After the preliminary review their labours, the commissioners proceed to put down the evidence, ith names and dates, of the various outrages brought to their notice. This report, if translated in full, would fill the greater part of an issue of the '"North-China Daily News." Obviously the evidence consists of ez-parte statements, and, in fact, it can hardly be otherwise in time of war, but, even making a large allowance for exaggerations and untruths, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that part of the German system of making war is to terrorize the inhabitants of the invaded districts, 80 as to prevent them from hampering the German communications and reporting their movements to the French; that in pursuit of this deliberate policy a considerable number of German officers and men are ready to commit cowardly and brutal crimes in obedience to the belief that, being committed in the interests of the Fatherland, such crimes are excusable.
No doubt this policy pays well so long as one can be sure of keeping the upper hand, but it will make the name of Germany stink in the world's nostrils and swell the bill she will have to pay when the day of reckoning comes. So long as these unspeakable horrors are remembered, how can there be peace and goodwill between France and Germany, and with what loathing do the French regard the hypocritienl remarks of the German Press ax to there being no real enmity in Germany for France!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.