omen were
observed, and in another house the body of a boy of 16 with two bayonet
wounds in the chest.

_British Government Committee's Report._

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_KULTUR HAS PASSED HERE_

It is nothing but fanaticism to expect very much from humanity when it
has forgotten how to wage war. For the present we know of no other means
whereby the rough energy of the camp, the deep impersonal hatred, the
cold-bloodedness of murder with a good conscience, the general ardour of
the system in the destruction of the enemy ... can be as forcibly and
certainly communicated to enervated nations as is done by every great
war. _Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and
malignities._

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE.

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_PEACE REIGNS AT DINANT_

In short, the town of Dinant is destroyed. Of 1,400 houses only 200
remained standing. The factories where the laboring population got their
bread and butter were wrecked systematically. Many inhabitants were sent
to Germany, where they are still kept as prisoners. The majority of the
others are scattered all over Belgium. Those who stayed in the towns
were starved.

The Belgian Committee has a list of victims. It contains 700 names, and
is not complete. Among those killed are seventy-three women, thirty-nine
children between six months and fifteen years old.

Dinant has 7,600 inhabitants, of whom ten per cent. were put to death;
not a family exists which has not to mourn the death of some victims;
many families have been exterminated completely.

"_The German Fury in Belgium_,"
By L. MOKVELD.

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_LES BEAUTES DE LA GUERRE_

_Folk who do not understand them_

It is only in war that we find the action of true heroism, the
realization of which on earth is the care of militarism. That is why war
appears to us, who are filled with militarism, as in itself a holy
thing, as the holiest thing on earth.

PROF. WERNER SOMBART.

During the three months of invasion, more than 21,000 houses had been
burnt down in five alone of the nine provinces of Belgium, and a far
greater number pillaged--more than 16,000, for instance, in the single
Province of Brabant. Of the civilian population, between 5,000 and 6,000
men, women, and children had been massacred, some singly and some in
batches, some by clean killing and some after lingering tortures,
some in frenzy and some in cold blood, but all