Nov. 27, _Our readers will, we trust, forgive our returning once more to the question of our present attitude towards telegrams reporting atrocities by German troops, in view of an article appearing in yesterday's "Echo de Chine". While adopting a courtesy and sideration for the reasons which we have given for that attitude—a courtesy for which woe thank our contemporary none the less warmly because it is exactly what might have been expected—the Echo de Chine" demure strongly to our refusal to publish such reports.
"The point of supreme importance (it says) is that the Chinese should know the trath and that they should understand that certain acts, with which the Germans are reproached, are not crimes because they have been accompanied by atrocities, but are indeed crimes pure and simple from the mere fact of their per-
Tt then recalls the fact that the Hague Convention of 1907 admitted the rights of all inhabitants.
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