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Atrocious Treatment of the Help
less Part of Campaign Plans !
of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRIGHTFULNESS
Terroriim Declared a Necessary Prln
eiple in National Warfare—Bru
talities May Be Said to Be Di
rectly Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.
I he committee on public infor
mation, appointed by the president.
and consisting of the secretary of
state, secretary of icar. secretary of
the navy, and George ('reel, official
censor, has made public a mass of
evidence dealing with German war
practices which shows the kaiser's
leaders in the field and in command
of raptured points to be directly re
sponsible for fhe beastliness which
has characterized the operations of
the Huns, in the present conflict.
Quotations from the pamphlet fol
low:
1-or many years leaders In every civ
ilized nntlon have been trying to make
warfare less brutal. The great land
marks in this movement are the Ge
neva and Hague conventions. The for
mer made rules as to the care of the
sick and wounded and established the
Red Cross. At the first meeting at Ge
neva, In 1864, It was agreed, and until
the present war It has been taken for
granted, that the wounded, and the doc
tors and nurses who cared for them,
would be safe from all attacks h'y the
enemy. Thp Hague conventions,
drawn up in 1899 and 1907. made addi
tional rules to soften the usages of war
and especially to protect noncomhnt
ants and conquered lands. Germany
took a prominent part in these meet
ings. and with the other nations sol
emnly pledged her faith to keep nil the
rules except one article in the Hague
regulations. This was article 44.
which forbade the conqueror to force
any of the conquered to give informn
tinn All nthor miluc •tmT mmil.ir
tions six? afsjepted in the most binding
manner.
But Germany's military leaders had
no intention of keeping these solemn
promises. They had been trained
along different lines. Their leading
generals for many years had been urg
ing a policy of frightfulness. In ihc
middle of ihe nineteenth century Von
Olnusewltz was looked upon as the
greatest military authority, and the
methods which he advocated were used
by the Prussian army In Its successful
wars of 1866-1871. Consequently be
cause these wars had liee® successful,
the wisdom of Von Clause-witz’ meth
ods seemed to the Prussian array to be
frilly proved.
Policy of Frightfulness.
Xow. the essence of Vo® Clausewttz'
teachings was that successful war In
volves the ruthless application of force.
• n the opening chapter of Sils master
work. “Votn Krle-ge" (“On War”), he
savs:s
"Violence arms itself with the inven
tions of art and science. . . . Self
umnosed restrictions, almost impercep
tible and hardly worth mentioning,
termed usages of international law,
accompany it without essentially im
pairing Its power. . . . Now, philan
thropic souls might easily Imagine that
there Is a skillful method of disarm
ing or subduing an enemy without
causing too much bloodshed, and that
this is the true tendency of the art of
war. However plausible this may ap
pear, still it is an error which must be
destroyed; for in such dangerous
things as war, the errors which pro
ceed from a spirit of ‘good-natured
ness’ are precisely the worst. As the
use of physical force to the utmost ex
tent by no means excludes the co
operation of the intelligence, it follows
that he who uses force ruthlessly, with
out regard to bloodshed, must obtain
a superiority. If his enemy does not
so use it.”
In 1877-78, in the course of a series
of articles upon “Military Necessity
and Humanity,” General von Hartmann
wrote, ill the same spirit as Von Clau
se witz:
"The enemy state must not be spared
the want and wretchedness of war;
these are particularly useful In shat
tering its energy and subduing Its will.”
“Individual persons may he harshly
dealt with when an example is made
of them, intended to serve as a warn
ing. . • • Whenever a national war
breaks out, terrorism becomes a nec
essary military principle.” “It Is a
gratuitous illusion to suppose that
modern war does not demand far more
brutality, far more violence, and an
action far more general than was for
merly the case.”
