The officer asked
the woman for some water in good French. She went inside her
son's cottage to get some and brought it immediately he had
stopped. The officer went into the cottage garden and drank
the water. The woman then said, when she saw the prisoners,
'Instead of giving you water you deserve to be shot.' The
officer shouted to us, 'March.' We went on, and immediately I
saw the officer draw his revolver and shoot the woman and
child. One shot killed both."
Two old men and one old woman refused to bake bread for the
Germans. They were butchered.
Aug. 23--I went with two friends (names given) to see what we
could see. About three hours out of Malines we were taken
prisoners by a German patrol--an officer and six men--and
marched off into a little wood of saplings, where there was a
house. The officer spoke Flemish. He knocked at the door; the
peasant did not come. The officer ordered the soldiers to
break down the door, which two of them did. The peasant came
and asked what they were doing. The officer said he did not
come quickly enough and that they had "trained up" plenty of
others.
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