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 52 Asia Minor and in Morocco, between England and Germany, between Germany and France. But what of German relations with Russia? In the murderous spirit that took possession of the German public during the first weeks of the war everything seemed credible. The German populace believed that Belgian women had gouged out the eyes of the German wounded, that Cossacks ate tallow candles, that they had taken infants by the legs and torn them to pieces; they believed that Russia aspired to the annexation of the German empire, to the destruction of German "Kultur," to the introduction of absolutism from Kiel to Munich, from the Warthe to the Rhine. The Social-Democratic Chemnitzer Volksstimme wrote on August 2nd:

On the same day the Fraenkische Tagespost cried out:

And the Koenigsberger Volkszeitung wrote on August 3rd:

"Not one of us can doubt, whether he is liable for military service. or not, that he must do everything to keep these worthless vandals from our borders so long as the war may last. For if they should be victorious, thousands of our comrades will be condemned to horrible prison sentences. Under the Russian scepter there is no such, thing as self-expression of the people, no social-democratic press is allowed to exist, social-democratic meetings and organizations are