[26] G. W. B., Appendix 29.
[27] Ibid., No. 22.
[28] See the Appendix to the Bryce Report, pages 25-29. Any one who reads the depositions of the Belgian witnesses there set out, and compares them with the depositions of the German soldiers in the White Book cannot fail to be struck by certain notable differences in quality. The Belgian witnesses never generalise, they betray no malice, and they mention instances of German forbearance. The exact converse is true of the German evidence. Lord Bryce’s Committee came to the conclusion that they “have no reason to believe that the civilian population of Dinant gave any provocation.” (Report, page 20.) See also the Eleventh Belgian Report (Rapports officiels, page 137).
[29] G. W. B., Appendix C. Summary and also C 5, 7, 10, 31, 35, 40, 44 for references in the text.
[30] G. W. B., Appendix C.
[31] C 44.
[32] C (Summary Report).
[33] C 51.
[34] The story of Aerschot is peculiarly horrible. It was here that the priest was placed against the wall with his arms raised above his head; when he let them fall through weariness, the German soldiers brought the butt-ends of their rifles down upon his feet. He was kept there for hours, and as German soldiers passed they used him as a lavatory and a latrine until he was covered with filth. Eventually they shot him. This is but one of many such horrors (see the Bryce Report, Appendix, pages 29, 46. See also the fourth and fifth Belgian Reports). The German White Book admits (Appendix A 2) that “every third man was shot.”
[35] Appendix A 5.