ing ourselves as to their accuracy.

During our stay at Nancy and Luneville, we had the opportunity of
receiving a good deal of evidence with reference to crimes committed
by the Germans in districts which were still occupied by their troops,
and which the majority of the inhabitants had been forced to evacuate.
The most cruel of these acts took place at the village of Embermenil.
At the end of October or the beginning of November, an enemy patrol
met near this commune a young woman, Mme. Masson, who was obviously
pregnant, and questioned her as to whether there were French soldiers
at Embermenil. She replied that she did not know, which was true. The
Germans then entered the village and were received by our soldiers
with rifle fire. On the 5th of November a detachment of the Fourth
Bavarian Regiment arrived and collected all the inhabitants in front
of the church. An officer then asked which person it was who had
betrayed them. Suspecting that he referred to her meeting with the
Germans some days before, and realizing the danger that all her
fellow-citizens ran, Mme. Masson with great courage stepped forward
and repeated what she had said, and declared that in saying it she had
acted in good faith. She was immediately seized and forced to sit down
on a bench beside young Dime, aged 24, who had been taken haphazard as
a second victim. The whole population begged for mercy for the unhappy
woman, but the Germans were inflexible. "One woman and one man," they
said, "must be shot. Those are the Colonel's orders. What will you?
It is war." Eight soldiers drawn up in two ranks fired three times at
the two martyrs in the presence of the whole village. The house of
Mme. Masson's father-in-law was then set on fire. That of M. Blanchin
had been burned a few moments before.

Mme. Millot of Domevre-sur-Vezouze has described to us the murder of
her nephew, Maurice Claude, aged 17, of which she was an eyewitness.
On the 24th of August, at the moment when the Germans arrived at
Domevre, this young lad was with his family in his father's house, at
the foot of a staircase, when he saw that soldiers were aiming at him
from the street. He stepped aside to shield himself, but was not able
to find shelter, and was struck by three bullets. Wounded in the
stomach, in the buttock, and in the thigh, he died three days later,
after having displayed admirable resignation. When he knew that he was
dying he said to his disconsolate mother, "I can