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At Heure le Romain ... some bedridden old men were imprisoned in the church.
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Andenne.—A paralytic was murdered in his garden.
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Beaumetz.—They saw two old men—between 60 and 70 years of age—and one old woman lying close to each other in the garden. All three had the scalps cut right through.... They were still bleeding.
5. THE USE OF CIVILIANS AS SCREENS.
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The Committee had before them a considerable body of evidence with reference to the practice of the Germans of using civilians and sometimes military prisoners as screens from behind which they could fire upon the Belgian troops, in the hope that the Belgians would not return the fire for fear of killing or wounding their own fellow-countrymen.