Show I I WOMEN RAVISHED By INVADERS SAY FRENCH Murder of Civilians Arson and Pillage Charged by Commission I PARIS Jan 5 r- r m. m m. The The commission com corn ml mission lon appointed on September 23 to InQ In In- Q Into accusations Genn German n officers core cers had acted savagely and nd Inhumanly against French civilians and soldiers says saya In its report made public t today b by the French ca cabinet Wo We must conclude e that there thero never j I ha has haB been en a war bet between een civilized nations of ot so sa avage aa e and ferocious a character as that tha l waged faed upon our soil Mil b by our Implacable Im hit- adversary adversary- Pillage ge ravishing burning murder are nrc ordinary practices cs of our enemies O and facts collected In many many- cases prove that the G German cl claims that the killing of ot civilians civIlIan was Trac due duc to lo tIring firing of or the thc population are unfounded We Vc found of or the existence In th the German arm array army not only of or a a. systematic plan for burning villages cs but the posses pones won Blon of or elaborate material for Cor or this thia purpose purpose pur PUT pose including torches grenades fuses sticks stick of ot Inflammable matter mattor matterand matterand oil sprayers etS and sacks of or tablets composed of or very ery In Inflammable Inflammable In- In flammable compressed d power Th Tho commission elo affirms that It has lias distinguished distinguished dis dis- 1 carefully between fires tires ca caused nd b by bombardments on and those these raid to to tol l have ae been set et by hand when han no no fighting W was S in pro progress es It is stated that the object was to In intimidate mi ate the ho population thus spread spreading lag ing terror and panic ahead of oC the Imad ers or of women and gIrls were ere so frequent that tho the number of oC cases established W was 5 onI only a B email part of ot those which might have been Investigated tho the commission says The victims of ot these odious acts generally refused refuse to testify because It would compromise their fu future u- u U- U ture turL The cabinet has be ecu been n withholding the tho report of or the commission because it Is said wd it did not desire further to excite public feeling It was only upon th the tho demand do- do mand of or Georges Geores CI Clemenceau men tho the former pre premier ll i and others that nUl t tho the cabinet decided de de- ie d clde-d to mal make c public the tho report The Tha c conclusions of ot the tho commission form about twenty n newspaper w columns column They review re review detail In In detail Instance which the commission commission com corn mission says were established under oath from witnesses examined under the usual I form of or judicial proc procedure ure |