well die for my
country."

The same day MM. Auguste Claude and Adolphe Claude, the latter aged
75, were also killed, and 136 houses in the village were burned by
means of incendiary cartridges. Further, two inhabitants, MM. Bretton
and Labart, were taken as hostages. It is not known what has become of
them since.

M. Veron, retired schoolmaster, at Audun-le-Roman, in the
arrondissement of Briey, made a deposition before us which runs as
follows:

"On the 21st of August, toward 5 in the evening, the Germans who had
occupied for seventeen days the village of Audun-le-Roman, began
without any reason to fire upon the houses with rifles and machine
guns. Four women, Mlle. Roux, Mlle. Trefel, Mme. Zapolli, and Mme.
Giglio, were wounded. Mlle. Trefel was struck while she was giving a
drink to a German soldier. Three men were killed: M. Martin, an
agriculturist, aged 68, whose house was burned, was led out and shot
in the street in the presence of his wife and children. M. Chary, aged
55, foreman roadmaker, was escaping from the conflagration, holding
his wife by the hand, when he was killed by rifle shots. I have seen
his body, which was riddled with wounds. M. Ernest Samen was struck by
five revolver bullets at the moment when he was shutting the door of
his coach house.

"I saw the enemy set fire to the Cafe Matte with petrol. Mme. Matte
went out with a little bag in her hand containing her savings, about
two thousand francs. She was robbed by a German officer, who snatched
the bag away."

The witness added that the Mayor must have been carried off by a
patrol, but in any case he had disappeared.

At Arracourt, M. Maillard was killed in the fields by a bullet which
went right through him; five houses were burned.

The village of Brin-sur-Seille was almost entirely destroyed by fire
lighted by cartridges and round fuses. Further, the wife of a man at
Raucourt who is with the colors, Mme. X., declared to us that she had
been raped in her own house in the presence of her little boy, aged
3-1/2, by a soldier who had placed the point of his bayonet on her
breast to overcome the resistance which she opposed to him.

OISE.

In the Department of Oise we have ascertained the following facts:

When on the 31st of August the Germans entered the village of
Monchy-Humieres a group of about fifteen people were in the street
looking at them as they entered. No act of provocation was committed,
but an officer believed that