A Belgian soldier
belonging to a battalion of cyclist carbineers, who had been
wounded and made prisoner, was bound to a telegraph pole on the St.
Trond road and shot.
4. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, after an engagement at Haelen, Commandant
Van Damme, so severely wounded that he was lying on his back, was
finally murdered by German infantrymen firing their revolvers into
his mouth.
5. On Monday, Aug. 9, at Orsmael the Germans picked up Commandant
Knappen very seriously wounded, propped him against a tree and shot
him. Finally they hacked his corpse with swords.
6. Numerous soldiers, disarmed and unable to defend themselves,
have been ill-treated or killed by certain German soldiers. The
inquiry brings forth new facts of this kind every day.
7. In different places, notably at Hellonge-sur-Geer, at Barchon,
at Pontisse, at Haelen, at Zelk, German troops have fired on
doctors, nurses, ambulances, and ambulance wagons.
8. At Boncelles a body of German troops went into a battle carrying
a Belgian flag.
9. On Thursday, Aug. 6, before a fort at Liege, German soldiers
continued to fire on a party of Belgian soldiers, who were unarmed
and had been surrounded while digging a trench, after these had
hoisted the white flag.
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