The foregoing form recalls the Proclamation of General von Buelow to the Municipal Authorities of Liege, on August 22nd, 1914, in which he said:
“It is with my consent that the Commander-in-Chief has ordered the whole town (of Andenne) to be burned and that about one hundred people have been shot.”
The scenes of horror and barbarism depicted in the Reports of the Official Belgian Commission of Inquiry have not been brought about by accident. They are the direct result of the orders given and the doctrines inculcated by the German General Staff.
FOOTNOTES:
[(1)] Testimony of the Right Reverend Monsignor X—— annexed to the proceedings of the Session of Dec. 18, 1914.
[(2)] From the testimony of Mademoiselle Aline Diericz, of Tenham, annexed to the Report of the Session of Dec. 18, 1914.
Transcriber’s Notes
The use of Roman numerals for the section headings was made consistent.
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.
On page [18], “druken” was changed to “drunken.” (drunken orgies, sack of whole towns)