From this day forward no further prisoners will be taken.  All prisoners will be massacred.  The wounded, whether in arms or not in arms, shall be massacred.  Even the prisoners already gathered in convoys will be massacred.  No living enemy must remain behind us.

     Signed—­First Lieutenant in Command of the Company, Stoy;
     Colonel Commanding the Regiment, Neubauer; General in Command
     of the Brigade, Stenger.

About thirty soldiers of Stenger’s Brigade (112th and 142d Regiments of Baden Infantry) were questioned.  I have read their depositions, taken under oath and signed with their own names; all confirming the fact that this order of the day was given to them on the 26th of August.  In one place by the Major Mosebach, in another by Lieut.  Curtius, &c.  Most of these witnesses said that they were ignorant whether the order was carried out, but three among them testified that it was carried out under their own eyes in the Forest of Thiaville, where ten or twelve wounded French, already made prisoners by a battalion, were done away with; two others of the witnesses saw the order carried out along the road of Thiaville, where several wounded, found in the ditches by the company as it marched past, were killed.

[Illustration:  Figure 13.]

Of course, I cannot here produce the original autograph of General Stenger, nor am I here called upon to furnish the names of the German prisoners who gave this testimony.  But I shall have no trouble to establish entirely similar crimes on the faith of German autographs.

For instance, we find in the notebook of Private Albert Delfosse (111th Infantry of Reserves, Fourteenth Reserve Corps,) (Fig. 13:)

     In the woods (near Saint-Remy, 4th or 5th of September)—­Found
     a very fine cow and a calf killed; and again the corpses of
     Frenchmen horribly mutilated.

Must we understand that these bodies were mutilated by loyal weapons, torn perhaps by shells?  This may be, but it would be a charitable interpretation, which is belied by this newspaper heading, (Figs. 14 and 15:)

     JAUERSCHES TAGEBLATT Amtlicher Anzeiger Fuer Stadt und Kreis
     Jauer Jauer, Sonntag, Den 18, Oktober, 1914.  Nr. 245. 106,
     Jahrgang.

This is a heading of a newspaper picked up in a German trench.  Jauer is a city of Silesia, about fifty kilometers west of Breslau, where two battalions of the 154th Regiment of Saxon Infantry are garrisoned.  One Sunday morning, Oct. 18, doubtless at the hour when the inhabitants—­women and children—­were wending their way to church, there was distributed throughout the quiet little town, and through the hamlets and villages of the district, the issue of this local paper with the following inscription:  “A day of honor for our regiment, Sept. 24, 1914,” as the title of an article of some two hundred lines, sent from the front by a member of the regiment—­the sub-officer Klemt of the First Company, 154th Infantry Regiment.