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Rh formerly torn from the Allies by force or contrary to the wishes of their inhabitants; the liberation of Italians, Slavs, Rumanians, and Czecho-Slovaks from foreign domination; the liberation of the people who now lie beneath the murderous tyranny of the Turks, and the expulsion from Europe of the Ottoman Empire, which has proved itself so radically alien to Western civilisation.

By this Note the Allies have in principle accepted the programme of the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary.

 

In another place in this book we spoke of the famous surrender of the 28th Regiment of Prague, called "Children of Prague." The following is an Order of the Day issued by the Commandant-in-Chief and read to all regiments at the front and at the bases and camps in the interior:—

"Soldiers! On April 3rd, 1915, almost the whole of the 28th Regiment surrendered, without fighting, to a single enemy battalion! This disgraceful act has ruined the reputation for heroism and gallantry of this regiment, of which our whole Army was justly proud. The young reservists H