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“HUNS"'SCORNED
LAW OF NATIONS
Jse of Civilians as Hostages and
for Screens Part of
Devilish System.
FIRST MADE USE OF IN 1870
At That Time It Was Condemned by
the Civilized World, but the Ger
man Military Leaders Have
Never Abandoned It.
.1 mpie proof flint the march of ihe.
Herman armies thrnilyh Brh/iam
was mark'd In/ massacres and ern
effic< almost beyond belief is r/iven
in a document mode public In/ the
•urn nut tee on public informal ion.
trom winch the follniriny is taken:
The massacres in Belgium and
northern Franco were a part of the
German system of frightfulness. An
other feature of this system was Ihe
use of civilians as host ages ami for
screens.
In discussing the use of hostages the
German War Book (Kriegsbrauch im
Landkricge) says:
“By hostages are understood those
persons who, ns security or hail for
the fulfillment of treaties, promises, or
other claims, are taken or detained by
the opposing state or its army. Their
provision has been less usual in re
cent wars, as a result of which some
professors of the law of nations have
wrongly derided that the taking of
hostages has disappeared from the
practice of civilized nations. . . .
“A new application of ‘hostage right'
was practiced hy the German staff in
the war of 1S70. when it compelled
leading citizens from French towns
and villages to accompany trains and
locomotives In order to protect the
railway communications which were
threatened hy the people. Since the
lives of peaceable inhabitants were,
without any fault on their part, there
by exposed to grave danger, every
writer outside Germany has stigma
tized this measure as contrary to the
law of nations and as unjustified to
wards the Inhabitants of the country.”
Clung to Frightfulness.
Although their deeds in the Franco
Prussian war had been universally
condemned, ns they themselves admit
ted, the leaders did not intend to
abandon such a useful measure of
frightfulness. In reinterprete Mill
taire the forms were provided for such
nets in the next war. Both in Belgium
and In France the Germans have con
stantly used hostages. The evidence
is contained In the proclamations of
the govtinlng authorities and also in
the dlarflft of the German soldiers. A
few examples from these will Illus
trate the system which was employed.
A specimen of the arbitrariness and
cruel tv Is furnished hy the proclama
tion of Major ltleckmnnn, from which
Hie following sections are presented:
“AGcr 0 a. m. on the 7th Septem
ber. I will permit tin* houses in Beyne
lleusny. Grlveguee, and Bois-de-Breux
to he Inhabited hy the persons who
,tv"'1 in ♦Vm formerly, as long ■»»
these persons are not forbidden to fre
quent these localities hy official pro
hibition.
Prominent People Hostages.
“In order to be sure that th»*above
mentioned permit will not he abused,
'he burgomasters of Beyne-TTeusay and
of Grlveguee must immediately pre
pare lists of prominent persous who
will be held as hostages for 24 hours
each at Fort Fleron. September 6.
1914, for the first time (the period of
letention shall he) from (5 p. m. until
September 7 at midday.
“The life of these hostages depends
m the population of the above-men
loned communes remaining quiet un
lor nil Hrpiimctanpaa
“During the night It Is severely for
ildden to show any luminous signals.
Bicycles are permitted only between 7
l. m. and 5 p. m. (German time).
“From the list which Is submitted to
no T shall designate prominent per
10ns who shall he hostages from noon
if one day until the following midday,
f the substitute is not there in due
line, the hostage must remain anoth
■r 24 hours at the fort. After these
!4 hours the hostage will incur the
lenalty of death, if the substitute fails
o appear.
“Priests, burgomasters, and the oth
t members of the council are to he
aken first as hostages.
“I insist that till civilians who move I
bout in my district . . . show
heir respect to the German officers by j
nking off their hats, or lifting their 1
lands to their heads in military salute,
n ease of doubt, every German sol
der must be saluted. Anyone who
oes not do this must expect the Ger
tan military to make themselves re
ported by every means.”
told Small Nations Have No Rights
“The fate that Belgium has called
own upon herself is hard for ilie in
ivldual. tint not too hard for this po
tical structure (Stnatsgebflde). for
tie destinies of the immortal great na
ons stand so higli that they cannot
ut have the right, in ease of need, to
irliie over existence that cannot de
‘iid themselves, but live, as parasites,
pon the rivalries of the great.”—Prof.
