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Warrant of Appointment

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Content note: Describes killings, sexual violence and the destruction of towns, as reported in witness statements the committee accepted. This object is shown as it was published. Why

T hereby appoint — The Right Hon. Viscount BRYCE, O.M. ;

The Right Hon. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bt, K.C. ;

The Right Hon. Sir EDWARD CLARKE, K.C. ;

Sir ALFRED HOPKINSON, K.C. ;

Mr. H. a. L. FISHER, A^ioe-Chancellor of tlie University of Sheffield ; and Mr. HAROLD COX;

to be a Committee to consider and advise on the evidence collected on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to outrages alleged to have been committed by German troops during the present War, cases of alleged maltreatment of civilians in the invaded territories, and breaches of the laws and established usages of war ; and to prepare a report for His Majesty's Government showing the conclusion at which they arrive on the evidence now available.

And I appoint Viscount Bryce to be Chairman, and Mr. E. Grimwood Mears and Mr. W. J. H. Brodrick, barristersat-law, to be Joint Secretaries to the Committee.

(Signed) H. H. ASQUITH.

15th December 1914.

Sir KENELM E. DIGBY, K.C, G.C.B., was appointed an additional member of the Committee on 22nd Januarv 1915.

The Bryce Report on Alleged German Outrages, Committee on Alleged German Outrages (chair: Viscount Bryce). A 1915 official publication of the British government (Crown copyright, long expired), so in the public domain in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Internet Archive lists the scan as not in copyright. Provenance and rights.