Belgians Under the German Eagle

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Belgians Under the German Eagle, by Jean Massart, Translated by Bernard Miall
BELGIANS UNDER THE GERMAN EAGLE
BY JEAN MASSART Vice-Director of the Class of Sciences in the Royal Academy of Belgium
TRANSLATED BY BERNARD MIALL
LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN LTD. ADELPHI TERRACE
First published June 1916 ( All rights reserved )

These pages were written in Belgium between the 4th August, 1914, and the 15th August, 1915.
I employed in this work only those books and periodicals which entered the country, whether secretly or openly, and which every one, therefore, can procure.
But to drive conviction into the reader's mind I have observed a rule of selection in using these documents: I have used those exclusively which are of German origin, or which are censored by the Germans.
They are—
(A) German posters exposed in Belgium. (B) Books and newspapers coming from Germany. (C) Newspapers published in Belgium under the German censorship. (D) The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant , the only foreign newspaper which has been authorized in Belgium since the beginning of the occupation. As for the Belgian Grey Books , the Reports of the Commission of Inquiry, and books published in Belgium, of these I used only those which were known to us in Belgium before the 15th August, 1915.