1792-1914.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 310, 31 December 1914, Page 5

1792-1914.

The following extract from the Duke of Brunswick’s proclamation, as translated from the “Moniteur,” August 5, 1792, by Hilaire Belloc,' in his “Danton : A Study,” would seem to show that the German and Austrian methods in 1914 have not improved much upon what they were in 1792: “That the inhabitants 1 of towns, boroughs, and villages who may late to defend themselves against the troops of their Imperial and Royal Majesties by firing upon them, whether in the open or from the windows, doors, or apertures of their houses, shall I>© punished at once with all the rigor of the laws of war, their houses pulled down or burnt. . “Their aforesaid Majesties declare, moreover, on their word of honor, as Emperor and King, that if the palace of the Tuileries bo insulted or forced, that if the least violence, the least assault, be perpetrated against their Majesties, the King, the Queen, and the Royal Family, and if steps be not at once taken for their safety, preservation and liberty, they, their Imperial and Royal Majesties, will take an exemplary and never-to-be-forgotten vengeance, by giving up the town of Paris to military execution and to total subversion, and the guilty rebels to the deaths they have deserved.”