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.
[10] This cruel treatment of the Abbe Dergent, priest of Gelrode, near
Louvain, is reported by a neutral witness, Father G., a student at
Louvain. The German soldiers accused the Belgian priests of every
conceivable crime; the Assistant-Priest of Sainte-Gertrude (Louvain),
who was remonstrating with a soldier, received this reply: "We are
Catholics too, but you are pigs and black devils." In Belgium about one
hundred of the clergy were massacred. Note further that in this
unfortunate country _doctors_ were particularly ill-treated;
thirty-seven being shot in the small parishes, while more than one
hundred and fifty disappeared altogether from large towns.
[11] To whom did it belong, and where was it? Telephones exist in every
district of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Besides, our army installed field
telephones which were not all destroyed at the time of their retreat. It
is a most foolish pretext, yet where can one find a more stupid one than
this? A German official communique, in order to prove that the general
rising of the people had been organized for a long time, declares, "that
depots of arms were installed, where each rifle bore the name of the man
for whom it was intended.
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