Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

inhabitants will be searched. Any person who has deliberately conceaietf money or tried to withhold goods from seizure by the military authorities, or who attempts to leave the town, will be' shotr~ ' The mayor and the hostages taken by the military authorities will be made responsible for the exact execution of .the above orders. The mayor is ordered to-publish these direction ß to the commune immediately. Henamenll. 3d September. 1914 GeneraFeoxMnanding, VON FASBENDER. [The motive of the present proclamation Is found in the German maxim that “Punr tshment is a proof of crime.” The heinous charges made, in the first paragraph, against the inhabitants Of Luneville are flatlj* denied. At Luneville there were 18 victims {including a boy of twelve shot and a woman of ninety-eight bayoneted), and 70 houses were burned.) ;

NOTICE TO THE POPULATION. In order sufficiently to insure the safety of our troops and the tranquillity of the population of Reims, the persons mentioned have been seized as hostages by the commander of the German army. These hostages will be shot If There is the least disorder. On the other hand, if the town remains perfectly calm and quiet, these hostages and inhabitants will be placed under the protection of the German army. THE GENERAT, COMMANDING. Reims, 12th September, 1914.

- NOTICE. ~ The persons mentioned below were condemned by the tribunal of the council of war and shot this same day at the citadel, namely: Eugene Jacquet, wholesale wine merchant. Ernest Deconinck, sub-lieutenant. > Georges Mnertehs. tradesman. Sylvere Verhulst, workman. 1. For having concealed the English aviator who alighted at Wattlgnies on the 11th of last March—for having given him shelter and facilitated his passage to France, so that he was able to return to the enemy’s lines. 2. For having maintained and assisted members of the enemy army who, after discarding their uniform, rejnained in Lille and its suburbs. and ‘iwtvingZenabtaT them Io escape into France. . ——* By the proclamation of the governor, of the 7th April, 1915, these two cases. espionage?- arebrought to tlie knowledge of rhe public in order that they may serve as a warning. —. THE GOVERNOR. Lille. 22d September. 1915. [Espionage is punishable with death—that is a commonly acknowledged rule of military law. But there are other services which the civil population of an occupied territory may perform for their arnetr and fefiow->ountrymenunder-arm« r which are absolutely distinct from espionage. of infinitely, less danger to the occupying power. The Germans wished to punish these”acts of service with the extreme penalty. They therefore “considered them as espionage.”]