rd 6 o'clock the Bavarian officers
went through a travesty of justice, reading documents drawn up in
German, collecting the votes of eight or nine young Lieutenants to
whom voting papers had been given. The two men were condemned
unanimously and warned that they were about to die, and the priest was
requested to give them the consolations of religion. They protested
their innocence with prayers and tears, but they were compelled to
kneel down against the embankment of the road, and a platoon of
twenty-four soldiers drawn up in double file fired twice at them.

The village of Fraimbois was pillaged, and the objects stolen were
loaded on to vehicles. The Abbe Mathieu complained to Gens. Tanner and
Clauss of the burning of his bee-house, and received from the former
the simple reply, "What do you expect? It is war!" The latter did not
even reply.

At Mont three houses were burned with petrol. At Herimenil, on the
29th of August, the enemy, who had arrived on the 24th, were guilty of
monstrous acts. The inhabitants were asked to come to church and were
kept there for four days, while their houses were sacked and the
French bombarded the village. Twenty-four people were killed inside
the church by a shell. As a woman, who had succeeded with great
trouble in leaving the church for a moment, was returning with a
little milk for the children, a Captain, furious at seeing that this
prisoner had been allowed to pass, cried out, "I meant that the door
should not be opened! I meant the French to fire on their own people."
This same Captain, a short time before, had been guilty of a revolting
cruelty. He was present, eyeglass in eye, when Mme. Winger, a young
woman of 23, was going to church in obedience to the general order,
together with her servants, a girl and two young men, each of them 18
years old, and, considering their progress too slow, with a word he
directed the soldiers to fire, and the four victims fell mortally
wounded. The Germans left the corpses in the street for two days.

Next day they shot M. Bocquel, who was ignorant of the orders which
had been given and had remained in his house. They also killed in his
own house M. Florentin, aged 77. This old man, who received several
bullets in the chest, was probably killed in consequence of his
deafness, which prevented him from understanding what the enemy had
ordered.

In this commune twenty-two houses were burned with petrol. Before
setting fire to Mme. Combeau's