The German Terror In France by Arnold J. Toynbee

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee [Toynbee, Arnold J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781298641502
Google: pKI9jgEACAAJ
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2015-08-11T04:18:05+00:00

" Fifteen days back the people of Namur had given over to the Belgian authorities all the firearms that they possessed. They had been informed by official notices about the rules laid down in the laws of war, and had been called on by the civil and military authorities, by the clergy, and the Press to take no part with the belligerents. The Belgian troops had evacuated the town thirty-six hours before the conflagration. The people, even if they had possessed weapons, would not have been so insane as to rise and attack the masses of German troops who filled the town and occupied all its approaches. And how can anyone account for the strange fact that, at all the five points at which the alleged rising was supposed to have broken out, the Germans were found in possession of the incendiary substances which were required for the prompt burning of the place?

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