INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE THREE '•i'fi "M OUTSIDE PALE WRITTEN RECORD wMe areas of Belgium m«l France in persons who were shot are: Mr. Detain, which not a penny's worth of wanton F. C. ROGERS mayor of Dinant Sa^-ratta, destruction had been permitted to occur, first alderman Nimmer, age) vtrty: in which 'the ripe pears hung untouched OF ATROCITIES OF HUMANITY Consul for the Argentine 1: biio upon the garden walls and I Victor Poncelet, who was executed in saw other wide areas where scarcely the presence of his wife and seven one stone had been left to stand upon PRACTICAL FURRIER children Wasseige and his two sons another where the fields were ravaged Messrs. Gustave and Leon Nicaise, where the male villagers had Diaries of German Soldiers Tell Fork Francos, (rightfulness Taught by German two very old men Jules Monin and Ontario been shot in squads where the miserable others all shot in the cellar of their of Murder and Pillage in 4, Leaders Belongs to Age of survivors had been left to den in brewery Mr. Camille Pistte and son, holes,-like wild beasts." Belgian Cities. aged seventeen Phillippart Piedfort, Barbarism. THE OLDEST EXCLUSIVE FUR HOUSE Even Soldiers Horrified. his wife and daughter Miss Marsigny. Some German soldiers, we are glad During the execution of about to see, showed their horror at the foul IN THE WORLD forty inhabitants of Dinant the Germans CALLED "DISGRACE TO ARMY" SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS deeds committed ih Belgium. placed before the condemned" "The inhabitants have fled in the village. their wives and children. It is thus It was horrible. There was clotted that Madam Albin who had just given blood on all the beards, and what No Discrimination Made Between In. Kaiser's Statesmen Had No Intention birth to a child, three days previously, faces one saw, terrible to behold! The nocent and Guilty —Infants Shot of Keeping Faith With Their was brought on a mattress by German dead, 60 in all, were at once buried. in Dead Mothers' Arms—Testimony Agreement on International Law soldiers to witness the execution of Among them were many old women, of Brand Whitlock. her husband her cries and supplications —Horrors Toid by Diaries. some old men, and a half-delivered were so pressing that her husband's woman, awful to see three children life was spared." Very many German soldiers who In giving to the American people had clasped each other, and died thus. "On the 26th of August German soldiers have been taken prisoner had kept the knowledge of German inhumanity The altar and the vaults of the church entered various streets (of Louvain) are shattered. They had a telephone diaries, and these have been confiscated in Belgium, says a pamphlet issued and ordered the inhabitants of there to communicate with the enemy. by the captors. Many have by the committee on public information, the houses to proceed to the Place de This morning, September 2, all the survivors been published, frequently with facsimile la Station, where the bodies of nearly the evidence is drawn were expelled, and I saw four a dozen assassinated persons were lying. reproductions to guarantee mainly from German and American little boys carrying a cradle, with a Women and children were separated their authenticity. The following baby five or six months old in it, on sources. The German sources include from the men and forced to remain two sticks. All this was terrible to extracts, with the testimony of official proclamations and on the Place de la Station during see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt Brand Whitlock, are made public by the whole day. They had to witness other official utterances, letters and after thunderbolt! Everything is given the execution of many of their the committee on public information diaries of German soldiers, and quotations over to pillage fowls and the rest all fellow citizens, who were for the most at Washington: killed. I saw a mother, too, with her from German newspapers. part shot at the side of the square, "Aug. 23. Our men came back two children one had a great wound The "Rules for Field Service" of the near the house of Mr. Hemaide. The on the head and had lost an eye." and said that at the point where the 0 German army advises each soldier women and children, after having remained valley joined the Meuse we could not EXPORTER AND, IMPORTER OF (From the diary of Lance Corporal on the square for more than to keep such a diary while on active Paul Spielman of the Ersatz, first brigade get any further, as the villagers were RAW |FURS 15 hours, were allowed to depart. The of Infantry of the Guard.) shooting at us from every house. We service. Gardes Civiques of Louvain were also shot the whole lot—16 of them. They In the wars waged in ancient times taken prisoners and sent to Germany, I a a were drawn up in three ranks the it was taken for granted that conquered to the camp of Munster, where they of Liege became mutinous. Forty persons same shot did for three at a time. peoples might be either killed, were held for severial weeks. were shot and 15 houses demolished, The men had already shown tortured, or held as slaves that their "On Thursday, August 27, order was 10 soldiers shot. The sights here their brutal instincts ... property would be taken and that their given to the inhabitants to leave Louvain make you cry. "The sight of the bodies of all the lands would be devastated. "Vae victis!