ack of all
neutral merchant shipping. There was the keynote of German tactics
struck at the first possible instant. So promiscuous was the effect that
it was a mere chance which prevented the vessel which bore the German
Ambassador from being destroyed by a German mine. From first to last
some hundreds of people have lost their lives on this tract of sea, some
of them harmless British trawlers, but the greater number sailors of
Danish and Dutch vessels pursuing their commerce as they had every right
to do. It was the first move in a consistent policy of murder.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
_In "The German War."_

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_HIS MASTER'S VOICE_

The _Vlaamsche Stem_ (_Flemish Voice_), a Flemish newspaper, was bought
by the Germans, whereupon the whole of the staff resigned, as it no
longer represented its title.

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_THE PROMISE_

We shall never sheathe the sword which we have not lightly drawn until
Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than she has sacrificed,
until France is adequately secured against the menace of aggression,
until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon
an unassailable foundation, and until the military domination of Prussia
is wholly and finally destroyed.

H. H. ASQUITH,
_Prime Minister of England._
_November, 1914._

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_THE RAID_

"_Do you remember Black Mary of Hamburg?_"

"_Aye, well._"

"_She got six years for killing a child, whilst we get the Iron Cross
for killing twenty at Hartlepool._"

This morning a German cruiser force made a demonstration upon Yorkshire
coast, in the course of which they shelled Hartlepool, Whitby, and
Scarborough.

A number of their fastest ships were employed for this purpose, and they
remained about an hour on the coast. They were engaged by patrol vessels
on the spot.

During the bombardment, especially in West Hartlepool, the people
crowded in the streets, and approximately twenty-two were killed and
fifty wounded.

_British Admiralty report._
_December, 1914._

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_THE TYPHUS INFERNO AT WITTENBERG_

They were received in apathetic silence (Dec., 1914). The rooms were
unlighted, the men were aimlessly marching up and down, some were lying
on the floor, probably sickening for typhus. When they got into the open
air again Major Fry broke down. The horror of it