This communication is signed by Colonel Weyrach.
Postcards representing Belgian francs-tireurs were placed on sale at Cassel. The commander of the district writes:
"The commanding general of the XI Army Corps at Cassel has confiscated the cards."
Wagner Bauer, of the Prussian Ministry of War, writes of another tale:
"The story of the priest and the boy spreads as a rumor among troops on the march."
The Herner Zeitung, an official organ, in its issue of September 9, printed the following: "Among the French prisoners was a Belgian priest who had collected his parishioners in the church to fire from hiding on the German soldiers. Shame that German soil should be defiled by such trash! And to think that a nation which shields rascals of that sort dares to invoke the law of humanity!"
Frhr. von Bissing, commanding general of the VII Army Corps, writes:
"The story of a Belgian priest, reported by the Herner Zeitung does not answer at any point to the truth, as it has since been established. The facts have been communicated to the Herner Zeitung concerning their article."
The Hessische Zeitung prints the following under title of "Letters from the Front by a Hessian Instructor":
"The door of the church opens suddenly and the priest rushes out at the head of a gang of rascals armed with revolvers."