[47] The case of the _Iberia_ (_Times_ Law Report, November 11th, 1915). It is not the only one. [48] _The International Review_, published in Zurich, and controlled by a Committee consisting almost entirely of German Professors. Its title is obviously fraudulent. The June issue (page 14) contains an article of ingratiating impudence by a German psychologist discrediting all reports of atrocities, and, in order to prove their unreliability and justify the policy of the _Review_ in excluding them when they emanate from British, French, or Belgian sources, it attempts to disprove them all. On page 32 the writer refutes circumstantially the stories that German soldiers had had their eyes gouged out. [49] Note transmitted on July 8th to the American Minister by Herr von Jagow. [50] Proclamations issued at Namur and Wavre.--(Sixth Belgian Report.) [51] _Ibid_ Proclamation issued at Grivegnée. _See also Les Avis, Proclamations, et Nouvelles de la Guerre allemandes affichés a Bruxelles_, for a copy of which I am indebted to my friend Colonel E. D. Swinton, D.S.O. (“Eye-witness.”) [52] The reader should also study the diaries given in the Bryce Appendix, in the French official volume _Les Violations_, and in Professor Bedier’s _Les Crimes Allemands_: expressions of pity are as rare as exultations that “We live like God” are frequent. [53] The full story will never be known, but the Russian Report, the Second French Report, the Belgian Reports (especially the Tenth), and the narrative of Major Vandeleur, published by the Foreign Office as a White Paper, together with the Report of the American Minister published on November 20th, 1915, may be referred to. [54] The instances which follow are taken from official reports. I may add another illustration here published for the first time. A German soldier, recording the story of how the _maire_ of a French town was torn from his home and carried off by the troops, writes: “In spite of his protests we put him into our company and made him march with us. He called us names and shouted and protested, _and kept us all in good spirits_.” [55] The _Munchner Neueste Nachrichten_, October 7th, 1914. [56] Press Bureau (Belgian communiqués), August 5th. [57] French official communiqués, October 12th, August 1st. [58] _Velut e conspectu libertas tolleretur_ (Tacitus, _Agricola_, Chapter 24). [59] What I have here written is, without exaggeration, the substance of the Manifesto issued by the German Professors in August last. For the text, _see_ the _Morning Post_, August 13th and 14th. And to the same effect is the speech of the Imperial Chancellor in the Reichstag a few days later (for report, _see The Times_, August 21st).