The German terror in France

COVILLET, GILLY, FABCIENNES 57
which were empty except one. These bottles had
contained red wine." The father had been killed
by eight German artillery officers because he had
no bread in the house. They had killed the
mother after she had brought them the wine. A
few minutes later other Germans broke into the
house, carried off the young man to Charleroi,
and sent him with fifty other Belgian civilians in
cattle-trucks to Aix-la-Chapelle. Here, after
twelve days, a Bavarian soldier helped him to
escape. When he returned to Couillet he found
that his house had been burnt.
Other German troops advanced through
Boignêe^ where they shot a woman in a field,
and Pironcham-ps, 21 where they murdered four
civilians, including a man of sixty and a girl of
fifteen. At Gilly they murdered six civilians.
Two women were thrown into a cistern, and a
baker's wife had her jaw shattered by a bullet as
she was standing in her shop. Twenty-three
civilians were killed at Farciennes on the
Sambre. Three of them were over sixty years
old, three were children—one five months old and
in its mother's arms. At Châtelet n a proclamation,
signed by Baron von Maltzahn, Comman-
26 xxii p. 139.
37 xxii p. 137.
38 xxii pp. 138, 139.
29 xxii p. 140.
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