ces.

At Sommerviller the enemy's course on the 23d of August was marked by
the sack of the cafes and grocers' shops and of several private
houses, and by the murder of M. Robert, aged 70, and M. Harau, aged
65, who were killed by rifle shots. The latter at the moment when he
received his death wound was quietly eating a piece of bread.

At Rehainviller, on the 26th of August, the Germans seized the cure,
Barbot, and M. Noircler in the street. The bodies of these two men
were found a long time afterward buried in the fields a few hundred
meters from the village. Their bodies were in an advanced state of
decomposition, and it was therefore impossible to ascertain the wounds
which the cure had received; as for Noircler, his head was found in
the grave by the side of the rest of his body, in a line with his hip.

[Illustration: AVIATOR-COMMANDANT MARCONNAY

One of the Oldest and Best Known French Military Aviators Killed
During a Reconnoissance.

(_Photo from Underwood & Underwood._)]

[Illustration: GENERAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG

Commanding the First British Army, One of the Six Armies Recently
Incorporated.

(_Photo_ (C) _American Press Association._)]

In this commune twenty-seven houses have been burned. No one saw
the fire lighted, but after the disaster a certain number of little
fuse-sticks which the Germans frequently use for the purpose of
fire-raising, and which the peasants call "macaronis," were collected.

At Lamath, on the 24th of August, the Bavarians shot an old man of 70,
M. Louis, who had come out of his house to relieve the needs of
nature. The unhappy man received at least ten bullets in the chest.
His son-in-law, who was in an advanced stage of tuberculosis, was
taken and led away. No news has been received of him. Two other
inhabitants of the commune who were made prisoners at the same time as
this man are still in captivity in Bavaria.

The Abbe Mathieu, cure of Fraimbois, was arrested on the 29th of
August on the false allegation that shots had been fired at the
Germans in his parish. In the course of his captivity, which lasted
sixteen days, he was present at the murder of two of our
fellow-countrymen, M. Poissonnier of Gerbeviller and M. Victor-Meyer
of Fraimbois; the former, an invalid who could scarcely stand, was
accused of having followed the armies as a spy. The latter had been
arrested because his little girl had picked up a bit of telephone wire
broken by shrapnel. One morning towa