It is signed by the Head Staff Doctor at Potsdam, one Geronne, by
name. He divides his contradiction into ten clauses. Each of the
first nine contains an absolute untruth.

The last is a mere comment on a well-known, German statesman, who
told me that as I was seeking the truth in Germany I had better go
and find it at Potsdam.

I wish to deal with the denials one by one, as each is a revelation
of German psychology.

1. The hospital train, This says "Hospital
which reached Potsdam on train" (singular). I
August 4, and was there described hospital trains
unloaded, brought wounded (plural). It may be true
men from various troop that one train did not
divisions. There were no contain any Prussian Guards.
Prussian Guards among them. I did not happen to see
that train. All the trains
that I saw unloaded Prussian
Guard Reserves.

2. No wounded man is I have never said that
kept concealed in Germany. any wounded man was
All are consigned to kept concealed in Germany.
public hospitals or I have pointed out
lazarets, where they may that the whole system of
at any time be visited the German placing of the
by their relatives and wounded is to hide from
friends. the German population,
and especially in Social
Democrat districts, the
extent of their wounded.

3. Hospital trains travel This is absolutely untrue.
by day as well as by night, The number of wounded arriving
and, in accordance with at the depots in Germany is
instructions, are unloaded now so great that the trains
only in the daytime. In are obliged to be unloaded
case they reach their whenever they arrive, by day
destination during the or by night. I have witnessed
night, the regulations both.
provide that they are to
wait until the following
morning before unloading.

4. In order that the loading The whole of this paragraph
or unloading of the vehicles is a transparent distortion
which transport the wounded of fact. What happens at
to the lazarets may pro