the same regiment. The lieutenant says: "I gathered the impression that
it was impossible for the officers at Nomeny to prevent such acts. As
far as I can judge, the crimes committed there, which horrified all the
soldiers who were at Nomeny later on, must be put down to the acts of
unnatural brutes." The soldier says, "At five o'clock regimental orders
were received to kill every male inhabitant of Nomeny, and to raze
everything to the ground; we forced our way into the houses." Here is a
more detailed account of a massacre near Blamont. "All the villagers
fled: it was terrible; their beards thick with blood, and what faces!
They were dreadful to look at. The dead were all buried, numbering
sixty. Among them were many old men and women, and one unfortunate woman
half confined--the whole being frightful to look at. Three children
were clasped in each other's arms, and had died thus. The Altar and the
vaulting of the church were destroyed because there was a telephone[11]
communicating with the enemy. This morning, 2nd September, all the
survivors were expelled. I saw four small boys carrying away on two
sticks a cradle containing a baby of five or six months. All this is
dreadful to see. Blow for blow: thunder against thunder! Every thing is
given up to pillage. I also saw a mother with her two children; one had
a big wound on the head, and one eye knocked out."


FOOTNOTES:

[8] They have decorated the pirates who sank the _Lusitania_. They glory
in the crime, and have even struck a commemorative medal in its honour.

[9] In this case, and many of the following ones, the reader is
requested to note, and remember, the _motive_ for the murders.