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t one hour, and during that time two further bombs struck the roof, setting it also on fire. The monument, about which no troops were massed, towers above the rest of the town; to avoid it, in view of the uselessness of destroying it and because it was serving as a hospital, would have been an easy matter. It would seem that the only explanation which can be offered was blind rage upon the part of the besieging army. MR. WHITNEY WARREN'S _Official Report to the French Government._ _September, 1914._ [Illustration] _THE BRAGGART_ "_It was I who opened fire on Rheims Cathedral_" My dear Sir, how is it possible to fight these people? They seem to have no mercy, no decency. It really seems impossible to know how to meet them. GENERAL CASTELNAU TO MR. WHITNEY WARREN. The bells sound no more in the cathedral with two towers. Finished is the benediction!... With lead, O Rheims, we have shut your house of idolatry! M. RUDOLF HERZOG _in Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger. Jan., 1915._ [Illustration] _RHEIMS--WAR AND CHRIST_ The commonest, ugliest stone put to mark the burial-place of a German grenadier is a more glorious and venerable monument than all the cathedrals of Europe put together. GEN. VON DISFURTH _In Hamburger Nachrichten._ Reduce to ashes the basilica of Rheims where Klodovig was anointed, where that Empire of Franks was born--the false brothers of the noble Teutons; burn that cathedral! _Written in the year 1814 by_ JEAN-JOSEPH GOERRES _in the "Rheinische Merkin."_ [Illustration] LIQUID FIRE In October, 1914, the headquarters of the second German army at St. Quentin had issued an Order regulating the use of fire-squirts ejecting inflammable liquid. A special Corps of Pioneers, attachable to any unit which might need them, had been organized to handle this novel weapon. The Order explained that the instrument could squirt a flame which would cause mortal injury and which, owing to the heat generated, would drive the enemy to a considerable distance. It was recommended particularly for street fighting. _Times History of the War._ [Illustration] _WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO CALAIS!_ In those days the German headquarters gave continuously the order, "To Calais, to Calais," and the staff consider
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