In Hofstade a number of houses had been set on fire and many corpses were seen, some in houses, some in back yards, and some in the streets. Several examples are given below. Two witnesses speak to having seen the body of a young man pierced by bayonet thrusts with the wrists cut also. On a side road the corpse of a civilian was seen on his doorstep with a bayonet wound in his stomach, and by his side the dead body of a boy of 5 or 6 with his hands nearly severed. The corpses of a woman and boy were seen at the blacksmith's. They had been killed with the bayonet. In a café a young man, also killed with the bayonet, was holding his hands together as if in the attitude of supplication. Two young women were lying in the back yard of the house. One had her breasts cut off, the other had been stabbed. A young man had been hacked with the bayonet until his entrails protruded. He also had his hands joined in the attitude of prayer. In the garden of a house in the main street bodies of two women were observed, and in another house the body of a boy of 16 with two bayonet wounds in the chest. _British Government Committee's Report._ [Illustration] _KULTUR HAS PASSED HERE_ It is nothing but fanaticism to expect very much from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. For the present we know of no other means whereby the rough energy of the camp, the deep impersonal hatred, the cold-bloodedness of murder with a good conscience, the general ardour of the system in the destruction of the enemy ... can be as forcibly and certainly communicated to enervated nations as is done by every great war. _Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities._ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. [Illustration] _PEACE REIGNS AT DINANT_ In short, the town of Dinant is destroyed. Of 1,400 houses only 200 remained standing. The factories where the laboring population got their bread and butter were wrecked systematically. Many inhabitants were sent to Germany, where they are still kept as prisoners. The majority of the others are scattered all over Belgium. Those who stayed in the towns were starved. The Belgian Committee has a list of victims. It contains 700 names, and is not complete. Among those killed are seventy-three women, thirty-nine children between six months and fifteen years old. Dinant has 7,600 inhabitants, of whom ten per cent. were put to death; not a family exists which has not to mourn the death of some victims; many families have been exterminated completely. "_The German Fury in Belgium_," By L. MOKVELD. [Illustration] _LES BEAUTÉS DE LA GUERRE_ _Folk who do not understand them_ It is only in war that we find the action of true heroism, the realization of which on earth is the care of militarism. That is why war appears to us, who are filled with militarism, as in itself a holy thing, as the holiest thing on earth. PROF. WERNER SOMBART.