On Tuesday the Belgian Minister in London issued through the
Press Bureau a list of terrible acts said to have been committed by German troops in Belgium. The outrages are vouched for by a Belgian Committee of Inquiry, consisting of the highest judicial and academic authorities, such as Chief Justice Van Iseghem, Judge Nys, and Professors Cottier and Wodon :—
"German cavalry occupying the village of Linsmeau were attacked by some Belgian infantry and two gendarmes. No one of the civilian population took part in the fighting. . . . All the male inhabitants were then compelled to come forward and hand over whatever arms they possessed. No recently discharged fire- arms were found. The invaders divided these peasants into three groups, those in one group were bound, and eleven of them placed in a ditch, where they were afterwards found dead, their skulls fractured by the butts of German rifles. During the night of August 10th German cavalry entered Velm. The inhabitants were asleep. The Germans, without provocation, fired on M. Deglimme-Grevers's house... . They carried off Mrs. Deglimme, half-naked, to a place two miles away. She was then let go, and was fired upon as she fled without being hit. Her husband was carried away in another direction and fired upon. He is dying."
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