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CHAPTER XII
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OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN, OLD PEOPLE AND PRIESTS
The plea of reprisals1 is no more valid2 in the case of children, old people and priests than it is in the case of women. All these classes of people have a right to consideration and to absolute respect from the invader3. Every crime committed against them can bear no other name than wanton cruelty.
In the foregoing pages we have seen how children were killed with their mothers, and old women were outraged5 and killed. We must now unfold the chapter of crimes against the weak and against those whose character should have saved them from the violences of war. Ill-treatment, imprisonment7, wounds, murder, torture—all these we hardly like to think that children, the personification of weakness and innocence8, have had to suffer. Such has been the cruelty of the German troops in the field, that what has moved all men’s interest and compassion9 has, in several cases, only urged them on the more readily to violence.
Belgian and French Children ill-treated, wounded and killed
We have already told the story of the ill-treatment to which six to eight thousand people, who were packed together standing10 in the riding-school and had to pass the night there, were exposed at Louvain. A number of children were included in these. Several endured[118] great hardships, and the youngest died in their mothers’ arms. At Dinant, in the slaughter11 which took place, several children were massacred.
In other cases we see that children were exposed to exceptional acts of violence. “On the way back from Tirlemont,” writes the special correspondent of the Times (29th August, 1914), “I met a little girl of eleven years old, who was stumbling and groping before her as if blind. A stroke of a lance had laid open her cheek and her eye. A poor peasant woman, her face wet with tears, told me that her husband had been killed in her presence by German horsemen, that two of her children, who were under nine years of age, had been
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outskirts
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wretches
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cannon
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eldest
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hostilities
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clergy
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