And so they were; upon the Servile State.
Such was the condition of England in 1914, when Prussia, now at last armed to the teeth and secure of triumph, stood up before the world, and solemnly, like one taking a sacrament, consecrated her campaign with a crime.

She entered by a forbidden door, one which she had herself forbidden--marching upon France through neutralised Belgium, where every step was on her broken word.

Her neutralised neighbours resisted, as indeed they, like ourselves, were pledged to do.

Instantly the whole invasion was lit up with a flame of moral lunacy, that turned the watching nations white who had never known the Prussian.

The statistics of non-combatants killed and tortured by this time only stun the imagination.