In 1881 \ on Moltke, who had been
commander In chief of the Prussian
army in the Franco-Prussian war, de
clared :
"Perpetual peace Is a dream and not
even h beautiful dream. War Is an ele
ment In the order of the world estab
lished by God. By It the most noble
virtues of man are developed, courage
and renunciation, fidelity to duty aud
the spirit of sacrifice—the soldier gives
his life. Without war. the world would
degenerate and lose Itself in muterlal
Ism.” “The soldier who endures suf
fering. privation and fatigue, who
courts dangers, cannot take only ‘In
proportion to the resources of the
country.' He must take all that is nec
essary to ids existence. One lias no
right to demand of him anything super
human.” “Tlie great good in war is
that it should he ended quickly. In
view of lliis. every means, except those
which are positively eondemnable
must he permitted. I cannot. In any
"'ay, agree with (lie declaration of St.
Petersburg when it pretends Hint ‘the
weakening of the military forces of tlie
enemy’ constitutes the only legitimate
method of procedure in war. No! One
must attack all the resources of the
enemy government, his finances. Ids
railroads, his stock of provisions and
even his prestige. . . .”
Many other examples might he elter,
from tlie writings of German generals
Tlie very best illustration of this atti
tude. however, is to he found in the
emperor’s various speeches, and espe
dally In ids speech to his soldiers on
Ibe eve of their departure for China In
1!KN). On July “7 the kaiser went to
Rrenierhaven to hid farewell to the
German troops. As they were drawn
up, ready to embark for China, he ad
dressed to them a last official message
from the fatherland. The local news
paper reported his speech in full. In
it appeared ’.ids advice and admonition
from tlie emperor, the commander in
chief of the army, the head of all Ger
many:
Soldiers Told to Be Merciless.
"As soon as you come to blows with
the enemy he will he beaten. No mercy
will lie shown ! No prisoners will be
taken! As the linns, under King At
tlla. made a name for themselves,
which is still mighty in traditions and
legends today, may (he name of Ger
man be so fixed In China by your deeds,
that no Chinese shall ever again dare
even to look at a German askance. . . .
Open the way for Kultur once for all.”
Even the imperial councilors seem to
have been shocked at the emperor’s
speech, and efforts were promptly
made to suppress the circulation of his
exact words. The efforts were only
partly successful. A few weeks later,
when tlie letters from the German sol
diers in China were being published.
In local German papers, the leading
socialist newspaper, Vorwaerts, ex
cerpted from them reports of atroci
ties under the title "Letters of the
Huns." Many of tlie leaders in the
reiehstag felt very keenly tlie brutality
of the emperor’s speech. The obnox
ious word “Huns” hud excited almost
uiinriniu niimniuiuiinu. ut'll uir
reiohstag met. in November, the speecli
was openly discussed. Herr Lleber of
tiie center (Catholic party), after quot
ing the “no mercy” portion of the
speech, added, “There are, alas, in Ger
many groups enough who have regard
ed the atrocities told in the letters
which have been published as the duti
ful response of soldiers so addressed
and encouraged.” The leader of the
social democrats, Herr Rebel, spoke
even more pointedly. Toward the end
of a two-hour address on the atroeities
committed by the German soldiers in
China and on the speech of the em
peror, he said:
“If Germany wishes to be the bearer
of civilization to the world, we will
follow without contradiction. Rut the
ways and means in which this world
policy lias been carried on thus far, in
which it has been defined by the em
l>eror . . . are not, in our opinion,
the way to preserve the world position
of Germany, to gain for Germany the
respect of the world.”
The consequences of the emperor’s
speech Rebel aptly described:
“My it the signal was given, garbed
in the highest authority of the German
empire, whicffi must have most weighty
consequences, not only for the troops
who went to China but also for those
who stayed at home. An expedition
of revenge so barbarous as this has
never occurred in the last hundred
years and not often in history; at
least, nothing worse than tills has hap
pened in history, either done by the
Huns, by the Vandals, by Genghis
Khan, by Tamerlane, or even by Tilly
when he sacked Magdeburg.”
Atrocities in China.