[. Oncken. in Suddentsche Monatsheft,
South German Monthly.)
Would they have dared to defend
4<'h a policy if they could have seen
ip announcement sent out by the par
;h of St. Hadelin with its silent el(*
lienee?
This Is an invltatlou to a servlo* In |
memory of 00 men and women from I
one parish, of whom all hot two were
killed by the Germans In the massacre
of August 5 and C, 1914. The closing
sentences are:
“Gentle Heart of Mary, he my
refuge.
“Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. .
“Sr. Joseph, patron of Belgian, pray | 1
for us. i f
"St. Hardelln, patron of the parish, .
pray for us.
“Salnte Burbe, patroness of kindly :
death, pray for us.”
After rending such ghastly accounts, 1
many of thm;i written by <leriua* eye- '
witnesses, and knowing that similar i
tales were puldislied widely in [lie ,
German newspapers, it is difficult to i
read with patience such words as !
these: l(
"The German army (in which 1 of
course delude the n»vy) Is today flic
greatest institute for moral education •
in Hie world."
"The German soldiers ahum are i
[thoroughly disciplined, and have never i
so much as hurt a hair of a single in- 1
noceiit tinman being." Houston stew-!
art Chamberlain, in Kri ■■gsaul'sdtzc
“War Essays," ltd I.
“We see everywhere how our sol
diers respect the sacred defenseless
ncss of woman ».nd child.”—I'rof. G. '
ftoethc. in Heutsche Ueden in S. nwerer ‘
Zcit. ‘'German Speeches in Ditlicult
I >a,vs.”
Hostages’ IJves Hung by Thread.
“In order to Insure sufficiently die
surety or our troops arm trie trnnquii
! ity of the population of Reims, the
■ persons mentioned have been seized
' ns hostages by the eon no under of tjj,e
German army. These hostages will
be shot If there Is the least disorder.
Oil the other hand, if the town re
mains perfectly calm and quiet these
hostages and Inhabitants will tie
placed under the protection of the
German army.
“THK GENERAL COMMANDING.
| “Reims, 12th September. 1914.”
i Beneath this proclamation there
were posted the names of SI hostages
! and a statement that others had also
been seized as hostages. The lives of
all these men depended in reality
| apon the interpretation which the Oer
| man military authorities might give to
! the elastic phrase, “the least disorder,”
in (lie proclamation.
Hugh Gibson, in a Journal from our
| Legation in Belgium, page 1S4. explains
I what was likfHy to happen :
“Another thing is. that on entering
a town, they hold the burgomaster, the
proemeur du roi. and oilier authorities
as hostages to insure good behavior by
the population. Of course, the hood
lum class would like nothing better
than to see their natural enemies, the
defenders of law and order, ignomini
ously shot, and they do not restrain
themselves a hit on account of the
hostages.”
Diary of Bombardier Wetzel.
"Aug. 8th. First fight and set fire
to several villages.
“Aug. 9th. Returned to old quar
ters; there we searched all the houses
and shot the mayor ami shot one man
down from the chimney pot, and then
we again set fire to the village.
“On the 18th August Letalle (?) cap
tured If) men with three priests be
cause they have shot down from the
church tower. They were brought Into
the village of Ste. Marie.
“Oct. 5th. We were in quarters in
the evening at Willekamm. Lieutenant
Radfefs was quartered in the mayor’s
house and there had two prisoners 1
(tied together) on a short whip, and In
case anything happened they were to
I be killed.
"Oct. 11th. We had no fight, but wre
j caught about 20 men and shot them.
(From the dairy of Bombardier Wetzel,
Second Mounted Battery, First Kur
hessian Field Artillery. Regiment No.
11.)” I
The Germans also found it eon
" '"Ciu uii nuui v on nniuiiM iu MM HI P
civilians, both men and women, who ]
could be forced to march or stand in j
front of the troops, so that the country
men «f the civilians would be com
pelled first to kill their own people if 1
they resisted the Germans. This 1
usage Is Illustrated In the following: 1
Letter of Lieutenant Eberlein. >
“October 7. 1914.
