(1) French and Belgian soldiers must be surrendered as prisoners of
war at the prison before 4 o'clock. _Citizens who do not obey will be
condemned to enforced labor for life in Germany._
_A rigorous inspection of houses will begin at 4 o'clock. Every
soldier found will be immediately shot._
(2) Arms, powder, dynamite, must be surrendered at 4 o'clock. Penalty:
death by shooting.
The citizens who know where a store of arms is located must inform the
Burgomaster, _under penalty of enforced labor for life_.
(3) Each street will be occupied by a German guard who will take ten
hostages in each street, whom they will keep in custody.
If any outrage is committed in the street, _the ten hostages will be
shot_.
(4) Doors must not be locked, and at night after 8 o'clock three
windows must be lighted in each house.
(5) It is forbidden to remain in the street after 8 o'clock. The
people of Namur must understand that there is no greater nor more
horrible crime than to endanger the existence of the city and the life
of its inhabitants by attacks upon the German Army.
The Commandant of the City.
(Signed) VON BUELOW.