WHO ARE THE HUNS?

114 Franc-Tireur Warfare and Cruelty.
ized method of procedure organized and carefully prepared
for secretly by the state in both countries. This is nowhere
more conspicuous and evident than in the attack upon the
Germans which occurred in the Belgian university town of
Louvain. The use made of this affair in order to organize a
most shameful and atrocious international campaign of falsehood
against Germany, a campaign embellished with the most
incredible tales of robbery and murder in order to embitter the
whole world against Germany, is notorious.
Here, too, I will burden the reader with only a few short
remarks relative to this case, for the official investigation has
furnished the most detailed and complete information upon the
subject. This campaign of vilification was rendered all the
easier of execution inasmuch as the German-American cable,
without the slightest provocation and merely to afford an
unimpeded control of public opinion in other countries, had been
cut in the most lawless fashion by England.
The preliminary official reports were couched in these
words :
"The 40 witnesses who have so far testified under oath
have already beyond a shadow of doubt established the fact
that on the 25th of August a red rocket was fired into the skies
from the houses that stood opposite and to the left and right
of the railway station at Louvain. This red rocket was the
signal for the immediate discharge of a green rocket. As the
luminous spheres of both rockets threw their light over the
railway station and the vicinity, a fierce volley of bullets was
fired from the upper windows of the houses in the Rue de la
Gare and partly from the roofs of these houses, upon the German
troops who stood unsuspectingly in front of the station and in
the streets. A dozen non-commissioned officers and men as
well as several horses were wounded, some seriously, others
slightly, before the Germans found time to return the fire."
The official memorial upon Louvain which has just been
published, has an introduction in which a summary is given after
the separate facts have been thoroughly discussed:
"According to this it must have been a case of an attack
for which preparations had been carefully made, and which
persisted for several days with the greatest stubbornness. The