—woe because the city was to be bombarded. Highest Cash Prices Paid on "On the 23rd of August everything inhabitants who had been shot was to the conquered!" For two Old m«n, women, children, quiet. The inhabitants have so far indescribable. Every house in the centuries or more there has been a Raw Furs the sick, priests, nuns, were driven on given in. Seventy students were shot, whole village was destroyed. We steady advance in introducing ideas of the roads like cattle. More than 10,000 200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants returning dragged the villagers one after another humanity and especially in confining of the inhabitants were driven as to Liege. out of the most unlikely corners. the evils of warfare to the combatants. He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs from the United far as Tirlemont, nearly 12 miles from "August 24. At noon with 36 men on The mfen were shot as well as the The ideal seemed to have become so Louvain. States and pay as high a price for them as any sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1, no post women and children who were in the thoroughly established as a part of international Infants Shot in Mothers' Arms. allocated to me. Our occupation, apart convent, since shots had been fired law that the powers at The house in the United States. "One of the most sorely tried communities from bathing, is eating and drinking. from the convent windows and we Hague thought it sufficient merely to was that of the little village We live like God in Belgium." (From burnt it afterwards. state the general principles in Article of Tamines, down in what is known the diary of Joh. van der Schoot, reservist "The inhabitants might have escaped XLVI of the regulations: "Family honors as the Borinage, the coal fields near BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY of the Tenth company, Thirtyninth the penalty by handing over the and rights, the lives of persons Charleroi. Tamines is a mining village reserve infantry regiment, Seventh guilty and paying 15,000 francs. F\ C. ROGERS and private property, as well as religious in the Sambre it is a collection reserve army corps.) "The inhabitants fired on our men convictions and practice, must of small cottages sheltering about 5,000 again. The division took drastic be respected. Private property cannot inhabitants, mostly all poor laborers. "Behaved Like Vandals." steps to stop this, the villages being be confiscated." Germany, in common "August 17. In the afternoon I had 4: burnt and the inhabitants being shot. with the other powers, solemnly "The little graveyard in which the «i look at the little chateau belonging pledged her faith to keep this article, The pretty little village of Gue church stands bears its mute testimony to one of the king's secretaries (not at d'Ossus, however, was apparently set but her military leaders had no intention to the horror of the event. There home). Our men had behaved like on fire without cause. A cyclist fell of doing so. They had been The Press Office are hundreds of new-made each regular vandals. They had looted the graves, trained in the ideas voiced by Gen. von off his machine and his rifle went off. with its small wooden cross and its cellar first, and then they had turned Hartmann 40 years ago: "Terrorism He immediately said he had been shot bit of flowers the crosses are so closely their attention to the bedrooms and is seen to be a relatively gentle procedure at. All the inhabitants were burnt huddled that there is scarcely room thrown things about all over the place. useful to keep the masses of in the houses. I hope there will be no Stationery Store to walk between them. The crosses They had even made fruitless efforts the people in a state of obedience." more such horrors. are alike and all bear the same date, to smash the safe open. Everything This had been Bismarck's policy, too. "Disgrace to Our Army." the sinister date of August 22, 1914." was topsy-turvy—magnificent furniture, According to Moritz Busch, Bismarlt's "At Leppe apparently 200 men were "But whether their hands were cut silk, and even china. That's what biographer, Bismarck, exasperated by shot. There must have been some innocent off or not, whether they were impaled happens when the men are allowed to the French resistance, which was still men among them. In future on bayonets or not, children were shot requisition for themselves. I am sure continuing in January, 1871, said: we shall have to hold an inquiry as down, by military order, in cold blood. they must have taken away a heap of "If in the territory which we occupy, to their guilt instead of shooting Proprietor In the awful crime of the Rock of Bayard, GEORGE P. WATSON, useless stuff simply for the pleasure of we cannot supply everything for our them. there overlooking the Meuse below looting." troops, from time to time we shall send "In the evening we marched to Dinant, infants in their mothers' "August 6th crossed frontier. Inhabitants a flying column into the localities Maubert-Fontaine. Just as we were arms were shot down without mercy. on border very good to us and which are recalcitrant. We shall shoot, having our meal the alarm was sounded—everyone give us many things. There is no difference The deed, never surpassed in cruelty hang and burn. After that has happened is very jumpy. noticeable. by any band of savages, is described a few times, the inhabitants will "September 3. Still at Bethel, on This is the best place to trade for "August 