German Atrocities: A Record of Shameless Deeds

by William Le Queux

(Signed)

The President, Cooreman.

Members of the Commission, Count Goblet d’Alviella, Ryckmans, Strauss, Van Cutsem.

Secretaries, Chev. Ernst de Bunswyck, Orts.

“The report of the Belgian Commission of Inquiry into the German atrocities in Belgium is perhaps the most appalling document that has ever been submitted to civilised man. It reveals a cruelty more perverse than that of the Boxer or Bashi-Bazuk, and it covers the reputation of the German soldiery with eternal shame.... They themselves have transgressed every law of God and man.”

—From the Daily Mail.

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Can These Things Be True?

Can these cold-blooded deeds of atrocity be true? Is it a fact that they have been proved to the satisfaction of the most exacting critics? Is this “welter of fire, blood, and destruction” to be written finally on the pages of history?