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BY MAURICE MATERLINEK
The Belgian Government published last year a Reply to the German White Book of May 10th, 1915.
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At that moment, says Madame Tielemans in her sworn deposition, the arms filled with hottles of wine. They soldiers wore leaving our house, their opened the windows and removed all the contents of our coms. I turned away so
· This reply gives peremptory denial,, is not to hehid the pillage. By the lurid
White Book on the subject of france upon my bed by some other i one by one, to all the allegations in the light of the burning houses, my eyes fell tireurs, of attacks by civilians, and of brother-in-law, the Belgian women's cruelty to the Cier gentlemen, who were being led to exces man prisoners and wounded. It contains
tion Never shail forget the sight nor an aggregate of authentic and overwhehu. the look on the face of my husband seek- ing evidence upon the massacres ating his house for the last time and asking Andenne, Dinant, Louvain and Aerschot, himself what had befallen his wife and which enables history here and not to daughter, while I lest I should sup his pronotince itų verdict with even greater courage, could not call out. I am here !' " certainty than the most scrupulous jury The hours passed. The women were of a criminal court,
driven out of the town and led like a Among the most frightful incidenta herd of cattle along a road strewn with reported in these accounts by eye wit corpses to a distant meadow, where they noses, I would finger to-day upon only two were penned until morning. The men of those which marked the sack of Aers were arrested and their hands tied behind chot not that they are more odious or their backs with copper wire so cruelly crap than the others on the contrary, tightened as to draw blood. They were beside the unprovoked murders and whole gathered into groups and made to tie sale executions at Andenne, Dinant, and down in such a way that their heads Louvain, which are of unsurpassable touched the ground and they were nuable horror, "they seem almost kindly--but to make any movement. The night was seleet ihan for the very reason that the spent in this way, with the town burning display more clearly than in its stand the pillage and orgy continuing
Excesses what may call the Between to and six in the morning and the abominable things which it does exventions should begin and that one of
entulity of the German army the military authorities decided that the| when it believes itself to be acting with the largest groups of prisoners, composed justice moderation and humanity. of about a hundred civilians, should be select
Them
above all because they show present at the death of the burgemaster, us the admirable and touching state of his son and his brother. An officer as displayed amidst a terrible informed the be gemaster that his hour orden, of a little Belgian city, the most had come
On hearing innocent of all the victims of this war, citizen of Aurschot, Claes van Nuffel by words, a and offer for our contemplation two name went up to the officer, begged him instances of simple and heroic self-sacri to spare Monsieur Tielemans se and fice which have escaped notice, and which offered to die in his stead. He added that it is well to bring to light, for they are he was the burgonaster's political adver as beautiful as the most splendid examples sary, lint that he considered that, at this in the fairest
forest pages of
of Plutarch.
noment. Monsie. Tielemans was essen- tial to the town.
these
"No, replied the officer, harshly, want the burgomaster. "W.
be
W
Aerschot is a humble and happy little town in Fremish Brabant, one of thow modest, unknown clusters of habitations Monsieur Tielemans stood up, thanked: which, like Dinant, for over to be regrut --Monsieur van Nuffet and said that he ted and buried in the past, nobody used yould die with an easy mind, as he had. to visil, because they contained no build. spent his existence doing all the good in ings of note, but which retained, and his represented all the more in the depths of power, and that he would not beg for He entiated, however, that the their kilence and their placid isolation, ves of his fellow citizens and of his son, Flemish life in its most special, intense, traditional, suave and percaya boy of 15 and his mathit's Inst cur
solation, should
The offi spared. aspect. In the half-rustic little cities grinned and made no reply. The burgo we find hardly any industrica, at most master's brother next asked for money, a malt kiln, or two, a commill, an oil not for himself but his brother and li works, A
chicory factory.
is
nephew. His request felf on deaf ears. The lid he got up and took his place between his inther and bis uncle. Six soldiers took aim at ten yeads distance; the officer. lowered his sword and us the widow of the heroe burgomaster says,
the best in this world was no more.”
