and in their true relations, will commend itself to you as a true
expression of sincere neutrality.

WOODROW WILSON.

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CHARGE AGAINST GERMANY.

President Poincare of the French Republic to President Wilson, Sept.
11.

Mr. President: I am informed that the German Government is
attempting to abuse your Excellency's good faith by alleging that
dumdum bullets are manufactured in French State workshops, and are
used by our soldiers. The calumny is nothing but an audacious
attempt to reverse the roles. Germany has since the beginning of
the war employed dumdum bullets, and has daily committed violations
of the laws of nations.

On Aug. 18 and on several occasions since then we have had to
report crimes to your Excellency as well as to the powers signatory
to the Convention of The Hague. Germany, which was aware of our
protests, is now trying to deceive and to make use of pretexts and
lies in order to indulge in further acts of barbarity in the name
of right. Outraged civilization sends your Excellency an indignant
protest.

RAYMOND POINCARE.

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M. DELCASSE'S NOTE.

French Cabinet Minister Addresses the Danish Government, Sept. 10.

The French Government protested on Aug. 18 to the Permanent Bureau of
The Hague Court of Arbitration against the use of dumdum bullets by the
Germans, producing proof obtained by surgeons that French soldiers had
been killed or wounded by these bullets. The German General Staff has
countered this by alleging that it was the French and English who used
the bullets, and the Imperial Chancellor has announced in fiery tones
that in the presence of the example given by the English and French the
German soldiers would henceforth use dumdum bullets; the responsibility
for this procedure, which he himself describes as an act of cruelty and
a violation of an international convention signed by Germany, will rest,
he says, upon the powers of the Triple Entente.

By my Government's orders I have the honor to protest in the most formal
manner to the Danish Government against the lying German allegations.
French soldiers have never used dumdum bullets. The French Government
has never authorized, nor will authorize, its troops to use such
barbarous means of warfare, whatever be the infringements of law and the