1. German cavalry, occupying the village of Linsmeau, were attacked
by some Belgian infantry and two gendarmes. A German officer was
killed by our troops during the fight, and subsequently buried at
the request of the Belgian officer in command. None of the civilian
population took part in the fighting at Linsmeau. Nevertheless the
village was invaded at dusk Aug. 10 by a strong force of German
cavalry, artillery and machine guns. In spite of formal assurances
given by the Burgomaster that none of the peasants had taken part
in the previous fighting, two farms and six outlying houses were
destroyed by gun fire and burned. All the male population were
then compelled to come forward and hand over whatever arms they
possessed. No recently discharged firearms 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, Comm