soldier, and robbed of about 30 francs.

One of the most serious acts of which we have been informed in the
Department of the Oise was committed near Marqueglise, by an officer
of high rank. Two young men of Saint Quentin, named Charlet and Gabet,
who had left Paris to return to their native place with the object of
obeying the summons to be enrolled for military service, met on the
road two Belgian subjects making their way to Jemmapes, where they
lived. The latter offered them a lift in their carriage, and the four
men journeyed together as far as the village of Ressons, where they
were arrested by a German detachment. They were bound, and then taken
to the District of Marqueglise, and brought before a superior officer,
who questioned them. When he learned that two of them were natives of
Belgium this officer declared that the Belgians were "sales gens";
then without any explanation he took his revolver and fired on each of
the prisoners in turn. The two Belgians and young Gabet fell dead,
struck in the head. As for Charlet, who was wounded in the neck and
right shoulder, he pretended to be killed, and after the departure of
the murderer, was able to drag himself a certain distance. Before
being taken to Compiegne, where he died next day, the unfortunate man
was able to describe to the Abbe Boulet, cure of Marqueglise, the
cowardly deed of which his companions and himself had been the
victims.

AISNE.

In the communes of the Department of the Aisne which we have been able
to visit we have everywhere found evidences of acts of pillage and
numerous crimes against women.

At Connigis on the 8th of September at about 8 o'clock in the evening
Mme. X. was the victim of grievous violence at the hands of two
Germans, who had gone to her parents-in-law's house, where she was
living in the absence of her husband, who had been mobilized. One of
the Germans held M. X., the father, in front of the door while the
other, threatening the young woman with his rifle, committed acts of
revolting obscenity upon her in the presence of the mother-in-law.
When he had accomplished his crime he took the place of his comrade,
mounting guard over M. X., while the former in his turn outraged the
young woman.

At Brumetz, where the occupation by the enemy lasted from the 3d to
the 10th, the village was pillaged. One house, as well as the chateau
of M. de Maleyssie, a Captain on the staff of the Sixth French Army
Corps, were burned.

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