our in the morning,
an hour at noon and a half-hour in the afternoon. Failure to
obey this order will be punished in the following manner:--

1.--The men who are lazy will be collected for the period of
the harvest in a company of workmen under the inspection of
German corporals. After the harvest the lazy will be
imprisoned for six months and every third day their
nourishment shall be only bread and water.

2.--Lazy women shall be exiled to Holnon to work. After the
harvest the women will be imprisoned six months.

3.--The children who do not work shall be punished with
blows from a club.

Furthermore, the commandant reserves the right to punish men
who do not work with twenty blows from a club daily.

Workmen in the Commune of Verdelles have been punished
severely.

(Signed) GLOSE,
COLONEL AND COMMANDANT.

APPENDIX V

HOW GERMANS TREAT ALSACE-LORRAINE

Von Bethmann-Hollweg, Count von Hertling and Herr von Kuhlmann state
that Alsace-Lorraine is a province of the German Empire by right and
by fact, and that it is firmly attached to Germany.

The following picture shows how this _German_ province is treated by
Germany:

_Treatment of the Civilian Population_

The Government has established for the duration of the war an
insurmountable barrier between Alsace-Lorraine, which is called a
territory of the Empire, and the rest of the German states. Briefly,
Alsace-Lorraine is treated as a suspect.

An inhabitant of Alsace-Lorraine can not mail his letters in Germany.
For example, Wissembourg is on the border of the Palatinate. There is
a great temptation for the citizens of this town to assure a rapid
delivery of their letters and their escape from annoying censorship by
making use of the German mail system. A music teacher, Mlle. Lina
Sch---- was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred marks in March,
1917, for an infraction of this sort. The war council at Saarbruck,
which pronounced this sentence, had already, in June, 1916, sentenced
for like cause, the Spanish Consul, to the payment of a fine of eighty
marks because he had allowed a citizen of Sarreguimine to have letters
to his sons, who were refugees at Lausanne, addressed to the Spanish
Consulate.

In addition, German hostility to the Alsatians is shown by a number of
childish measures against Alsatian un