New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1

part incapable of cruelty under ordinary conditions, is now devoted to

the horrible work of hatred and of reprisal; and even more than the combatants, their children, their orphans, all those who are to remain in mourning. * * *

As far as France is concerned, our first reverses have served to exalt the national spirit and to fortify the unanimous resolution to conquer or to di...