WHO ARE THE HUNS?

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searching the battlefield for the wounded, had been fired upon
by French Infantry without any attention being paid to the
badges of the Red Cross. This took place at Maixe on August
26th.
In Appendix 13 the head of the supply base at Valenciennes,
Count Reichenbach, reports that he was attacked while transporting
wounded in a region which was usually considered
quite safe. His detachment consisted of thirteen volunteer
male nurses and the attack was made by the civil population
despite the visible Red Cross badges. Six men were killed and
one injured.
On the 2nd of September stretcher-bearers and ambulances
of the 2nd Sanitary Corps of the 10th Division of Infantry
were furiously fired upon by the French near St. Remy, at a
distance of not more that 50 metres. Several Frenchmen ran
directly towards the wagon, shot three of the wounded men
that were inside this, the corporal in charge of the wagon,
the driver and the two horses. There were 8 dead and 9 seriouslywounded
men in the company as a result.
Five ambulance men who had been left behind in Baccarat
to take charge of the German and the French wounded who
could not be moved, were brought by the French military
authorities to Rambervillers on the 14th of September and
were there treated as prisoners. A French gendarme took away
their badges of neutrality. The doctor who brought in this
report was taken into Switzerland from Rambervillers. But in
spite of the pleas of the doctor in their behalf the five ambulance
men were held back, the only explanation given being
this: "ce ne sont plus vos hommes."
It is with indignation that the Imperial German Government
brings to the attention of the public this revelation of
the treatment to which German wounded, German Medical
Corps formations and the German Medical personnel were subjected—a
treatment that mocks at all the laws of humanity
as well as those of the nations. It hereby makes a formal protest
against these unheard-of violations of those international
agreements entered into by all civilized countries."
I have merely made a short extract from the original
German memorial which consists of 79 large pages of print.
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