were found.  Nevertheless the invaders divided these peasants into three groups.  Those in one group were bound and eleven of them placed in a ditch, where they were afterward found dead, their skulls fractured by the butts of German rifles.

2.  During the night of Aug. 10 German cavalry entered Velm in great numbers; the inhabitants were asleep.  The Germans without provocation fired on Mr. Deglimme-Gever’s house, broke into it, destroyed furniture, looted money, burned barns, hay, corn stacks, farm implements, six oxen, and the contents of the farm-yard.  They carried off Mme. Deglimme half-naked to a place two miles away.  She was then let go and fired upon as she fled; without being hit.  Her husband was carried away in another direction and fired upon; he is dying.  The same troops sacked and burned the house of a railway watchman.

3.  Farmer Jef Dierchx of Neerhespen bears witness to the following acts of cruelty committed by German cavalry at Orsmael and Neerhespen on Aug. 10, 11, and 12.  An old man of the latter village had his arm sliced in three longitudinal cuts; he was then hanged head downward and burned alive.  Young girls have been raped and little children outraged at Orsmael, where several inhabitants suffered mutilations too horrible to describe.  A Belgian soldier belonging to a battalion of cyclist carbineers, who had been wounded and made prisoner, was bound to a telegraph pole on the St. Trond road and shot.

4.  On Wednesday, Aug. 12, after an engagement at Haelen, Commandant Van Damme, so severely wounded that he was lying on his back, was finally murdered by German infantrymen firing their revolvers into his mouth.

     5.  On Monday, Aug. 9, at Orsmael the Germans picked up Commandant
     Knappen very seriously wounded, propped him against a tree and shot
     him.  Finally they hacked his corpse with swords.

     6.  Numerous soldiers, disarmed and unable to defend themselves,
     have been ill-treated or killed by certain German soldiers.  The
     inquiry brings forth new facts of this kind every day.

     7.  In different places, notably at Hellonge-sur-Geer, at Barchon,
     at Pontisse, at Haelen, at Zelk, German troops have fired on
     doctors, nurses, ambulances, and ambulance wagons.

     8.  At Boncelles a body of German troops went into a battle carrying
     a Belgian flag.

9.  On Thursday, Aug. 6, before a fort at Liege, German soldiers continued to fire on a party of Belgian soldiers, who were unarmed and had been surrounded while digging a trench, after these had hoisted the white flag.

10.  On Thursday, Aug. 10, at Vootem, near the Fort of Loncin, a group of German infantry hoisted the white flag.  When Belgian soldiers approached to take them prisoners the Germans suddenly opened fire on them at close range.

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