All evidence and proceedings have been printed and fill up ten heavy
volumes.
Among many depositions, the following one, taken the twenty-third of
October, 1915, at Paris, will give an idea of the horrors to which the
invaded regions of France were submitted.
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Duren Virginie, wife of Berard Durem, 29 years of age, inhabitant of
Jarny in the Department of Meurthe et Moselle, a refugee at
Levallois-Perret:
I swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
On the 25th of August, 1914, the sixty-sixth and
sixty-eighth Bavarian regiments were quartered together at
Jarny. I was ordered to bring water for the soldiers, so
went in search of a large number of water pails. At three
o'clock in the afternoon an officer, who met me, told me I
had carried enough water and ordered me to go back to my
house. As the Germans were firing on our house with
mitrailleuses, I took refuge in the cellar with my two sons,
Jean, aged six, and Maurice, aged two, and also my daughter
Jeanne, nine years of age. The Aufiero family was also
there. Soon petrol was poured over the house; it got into
the cellar through the air-hole, and we were surrounded by
flames.
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