threaten that unless the Belgians reopen and proceed with business they
will confiscate the stores and sell them to Germans who will do
business. The people of Antwerp must be in bed by 9 o'clock. The
people of Liége are ordered to retire at 7 P.M. No Belgian is
permitted the use of a telephone, the entire system having been
appropriated by the military authorities.

The Germans have decreed German time, which is one hour different from
that of London, but the Belgian people refuse to set over their watches
and clocks. The Belgian railroad system is different from that of the
Germans,--left-handed tracks and a different system of signalling. The
Belgians refuse to do the bidding of the Germans and operate the
railroads. The Germans must move the trains themselves.

The Germans do not hate the Belgians. They simply pity them, that they
were so shortsighted as not to accept German gold for right of passage
through the country. The German hate is reserved entirely for the
English above all people on the surface of the globe. In Belgium 200
marks reward is offered for the capture of any Englishman found in that
domain.

The latest response to Bernhardi's book, "England the Vassal of
Germany," is Kipling's poem in the King Albert book issued December 16
to augment the Belgian Relief Fund. I clip two verses:--

They traded with the careless earth,
And good return it gave;
They plotted by their neighbor's hearth
The means to make him slave.