their trenches. The distance between the trenches of the
opposing forces was about 400 yards. I should say about fifty
or sixty of our men had been left lying on the field from our
trenches. After we got back to them I distinctly saw German
soldiers come out of their trenches, go over the spots where
our men were lying, and bayonet them. Some of our men were
lying nearly half way between the trenches."

Another says:

"The Germans advanced over the trenches of the headquarters
trench, where I had been on guard for three days. When the
Germans reached our wounded I saw their officer using his
sword to cut them down."

Another witness says:

"Outside Ypres we were in trenches and were attacked, and had
to retire until reinforced by other companies of the Royal
Fusiliers. Then we took the trenches and found the wounded,
between twenty and thirty, lying in the trenches with bayonet
wounds, and some shot. Most of them, say three-quarters, had
their throats cut."

In one case, given very circumstantially, a witness tells how a party of
wounded British soldiers were left in a chalk pit, all very badly hurt,
and quite unable to make resistance. One of them, an officer, held up
his handkerchief as a white flag, and this

"attracted the attention of a party of about eight Germans.
The Germans came to the edge of the pit. It was getting dusk,
but the light was still good, and everything clearly
discernible. One of them, who appeared to be carrying no arms
and who, at any rate, had no rifle, came a few feet down the
slope into the chalk pit, within eight or ten yards of some of
the wounded men."

He looked at the men, laughed, and said something in German to the
Germans who were waiting on the edge of the pit. Immediately one of them
fired at the officer, then three or four of these ten soldiers were
shot, then another officer and the witness, and the rest of them.

"After an interval of some time I sat up and found that I was
the only man of the ten who were living when the Germans came
into the pit remaining alive and that all the rest were dead."

Another witness describes a painful case in which five soldiers, two
Belgians and three French, were tied to trees by German soldiers
apparently drunk, who stuck knives in their faces, pricked them with
their bayonets, and ultimately shot the