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The use of women and even children as a screen for the protection of the German troops is referred to.... From the number of troops concerned, it must have been commanded or acquiesced in by officers, and in some cases the presence and connivance of officers is proved.
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Termonde.—Two hundred civilians were utilised as a screen by the German troops.
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Binnenstraat.—The civilians were utilised on Saturday, the 26th September, as a screen.
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Mons.—On August 24th men, women and children were actually pushed into the front of the German position outside Mons. The witness speaks of 16 to 20 women, about a dozen children and half a dozen men being there.
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At Tournai 400 Belgian civilians—men, women and children—were placed in front of the Germans, who then engaged the French.