[21] _Ibid._, Appendix 63. [22] _Ibid._, Appendix 56. [23] G. W. B., Appendix B. [24] This is the normal figure of such German units according to the basis of calculation arrived at, after careful inquiry, by our own Headquarters Staff. [25] G. W. B., Appendix B 1. [26] G. W. B., Appendix 29. [27] _Ibid._, No. 22. [28] _See_ the Appendix to the Bryce Report, pages 25-29. Any one who reads the depositions of the Belgian witnesses there set out, and compares them with the depositions of the German soldiers in the White Book cannot fail to be struck by certain notable differences in quality. The Belgian witnesses never generalise, they betray no malice, and they mention instances of German forbearance. The exact converse is true of the German evidence. Lord Bryce’s Committee came to the conclusion that they “have no reason to believe that the civilian population of Dinant gave any provocation.” (Report, page 20.) _See also_ the Eleventh Belgian Report (_Rapports officiels_, page 137). [29] G. W. B., Appendix C. Summary and also C 5, 7, 10, 31, 35, 40, 44 for references in the text. [30] G. W. B., Appendix C. [31] C 44. [32] C (Summary Report). [33] C 51. [34] The story of Aerschot is peculiarly horrible. It was here that the priest was placed against the wall with his arms raised above his head; when he let them fall through weariness, the German soldiers brought the butt-ends of their rifles down upon his feet. He was kept there for hours, and as German soldiers passed they used him as a lavatory and a latrine until he was covered with filth. Eventually they shot him. This is but one of many such horrors (_see_ the Bryce Report, Appendix, pages 29, 46. _See also_ the fourth and fifth Belgian Reports). The German White Book admits (Appendix A 2) that “every third man was shot.” [35] Appendix A 5. [36] Appendix A 3. [37] The 1st Company of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Neuss Mobile Landsturm. [38] Belgian Collected Reports, Tenth Report, page 127. [39] Bryce Report (popular edition), pages 29-36. And see the diary, No. 14 of Appendix to Bryce Report recording the shooting of German troops by other German troops; to the same effect another diary quoted on page 41 of Bryce Report. [40] “No other troops were stationed at Louvain on that day.”--(D 8.) [41] _See_ the Sixth Belgian Report and, in particular, the Proclamations issued at Hasselt, Namur, Wavre, Grivegnée, and Brussels. [42] _See_, in particular, _Les Violations des lois de la Guerre par l’Allemagne_, issued by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pages 77, 92, 99, 100, 101, 119. [43] Press Bureau (Belgian communiqué), March 18th. The German authorities substituted the word “convention” for “conversation,” in order to convict Belgium of a secret treaty with England. [44] Foreign Office communiqués of May 20th and July 5th. [45] The case of the _Ophelia_. [46] P. P. Cd. 7595.