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PRUSSIAN MIlITARISM AT WORK.
THE LETTER OF A BISHOP-CHAPLAIN.
The following is a copy of a letter written to his
clergy by the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, R.C. Bishop of
Auckland, New Zealand:-
DEAR REV. FATHERS,-
IN the course of a previous letter to you, I detailed a
few of the results of my investigations into the
conduct of the German army towards the civilian
population in those parts of Northern France, in or
near which I was acting as Catholic chaplain to a
New Zealand Brigade that had been for some time
without the ministrations of our Church. In this
communication, I wish to restate in part, and in part
to extend, the findings df inquiries over an area of
some twenty miles long by five miles wide. These
inquiries were based throughout on the testimony of
eyewitnesses-clergy, mayors and other public
functionaries, commercial men, some French officers
and men, and hundreds of farmers, farm-workers, etc.
A fast, light motor, kindly placed at my disposal
while at the front, enabled me to visit a large number
of towns, villages, farm houses, and workers' cottages,
and to penetrate, on several occasions, a considerable
distance into Belgium. While our Brigade was