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HUN HYPOCRISY AND BRUTALITY While Germany is seeking for peace she is laying vilc invaded territory and burning devastating and looting French and Ielgian cities and towns includ ¬ ing the cities of llmial and Laoii with their historic buildings and monuments and the latter glorious cathedral one of the finest in Franc with tliis Germany is deporting 1 France and Belgium and sending them into slavery behind the lines linesThe The French government has already formally de ¬ nounced this procedure and warned Germany of the determination to resort to reprisal for such acts city for city town for town house for house de ¬ stroyed and looted The Belgian government also announces that it has conferred with the allied governments on the excesses and brutalities of the enemy and the systematic destruction and pillage to vbidi he is resorting in the territory he is obliged to evacuate The Belgian government calls attention to the fact that at the moment the new imperial German chancellor is proclaiming his anxiety for the happiness of i eoples and his will to work for the deliverance of humanity from the horrors of war news is received of fresh excesses on the part of German armies in occupied Belgium BelgiumIt It is stated timt from the coast to beyond Bruges males from fifteen to fortyfive are being torn from their homes subjected to the most brutal treatment and compelled to forced labor for the military needs of the enemy The fact proves the ghastly insincerity and cynicism of Germanys peace professions and the absolute necessity of rbeating her to her knees and making her feel some of the terrors she has ruthlessly inflicted on peaceful and unoffending people New York Herald
