ts_, we have grouped them under different headings to make
perusal easier for the reader. To indicate the references would have
been impossible. Each line would have required a foot-note; the notes
would have been as long as the text, and both the length of, and the
cost of producing this pamphlet would have been doubled.

It is enough to state that there is not a single fact published here
that cannot be verified by our readers in one or other of the documents
already referred to. Nothing but facts are set down, absolute bare
facts, and it is for the reader to form his own conclusions. When he has
studied these "samples," and begins by means of them to learn the truth,
then, and only then, will he have the right to choose, according to his
conscience, between remembrance and oblivion, between pardon and
punishment.

L. MIRMAN, Prefect of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

G. SIMON, Mayor of Nancy.

G. KELLER, Mayor of Luneville.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The members of this Commission were MM. G. Payelle (Premier
President de la Cour des Comptes), A. Mollard (Ministre
Plenipotentiaire), G. Maringer (Conseiller d'Etat), E. Paillot
(Conseiller a la Cour de Cassation)--Rapports et Proces-verbaux, vols
i., ii., iii., iv., Imprimerie Nationale.

[2] The Commission, consisting of men of the highest position in
Belgium, is presided over by M. Van Iseghem (President de la Cour de
Cassation). Its reports and the "Reply to the German White Book" have
been published by Berger-Levrault, from which firm we have also "Carnets
de Route" (J. de Dampierre) and "Paroles Allemandes." "Crimes allemands
d'apres des te-moi gnages allemands," by J. Bedier, is published by
Colin.

ROBBERY

We shall not waste time over the looting of cellars, of larders, of
poultry yards, of linen-chests, or of whatever can be consumed promptly,
or immediately made use of by the troops--all these are the merest
trifles. Let us also dismiss pillage, organised on a large scale by the
authorities, of all sorts of raw material and industrial machinery: the
bill on this score will come to several thousand million francs. Let us
likewise put aside official robberies, committed by governors of towns,
or provinces, from municipal treasuries (even the treasury of the Red
Cross at Brussels was robbed), usually under the form of fines, or of
taxes imposed under transparent pretences. There again there will be
millions to recover.

We shall deal here with _personal robbe