“For a certain time the Germans did not requisition milk and allowed it to be sold, but now this is forbidden under a fine of 1,000 marks or three months’ imprisonment.  Recently WIGNEHIES was fined 100,000 frcs., and as the whole of this sum was not paid the Germans inflicted punishment as follows:  Several inhabitants of WIGNEHIES were caught in the act of disobeying by the gendarmes and were struck, and bitten by the police dogs of the gendarmes because they refused to denounce the sellers....  Brutal treatment is due more to the gendarmes than to the soldiers.  About six weeks ago Marceau Horlet of WIGNEHIES was found, on a search by the gendarmes, to have a piece of meat in his possession.  He was brutally beaten by them and bitten by the police dogs because he refused to say who had given it to him.  In 1915, the youth Remy Vallei of WIGNEHIES, age 15, was walking in the street after 6-9 p.m., which was forbidden; he was seen by two gendarmes and ran away.  He was straightway killed, receiving six revolver bullets in his body.”

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“At PIGNICOURT during the Champagne offensive the village was bombarded by the French, who were attempting to destroy the railway lines and bridges.  The Commandant, by name Krama, of the Kdr, forced men and youths, and even women, to fill up the holes made by the bombardment during the action.  A German general passed and reprimanded them on the ground that there was danger to the civilians; they were withdrawn for the moment, but sent back as soon as the general had left.”

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“As regards the Hispano-American revictualling, it may be said with truth that without this the population of Northern France would have died of hunger, for the Germans considered themselves liberated from any responsibility.  During the first months of the war before this Committee started, the Germans put up posters saying that the Allies were trying to starve Germany, who in turn was not obliged to feed the invaded territory....  When informant (who is from st. Quentin) left at the general evacuation of this town, no requisition bonds were given for household goods.  As the inhabitants left, their furniture was loaded on to motor lorries and taken to the station, whence it was sent by special train to Germany.  This shows clearly that requisition bonds issued by the Germans show only the small proportion of what has been suffered by the inhabitants....  Informant was the witness of the execution of French civilians whose only fault was either to hide arms or pigeons:  several who had committed these infractions of requisitions were shot, and the Germans announced the fact by poster of a blood-red colour.  In other cases the men shot were British prisoners who had dressed in civil clothes on the arrival of the Germans.  Informant had a long conversation with one of them before his execution.  He told informant how he had been unable