(Conseiller à la Cour de Cassation)--Rapports et Procès-verbaux, vols
i., ii., iii., iv., Imprimerie Nationale.

[2] The Commission, consisting of men of the highest position in
Belgium, is presided over by M. Van Iseghem (Président de la Cour de
Cassation). Its reports and the "Reply to the German White Book" have
been published by Berger-Levrault, from which firm we have also "Carnets
de Route" (J. de Dampierre) and "Paroles Allemandes." "Crimes allemands
d'après des té-moi gnages allemands," by J. Bédier, is published by
Colin.




ROBBERY


We shall not waste time over the looting of cellars, of larders, of
poultry yards, of linen-chests, or of whatever can be consumed promptly,
or immediately made use of by the troops--all these are the merest
trifles. Let us also dismiss pillage, organised on a large scale by the
authorities, of all sorts of raw material and industrial machinery: the
bill on this score will come to several thousand million francs. Let us
likewise put aside official robberies, committed by governors of towns,
or provinces, from municipal treasuries (even the treasury of the Red
Cross at Brussels was robbed), usually under the form of fines, or of
taxes imposed under transparent pretences. There again there will be
millions to recover.

We shall deal here with _personal robberies_ only, as distinct from the