United States or Sint Maarten ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Other people have broken their promises after making them. It was left to Governor von Bissing to make them after breaking them. The third document is still more conclusive. If such an attitude is maintained I will hold the communal authorities responsible and the population will have only itself to blame if the great liberties granted to it until now are suspended."
"I expect as a matter of fact they found nothing in that poor young's man's papers to implicate you. They just wanted the brutes to give you a good fright ... and I dare say ... such is the military mind even wished you to see him shot. "By the bye, I suppose you have heard that von Bissing is very ill? Dying, perhaps " Vivie: "I hope so. I am so glad.
Governor General von Bissing once said to me in Brussels, apropos of certain charges that had been brought to him by his intelligence staff of a questionable behavior on the part of one of our men in Belgium charges easily proved to be unfounded: "I have entire confidence in Mr.
May the God of Peace be gracious to her for long years to come." The Germans' lack of humour surpasses even their ruthlessness. With one hand General von Bissing was baptizing the baby rather a difficult operation with the other he brandished his fiery sword over the heads of all the true Flemings who refused to adopt it. Many of them paid for this patriotic attitude by losing their liberty.
But the results of my meeting with Henriette von Bissing in Breslau were very different. She had followed me thither, and put up at the same hotel. Influenced, no doubt, by my sickly appearance, she seemed to give her sympathy for myself and my situation full play.
No, says A' says our young hero 'no, says he, 'he has a distinguished audience as like as not. "Speerin' ower the side an' fixin' his expensive glasses on the groon, he espied sax motor-cars " The door was flung open and Blackie came in hurriedly. "Tam get up," he said briefly. "All the damn circuses are out on a strafe and we're It von Bissing, von Rheinhoff, and von Wentzl.
Fortunately for the flying breaker of air-laws, von Bissing's circus was performing stately measures in the heavens and as von Bissing's circus consisted of ten very fast flying-machines, Tam decided that this was not the moment for vengeance and came round on a hairpin turn just as von Bissing signaled, "Attack!"
People who have no sympathy to spare for the Allies' cause have been obliged to bow before this young hero, more noble in his defeat than all the conquerors of Europe in their victory. But the Germans have not felt it. Not only did they try to ridicule King Albert in their comic papers. Even the son of Governor von Bissing did not hesitate to fling in his face the generous epithet, "Lackland."
Whitlock telegraphed to our Ambassador in London: "Miss Cavell sentenced yesterday and executed at 2 o'clock this morning, despite our best efforts, continued until the last moment." The sentence had been confirmed and the execution ordered to be carried out by General von Bissing, the German Governor General of Belgium.
In a first decree, dated August 10th, 1915, a fortnight after his last pledge, Governor von Bissing promises from fourteen days' to six months' imprisonment to anyone dependent on public charity who refuses to undertake work "without a sufficient reason" and a fine of £500 or a year's imprisonment to anyone who encourages refusal to work by the granting of relief.
Word Of The Day