they
will be immediately shot.

Furthermore, all troops in charge of the protection of the railroad
lines have received orders to shoot any person approaching in a
suspicious manner the railroad tracks or the telegraph or telephone
lines.

The Governor General of Belgium,
(Signed) BARON VON DER GOLTZ,
Field Marshal.

NOTICE POSTED AT BRUSSELS, NOV. 1, 1914.

A legally constituted court-martial has pronounced, the 28th of
October, 1914, the following condemnations:

"(1) Upon Policeman de Ryckere for attacking, in the exercise of his
legal functions, an agent vested with German authority, for willfully
inflicting bodily injury on two occasions in concert with other
persons, for facilitating the escape of a prisoner on one occasion,
and for attacking a German soldier--_Five years' imprisonment_.

"(2) Upon Policeman Seghers for attacking, in the exercise of his
legal functions, an agent vested with German authority, for willfully
inflicting bodily injury upon said German agent, and for facilitating
the escape of a prisoner (all these offenses constituting a single
act)--_Three years' imprisonment_."

These sentences have been confirmed by Gov. Gen. Baron von der Goltz
on Oct. 31, 1914.

The City of Brussels, excluding suburbs, has been punished for the
crime committed by its policeman de Ryckere against a German soldier
by an additional fine of 5,000,000 francs.

The Governor of Brussels,
(Signed) BARON VON LUETTWITZ,
General.

Brussels, Nov. 1, 1914.

EXTRACT FROM THE SIXTH REPORT OF THE BELGIUM COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.

After such proclamations, who will be surprised at the murders,
burnings, pillage, and destruction committed by the German Army
wherever they have met with resistance?

If a German corps or patrolling party is received at the entrance to a
village by a volley from soldiers of the regular troops who are
afterward forced to retire the whole population is held responsible.
The civilians are accused of having fired or having co-operated in the
defense and, without inquiry, the place is given over to pillage and
flames, and a part of the inhabitants are massacred.

The Commission of Inquiry has already mentioned these facts in its
report of Sept. 10, (third report.)

The facts which have been gathered since then have confirmed its
conclusions.

The odious acts which have been committed in all parts of the country
have a general character, throwing the responsibility upon the whole