[56] Press Bureau (Belgian communiqués), August 5th.
[57] French official communiqués, October 12th, August 1st.
[58] Velut e conspectu libertas tolleretur (Tacitus, Agricola, Chapter 24).
[59] What I have here written is, without exaggeration, the substance of the Manifesto issued by the German Professors in August last. For the text, see the Morning Post, August 13th and 14th. And to the same effect is the speech of the Imperial Chancellor in the Reichstag a few days later (for report, see The Times, August 21st).
[60] Long ago—in 1870—Fustel de Coulanges pointed out that the crime which, to use the words of our law, “is not to be named among Christians,” flourished in Berlin as it flourished nowhere else, and the immorality of latter-day Germany was the subject of a mournful lamentation by Treitschke in his old age. An acute student of modern Germany, Dr. Arthur Shadwell, also remarks on the low commercial morality of German merchants (see the Nineteenth Century and After for August, 1915).
[61] It is a curious fact, attested by the evidence of a large number of British and French soldiers who have been in action, that the German soldier often exhibits the most abject fear when confronted individually with the bayonet, going down on his knees, and whining “Kamerad,” “Mercy,” and such like lachrymose appeals.
[62] Bryce Appendix, “Depositions taken by Professor Morgan,” page 195.
[63] Belgian Reports (Tenth Report), page 119. To the same effect the British and French Reports, passim.
[64] Admiralty Memorandum, August 21st. Commander’s report on the stranding of E13.
[65] See Belgian Reports and Bryce Report.