But how can we doubt that the
German Nation has, on the contrary, accepted these acts as exploits
worthy of herself, that in them she recognizes her own aptitudes, and
finds pleasure in the contemplation; how, I ask, can we doubt this in
reading the following narrative signed by a Bavarian officer, Lieut. A.
Eberlein, spread out in the columns of one of the best known periodicals
of Germany, the Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten, in its issue of Wednesday,
Oct. 7, 1914, Page 22, Lieut. Eberlein relates there the occupation of
Saint-Die at the end of August. He entered the town at the head of a
column, and while waiting for reinforcements was compelled to barricade
himself in a house, (Fig. 9:)
[Illustration: Figure 9.]
We arrested three civilians, and a bright idea struck me. We
furnished them with chairs and made them seat themselves in
the middle of the street. There were supplications on one
part, and some blows with the stocks of our guns on the other.
One, little by little, gets terribly hardened. Finally, there
they were sitting in the street. How many anguished prayers
they may have muttered, I cannot say, but during the whole
time their hands were joined in nervous contraction.
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