16. General Heindrich, commander of the German troops at Lille, who, by exorbitant requisitions, reduced the population of this town to starvation, and made away with the appeal for help which the mayor of Lille, on his own advice, had addressed to the President of the Swiss Republic.
17. General Stenger, commander of a brigade in France, who issued the well-known order of the day giving instructions to kill the wounded and to execute prisoners of war.
18. Lieutenant-general Nisher. He demanded of the little town of Wavre the exorbitant war-contribution of 3,000,000 francs, which General Bülow had imposed. “The town of Wavre will be burnt and destroyed if payment is not made in good time, without respect of persons—the innocent will suffer with the guilty.”
19. General Sixtus of Arnim, commander of the 4th German army corps, who mulcted the town of Brussels and the province of Brabant in the monstrous contribution of 500,000,000 francs.
20. General von Bissing, commander of the 7th German army corps, who, in a proclamation to his troops in Belgium, told them that when “civilians take upon them to fire on us, the innocent must suffer with the guilty”; that “the German authorities have on several occasions in their instructions to the troops said that human life must not be spared in repressing such acts”; that “it is doubtless regrettable that houses, flourishing villages, and even whole towns should be destroyed, but this must not cause us to be carried away by feelings of misplaced pity. All that is not worth the life of a single German soldier.”
21. General de Doehm, commander of the 9th German army corps. When an American journalist of The World and Mr. Gibson, secretary of the United States Embassy at Brussels, told him they had seen the bodies of mutilated women and children at Louvain, this general replied that such incidents were “inevitable in street fighting.” The American journalist remarked that a woman’s body had the feet and hands cut off; that of an old man showed twenty-two bayonet thrusts in the face; that an old man’s body had been found hanging by his hands to the beams of his house, and that he had been burnt alive by lighting a fire underneath him. All that General de Doehm could say was that he was not responsible.
22. Baron Merbach, who, with Prince Eitel and the Duke of Brunswick, took part in looting a château near Liège.
23. The Duke of Gronau. After the château of Villers, Notre Dame, in Belgium, had been occupied by his headquarters he himself caused the following to be taken and sent to Germany: 146 sets of cutlery, 236 silver-gilt spoons, 3 gold watches, 9 savings-bank deposit books, 1500 bottles of wine, 62 hens, 32 ducks, evening clothes, works of art, and a quantity of baby linen.
24 and 25. Count Zichy and Baron Sardas, who presided over the pillage from the estate, château, and farm of M. Budny, in South Prussia, of property to the value of 100,000 roubles.
26. Colonel Goeppel, Professor at the Academy of War in Berlin, who compelled the Lille “Croix” to pay a sum of 150,000 francs for calling the German army “a flood of Teutons.”