23rd, Sunday (between Birnal by the bishop of Namur himself: finally come to their senses." guard over prisoners. The houses and Dinant, village of Disonge). "'One scene surpasses in horror all are charming inside. The middle class SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME Horrors Told in Soldiers' Diaries. At 11 o'clock the order comes to advance others it is the fusillade of the The frightfulnoss taught by the German in France has magnificent, furniture. after the artillery has thoroughup Rocher Bayard near Dinant. It appears STATIONERY SUPPLIES leaders held full sway in Belgium. We found stylish pieces everywhere prepared the ground ahead. The to have been ordered by Colonel This is best seen in the entries in the and beautiful silk, but in what a state Meister. This fusillade made many Pioneers and Infantry regiment 178 diaries of the individual German soldiers. Good God! Every bit of were marching in front of us. Near victims among the nearby parishes, furniture broken, mirrors smashed. especially those of des Rivages and a small village the latter were fired on "During the night of August 15-16 The Vandals themselves could not Neffe. It caused the death of nearly by the inhabitants. About 220 inhabitants Engineer Gr gave the alarm in the have done more damage. This place 90 persons, without distinction of age were shot and the village was town of Vise. Every one was shot or is a disgrace to our army. The inhabitants Pens or sex. Among the victims were babies burnt—artillery is continuously shooting—the taken prisoner, and the houses were who fled could not have expected, in arms, boys and girls, fathers village lies in a large ravine. burnt. The prisoners were made to of course, that all their goods Pencils and mothers of families, even old Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon, march and keep up with the troops." would have been left intact after so men. the crossing of the Maas begins near Tablets (From the diary of noncommissioned many troops had passed. But the column Dinant All villages, chateaux, Dead Children in Pile of Bodies. officer Reinhold Koehn of the Second commanders are responsible for Rubbers 'It was there that 12 children under and houses are burnt down during this battalion of engineers, Third army the greater part of the damage, as the age of six perished from the fire night. It was a beautiful sight to see Mucilage corps.) they could have prevented the looting of the executioners, six of them as the fires all round us in the distance. and destruction. The damage amounts Letter Files they lay in their mothers' arms: •"August 24.—la every village one "A horrible bath of blood.1 The whole to millions of marks even the safes 'The child Fievet, three weeks old. finds only heaps of ruins and many Carbon Paper Ullage burnt, the French thrown into have been attacked. 'Maurice Betems, eleven months dead." From the diary of Matbern, the blazing houses, civilians with the "In a solicitor's house, in which, as Library Paste old. Fourth company, Eleventh Jager battalion, rest." (From the diary of Private luck would have it, all was in excellent 'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old. Marburg.) Hassemer of the Eighth army corps.) Fancy Stationery taste, including a collection of 'Gilda Genon, eighteen months old. old lace and Eastern works of art, Typewriter Ribbons All Male Inhabitants Shot. 'Gilda Marchot, two years old. "In the night of August 18-19 the village everything was smashed to bits. "A shell burst near the Eleventh "'Clara Struvay, two years and six of Saint-Maurice was punished "I could not resist taking a little company, and wounded seven men, months. for having fired on German soldiers by memento myself here and there. three very severely. At five o'clock we 'Tlie pile of bodies comprised also being burnt to the ground by the German One house was particularly elegant, were ordered by the officer in command many children from six to fourteen troops (two regiments, the everything in the best taste. The hall of the regiment to shoot all the years. Eight large families have entirely Twelfth land well and the Seventeenth.) was of light oak I found a splendid male inhabitants of Nomeny, because disappeared. Four have but one The village was surrounded, WRITING PAPER CHEAP raincoat under live staircase and a the population was foolishly attempting survivor. Those men that escaped men posted about a yard from one another, camera for Felix." (From the diary to stay the advance of the German death—and many of whom were riddled We have a large amount of the best so that no one could get out. of an officer in the One Hundred troops by force of arms. We broke into with bullets—were obliged to grade bond paper in white and varj. Then the Uhlans set fire to it, house Seventy-eighth regiment, Twelfth Saxon the houses, and seized all who resisted, bury in a summary and hasty fashion by house. Neither man, woman, nor ious colors, in tablet form but without corps.) in order to execute them according to their fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters child could escape o©ly the greater covers, that we are selling out But his horror apparently was not martial law. The houses which had then after having been relieved part of the live stock we carried off, at 5 cents each—a third of a pound shared by the German commander in not been already destroyed by the of their money ajjd being placed in as that could be used. Anyone who of good paper