MAURICE MAETERLINCK’S SUGGESTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1914, Page 4

MAURICE MAETERLINCK’S SUGGESTION.

More than half the world is in fullest sympathy with M. Maurice Maeterlinck. who writes in Figaro: “To my certain knowledge the Grand Place, the Hotel de Ville, and the Cathedral of Brussels are mined, and only a spark would he required to reduce.these marvels—the work of centuries of patient labour and love—to nameless ruin. We have sacrificed all without a murmur, hut tins would surpass everything. What is to he done ? How can we stay their hand? They seem no longer to he amenable to reason, or to any of the sentiments which men hold in honor. They only seem sensible to blows. We shall soon have the power, and they must realise it, to strike them hard. Why should not the Allies, from this day forward, while there is yet time, nominate certain hostage cities which will answer, stone for stone,' for the existence of our beloved cities. If, for example, Brussels were destroyed, Berlin should he razed to the ground; Hamburg should disappear were Antwerp devastated; Nuremburg would he a guarantee against Bruges, and Munich would go hail for Ghent.”