he heard some one say the word
"Prussian." At once he directed three dragoons to fall out and ordered
them to fire. Young Gaston Dupuis was killed, M. Grandvalet was
wounded in the right shoulder by a bullet, and a little girl of 4 who
belonged to a family of refugees from Verdun was slightly wounded in
the neck.

Next day the commune of Ravenel was sacked, and the stolen objects
were taken away in a carriage. A man named Vilette, while bicycling on
the road near the village, met a motor car in which were several
Germans. They began to fire at him without any reason. He jumped down
from his machine and took to flight across country, but a bullet
stopped him on his way. He died a few hours afterward, leaving a widow
and two children.

On the same day, near Mery, the enemy opened fire on some English guns
which were drawn up at the place called Le Bout de la Ville, and an
engagement began between the cavalry of the two armies. At this moment
the Germans entered the sugar factory, which is situated in a hamlet
of the commune. They seized the manager, his family, and all the staff
of the factory, and, during the three hours which the engagement
lasted, made them walk in a parallel line to themselves in order to
protect themselves against the fusillade which was catching them on
the flank. Among the twenty-five people who were thus exposed to grave
danger were women and children. A work girl, Mme. Jeansenne, was
killed, and a foreman, Courtois, had a bullet through his left arm. At
10 in the evening, the enemy returned in force to the village. They
left the next day after having burned the houses and carried out a
general sack.

On the 2d of September the Germans entered Senlis, where they were
greeted by rifle fire from African troops. Alleging that they had been
fired on by civilians, they set fire to two quarters of the town. One
hundred and five houses were burned in the following manner: The
Germans marched along the streets in a column; at a whistle from an
officer, some of them fell out, and proceeded to break in the doors of
the houses and the shop fronts; then others came along and lit the
fire with grenades and rockets; patrols who followed them fired
incendiary bullets with their rifles into those houses in which the
fire was not taking hold fast enough.

While our soldiers were firing in the outskirts of the town, the
hostages who had been taken into the streets by the Germans were
forced to walk in the mid