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well as I do that the Germans do not respect
the Red Cross either on the arm of a doctor
or when flying over an ambulance. The
proofs against them now are too numerous
to leave any doubt as to their wanton
violation of the Geneva Convention. I saw with
my own eyes up in the wood a Red Cross
doctor lying dead with a bayonet through
his chest by the side of a soldier he was
evidently just attending to—he was still
holding a roll of bandages in his hand. As
to the Red Cross flag, it is not many days
since they shelled the ambulance in Rheims,
killing seventeen wounded and three nurses.
The building stands all by itself and was most
easily distinguishable with its big Red Cross
flag from Nogent de L’Abbesse, where their
battery was placed. We all know that
in modern artillery it is easy with map and
compass to bombard a town quite
systematically and drop the shell exactly where you
want it. It was the same with our village;
there were no troops here and only women
and children left. They dropped the shells
on us just the same for mere lust of murder
and destruction. That the church escaped
is no merit of theirs, for one of their shells
dug a hole four mètres deep in the cemetery,
and short of hands as we were we had to use
it as a grave for burying our first dead.
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