GERMAN ATROCITIES

GERMAN ATROCITIES
AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION
BY
J. H. MORGAN, M.A.,
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON;
LATE HOME OFFICE COMMISSIONER WITH THE BRITISH
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Mentem mortalia tangunt

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE

Copyright, 1916,
BY
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
Printed in the U.S.A.

TO
M. ARMAND MOLLARD
MINISTRE PLENIPOTENTIAIRE,
MEMBER OF “LA COMMISSION INSTITUÉE
EN VUE DE CONSTATER LES ACTES COMMIS
PAR L’ENNEMI EN VIOLATION DU DROIT DES GENS,”
THIS WORK IS DEDICATED
IN RECOGNITION OF HIS COURTESY AND COLLABORATION
IN THE PURSUIT OF A COMMON TASK.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Dedication]v
[Prefatory Note]ix
CHAPTER
[I.—Introductory]:
[(1) The British Enquiry]1
[(2) The German Case—a critical Analysis of the German White Book]6
[(3) German Credibility—a Review of the Evidence]30
[(4) The Future of International Law and the Question of Retribution]44
[II.—The British Enquiry in France:]
[(1) Methods of Enquiry]60
[(2) Outrages upon Combatants in the Field]64
[(3) Treatment of Civil Population]76
[(4) Outrages upon Women—the German Occupation of Bailleul]81
[(5) Private Property]84
[(6) Observations on a Tour of the Marne and the Aisne]85
[(7) Bestiality of German Officers and Men]87
[(8) Conclusion]90
[III.—Documentary (New Evidence)]
[(1) Depositions and Statements (Fifty-six in number) illustrating breaches of the Laws of War by German Troops, mainly Outrages on British Soldiers]93
[(2) Documents relative to the German Occupation of Bailleul]122
[(3) Evidence relating to the Murder of Eleven Civilians at Doulieu]134
[(4) Deposition of a Survivor of the Massacre of Tamines]137
[(5) Five German Diaries]139
[(6) Documents forwarded by the Russian Government]146
[(7) The German White Book: The Introductory Memorandum]158
[(8) Depositions relating to the Massacre of Wounded and Captive Highlanders by a German Bombing Party on September 25th, 1915, at Haisnes]169
[(9) Depositions as to the use of Incendiary Bullets by the German Troops]174
[(10) Depositions as to the Employment by German Troops of Russian Prisoners upon Military Works on the Western Front]177

PREFATORY NOTE

Professor Morgan desires to express his obligations to the Russian Embassy, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, the French Ministry of War, and the General Headquarters Staff of the British Expeditionary Force for the assistance which they have given him. For the opinions expressed in Part IV. of the Introductory Chapter Professor Morgan is alone responsible. The whole of the documents given in the “Documentary Chapter” of this book (except the Memorandum from the German White Book which has been published in German, though not, of course, in English) are now published for the first time.