They are all alike. Now, if we consider that I could substitute for the preceding examples others similar and no less cynical, taken for instance from the diary of the reservist Lautenschlager, of the 1^{st} Battalion of the 66^{th} Inf. Reg^t, or from the diary of P^{te} Eduard Hohl of the VIII Corps, or from the diary of non-commissioned officer Rheinhold Koehn, of the 2^{nd} Battalion of Pomeranian Pioneers, or from the diary of the non-commissioned officer Otto Brandt of the 2^{nd} section of the ambulance corps (reserves) or from the diary of the Reservist Martin Muller, of the 100^{th} Saxon Reserves, or from the diary of Lt Karl Zimmer, of the 55^{th} Inf. or from the diary of P^{te} Erich Pressler of the 100^{th} Grenadiers, 1^{st} Saxon Corps, etc.; and if we notice, that among the extracts already given, there are very few isolated cases of brutality (as can be and are found, alas in the most noble minded of armies) and that I have scarcely noted here any crime that was not done by order, any crime that does not implicate and dishonour not only the individual soldier, but the whole regiment, the officer, the very nation; and if we consider that these thirty diaries, whether they be Bavarian or Saxon, Baden or Rhenish, Pomeranian or from Brandenburg, taken haphazard must represent hundreds and thousands of similar ones, all of a fearful monotony, we shall be obliged to allow, I think, that, M. René Viviani in no way overstated the case when from the French tribune he spoke of "this system of collective murder and pillage which Germany calls war". [Illustration: _Plate 12._] VII H. M. the German Emperor, in ratifying the Hague Convention of 1907 agreed (Article 23) "that it is forbidden ... (c) to kill or wound an enemy, who having laid down his arms and having no means of self-defence, gives himself up as a prisoner; (d) to declare that no quarter will be given". Has the German Army respected these conventions? In the French and Belgian reports, evidence is plentiful resembling the following which comes from a Frenchman captain in the 288^{th} Infantry: "On the evening of the 22^{nd} I learnt that in the wood a hundred and fifty metres from the cross-roads formed by the intersection of the great trench at Calonne and the road from Vaux-lès-Palameix to St Rémy there were some dead bodies of French soldiers who had been shot by the Germans.