Grand Forks Herald

THE WORLD UNDERSTANDS.

London, Sept. 3.—(British Wireless Service.)—The whole world understands and appreciates the tragic position of heroic Belgium and Serbia and all the Allied peoples have deep sympathy for Rumania and Montenegro, but only scant attention has been given to the bitter lot of the people of Luxemburg.

For four years now the citizens of Luxemburg have lived isolated under the yoke of German military domination. It is said there are 3,000 Luxemburg volunteers in France's foreign legion and that they are gallant fighters on the side of justice and humanity. It is true that Luxemburg has not faced the cruel devastation wrought by defensive fighting against the German legions on their own soil, but war has come by air, and just as it has been necessary for the Entente Allies to bomb German billets in Belgium and French towns so they have frequently had occasion to bomb Luxemburg and with deadly effect.

Naturally the German propagandists in Luxemburg, as in Belgium, have tried to arouse hostility against the Entente by exploiting the air raids. But again as in Belgium their efforts have proved singularly unsuccessful.

The Luxemburgers persist, in spite of all propaganda, in regarding the German invader as the real culprit; they recognize clearly that Luxemburg is raided because the German is there. Protests by the Luxemburg parliament and government against Germany's action in placing anti-aircraft guns around Luxemburg have been unavailing.