ALL IS QUIET IN BELGIUM
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I asked General von Bissing if there was much need for this military tribunal (The Feld Gericht). I shall not forget his reply.
“We have a few serious cases,” he said. “Occasionally there is a little sedition but for the most part it is only needle pricks. They are quiet now. They know why,” and, slowly shaking his head, von Bissing, who is known as the sternest disciplinarian in the entire German Army, smiled.
From an interview given by the Governor-General of Belgium to Edward Lyall Fox, New York Times, April, 1915.
