LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
FREDERIC THE GREAT ON RESPONSIBILITY FOR ATROCITIES.
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Sat,—It is to be presumed that in their infamies the Prussians imagine that they are imitating their hero Frederic, whom they call the Great, who certainly was unscrupulous enough, but who would not have had the blood of Nurse Cavell on his con- science. I offer for their consideration the following indignant outburst of Frederic after seeing the corpse of a woman murdered and maltreated by the Cossacks. I lit upon it lately, and, as it seems pertinent, I give a translation :—
" See, my dear fellow, in whets condition these scoundrels have left the furniture of these good Wreeehes,* how they have broken everything that they could not carry away, and what they have done here these barbarians have done in most of the peasants' houses. Did you see that dead woman in front of the garden ? Does not all this make your hair stand on end ? Ie it warfare ? Should not Princes who employ such troops blush with shame, for they are guilty and responsible before God for all the horrors their soldiers commit ?"
Nothing said in Great Britain of Prussian atrocitiee can exceed this condemnation by their idol-King.—I am, Sir, die., Rosebery, Gorebridge, Midlothian. RosEBEra.
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