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in their faces, as men who go to take a sacrament. The Germans rushed to arms shouting and singing. During the early days of the Belgian invasion a German Junker officer, who seemed well informed upon events within the enemy lines, spoke to me with tears of pride in his eyes concerning this contrast.

“Ah, Germany was beautiful—beautiful!” he said.