in each one. Also a chief, as is evident from the following: French artillery and our own were set chains they were sent to Cassel (Prussia).' ventured to come out was shot down. large number of scratch pads at 5 on fire by us, so that nearly the whole All the inhabitants left in the village "Order. for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. town was reduced to ashes. It is a terrible Mr* Hugh Gibson, the secretary oi were burnt with the houses." (From "To the People of Liege. our legation in Belgium, visited Louvain sight when helpless women and the diary of Private Karl Scheufele of "The population of Andenne, after children, utterly destitute, are herded during its systematic destruction the Third Bavarian regiment and landv. making a display of peaceful intentions by the Germans. In "A Journal Froir together and driven into France." ehr infantry.) toward our troops, attacked them (From the diary of Private Fischer, Our Legation in Belgium," New York "4yt ten o'clock in the evening the in .the most treacherous manner. With Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry, 1917, pages 164-165, he relates wha* first battalion of the One hundred and Subscribe for THE PRESS -The Popular Home Weekly my authorization, the general commanding Thirty-third reserve division.) the German officers told him: Seventy-eighth marched down the steep these troops has reduced the "It was a story of clearing out civil incline into the burning village to the town to ashes and has had 110 persons Too Many Servants in Britain. ians from a large part of the town, a burning village to the north of Dinant. ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR shot. Duncan filler asked the minister of systematic routing out of men from A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty. "I bring this fact to the knowledge national service, says the London cellars and garrets, wholesale shootings, At the entrance to the village lay about of the people of Liege in order that Times, whether his attention has been the generous use of machine fifty dead civilians, shot for having they may know what fate to expect called to the number of advertisements guns, and the free application of the fired upon our troops from ambnsh. In should they adopt a similar attitude. the course of the ni^ht many others for servants in households of one, two torch—the whole story enough tc $ $ $ SACRIFICE $ $ $ "Liege, 22d Augurt, 1914. or three persons, where seven to ten make one see red. And for our guidance were also shot, so that we counted over $ $ "GENERAL VON BUELOW." Indoor servants are already kept, and it was impressed on us that this 200. Women and children, lamp in I O S A E E A $ Brand Whitlock Writes of Massacres. whether he proposes to limit the number would make people respect Germany hand, were forced to look bn at the $ $ -Cor. Snwth Stmt and H«nn«pln Awnu* In his report of September 12, 1917, of indoor servants employed in and think twice about resisting her." horriWe si ene. We ate our rice later MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA $ ONE FORD KAR—Including $ to the secretary of state, Minister each household. The minister of national German pastors and professors fai in the midet of the corpses, for we had THE ONLY MODERN $ all Tools, Chains, Jack, Pump, $ Whitlock has much to tell of the policy from the excitement of the firing have had nothing since morning. When we service replied that lie had already POPULAR PRICED HOTEL of frightfulness. The' following $ Side Curtains, good as new, *3 $ searched Ihe houses we found plenty pointed out how essential it is, defended this policy of frightfulness Within one block of Mto theatres and principal passages refer to the subject of massacres: $ Innertubes, All New Tires, 1916 $ e. g.: of wine and spirit, but no eatables. in the national interest, that no person J'ii, department stores. *5 ROOMS *9 ROOMS with $ Model, body in good condition. $ should employ more servants than "We are not only compelled to accept Captain Hamann was drunk." (This (at "Summary executions took place At -Bath- the war that is fdrced upon us $ Engine Overhauled this Sum- $ last phrase in shorthand.) (From the are absolutely necessary. The minister 3 75c $I.WSI.25-$I.50 Dinant). without the least semblance but are even compelled to carry diary of Private Philipp of the One trusts that the awakened consciences $ 'tner. Electric Lights? also $ of judgment. The names and number on this war with a cruelty, a ruthlessness, Hundred and Seventy-eighth regiment t'l of those who have in this Hot and Cold Running Water, Local and $ New Spot Light. Reason for $ of the victims are not known, but they Long Piatanco Phonaa tn Etsry Room. of infantry, Twelfth army corps.) an employment of every imaginable respect failed to appreciate their duty $ Selling, owner drafted. In- $ must be numerous. I have been unable device, unknown in any previous will provide an immediate and sufficient Menaced by RAY BOYD i-T 1 qMire at,.,this office, d20tf $ to Qbtain precise details in this Wrltingfroni Belgiumin 1916 Irvin war."—Pastor D. Baumgarten, in remedy. If not, he wilt tell'his Formerly Chief Clerk Vendowe Hotel of respect and the number persons ,8. Cobb said: Deutsche Reden in Schwerer Zeit. plan in the general statement on man' Ow Rat—ato Alwwra AS ADVERTISER who unknown. Amongthe have fled ts 'Briefly what I sawwas this: I power. ... 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