These atrocities in China or “Letters
of the Huns” continued to be published
in the Vorwaerts for several years and
appeared intermittently in tlie debates
of the reichstag as late as 1906. At
that time the socialist. Herr Kuuert,
reviewing the procedure ill a trial of
which he had been the victim in the
previous summer, stated that he bad
offered to prove “that German soldiers
in China hud engaged In wanton and
brutal ravaging; that plunder, pillage,
extortion, robbery, as well as rape and
sexual abuses of the worst kind, laid
occurred on a very large scale and that
German soldiers had participated In
them." He had not been given an op
portunity to prove his allegations, hut
had been sentenced to prison for three
months for assailing the honor of the
“whole German army.” The out
rageousness of this sentence was made
clear by the revelations, made in the
reichstag shortly afterwards, of simi
lar atrocities committed by German
officials and soldiers in Africa in the
campaign against the Hereros.
For the guidance of the officers in
case the Inhabitants of conquered ter
ritory should take up arms against the
Kertnan army, the “German War
Book” quotes with approval the letter
Napoleon sent to his brother Joseph:
“Tiie security of your dominion de
pends on how you behave In the con
quered province. Burn down a dozen
places which are not willing to sub
mit themselves. Of course, not until
you have first looted them; my sol
diers musrtfot he allowed to go away
with their hands empty. Have three
to six persons hanged in every village
which has Joined the revolt; pay no
respect to the Cossack” (that is, to
members of the clergy).
HFTED MEN OF fNTffilOR
MUST BIT TMNSPiT
Alfred H. Brooks, famous Alaskan
geologist, known by almost every Alas
kan and by "half the people" of Se
attle and Tacoma, was supposed until
recently to be busy in the Northland,
but he is “somewhere in France," su
pervising the building of trenches and
dugouts for General Pershing’s men.
Without naming him. Secretary of
the Interior Franklin K Lane made
reference to Brooks in his annual re
port, just published. "Not long after
our entrance into the war,” said the
secretary, "one of our geologists came
into our office, proudly dressed in an
army uniform. The last time I had
seen him he came to make a report on
the tungsten fields of Alaska, almost
within the Arctic circle.
“This man had lived more than
twenty summers in the Northland,’’ he
continued, “taking here and there a
sample of rock, studying the peculiar
upstanding and twisted beds of coal
in the Matanuska and Bering fields,
rushing from one placer gold field to
another, reporting on each new find
of metal, until he had become identi
fied with the rise of Alaska and was
the embodiment of its hopeful spirit.
Joins General Pershing
“ ‘I have come to say good-bye,' he
said. ‘My next address will be “some
where In France,’’ as a member of
General Pershing’s staff.’
“I naturally asked the kind of work
that an Alaskan geologist would be
called upon to do with an army,” the
secretary continues. >*TIis answer il
lustrates how much of science has
gone into this war. ‘My w'ork,’ he re
plied, ‘is to be concerned with the loca
tion of trenches and dugouts. We must
have trenches into which the country
will not drain. These slashes in the
earth can be made so that they will do
their own draining. Mud! mud! mud!
That’s the curse which brings ort
trench feet and puts the soldier out.
of business.’
“And then on a sheet of paper he
drew the slope of a hill and explained
how, if located in -one place because
of the peculiar stratification of the
earth, the trench would act as a cess
pool or reservoir, gathering in all the
waters of the neighboring terrain,
while if placed else where it would be
immune from this disadvantage and
through certain strata furnish a nat
ural waste pipe for the superficial
waters. So was the American soldier
to be given a healthier place in which
to live and work and be more effi
cient.”
Brooks the Ivtarr
Reading this remarkable portion of
Secretary Lane's report, the secretary
of the publicity bureau sent to the
Alaska bureau the query, “Who is Sec
retary Lane talking about?"' ,
“Alfred H. Brooks," came the reply,
“one of the noblest souls fn Christen
dom, known favorably by everybody in
Alaska and by half the people gone to
war. Of one thing be certain: The
sector which he serves will have some
trenches and dugouts dry and snug,
worth talking about. He will show the?
allies how to build them.”
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