whe
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It was here in this peaceful sojourn of immemorial tranquillity, which not even the war had hitherto disturbed below the surface, that on August 19th, 1914, at nine o'clock in the morning, after the retreat of the last Belgian soldiers, the market-square was suddenly invaded by a dense and endless stream of German troops. The burgomaster's son, a-lad of 15, hurried to close the Venetian shutters of his father's house and was wounded in the leg by one of the bullets which the victors fired at random through the win dows
dont ten o'clock the Gorman officer in command sent for the burgomaster, Moa siour Tieleninas, to appear at the town ball. He was received with insults, hustled and abused for a “schweinhund ? or pig-dog- an animal, app
ly
genous to
to Germany Pparently indi Thereafter, Colonel Stenger, command- ins the 8th Infantry Brigade, and two aides de camp took up their quarters in the burgomaster's house in the market square and, I may add in passing, forth with broke open all the drawers in their rooms, after which they went to the balcony and watched the march past of their troops. r
At four o'clock in the afternoon. obsessed by the delusion of franestireurs, some soldiers, seized with panic, began to fire shots in the streets. The colonel, standing on the balcony, was hit by a German bullet and fell. One of the aides de-camp rushed downstairs shouting:-
The
colonel burzomaster islamano
I is dead!" "I want the felt that his time This is a serious matter for me," he
Monsieur was come
said to his wife.
I will now quote from the evidence of Monsieur Gustare Nys, an eye witness of the horrible dram, which nearly nun- bored him among its victions
age,
The other civilians were thereu placed in rows of three. The third in each row was to leave it and fall in behind the dead bodice, in order to be shot. All the civilians had their hands tiea behind their backs. My brother and stood next to each other; I was number two; my brother Omer, 20 years of was number three. I asked the officer,
May I change places with my brother 1; It makes no difference to you who falls under your bullets; but it dons to my mother, who is a widow, for my brother has finished his studies and is more useful to her than I am." Once again he refused to listen to my prayer. Fall out, num- ber three. My brother and I embraced, and he joined the others. There were thirty of them, drawn up in line. Then
soldiers, walking, slowly along his row, killed three at each discharge of their rifles, waiting between the rollers for the officer's word of command.”
horrible scene took place the German
Incidents such as those would pass unperceived if one did not take the trouble to seek them out and to collect then posely amid the huge mass of tragedies which for more than three years have upset and ravaged the unhappy country tortured by its invaders. ·Hud⋅ they occurred in the history of Greece or Rome they would have found a place among the great deeds that honour our carth and deserve to live for ever in the emory of man. It is our duty to make them known for a moment and to
engrave in our recollection the names of those who were their heroes. Thus set down, simply and plainly us befts historic truth, in depositions sworn under oath before a
nameless registrar who has stripped them of any literary or sentimental embellish ment, they give at first but a very faint ides of the intensity of the tragedy and
the value of the sacrifice. There is here
no question of a glorious death, faced amid the excitement of the fighting un vast battlefield. Nor are we consider, 10g an indefinite or overhanging menace, or uncertain, remote, and perhaps avoidable danger. We have to do with an obscure solitary, horrible and immin barrels are there, aimed almost point- blank,
ready upon u sign of the officer-
She squeezed his hand and urged him STEAM to keep courage The burgomaster was arrested and ill-treated by the soldiers In vain his wife remarked to the captain that her husband and son could not have fred,
Bins they possessed no weaponent death in a ditch; and the six ride.
makes no difference, the bally in uniform, he's
responsible. he added, I want your son who accepts your offer to change you, in This son was the boy your she had wh been wounded in the leg. As he had a a second, into a heap of bleeding Besh and difficulty in Wally jostled before his region which man dreads all the more wound, he was
because of his to send you to the unknown terrible mother's eyes and escorted with kicks to There is not a momenti interval nor a when he is still full of strength and life, the town hall, there to join his father. gleam of hops between question and
Meanwhile this same captain, persisting in his contention that his men had been and death with all its horrors. There is answer, between existence with all its joys fired upon, compelled Madame. Tielemans to go through the house with him, from o encouragement, no word or gesture of sellar to attic. He was obliged to observe stiranlation or support to reward; in an that all the rooms were empty, and all the instant all is given in exchange for windows closed. Throughout this inspec. nothing; it is sheer self-sacrifice standing tion be threatened the poor woman with naked and so pure that we are surprised his revolver Her daughter placed her its beauty
that not even Germans were conquered by self between her mother and their sinister sisitor, who did not understand. When returned to the hill downstairs the mother asked him
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A few days after the events which I have narrated, on August 23rd, 1914, What is to become of us!"
Dinant became the scene of wholesale Coldly, he replied
massacre which involved exactly 605 You will be
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so will your daugh victims, including 11 children under five ter and your servants,
years old, The pillage and the methodical set and 71 women.
of ages between 10 and 15, ting on fire of the town now began All Nothing can give an idea of the horror the houses on the right hand side of the and infamy of these massacres, which form square were in flames From time to one of the most disrgaceful and terrible time, the soldiers apostrophised the page in the long and monstrous history women, shouting
of Teuton shame. But it is not my pur- pose to speak of this for the moment. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de 1 There would be too much to tell. Daily Mattos. Copyright U.S.A 1917
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