ies report that
the German Army is a horde of barbarians and a band of incendiaries who
take pleasure in leveling defenseless cities to the ground and in
destroying venerable monuments of history and art. If you wish to pay
honor to the cause of truth you will be as firmly convinced as we are
that German troops, wherever they had to do destructive work, could only
have done so in the bitterness of defensive warfare. But we appeal to
all those whom the slanderous reports of our enemies reach and who are
not yet altogether blinded by passion, in the name of truth and justice,
to shut their ears to such insults to the German people, and not allow
themselves to be prejudiced by those who prove ever anew that they hope
to be victorious by the instrumentality of lies. Now, if in this fearful
war, in which our nation is compelled to fight not only for its power,
but for its very existence and its entire civilization, the work of
destruction should be greater than in former wars, and if many a
precious achievement of culture falls to ruin, the responsibility for
all this entirely rests with those who were not content with letting
loose this ruthless war, nay, who did not even shrink from pressing
murderous weapons upon a peaceful population for them to fall
surreptitiously upon our troops who trusted in the observance of the
military usages of all civilized peoples. They alone are the guilty
authors of everything which happens here. Upon their heads the verdict
of history will fall for the lasting injury which culture suffers.

September, 1914.

UNIVERSITIES.

Tuebingen, Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Erlangen, Frankfurt, Freiburg,
Giessen, Goettingen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Kiel,
Koenigsberg, Leipzig, Marburg, Muenchen, Muenster, Rostock, Strassburg,
Wuerzburg.

*Reply to the German Professors*

*By British Scholars.*

We see with regret the names of many German professors and men of
science, whom we regard with respect and, in some cases, with personal
friendship, appended to a denunciation of Great Britain so utterly
baseless that we can hardly believe that it expresses their spontaneous
or considered opinion. We do not question for a moment their personal
sincerity when they express their horror of war and their zeal for "the
achievements of culture." Yet we are bound to point out that a very
different view of war, and of national aggrandizement based on the
threat of war, has been advocated by such