether more than eight hundred people were killed. Six
hundred and twelve have been identified and given burial. Others were
not recognisable. I have one of the lists which are still to be had,
although the Germans have ordered all copies returned to them. Those
killed ranged in age from Felix Fivet, aged three weeks, to an old woman
named Jadot, who was eighty. But then Felix probably fired on the German
troops.

[Illustration:

AUX HABITANTS DE LA BELGIQUE

Le Marechal Von der Goltz fait connaitre aux Populations de Belgique
qu'il est informe par les Generaux Commandants les troupes
d'occupation sur le territoire francais, que le cholera sevit avec
intensite dans les troupes alliees, et qu'il y a le plus grand
danger a franchir ces lignes, ou a penetrer dans le territoire
ennemi

Nous invitons les Populations de Belgique a ne pas