“But we arrested three other civil
ians. and then 1 had a brilliant idea.
We gave them chairs, and we then or
dered them to go and sit out in the
middle of the street. On their part,
pillful entreaties; on ours, a few blows
from the butt end of the rifle. Little
by little one becomes terribly callous
at this business. At last they were
all seated outside in the street. I do
not know what anguished prayers they
may have said but 1 noticed that their
hands were convulsively clasped the
whole time. I pitied these fellows, but
the method was immediately effective.
“The flank fire from the houses
quickly diminished, so that we were
able to occupy the opposite house and
thus to dominate the principal street.
Every living being who showed himself
In the street was shot. The artillery _
on Its side had done good work all this ~
time, and when, toward seven o’clock
in the evening, tin* brigade advanced
to the assault to relieve us I was in
a position to report thnt Saint Die
had been cleared of the enemy.
“Later on 1 learned that the reg
ment of reserve which entered Sain
Die further to the north had fried tie
same experiment. The four civilians
whom they had compelled in the same
way to sit out in the street were
killed by French bullets. T myself saw
them lying in the middle of the street
near the hospital.
“A. EBERLEIN,
"First Lieutenant.”
Letter published on the 7th October.
1914, in the Vorabendblatt of the
Mnnchner Neueste Nachrichten.
MISHITS TO Kl
IS OFFICII MES3ENGEH3
President Wilson has sent the fol
owing letter to Mr. Colin If. Living
tone, president, National council, Boy
Scouts of America:
‘My Dear Mr. Livingstone:
‘‘I desire to entrust the Boy Scouts
>f America with a new and important
:ommission, to make them the gov
ernment despatch bearers in carrying
o the homes of their community (lie
>amphelts on the war, prepared by I he
ommittee on public information. Tin*
excellent services performed by the
loy Scouts in the past encourages me
o believe that this new task will be
heerfully and faithfully discharged,
“Yours sincerely,
“WOODROW WILSON."
'I he Boy Scouts of America, num
bering nearly 300,000. have responded
0 the request of I he President with
rearty unanimity and will undertake,
ts their first despatch-bearing service,
1 distribution of copies of the Presi
lent's Flag Day address, published by
he committee on public information
n phamphlet form on September 15,
1017, and regarded as the most com
prehensive statement that has been
ssued by the government in regard
o the fundamental issues of the war.
It is the desire of the administratfow
hat this pamphlet have careful study
ay the people of the country and the
Hoy Scouts, acting as despatch bearers,
lirectly under command of the Presi
lent, will place the document in the
lands nf five million r*iti7.f»n«: of
:ity, town and hamlet of the country,
with specific instructions that its con
tents be carefully considered and that
the reader then make it his personal
■esponsibility to see that at least one
ither citizen of the community also
reads the copy. By these means a
minimum of ton millions of thought
ful citizens will have had this import
ant message impressed upon their
minds or will have been refreshed in
memory as to the principles of the war
as expressed by the President on Sep
tember 15. S
The pamphlets will be sent through
the mails to the individual scouts and
in each package there will be a man
ual for the guidance of these young
government messengers. Acting under
the local instructions of the Scoutmas
ters the despatch bearers will deliver
such printed matter as may be issued
from time to time by the committee
on public information to citizens,
carefully avoiding duplication. They
will accept signed receipts from the
persons visited and also their person
al assurance that they will comply
with the requests made, particularly
to aid distribution by passing the
documents to others.
Each Boy Scout is provided wit fa
an identification card, bearing his-*
name, troop number, city and state-,
and declaring his appointment as air
aide to the committee on public in
urination to serve as a despatch
bearer for the government during the
period covered by his registration,
under the direction of the National
■ouncil, Boy Scouts of America.
President Wilson’s letter requesting
:he service is reproduced in facsimile
in the reverse side of the idEentifica
ion card.
Each scout despatch bearer will
lave access to franked postaf cards,
•eturnable to the committee on public
nformation, by means of which any
dtizen may order mailed to him any
>f the various war pamphlets which
he committee on public information.
ias published during the war
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