seeking blood and human sacrifice as an end in itself.

I have not dealt with German atrocities in Belgium or France. War is
atrocious, and you cannot move millions of men to the slaughter of their
fellow men without revealing a certain percentage of crimes kindred to
murder.

In due time, all the atrocities of this war may be shown up in
photographs which have been taken. The Carnegie Peace Foundation is
circulating photographs showing the atrocities in the Bulgarian wars. It
might be much more timely for them to circulate photographs showing the
horrors and atrocities of human sacrifice in this most audacious war.

Previous chapters have shown how German diplomacy slipped, how the German
secret service had gathered the facts of the military, financial, and
political weaknesses of Russia, Great Britain, and France, yet with no
ability to value properly the spirit of the peoples behind this military
unpreparedness. Germany has been described as "System without Soul." It
remains only to show the relative weaknesses of Germany, and why she
cannot win this war.

The Allies can reach round the world for men, war-supplies, and financial
assistance. Germany can get no more men, no more gold, no more outside
war-supplies. She must manufacture and be self-sustaining.

In the first six months of the war Germany has raised a loan of
4,400,000,000 marks, or about 1,100,000,000 dollars, promptly and
patriotically taken by her people.

But international bankers inform me that every dollar of this and fifty