The _Vlaamsche Stem_ (_Flemish Voice_), a Flemish newspaper, was bought by the Germans, whereupon the whole of the staff resigned, as it no longer represented its title. [Illustration] _THE PROMISE_ We shall never sheathe the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than she has sacrificed, until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation, and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed. H. H. ASQUITH, _Prime Minister of England._ _November, 1914._ [Illustration] _THE RAID_ "_Do you remember Black Mary of Hamburg?_" "_Aye, well._" "_She got six years for killing a child, whilst we get the Iron Cross for killing twenty at Hartlepool._" This morning a German cruiser force made a demonstration upon Yorkshire coast, in the course of which they shelled Hartlepool, Whitby, and Scarborough. A number of their fastest ships were employed for this purpose, and they remained about an hour on the coast. They were engaged by patrol vessels on the spot. During the bombardment, especially in West Hartlepool, the people crowded in the streets, and approximately twenty-two were killed and fifty wounded. _British Admiralty report._ _December, 1914._ [Illustration] _THE TYPHUS INFERNO AT WITTENBERG_ They were received in apathetic silence (Dec., 1914). The rooms were unlighted, the men were aimlessly marching up and down, some were lying on the floor, probably sickening for typhus. When they got into the open air again Major Fry broke down. The horror of it all was for the moment more than he could bear. Major Priestly saw delirious men waving arms brown to the elbow with fæcal matter. The patients were alive with vermin; in the half light he attempted to brush what he took to be an accumulation of dust from the folds of a patient's clothes, and he discovered it to be a moving mass of lice. In one room in Compound No. 8 the patients lay so close to one another on the floor that he had to stand straddle-legged across them to examine them. What the prisoners found hardest to bear in this matter were the jeers with which the coffins were frequently greeted by the inhabitants of Wittenberg who stood outside and were permitted to insult their dead. _Report of the British Committee._ [Illustration] _REMEMBER WITTENBERG_