In a cafe a young man, also killed with the bayonet, was holding his
hands together as if in the attitude of supplication.
Two young women were lying in the back yard of the house. One had her
breasts cut off, the other had been stabbed.
A young man had been hacked with the bayonet until his entrails
protruded. He also had his hands joined in the attitude of prayer.
In the garden of a house in the main street bodies of two women were
observed, and in another house the body of a boy of 16 with two bayonet
wounds in the chest.
SEMPST.
In Sempst a similar condition of affairs existed. Houses were burning
and in some of them were the charred remains of civilians.
In a bicycle shop a witness saw the burned corpse of a man. Other
witnesses speak to this incident.
Another civilian, unarmed, was shot as he was running away. As will be
remembered, all the arms had been given up some time before by order of
the Burgomaster.
The corpse of a man with his legs cut off, who was partly bound, was
seen by another witness, who also saw a girl of 17 dressed only in a
chemise, and in great distress. She alleged that she herself and other
girls had been dragged into a field, stripped naked, and violated, and
that some of them had been killed with the bayonet.
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