The names of the priests and monks of the diocese of Malines, who, to my knowledge, were put to death by the German troops, are as follows: Dupierreux, of the Company of Jesus; Brother Sebastien Allard, of the Society of St. Joseph; Brother Candide, of the Society of the Brothers of Our Lady of Pity; Father Vincent, Conventual Carette, a professor; Lombaerts, Goris de Clerck; Dergent, Wouters, Van Bladel, _curés_. At Christmas time I was not perfectly certain what had been the fate of the _Curé_ of Hérent. Since then his dead body has been discovered at Louvain and identified. _From a letter from_ CARDINAL MERCIER, _to The Kreischef of District of Malines._ _December, 1914._ The Cathedral of Rheims has many companions in distress. The German army, when it invaded the north of France, destroyed, totally or partially, by bombardment or incendiarism, churches and chapels at Albert, Serres, Vieille-Capelle, Etavigny, Soissons, Hébuterne, Ribécourt, Suippes, Montceau, Barcy, Revigny, Souain, Maurupt, Berry-au-Bac, Mandray, Heiltz-le-Maurupt, Sermaize-les-Bains, Doncières, etc. _From "Is War Civilization?"_ _By_ PROF. CHRISTOPHE NYROP, _University of Copenhagen._ [Illustration] _PROSPERITY REIGNS IN FLANDERS_ _Four hundred and eighty millions of francs have been imposed as a war tax but soup is given gratis_ PROCLAMATION A War Contribution, amounting to 480,000,000 francs, to be paid in monthly installments over the course of a year, is imposed on the population of Belgium. The payment of these sums devolves upon the Nine Provinces, which are held collectively responsible for the discharge of it. The two first installments are to be paid up, at latest, on January 15, 1915, and the following installments on the 10th, at latest, of each following month, to the Field Army Treasury of the Imperial Governor-Generalship at Brussels. In case the Provinces have to resort to the issue of bonds in order to obtain the funds necessary, the form and terms of these bonds will be settled by the Imperial Commissary-General for the Banks in Belgium. BARON VON BISSING, _Governor-General in Belgium._ _Brussels, December 10, 1914._ [Illustration] _A FACT_ _This brutalism by Major Tille of the German Army on a small boy of Maastricht was vouched for by an eye-witness._ [Illustration] _TO YOUR HEALTH, CIVILIZATION!_ CONCLUSIONS It is proved-- (i.) That there were in many parts of Belgium deliberate and systematically organized massacres of the civil population, accompanied by many isolated murders and other outrages. (ii.) That in the conduct of the war generally innocent civilians, both men and women, were murdered in large numbers, women violated, and children murdered.