Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1914-1918
Atrocities, pretended Belgian (98-108);
refuted by _Vorwärts_, 102-3;
by German wounded, 104-5, 106-8
Atrocities, German, 63, (70-88);
responsibility for, 70;
formula for excusing, 74-5;
method of, 91-2;
repetition of, 164-5
August 4th, Anniversary of, 276-9
August 6th, Anniversary of, 279-80
Baer, on "military necessity," 82
Bas-Luxembourg, massacres in, 71
_Belge Neutre et Loyale, La_, by E. Waxweiler, 37, 49, 75, 189, 200
Belgian Army, _see_ Army
Belgian Government, proposals made to, 50-1;
accusations brought against, 89-92;
preventive measures taken by, 108-11;
people incited against, 289-94
Belgium, invaded, 30-2;
her attitude in defence of her neutrality, 33;
invasion of, 34;
pacific
character of, 53;
disinterested behaviour of, 61-2;
offered a bribe, 61, 140;
famine in, 164;
present administration of, 295-333;
_see_ Invasion
Bernstoff, Count, 32, 124
Bethmann-Hollweg, his "scrap of paper" speech, and denial of same, 31;
the "strategic necessities" speech, 31-2, 34;
admits injustice of invasion, 63, 140;
refers to "gouged-out eyes," 207;
libellous declaration by, 209, 263-4, 281-2
Bismarck, 9, 31;
boasts of Ems telegram, 218
Bissing, Baron von, 23;
incites to massacre, 70, 83, 139;
cynicism and audacity of his lies, 188, 238, 336
Blinded soldiers, legend of, 99-100, 102-3
Blindness, deliberate, of German "intellectuals," 204, 209
Blöm, Captain, on theory of terrorization, 89, 164, 197
Boiling oil, legend of, 99-100
Bombardment, of coast, 121-2;
of open towns, 123-4;
of monuments, 124-8
_Brabançonne_, the, prohibited, 273-4
Brabant, return of prisoners to, 96
Bredt, on Belgian art and character, 69
Brussels, supposed "francs-tireurs" in, 81;
return of prisoners to, 94;
pretended outrages on Germans in, 107-8;
the truth, 110-11;
the city fined, 147;
contributions imposed upon, 156-8;
Palais de Justice in, 162;
Belgian colours prohibited in, 268;
shops closed as demonstration, 275
Brutality, the Kaiser calls for, 335
Bueken, the curé of, tortured and murdered, 238
Buisseret-Steenbecque, Count, 49
Bülow, General von, responsible for massacres, 71
Cæsar, sells Belgians into captivity, 93
Camps, prisoners', 92, 94
Capelle-au-Bois, atrocities at, 338-9
_Carte de ménage_, the, 172
Catholic priests, German, servility of, 216-17
Censorship, the German, 14-16, 204;
censored papers, 258-9;
examples of censorship, 259-60
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, shameful libel by, 237
Chancellor, the German, _see_ Bethmann-Hollweg
Charleroi, atrocities at, 75;
German story of, 100, 118;
Alfred Heymel's account of, 195-7, 230, 354
Churches, German hatred and destruction of, 73-4
"Circulation," prohibited, 169;
allowed, 296
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