house the soldiers dug up the floor of
a cellar and distinterred the sum of 600 francs, which they
appropriated.

On the 23d of August young Simonin, aged 15-1/2, living at Hadiviller,
was going back from Dombasle when the Germans threatened him with
their rifles and took him prisoner. They began by beating him
unmercifully. Then on the orders of an officer, he was led away by a
soldier. As he went along he saw his father about 50 meters off
calling to him. The soldier then tied him to a telegraph pole, and
fired on Simonin's father, who fell vomiting blood, and soon after
died as he lay. Meanwhile, the young man was able to free himself from
his bonds, and succeeded in running the gauntlet of several shots, one
of which tore his coat.

At Magnieres, where one house only was burned, a German armed with a
rifle entered, toward the end of August, the house of M. Laurent and
compelled a girl of 12, young ----, who had taken refuge there, to
accompany him into a room, where he raped her twice, in spite of her
ceaseless cries and groans. The poor girl was absolutely terrorized.
In addition, the soldier was so threatening that M. Laurent did not
dare to interfere.

At Croismare on the 25th of August, when the Germans were forced to
beat a retreat, maddened by their check, they began to fire on
everybody they met. A Uhlan officer killed with a rifle shot M.
Kriegel, who had gone into the field to pull potatoes. He then saw MM.
Matton and Barbier returning from their work. He rode up to them and
ordered them to stop and stand up against an embankment. The two
peasants thought at first that he was anxious to see them sheltered
from the rifle shots that were being fired all round. But their
delusion was soon dispelled when they saw him load his revolver. In
the course of this operation three cartridges were dropped, and the
officer ordered Matton and Barbier to pick them up. Barbier handed him
one of the cartridges back with the words, "Do not do us any harm; we
have just been working in the fields." "Nicht pardon, cochon de
franzose, capout," replied the officer, and fired twice. Matton ducked
quickly, and thanks to this movement was only hit in the right
shoulder instead of full in the chest. As for Barbier, a bullet went
through both his thumbs and ripped open his left forefinger.

At Remereville on the 7th of September the enemy, alleging falsely
that the inhabitants had fired on them from the steeple, set fire to
the