At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War the Germans complained that/the French had bombarded the open town of Saarbruck and used the forbidden bullet. A dispassionate historian, who .read the Riot Act to all warring peoples, declared, fifteen years later, that this report, "falsely and purposely propagated, covered with the cloak of reprisals much that came afterwards." We saw the same thing for ourselves in regard togas. What the Germans first said and have >siuce done to the Belgians are an exact copy of their-procedure) in respect of. the French civil population of France 47 years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 109, 5 November 1917, Page 8
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