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GERMAN WORDS AND GERMAN DEEDS

• 'WE see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defencelessness of woman and child.' Prof. G. Roethe, in 'Deutsche Reden in schwerer Zeit.'
• 'AS they continued their advance, the Germans collected about 400 men, women and children (some of the women with babies in their arms) from Campenhout, Elewyt and Malines, and drove them forward as a screen, against the Belgian forces holding the outer ring of the Antwerp lines.' Appendix to the Report of the Bryce Committee.
• 'WE are still child-like in our inmost feelings, innocent in our pleasures.' Freidrich Lange, in 'Reines Deutschtum.'
• 'GONE on the loose and boozed through the streets of Liege.' Diary of a German soldier, quoted in the Bryce Report.
• 'WE take refuge in our quite peculiar idealism, and dream, alas aloud! of our ideal mission for the saving of mankind.' Hans v. Wolzogen, in Gedanken zur Kriegszeit.'
• THE German Secretary of State for the Colonies has admitted that from 1903 to 1913 105,000 natives have been killed in expeditions against them.
• 'WE thank our German Army that it has kept spotless the shield of humanity and chivalry.' Prof. W. Kahl, in 'Deutsche Reden in schwerer Zeit.'
• 'WHILE a number of wounded were being attended to in a Hospital at Gomery, a patrol of the 47th German Infantry appeared and began a general massacre of the wounded and medical staff. The Hospital, full of wounded, was deliberately set on fire.' 'Germany's Violation of the Laws of War' (Bland).
• 'FROM all sides testimonies are flowing in as to the noble manner in which our troops conduct the war.' Pastor J. Rump.
• 'THE Brigade order is to shoot all Frenchmen who fall into our hands, wounded or not. No prisoners are to be made.' Diary of R. Brenneisen, 112th German Regiment, prisoner in Great Britain.
• 'IT is true that the breast of every soldier swelled with a noble pride at the thought that he was privileged to wear the German uniform, which history has made a garb of honour above all others.' 'Der Deutsche und dieser Krieg,' by K. Engelbrecht.
• 'DETACHED parties were to enter the streets, but actually the Battalion marched in close order into the town, to break into the first houses and loot - no, of course, only to 'requisition' - for wine and other things. Like a wild pack they broke loose, each on their own; officers set a good example by going on ahead. A night in a barracks with many drunk was the end of this day, which aroused in me a contempt I cannot describe.' Extract from the Diary of Gaston Klein.
• 'THE German soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined, and have never so much as hurt a hair of a single innocent human being.' H. S. Chamberlain, in 'Kriegsaufsatze.'
• 'MY company is at Bouvignes. Our men behave like vandals; everything is upset; the sight of the slaughtered inhabitants defies all description, not a house is left standing. We have dragged out of every corner all survivors, one after another, men, women, and children, found in a burning cloister, and have shot them 'en masse. Diary of a Saxon Officer.
• 'THE officers of the German Navy, I say it loudly, will always fulfil in the strictest fashion the duties which the unwritten law of humanity and civilization lay on them.' Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, at the Hague Conference.
• THE Lusitania was torpedoed without warning on May 7th, 1915, when 1400 men, women, and children, were drowned. The Germans struck a special medal to celebrate this event.
• A PART from the fighting quality of these troops, their peaceful work behind the front bears witness to a thorough spiritual culture.' Houston Stewart Chamberlain, in 'Die Zuversicht.'
• 'AT Chauny for two months they (the Germans) had been measuring the cellars of all the houses and calculating the quantity of explosives necessary to blow up each of them; and then after an orgy of pillage, in which they carried off furniture, gutted safes and sacked churches, they systematically destroyed the town in the most thorough and ruthless manner by fires and mines for the space of a fortnight.' Extract from the Proceedings of the French Senate, April 1st, 1917.
• 'WE Germans represent the latest and the highest achievement of European Kultur.' Prof. A. Lasson, in 'Deutsche Reden in schwerer Zeit.'
• 'IN the cemetery of Carlepont, the door of the chapel over the vault of the Swiss family Grafferied-Villars was carried off. A stone of the vault was prized up, and bones are visible through the aperture. At Candor, two witnesses surprised some Germans in the act of breaking open the tombs of the Trefcon and Censier families. The church to which the cemetery belongs has been shamefully pillaged.' Official Report of the French Commission. Journal Officiel, 18/4/17.
• 'HOW often in these days has the German soldier been subjected to the temptation to treat the inhabitants of foreign countries with violence and brutality, but everywhere he has obeyed the law, and shown that even in war he knows how to distinguish between the enemy to be crushed and defenceless women and children. The officials and clergy of conquered territory have frequently borne express testimony to this fact.' Pastor M. Hennig, in 'Der Krieg und Wir.'
• 'THE names of the priests and of members of the religious orders in the Diocese of Malines who, to my knowledge, have been put to death by the German troops are: Dupierreux, of the Society of Jesus; Sebastian Allard, of the Congregation of Josephites; Brother Candide, of the Congregation of Brothers of Our Lady of Pity; Father Vincent; Professor Carette; Lombaert, Goris, de Clerck, Dergent, Wouters, Van Bladel, Parish Priests....' Letter of Cardinal Mercier to the German Governor.
• 'GERMANY is precisely - who would venture to deny it - the representative of the highest morality, of the purest humanity, of the most chastened Christianity.' Pastor H. Francke.
• 'THE British Steamer, 'Belgian Prince', was torpedoed by a German submarine on July 31st. The crew abandoned the ship in two boats, and were ordered on to the upper deck of the submarine by the German commander. Under his directions the boats were then smashed with axes and the crew of the 'Belgian Prince' deprived of their lifebelts. The master was taken below and the hatch closed; the submarine submerged without warning with forty-three men standing on her deck. This was the entire crew of the 'Belgian Prince.' With the exception of three all these were drowned.' British Admiralty Report.

J. WEINER. LTD LONDON.