Show behaved like vandals august 17 in the afternoon I 1 had a look at the little chateau belonging to one of the kings secretaries not at home our men had behaved like regular vandals they had looted the cellar first and then they had turned their attention to the bedrooms and thrown things about nil all over the place they had even maile made fruitless efforts to smash the safe open everything was topsy magnificent furniture silk bilk and oven even china what happens when the men are allowed to requisition for themselves I 1 am sure they must have taken away a heap of ea useless stuff elul simply for 11 the pleasure of I 1 looting august ath crossed frontier inhabitants on border cry good to us and rive give us many things there Is no difference noticeable august sunday between birnal and dinant village of Dl DI songe at 11 the order comes to ad vance after the artillery has thorough up prepared the ground ahead the pioneers and infantry regiment were luar marching cuing in front of us near a small N the latter x were ere fired on by the inhabitants about inhabitants were shot and the village was burnt artillery is continuously shooting the village lies in a large ravine just now six in the afternoon the crossly cros crossing of the mans begins near dinant all villages chateaux and houses are burnt down during this night it was a beautiful sight eight to see the fires all round us la in the distance august 21 24 in every village one finds fill Is only heaps of ruins und and many dead from the diary of 0 Mat maebern bern fourth company eleventh jager b battalion at marburg |