t Chierry, the Chateau of Varolles was burned with torches with
petrol. The Chateau of Sparre was also set on fire after it had been
completely pillaged, pictures taken from their frames, and the
tapestries cut up with blows of the sword.

At Jaulgonne, between the 3d and 10th of September, the Prussian Guard
emptied the cellars, stole the linen, and did 250,000 francs' worth of
damage. In addition, they burned a house on the allegation that the
owner had fired on them when in reality he was hiding in terror in his
cellar.

Two inhabitants of this commune were killed. One, M. Rempenault, aged
87, was found in the fields killed by a bullet; the other, named
Blanchard, aged 61, had been arrested because the Prussians had seen
him talking in a street with a French chasseur-a-pied, who, after
having delayed in the village, had succeeded in taking to flight on a
bicycle and escaped a rifle fusillade which was aimed at him.
Blanchard was led into an outlying part of Jaulgonne and wounded with
a bayonet by a soldier and then finished off by an officer, who
shattered his head with a revolver shot.

At Charmel the Germans, from the moment of their arrival, entered the
houses by breaking in the doors. They did not leave a bottle of wine
in the cellars and they pillaged chiefly the empty houses, carrying
away linen, money, jewelry, and other articles. At the house of the
schoolmaster they took the funds of the School Savings Bank, which
amounted to 240 francs. On the 3d of September, at 11 o'clock at
night, they set fire to the chateau of Mme. de Rouge, and the same day
one of them entered the house of Mme. X., seized her by the throat and
violated her.

At Coincy, on the 3d and 4th of September, they emptied the cellars
and sacked the empty houses and committed outrages on several women in
the village.

At Bezu-St.-Germain, on the 8th of September, two soldier cyclists
came to the farm of ---- and passed part of the night there. Having
obliged the inhabitants to go to bed, and having forbidden them on
pain of death to move, whatever sounds they might hear, one of them
went into the room of the little servant girl, aged 13, and, putting
his hand on her mouth, committed a complete rape upon her. Hearing a
loud cry, the farmer's daughter escaped through her window and called
some officers who were lodging with a neighbor. One of them came down,
had the two cyclists, who at that moment were coming from the farm,
arrested, and