Oct. 23.
We have received a copy of the report on German conduct in Belgium by Mr. James Bennett, of the "New York Sun" and "Chicago Tribune," from the correspondent ''St."" who, two days ago, reproached us with not having published it. That reproach, it may be remembered, was the outcome of the leading article in which we said that we should not publish the report of the Belgian Commission of Inquiry into the allegations of German atrocity. "St." complained that, if we did not publish the report, we none the less appeared to believe it. Some people are hard to-please. It was impossible not to allude to the report; equally impossible to tell its authors that they were deliberately setting their names to what they knew to be untrue, even if,-in view of the evidence adduced, we had wished to do so. 'The only possible thing to do was not to publish it. In these circumstances we should be perfectly justified in following the same course with Mr. Bennett's report, but for the satisfaction of "§t.'? we will do more for him than we did for the Belgians' report and will summarize the main points.
The report is subscribed to by Mr. McCutcheon and Mr. Bennett of the Chicago Tribune," Mr. Cobb of the Saturday Evening Post,"" Mr. Lewis of the Associated Press, and Mr. Hanson of the "Chicago Daily Bennett) on Toot, on Breycesy by horse "We have travelled it tod cart and by train mote than 100 from Brussels on the north to Beaumont vile "we hate eved on the south and to Aix-la-Chapelle on the east. We have been within 100 ft. of the ~Belginn-French border on the south and we have crossed the Belgian border on the east. fave shared the food and wine and the straw beds of German soldiery. We have ung songs with them in the post of the rear guard at night and we have talked with scores of Belgis nts, men sod jose fields and host passed. Of German soldiers we must have seen at least 500,000 with our own,
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