y of
the First Guards Regiment of Foot, and who during the campaign received
the Iron Cross, says, under date Aug. 10, 1914:

"A transport of 300 Belgians came through Duisburg in the
morning. Of these, eighty, including the Oberburgomaster, were
shot according to martial law."

Matbern of the Fourth Company of Jaegers, No. 11, from Marburg, states
that at a village between Birnal and Dinant on Sunday, Aug. 23, the
Pioneers and Infantry Regiment One Hundred and Seventy-eight were fired
upon by the inhabitants. He gives no particulars beyond this. He
continues:

"About 220 inhabitants were shot, and the village was burned.
Artillery is continuously shooting--the village lies in a
large ravine. Just now, 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the
crossing of the Meuse begins near Dinant. All villages,
chateaux and houses are burned down during the night. It is a
beautiful sight to see the fires all around us in the
distance."

Bombardier Wetzel of the Second Mounted Battery, First Kurhessian Field
Artillery Regiment, No. 11, records an incident which happened in French
territory near Lille on Oct. 11: "We had no fight, but we caught about
twenty men and shot them." By this time killing not in a fight would
seem to have passed into a habit.

Diary No. 32 gives an accurate picture of what took place in Louvain:

"What a sad scene--all the houses surrounding the railway
station completely destroyed--only some foundation walls still
standing. On the station square captured guns. At the end of a
main street there is the Council Hall which has been
completely preserved with all its beautiful turrets; a sharp
contrast: 180 inhabitants are stated to have been shot after
they had dug their own graves."

The last and most important entry is that contained in Diary No. 19.
This is a blue book interleaved with blotting paper, and contains no
name and address; there is, however, one circumstance which makes it
possible to speak with certainty as to the regiment of the writer. He
gives the names of First Lieutenant von Oppen, Count Eulenburg, Captain
von Roeder, First Lieutenant von Bock und Polach, Second Lieutenant
Count Hardenberg, and Lieutenant Engelbrecht. A perusal of the Prussian
Army list of June, 1914, shows that all these officers, with the
exception of Lieutenant Engelbrecht, belonged to the First Regiment of
Foot Guards. On Aug. 24, 1914, t