Excerpt from The Cathedral of Rheims: 1211-1914, Special Number of "L'art Et Les Artistes"

Since the day of the invasion of Belgium, since the day of the wanton destruction of Termonde, Mechlin, Louvain, Ypres, Arras, Soissons, etc..., unto the present hour, the Germans have applied, with that spirit of method and discipline which is the fundamental principle of their nature, servile to the point of self debasement, the system of atrocities of all descriptions commended by their Strategists and Educators, in order to abridge the horrors of war and hasten the bounties of a redeeming peace.

The hypocrisy of this infamous doctrine spread by these soldiers of dishonour, will mislead no one, neither will the tortuous contrivances of a diplomacy for ever despised by the entire world, neither will the false representations of historical facts expounded in the offices of Wolf and Co, prevail against the declarations of Doctor Reiss, (1) against the affirmations of M. Pierre Nothomb, (2) against the reports of M. Joseph Bedier the eminent professor of the French Institute of Arts and Letters (3), against the many avowals inadvertantly acknowledged by prisoners of war or disclosed in their notebooks, against the conclusions of the Committees of enquiry, against the collective and indignant protests of every Scholar and Intellectual in neutral countries... in answer to the iniquitous manifesto of the German Intellectuals, protests growing each day more numerous and more vehement now that is rent the veil of lies, contrived by our enemies to hide their abominations.

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