shot"--almost everything was ravaged. For a distance of at least three
leagues the houses were destroyed by fire.)

Extract from a proclamation of Major Dieckmann, placarded at Grivegnée,
Sept. 8, 1914:

Any one not responding instantly to the command "raise your
arms" is subject to the penalty of death.

Extract from proclamation of Marshal Baron von der Goltz, placarded at
Brussels, Oct. 5, 1914:

Hereafter the localities nearest the place where similar acts
(destruction of railways or telegraphic lines) were
done--whether or not they were _accomplices in the act_--will
be punished without mercy. To this end hostages have been
taken from all the localities adjacent to railways menaced by
similar attacks, and upon the first attempt to destroy the
railways, telegraphic or telephone lines, they will at once be
shot.


III.

I copy from the first page of an unsigned notebook, (Fig. 5:)

Langeviller, Aug. 22.--Village destroyed by the Eleventh
Battalion of Pioneers. Three women hanged to trees; the first
dead I have seen.