WHO ARE THE HUNS?

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Private Property in War.
Francophile Lorraine report having heard the following universal
expression of opinion: "In three days the Frenchmen
have made better Germans of us than the Germans were able
to do in forty years." This is the way in which "La Grande
Nation" behaved in the territory it coveted!
II. Very peculiar conceptions regarding justice, enemy
property and international agreements appear to prevail in the
England of to-day.
The English "pogroms" of last October, especially those
against German barbers, waiters and bakers, proved plainly that
the civilization of the English mob differed very little from
that of the Russian. Shops were plundered and robbed. Poor,
unfortunate Germans, employees who had lived and served in
England for many years, were brutally maltreated. These
scandalous scenes were repeated on a much larger scale, in
Liverpool and other English cities, on the 8th of May and
the following days, when the torpedoing of the Lusitania
became known, and the gutter press foamed at the mouth-
But that the Russian sense of justice, stigmatized as corrupt
beyond bounds by the opinion of the entire civilized world
and especially by English public opinion, approximates closely
to the English idea, may be seen from the following telegram,,
dated London, October 29th, and issued by Reuter:
"The police-magistrate at Deptford, on the 27th October
liberated a soldier on the promise of future good behavior.
He had been accused of having taken part in the outbreaks
against the Germans and had been found by the police in the
bedroom of one of the plundered houses in possession of a ring
and watch which he had stolen."
Precisely à la Russie. (Moscow and Petersburg.)
III. The Russians, during their flight from East Prussia,
frequently adopted the method of destroying great quantities
of bread and flour by drenching them with petroleum, but
they reckoned without their host. General von Hindenburg
commanded that this bread which had been so wantonly destroyed,
was to be given to the Russian prisoners to eat. This was
one of those humorous touches which even this terrible war
is not able entirely to eradicate.
(Translator's Note. It should perhaps be explained that