GERMANY'S CRIMES

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 4

GERMANY'S CRIMES

Recently the Paris coition of the New York ' Herald' learned from Goblenz that the German General Von Teeny, who at i the outbreak of wat was appointed Military Governor of Belgian Luxemburg, has been arrested at Treves and imprisoned at Metz. The exact nature of the charges to lie preferred against him is not at present known, but he will, the paper 1 adds, be held responsible for the summary execution of 112 inhabitants of the town of Arlon. j A Belgian official report on the crimes committed by the invading Huns in the I early days of the war mentioned, among ] other abominable outrages, that " 111 perI sons of the Communes of F.the and Rcs- ; simiol were publicly shot at Arlon." ! This is presumably the incident for which I General Von Tesny is regarded as respon- ; sible, and upon which the indictment to ! bs preferred against, him will be based. ', The summary execution at Arbn of_ these ' unfortunate peoaje was an aggravation of ! the bnvtal beheffiour of the Germans at ; Ethe and Ross-igncl, for both communes ; wero practically destroyed by fire, and at : the former 300 and at the latter 106 of the , inhabitants were shot. At Ethe, niore- \ over, according to the Belgian official report, it was found impossible to traou another 530 of .the population. On entering the villages the Germans first made for the cellars, which they sacked. Then they ran riot, indiscriminately slashing with their swords not only the pigs and poultry, but also the innocent civilians, and tiring at whatever mark, human or animal, that ! might offer. With judicial impartiality ' the official report attributed these crimes , either to drunkenness, pleasure at mflicti ing suffering, anger at the resistance of i the Belgian Army, or finally to the fact that the men had " received orders for systematic destruction from their superiors."