This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...repulsed a strong Russian attack with sanguinary losses. On this occasion 600 further prisoners were taken. Apart from this, comparative quiet prevailed yesterday in the RussoAustrian theatre of the war. The German Military Government. The "humanitarian motives" of the Austrian Army, which found such eloquent ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...repulsed a strong Russian attack with sanguinary losses. On this occasion 600 further prisoners were taken. Apart from this, comparative quiet prevailed yesterday in the RussoAustrian theatre of the war. The German Military Government. The "humanitarian motives" of the Austrian Army, which found such eloquent expression in Serbia, and the activity of the German squadron, which "captured fifteen fishing-vessels," are matters that give one food for meditation. It is even pleasanter to learn that "in spite of statements to the contrary published by the French, English, and Belgian Press," Cardinal Mercier has returned from Rome "passing through the German troops." As if we had not all read the text, secretly printed and distributed, of the sermon which the Cardinal preached at Havre during this return journey! Yet Havre is not on the way from Rome to Malines if one "passes through the German troops." Lastly, it is amusing to see that this placard does not breathe a word of the Battle of the Marne, whose vicissitudes were known to us, thanks to the French newspapers smuggled into the country. As much for what it tells as for what it conceals, this placard is a good example of the statements with which the German authorities placard our walls. What opinion can the rulers of Germany have of the intelligence of their own citizens, if they think they can lead us astray by such ineptitudes? When these placards are not merely foolish it is, as a rule, because they are impudent; as that in which Hindenburg declares that "the more cruelly the war is conducted the less cruel will it be in reality, because it will be over the sooner" (20th November, 1914), or that in which Mr. Fox states that he has not remarked...
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