Note 87 — Chapter I · RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE INHABITANTS

For example, the carrying off of forty leading citizens from Dijon and neighboring towns as reprisals against the making prisoners of the crew of German merchantmen by the French (undoubtedly contrary to the law of nations), the pretense being that the crews could serve to reenforce the German navy (a pretense strikingly repudiated by Bismarck’s Notes of October 4th and November 16th, 1870). Lüder, Das Landkriegsrecht, p. 111.