Gleason, in the
'New York Tribune' of November 25, 1915."
From the Bryce Report, English edition, Page 167.
_British subject_:--
"The girl was at the point of death. Mr. G---- was with me and can
corroborate me as to this and also as to the other facts mentioned
below. On the same day at the same place I saw one L. de M----. I took
this statement from him.... He signed his statement in my pocket book,
and I hold my pocket book at the disposal of the Belgian and English
authorities.
"I also saw at the hospital an old woman of eighty who was run clean
through by a bayonet thrust.
"I next went up to another wounded Belgian in the same ward. His name
was F. M----. I wrote his statement in my pocket book and he signed it
after having read it."
The full statement in the Bryce Report of the atrocities which I
witnessed covers a page. The above sentences are extracts. Mr. Niemira
had neglected to make a note of the exact date in his pocket book, and
calls it "about the 15th of September." It was September 29.
[C] If any one wants a history of them, and the world ought to want it,
the book of their acts, is it not written in singing prose in Le
Goffic's "Dixmude, un Chapitre de l'histoire des Fusiliers Marins"? Le
Goffic is a Breton and his own son is with the fighting sailors. He
deals with their autumn exploits in Dixmude on the Yser, that butt-end
of wreck.
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