communications,
will be punished severely. Any resistance or revolt against the
German administration will be suppressed without pity.

It is inevitable in war that the punishment of hostile acts falls
not only upon the guilty but also on the innocent. It is the duty
of all reasonable citizens to exercise their influence with the
turbulent elements of the population to restrain them from any
infraction of public order. Belgian citizens desiring to return
peaceably to their occupations have nothing to fear from the German
authorities or troops. So far as is possible, commerce should be
resumed, factories should begin to work, and the crops harvested.

BELGIAN CITIZENS

I do not ask any one to forego his patriotic sentiments, but I do
expect from all of you a sensible submission and absolute obedience
to the orders of the General Government. I call upon you to show
confidence in that Government, and accord it your co-operation. I
address this summons particularly to the functionaries of the State
and of the communes who have remained at their posts. The greater
your response to this appeal, the greater the service you will
render to your country.

The Governor-General,
BARON VON DER GOLTZ,
_Field-Marshal._

_Brussels, September 2, 1914._

At about five o'clock, Bulle came along, and we went for a long walk
together--the first time I have tried anything of the sort since the war
began. We tramped out to the Bois and made a swing around the circle,
not getting back until half-past seven, when we repaired to the Palace
Hotel and had dinner with several of the colleagues. When von der Goltz
left us, he had started for the Spanish Legation; but we learned from
the Spanish Secretary that he had never arrived. Instead, at the last
minute, an aide-de-camp had come clanking in to express His Excellency's
regrets that he was unable to come, and say that he would have to defer
his visit until a later date. Something happened to him after he left
our Legation.

X---- had an experience yesterday which made him boiling mad. He left
town in the afternoon with his Consul, to go to Alost for telegrams and
letters. He was in a car flying his flag, and had his _laisser-passer_
from the