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ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE hand the wound was a month did

HUNS CRIMES.

PILLAGE AND MASSACRE AT ANDENNE.

MURDERS BY AXE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

engineer was also put opers, because be had in his pocket è spanner, which was considered as a weapon. Another man seems to have been arrested because his facb showed his contempt and rage at what was going on. Those people were shot in presence of the crowd and all died bravely

OFFICIAL REPORT OF GERMAN PEROCITY AND mass some forty or fifty men who were

·CRUELTY.

Another long and ghastly account of murders, pillage, and arson committed by the Germans in Belgium was issued by the Press Bureau on Formber 21st.

"It is a continuation report drawn up by a member of the Belgian Commission of Inquiry on the violation of the lights of Nations and of the Laws and Customs, and the following is the full text :-

Subsequently, the soldiere on the orders of their officers, picked out of the led off and all shot, some along the bank of the Meuse, and others in front of the police station.

HUMANE SOLDIER ERPROVED,

The rest of the man were kept for a long time in the Placo Among them lay two persons, one of whom had received a ball in the chest, and the other a bayonet wound. They lay face to the ground with blood from their wounds trickling into the dust, occasionally calling for water. The officers forbade their neighboure to give them any help. One soldier was reproved for having wished to give one of them his water-bottle. the course of the day.

Both died in

The town of Andeano is situated on the right bank of the Meuse between Namur and Huy. It is connected by bridge with the village of Seilies, which is built along the river on the opposite,

While this scene was going on in the or left, bank

The German troops who Place des Tilleuls, other soldiers spread wore wishing to invade the territory on themselves through the town, continuing the left bank of the Meuse arrived their work of sack, pillage, and arson, Andenne on Wednesday, August 19th, in the morning. Their advanco guard of Eight men belonging to the same house- hold were led out into a meadow some Uhlans found that the bridge was not fifty yards from their dwelling, some of available. A regiment of Belgian Infantry had blown it up at eight o'clock them were shot the rest cut down with One tall red-haired ΟΤΙ the same morning. The Uhlans blows of an axe. retired after having seized the Communal soldier with a scar on his face distin chish-box at Andenne and brutally guished himself by the ferocity with which A young boy and a maltreated the Burgemaster, Dr. Curr us, he used an axe. ww.old man of more than seventy years: woman were shot,

About ten in the morning the officers. The Burgomaster had several days. before taken the most minuto precautions told the women to withdraw, giving them to prevent the population from engaging bodies and to wash away the stains of the order to gather together the dead in hostilities. He had posted up every- where placards ordering non-resistance, blood which defiled the street and the All firearms had been collected in the houses. About midday the surviving men Hótel de Ville, and the local authorities to the number of 800 were shut up as had personally visited certain, of the hostages in three little houses near the johabitante to explain their duty to bridge, but they were not allowed to go out of them on any pretext, and were 80 them.

erammed together that they could not even sit down on the floor. Soon these crowded buildings reached highly insanitary condition: The women later in the day were allowed to bring food to their husbands Many of them, fear ing outrage had fled from the place. These hostages were not finally released till the Tuesday following.

ENTRY OF THE GERMANS.

The main body of the German troops arrived at Andeane in the afternoon, The regiment halted in the town and outside it, waiting for the completion of a pontoon bridge, which was not finished till the following morning. The first contact between the troops and the people was quite pacific. The Germans ordered The requisitions, which were satisfied. soldiers at first paid for their purchases and for the drink which they sorved to them in the cafés.

AN AWFUL RECORD.

The statistics of the losses at Andonne give the following total: Three hundred were massacred in Andenne and Seilles, ng the situation about 200 houses were burns in the Towards the evening the began to grow more strained. Whether two localities. A great number of inhabi it was that discipline was getting relaxed tants have fled. Almost every houea has or that alcohol commenced to produce its been sacked; indeed, the pillage did not effect, the soldiers ceased paying for what end for eight days. Other places have they were taking The inhabitants were suffered more than Andeane, but no other too scared to resist. No friction took Belgian town was the theatre of so maný

scenes of ferocity and cruelty. ⠀ place and the night was calm.

On Thursday, August 20th, the bridge was finished, and the troops defiled through the town in great numbers in the direction of the left bank. The inhabi- tants watched them passing from their house.

The numerous inhabitants whom we have cross-examized are unanimous in asserting that the German troops wore not fired upon.

They told us that no German soldier was killed either at Andenne or in its neighbourhood. They are incapable of understanding the causes PANTAT STARTLING EXPLOSION.

of the catastrophe which has ruined their Buddenly, at six o'clock in the evening, town, and to explain it they give various Some think that Andonne. a single rille shot was heard in the street,hypotheses. followed immediately by a startling explo was sacrificed merely to establish a reign sion. The troops halted, their ranks fell of terror, and qacte worde uttored by into disorder, and nervous men fired officers which seemed to them to show that of the place was haphazard. Presently a machine gun the destruction was set up at a corner and commenced premeditated. Others think that the to fire against the houses and later, a destruction of the bridge, the ruining of cangon dropped three ahells into the a neighbouring tunnel, and the resistance town at three different points of the Belgian troops were the causes of All protest that nothing At the first rifle shot the inhabitants the massacre. of the streets through which the troops happened in the place to excuse the

what might conduct of the Germans. were defiling, guessing happen, took refuge in their collars, or, climbing out over the walls of their gardens, sought refuge in the open country er in distant cellars. A certain number of people who would not or could not make their escape were killed in their houses by shots fired from the street, or in some cases by soldiers who burst into their dwellings,

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AMERICAN MATEM

THE ENGLIBE MALL"""

The P.M. str. China lefs Yokohama on Immediately afterwards commenced the the 24th December for Hongkong vin pillage of the houses in the principal Manila. The mails have been transferred streets of the town. Every window to the str. Kichirin Mary. shutter and door was broken in: Furni- ture was smashed and thrown out. The soldiers ran down into the cellars, got drank there, breaking the bottles of wine that they could not carry away. Finally, a certain number of houses were set on fire. During the night rifle shoot- ing broke out poveral times The terrified population lay low in their cellars.

MURDERS BY ARE.

Next day, Friday, August 21st, at four o'clock in the morning the soldiers spread themselves through the town, driving all the population into the streets and forcing men, women, and children to march before them with their hands in the air. Those who did not obey with -sufficient promptitude, or did not under stand the order given thera in German, Those were promptly locked down. who tried to run away were shot. It was at this moment that Dr. Camus, against whom the Germans seemed to have some special spite, was wounded by a rifle shot, and then finished off by a blow from an axe. His body was dragged along by the feet for some distance.

The P. & O. str. Arcadia left-Singapore for this port on the 27th December, p.m., with the ontward English mails, and is due here on the lat January, at about 7 a.m.

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Whereas by sub-Clause 10 of Clause 11. Halibut-Cheung Exán Kup of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Labrus-Wong Fa Yn Victoria-in-Council made on the 26th day Lunch-Wa Yu...... of October, 1896, which was proclaimed in Lobsters Long Ha this Colony on the 6th day of August, 1914, Mackeral-Chi Tu it is enacted that the Governor may by Monk Fish-Mong Yu proclamation prescribe the maximum prica Müller Chal In...... for which any article of food may be sold Oystera-Sang Ho

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