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house; and retire to rest, impressing upon him that
he must have coffee ready for them next morning.
by five. That, however, is invasion in its mildest-
its very mildest-form in time of war.

Nor is the position of the invaders an enviable
one. They know that their entertainer wishes
them every possible evil. His demeanour may be
sulky, servile, affable, with an effort, studiously
cold. His secret prayer is, in every case, that
plague, pestilence and famine, battle, murder, and,
above all, sudden death may carry off those whom
he is compelled to house, feed, and serve, and for
whose safety, in the meanwhile, he is held per-
sonally responsible. For to him these invaders,
even if they behave with all possible consideration,
are, none the less, intruders who have disturbed his
peace, tax-gatherers who are unjustly levying tithes,
bailiffs who are wrongfully devouring his substance,
burglars who have broken into his house, brigands
who only do not take his life because they are left
free to deal as they please with his goods.

Nevertheless, even between invaders and invaded.
not wholly unfriendly relations will sometimes spring
up; when, for instance, the invaders possess good
feeling and the invaded good sense. Such a com-
bination is sure to be rare; but in this last inva-
sion instances of it were to be met with. For the
most part, however, there was no combination at

THE

GERMANS IN FRANCE.

NOTES

ON THE METHOD AND CONDUCT OF THE INVASION;
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN INVADERS AND INVADED;

AND THE

MODERN USAGES OF WAR.

Henry

BY

H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS.

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