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Reports on the violation of the rights of nations and of the laws and customs of war in Belgium
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- (published on behalf of the Belgian legation)
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- London : Printed for H.M.S.O. by Harrison and Sons, [1915-1916]
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- 1 online resource (2 volumes) : facsimiles
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- ocn820928818
- At head of title: Official commission of the Belgian government.
- G. Cooreman, President of the Commission of Enquiry.
- Vol. 2 has imprint: London : H.M. Stationery Off., Sir J. Causton and Sons.
- Also issued in French.
- [Vol. 1] includes a preface by J. van den Heuvel, Minister of State, reports 1-12, and extracts from the Pastoral letter of Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines; v. 2 includes reports 13-22, with facsimiles of German soldiers' diaries, correspondence between Cardinal Mercier and the German authorities, and the protest of Mgr. Heylen, Bishop of Namur, etc., etc., appended.
- Reproduction of the original from the Yale Law Library.
- "With five plates."
- "Published on behalf of the Belgian legation."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- V. 1. Reports of the Commission of Enquiry (reports 1-12) ; Appendix. Instructions to the Belgian authorities ; Extracts from the Pastoral letter of His Eminence Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium (Malines, Christmas, 1914) -- v. 2. The Commission of Enquiry ; Reports of the Commission of Enquiry (report 13-22) ; Annex 1. German outrages in the Province of Brabant ; Annex 2. Statistics of the houses set on fire or destroyed in the Provinces of Antwerp, Liège, and Namur ; Annex 3. List of civilians massacred at Dinant in August, 1914 ; Annex 4. Photograph and translation of the notice of General von Bülow in respect of the massacres of Andenne ; Annex 5. Translation of the notebook of a German officer mortally wounded at Gozée, August 23rd, 1914 ; Annex 6. Incendiarism and pillage at Ottignies and Mousty (Brabant) ; Annex 7. A page from the notebook of a German military cyclist, giving an account of the imprisonment and deportation into Germany of 22 priests of Aerschot ; Annex 8. Three pages from the notebook of the soldier Gaston Klein, relating the sack of Louvain ; Annex 9. Photograph of a list of the victims at Tamines ; Correspondence exchanged between His Eminence Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, and the German authorities ; Solemn protest of Monsignor Heylen, Bishop of Namur