IRVIN S. COBB. _New York Times._ _December 2, 1914._ [Illustration] _BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER_ Our function is ended when we have stated what the evidence establishes, but we may be permitted to express our belief that these disclosures will not have been made in vain if they touch and rouse the conscience of mankind, and we venture to hope that as soon as the present war is over the nations of the world in council will consider what means can be provided and sanctions devised to prevent the recurrence of such horrors as our generation is now witnessing. BRYCE, F. POLLOCK, EDWARD CLARKE, KENELM E. DIGBY, ALFRED HOPKINSON, H. A. L. FISHER, HAROLD COX, _Concluding words of the Report of the Committee appointed by the British Government to investigate alleged German atrocities in Belgium._ [Illustration] _THE PRISONERS_ In the first days of the war it was undoubtedly and unfortunately true that prisoners of war taken by the Germans, both at the time of their capture and in transit to the prison camps, were often badly treated by the soldiers, guards or the civil population. The instances were too numerous, the evidence too overwhelming, to be denied.... From him (U.S. Consul at Kiel) I learned that some unfortunate prisoners passing through the town (in a part of Germany inhabited by Scandinavians) had made signs that they were suffering from hunger and thirst, that some of the kind-hearted people among the Scandinavian population had given them something to eat and drink and for this they were condemned to fines, to prison and to have their names held up to the contempt of Germans for all time. I do not know of any one thing that can give a better idea of the official hate for the nations with which Germany was at war than this. JAMES W. GERARD _in "My Four Years in Germany."_ [Illustration] _THE EX-CONVICT:_ "_I was a 'lifer'; but they found I had so many abilities for teaching civilisation amongst our neighbours, that I am now a soldier_" Crimes against women and young girls have been of appalling frequency. We have proved a great number of them, but they only represent an infinitesimal proportion of those which we could have taken up. Owing to a sense of decency, which is deserving of every respect, the victims of these hateful acts usually refuse to disclose them. Doubtless fewer would have been committed if the leaders of an army whose discipline is most rigorous had taken any trouble to prevent them; yet, strictly speaking, they can only be considered as the individual and spontaneous acts of uncaged beasts. _French Government's Official Report, September, 1914._ [Illustration] _WAR LOAN MUSIC_ "_Was blazen die Trompeten Moneten heraus?_"