The Archive · 1915

Disregard of International Law

SEVENTH BELGIAN INQUIRY REPORT

We have received from the Consul-General for Belgium in Shang-patron en No. 403 far die Mauser stladende pistol caliber 7.63) must have contained loaded one at Tt contains one clip in ree of ex] i bullets taken from the special boxes with yellow tickets. These balls are made expansive in the manufacture; it would not be fowsble to make them such by hand.

(signed) V. Rovsseavx, Expert Armourer."" hai a copy of the seventh report of The second section of the report the Commission of Inquiry into the describes authentic cases of the violation by Germany of the rules of International Law and of the maltreatment of prisoners and wounded, and these without excep-law and customs of war. Through: tion are of a most brutal character. out the report names and places Two Belgian soldiers were cast are carefully given. The report is into a burning house; a cyclist addressed to M. Carton ge Wiart, rifleman was found hanged in a Belgian Minister of Justice. hedge; many soldiers slightly Explosive Bullets. wounded have been found dead, Its first section deals with the use having been clubbed to death (each of explosive or expanding bullets. case is cited in detail); wounded Under the signature of Dr. Leon Pierre, attached to the 1st Company

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