WHO ARE THE HUNS?

136 German Restraint and Order.
the ape from his primeval world, so the criminal German rabble
must vanish from Europe!"
Compare to this the calmness, the dignity, the deep compassion
which the entire German nation displays towards its
wounded enemies.
V.
The responsibility and the blame for all these atrocities
and all this destruction must be placed at the doors of the
French, English and Belgian authorities. For the most part
these things happened with the knowledge and even the consent
of the police. At the very least the police have rendered themselves
culpable by not taking the proper steps for protecting
the defenseless Germans and are responsible for all that these
people suffered. The conditions upon which peace is to be
concluded must make provision for damages for all those acts
of havoc that took place 8 to 10 days before the war, and
subsequently.
Let us for a moment compare these bestial and wanton
perversities with the few noisy incidents which occurred before
the declaration of war at Berlin and Munich. In the latter
city, I regret to say, a few windows in a café were broken and
several foreigners were forced to seek the protection of the
police, though they had in nowise been injured. But these
excesses of the crowd, which were condemned by the entire
German press, are mere child's play in comparison with such
heinous cruelties as those in question,—even though the foreign
press ventured to describe them as cruel excesses. We have
in part been witnesses of these incidents and are able to confirm
in the most conscientious manner all that has been stated.
There are numerous and reliable witnesses.
Since German public opinion as an undivided whole stood
opposed to these passionate demonstrations of the crowd, all
such excesses disappeared from the very day of the declaration
of war. The sober dignity and seriousness of the German people
gave ample assurance that no subject of an enemy state would
suffer molestation.
In substantiation of this I would merely like to recall that
a large number of British subjects (45) left Berlin as late as