by a German officer and some soldiers in a motor car.
The men in the car called out to a couple of young fellows who were
standing about thirty yards away. The young men, being afraid, ran off
and then the Germans fired and killed one of them named D." The murder
of this innocent fugitive civilian was a prelude to the burning and
pillage of Herve and of other villages in the neighborhood, to the
indiscriminate shooting of civilians of both sexes, and to the organized
military execution of batches of selected males.

_British Government Committee's Report._

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_I CRUSH WHATEVER RESISTS ME_

The wrong--I speak openly--that we are committing we will endeavor to
make good as soon as our military goal has been reached. Anybody who is
threatened as we are threatened, and is fighting for his highest
possessions, can have only one thought--how is he to hack his way
through.

VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG.
_Reichstag, August 4, 1915._

With a clear conscience Germany goes to the battlefield.

THE KAISER, _August, 1914_.

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"_THIS IS HOW I DEAL WITH SMALL FRY_"

We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Our
troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgian soil.
_Gentlemen, that is contrary to the dictates of international law._ It
is true that the French Government has declared at Brussels that France
is willing to respect the neutrality of Belgium, so long as her opponent
respects it. We knew, however, that France stood ready for invasion.
France could wait, but we could not wait. A French movement upon our
flank upon the lower Rhine might have been disastrous. So we were
compelled to override the just protest of the Luxemburg and Belgian
Governments.

VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG,
_Reichstag, Berlin, 4th August, '14._

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_GOTT MITT UNS_

Remember that the German people are the chosen of God. On me, the German
Emperor, the spirit of God has descended. I am His sword, His weapon and
His vicegerent. Woe to the disobedient and death to cowards and
unbelievers.

_From_ THE KAISER'S _speech to his
soldiers on the way to the front._

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_SATAN'S PARTNER_

_Bernhardi: "War is as divine as eating and drinking"_

_Satan: "Here is a partner for me"_

The inevitableness, the idealism, the blessing of war as an
indispensable and stimulating law of