With this end in
view, hostages have been brought from all places near
railway lines exposed to such attacks, and at the first
attempt to destroy railway lines, telegraph or telephone
lines, they will be immediately shot."
ARTICLE 56 of the Hague Convention provides that "_the
property of municipalities, that of institutions dedicated
to religion, charity, and education, to the arts and
sciences, even when state property, shall be treated as
private property. All seizure of, destruction, or willful
damage done to institutions of this character, historical
monuments, works of art and science, is forbidden, and
should be made the subject of legal proceedings._"
Four names, which will be eternally remembered, are here
sufficient to answer: there is Rheims and its Cathedral,
Louvain and its library, Arras and its Town Hall, Ypres and
its bell tower.
In the course of this war, Germany has disavowed her signature any
number of times and has broken her pledges just as often as she has
made them. Germany is a proven perjurer not only in the eyes of the
nations at war with her, but also in the regard of the forty-four
countries signatory of the Hague Convention.
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