The Kaiser, we read, has exhorted his soldiers to make themselves as
much dreaded as the Huns of Attila. It is worth while to recall the
methods of this savage, for he was nothing better. In one expedition
across Greece and in another across Italy he reduced seventy of the
finest cities to smoking ruins and to shambles. The inhabitants were
either slaughtered on the spot or marched away in chains to end their
lives as slaves. Men, women, children, babies--all came alike to this
black demon of outrage and destruction. Briefly, the Monarch of the Huns
may be best described as the worthy leader of one vast gang of
Jack-the-Rippers.
And this is the blood-guilty ruffian whom the Kaiser now holds up as his
exemplar! Judging by Louvain, he is no unworthy follower of his Master.
_AUTHOR’S NOTE_
_In addition to the sworn facts and statements supplied officially to me
by the Belgian Government, I have here included some others which have
been recounted by wounded men who have returned from the front, by
doctors who have attended them, and by the special correspondents of
Reuter’s, the Central News, and other news agencies, and of the London
and provincial newspapers._