t one hour, and during that time two
further bombs struck the roof, setting it also on fire.

The monument, about which no troops were massed, towers above the rest
of the town; to avoid it, in view of the uselessness of destroying it
and because it was serving as a hospital, would have been an easy
matter.

It would seem that the only explanation which can be offered was blind
rage upon the part of the besieging army.

MR. WHITNEY WARREN'S
_Official Report to the French Government._
_September, 1914._

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_THE BRAGGART_

"_It was I who opened fire on Rheims Cathedral_"

My dear Sir, how is it possible to fight these people? They seem to have
no mercy, no decency. It really seems impossible to know how to meet
them.

GENERAL CASTELNAU TO
MR. WHITNEY WARREN.

The bells sound no more in the cathedral with two towers. Finished is
the benediction!... With lead, O Rheims, we have shut your house of
idolatry!

M. RUDOLF HERZOG
_in Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger. Jan., 1915._

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_RHEIMS--WAR AND CHRIST_

The commonest, ugliest stone put to mark the burial-place of a German
grenadier is a more glorious and venerable monument than all the
cathedrals of Europe put together.

GEN. VON DISFURTH
_In Hamburger Nachrichten._

Reduce to ashes the basilica of Rheims where Klodovig was anointed,
where that Empire of Franks was born--the false brothers of the noble
Teutons; burn that cathedral!

_Written in the year 1814 by_
JEAN-JOSEPH GOERRES
_in the "Rheinische Merkin."_

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LIQUID FIRE

In October, 1914, the headquarters of the second German army at St.
Quentin had issued an Order regulating the use of fire-squirts ejecting
inflammable liquid. A special Corps of Pioneers, attachable to any unit
which might need them, had been organized to handle this novel weapon.
The Order explained that the instrument could squirt a flame which would
cause mortal injury and which, owing to the heat generated, would drive
the enemy to a considerable distance. It was recommended particularly
for street fighting.

_Times History of the War._

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_WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO CALAIS!_

In those days the German headquarters gave continuously the order, "To
Calais, to Calais," and the staff consider