Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THEMATIC MOTIVES OF THE LEGENDS The accounts'of the popular fury in Belgium, of which the official German enquiries have established the imaginary character, have been, for the most part, taken from the Informations Pax. They are translated here from the text derived in part from the German Catholic press and in part from the notes of R. P. Bernhard Duhr. The present chapter is entirely devoted to their faithful reproduction; no comment is added. The titles under which they have .appeared, and also their form, have been scrupulously respected. I have endeavoured to classify them in logical order. A rapid examination suffices indeed to make apparent amongst them a certain number of well-defined "thematic motives." R. P. Duhr has already grouped many under some general heads. His summary it classification has been a little extended and completed. It includes the following motives: treason, incitements to murder and strife, treacherous attacks, the discovery of machineguns on church towers, murders, poisonings, and mutilations of the wounded. Some stories have been included which, although they do not refer to episodes which have occurred in Belgium, exhibit identical themes and have for this reason an interest as illustrations. Section I. Acts Of Treachery Systematic spying by wireless--The cure1 and the telephone --Priest apd telephone--An experience and yet false --Subterranean telephone and criminal use of the church clock--Signalling and treachery at Malines--The cure1 of Petite-Posse did not practise spying--Signalling from the church tower--An innocent priest shot--I saw it myself--The " inevitable priest" is more than amiable. R. P. Duhr, Der Lugengeist, pp. 34 to 37. SYSTEMATIC SPYING BY WIRELESS "An Uhlan related that...
