At Herimenil, during the pillage, the inhabitants were shut up in a church, and kept there for four days without food.  When Madame Winger, 23 years of age, and her three young servants, one girl and two boys, were too slow in leaving her farm to go to the church, the captain ordered his men to fire on them.  Four more dead bodies!

The Germans arrived at Monchy-Humieres.  A group of inhabitants watched them marching past.  No provocation whatever was offered, but an officer thought that he heard someone utter the word “Prussians.”  He at once called out three dragoons, and ordered them to fire upon the group—­one killed and two wounded—­one of the latter being a little girl of four.

At Sommeilles, when the fire—­which destroyed the whole place—­broke out, Madame X. took refuge in a cellar belonging to M. and Madame Adnot, who were there, with their four children, the eldest a girl of 11 years.  A few days after, on returning to the village, our soldiers found the seven bodies in the cellar lying in a pool of blood, several of them being horribly mutilated.  Madame X. had her right arm severed from her body; the little girl’s foot had been cut off, and the little boy of five had his throat cut.

At Louveigne a certain number of men were shut up in a blacksmith’s shop; in the afternoon the murderers opened the door as if it were a pigeon-shooting competition, drove the prisoners out, and shot them down—­a ghastly group of 17 corpses.

At Senlis the heroic Mayor, M. Odent, and six members of his staff were shot.

At Gerbeviller they forced their way into the house of M. and Madame Lingenheld; seized the son, aged 36, exempt from service, and wearing the badge of the Red Cross, tied his hands, dragged him into the street and shot him.  They then returned to look for the father, an old man of 70.  Meanwhile the mother, mad with terror, made her escape.  On coming out she saw her son lying on the ground.  As he still showed signs of life, they threw paraffin over him and roasted him.  The father was shot later on with fourteen other old men.  More than 150 victims were identified in this parish.

At Nomeny, M. Vasse provided shelter for a number of neighbours in his cellar.  Fifty soldiers got in and set fire to the house.  To escape the flames the refugees rushed out and were shot one by one as they emerged.  Mentre was killed first; his son Leon, with his little eight-year-old sister in his arms, fell next:  as he was not quite dead they put the barrel of a rifle to his ear and blew his brains out.  Then came the turn of a family named Kieffer.  The mother was wounded; the father, his boy and girl, aged respectively 10 and 3, were shot down.  They fell on them with fury.  Striffler, Guillaume, and Vasse were afterwards massacred.  Young Mlle. Simonin, 17 years old, and her small sister, afraid to leave their refuge in the cellar, were eventually driven out by the flames, and immediately shot at.  The younger child had an elbow almost blown off by a bullet; as the elder girl lay wounded on the ground, she was deliberately kicked by a soldier.  At Nomeny 40 victims were identified.