andant
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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II.

Report on Aerschot.

Antwerp, Aug. 28, 1914.

The commission of inquiry on violation of the laws of nations and the
laws and customs of warfare, after an impartial and careful
investigation, can make the following report of its findings:

It appears from precise and concurring testimony that in the entire
region of Aerschot the Germans have committed veritable atrocities. The
majority of the population fled in terror. On their passage the German
troops set fire to farms and houses and furniture, shooting inoffensive
citizens whom they found along the road or who were working in the
field.

At Hersselt, north of Aerschot, thirty-two houses of the village were
set on fire; the miller and his son, who fled, and about twenty-one
other persons were killed; and all this while no Belgian troops were
visible.

The German troops penetrated into Aerschot, a town of 8,000 inhabitants,
on Wednesday, Aug. 19, in the morning. No Belgian forces remained
behind. No sooner did the Germans enter the town than they shot five or
six inhabitants whom