subject_:--

"The girl was at the point of death. Mr. G---- was with me and can
corroborate me as to this and also as to the other facts mentioned
below. On the same day at the same place I saw one L. de M----. I took
this statement from him.... He signed his statement in my pocket book,
and I hold my pocket book at the disposal of the Belgian and English
authorities.

"I also saw at the hospital an old woman of eighty who was run clean
through by a bayonet thrust.

"I next went up to another wounded Belgian in the same ward. His name
was F. M----. I wrote his statement in my pocket book and he signed it
after having read it."

The full statement in the Bryce Report of the atrocities which I
witnessed covers a page. The above sentences are extracts. Mr. Niemira
had neglected to make a note of the exact date in his pocket book, and
calls it "about the 15th of September." It was September 29.

[C] If any one wants a history of them, and the world ought to want it,
the book of their acts, is it not written in singing prose in Le
Goffic's "Dixmude, un Chapitre de l'histoire des Fusiliers Marins"? Le
Goffic is a Breton and his own son is with the fighting sailors. He
deals with their autumn exploits in Dixmude on the Yser, that butt-end
of wreck. Legends will spring out of them and the soil they have
reddened. We have heard little of the French in this war--and almost
nothing at all from them. And yet it is the French that have held the
decisive battle line. Unprepared and peace-loving, they have stood the
shock of a perfectly equipped and war-loving army.

Monsieur Le Goffic is the official historian of the Fusiliers Marins.
His book has gone through forty-nine editions. He is a poet, novelist
and critic. That American sympathy is appreciated is proved by this
sentence from a letter of Le Goffic to an American who had expressed
admiration for the Breton sailors:--"Merci, Monsieur, au nom de mon
pays, merci pour nos marins, et merci pour moi meme."

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