WHO ARE THE HUNS?

The Triple Entente's Vendetta of Lies. 219
following chapter with regard to this "Atrocity Commission"
and its work.
The following points of view are also well taken:
"A rôle by no means small is played in the reports of the
Belgian Committee of Investigation by the alleged violated
girls and women. Whoever has had any experience in legalpsychological
matters, is all too well aware how many such
accusations are the products of an excited imagination. It
frequently happens that girls and women build up all sorts
of sexual happenings out of their fantasies, and then, coming
in contact with some quite innocent man, compel him to defend
himself against charges of immorality.
"As we have to contend with innumerable such cases even
in times of peace, we are forced to adopt an attitude of the
greatest distrust towards the report of this Belgian Committee
of Investigation. It is well-known that hysterical women are
peculiarly prone to accusations of this sort. It would be interesting
to know whether the Belgian Commission called in the
services of non-partisan, that is to say, non-Belgian nerve
specialists ? Should this not be the case the Belgian Commission
has laid itself open to the charge of a serious sin of omission, for
many hysterical women are disposed to make an immoral
crime out of a harmless accidental contact. And is it a mere
coincidence—that famous case in Belgium of Louise Lateau
and her stigmata? It was in the Bois d'Haine near Charleroi
that Louise Lateau cropped up in 1868 and excited the
fancy of the entire world."
Dr. Moll calls attention in his expert review of the Belgian
Report to the grave discrepancies in the testimony of individual
witnesses and concludes with the observation that it is to be
much regretted that the Belgian government should attempt
to influence public opinion with such untrustworthy reports.
All that Dr. Moll says of the Belgian Committee of Investigation
is still more applicable to the wordy statements
of the French Commission—in so far as these have become
known to us through the press.
It is unfortunate that the Germans waited for too long a
period ere taking steps to refute in some degree the overwhelming
slanders of the English, Belgian and French press. The so-