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( H U\l)(>V.\, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1917.
“GERMAN PRACTICES.”
Some of t lie blaekets pages
in all history, comprising i
documentary record of “deeds
1ha1 make one despair of the
future of the human race,” are
found in a hook named “Ger
man War Practices,” which
has just been issued at the gov
eminent printing office by the
committee on public informa
tion for free distribution. It is
edited by Prof. D. 0. Monro,
of Princton, and other scholars.
The dumfounding evidence
which this book presents to the
jury of mankind is drawn
mainly from American sources,
and includes official proclam
ations and utterances of the
responsible heads of the Im
perial German government, let
ters and diaries of German sol
diers, quotations from German
newspapers, and material that
has been drawn from the ar
chives of the State Department
which lay bare the story of
inconceivable German atroci
ties.
The pur)iose of the book is
to show that the system of
frightfulness, itself the great
est atrocity, is the definite pol
icy of the German government
so sinister that . German sol
diers have themselves at times
revolted. Individual acts of
wanton cruelty and barbaric
destruction are cited only to
illustrate the operation of the
remorseless system
• The book supplements the
Bryce report which was the
first official survey of the path
of horror, ruin and death left
by the German army on the
lands of the innocent and do
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supplemented also to the of
ficial reports by the Belgian
Commission and the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and it reveals more of the dam
ning German war philosophy
as expressed in the German
White BooJc and various of
ficial utterances, extenuating
revolting crimes on the ground
of expediency and the advance
ment of that “Kuleur” which
now mocks its own name in
the civilised world.
The humanity of German
soldiers was so torn by the sys
tem of brutality that they cried
out in letters to Ambassador
Gerard, one expressing his pro
test against the slaughter of
the Russians in the Mansurian
lakes and swamps by saying,
“There is no God, there is no
morality, and no ethics any
more; there are no human be
ings any more, but only beasts
left.”
The illuminating reports of
Brand Whitlock, Minister tc
Belgium, tell of miseries in
flicted upon the Belgian peo
ple, Mr. Whitlock saving
“One is so overwhelmed with
the horror of the thing itself
that it has been, and even now
is, difficult to write calmly and
justly about it.”
Herbert Hoover, writing foi
this book of bis experiences ii
Belgium, says: “The sight of
the destroyed homes and cit
ies, the w idowed and fatherless
the destitute, the physical
misery of the people but par
i tiallv nourished’ at best, the
deportation of-the men by ten?
of thousands of slavery in Ger
man mines and factories, the
execution of men and women
for paltry effusions of their
loyalty to their country, the
sacking of eveiy resource
through financial robbery ,the
fattening of armies on the I
slender produce of the country
and the denudation of the en-^
tire country of cattle, horses,!
and textiles; all these things
we had to witness, dumb to
help other than by protest
and sympathy, during this1
long and terrible time, and still!
these are not the events of bat-!
tie heat, but the effects of a
grinding heel of a race de-|
manding the mastership of
the world. All these things
| are known to the world—but
what can never be known is
the dumb agony of the people,
the expressionless face of mil
lions whose souls have passed
the whole gamut of emotions.
And why? Because these, a
free democratic people, dared
plunge their bodies before the!
march of autocracy.”
Frederick C. Walcott’s des
cription of devastated Poland
comprehends the monstrous1
woes inflicted by the Prussian
system upon these defenseless'
people.
Ill O C' f «» t / 1 > I \ n » 1 1 . . 1 -P .. '
the book, Vernon Kellog said:
“1 went into Belgium and oc
cupied France a neutral, and T
maintained while there a stead
fastly neutral behavior, but 1
came out no neutral. T went in
also a hater of war, but I came
out a more ardent hater of war;
but . also 1 came out with inera
dicable conviction, again, that
the only way in which Ger
many under its present rule
and in its present state of mind
can be kept from doing what
it lias done is by force of
The book gives excerpts
from the diaries of German
! soldiers of which these are
specimens: “Tn the night of
' August 18-ip the village of
Saint-Maurice was punished
for having fired on German
soldiers by being burnt to the
ground by the German troops.
The village was surrounded,
men hosted about a yard from
j one another, so that no one
' could get out. Then the TTh
1 Ians set fire to it house by
j house; neither man, woman ,or
child could escape; only the
j greater part of the live stock
j we carried off, as that could lie
1 used. Any one who ventured
! to come out was shot down.
All the inhabitants left in the
village were burnt with the
houses.”
“A horrible bath of blood.
The whole village bum*, the
French thrown into the Vaz
ing houses, civilians with the
: rest.”
That the reign of frighf.ful
ness was the definite policy I
of the German government is
testified to by an amazing o< 1-'
lection of documents and utter-1
ances of German officialdom.
Herewith are excerpts from
documentary proof furnished
by German records establish-'
ing the truth beyond question:1
“As soon as you come to
blows with the enemy lie will
be beaten. No mercy will be!
shown! No-prisoners will -be»,
taken! As the Huns, under
King Attila, made a name for
themselves, which is still
mighty in traditions and le
gends today, may the name of
German he so fixed in China
by your deeds, that no (Jhnese
shall ever again dare to look
at a German askance. Open
the way for Kultur one * for
all.” From the Kaiser’s speech
to the soldiers on the eve of
their departure for China in
1900.
“Whenever a national war
breaks out, terrorsm becomes
necessary as a military prin
ciple.”— General von Hai t
mann
“The city of Brussels, ex
elusive of its suburbs ii is i c en
punished by an additional fin«•
of 5,000,000 francs on account
of the attack made upon t. Qer
man soldier by Ryckere, one
of its police officials.”—Bar
on Von Luettwitz, Governor of
Brussels.
“1 am thirsty, bring me
some beer, gin, rum.” “If you
lie to me T will have you shot
immediately.”—These senten
ces are taken from a phrase
hook supplied to the German
soldiers, according to minis
ter Brand Whitlock.
“One cannot make war in
a sentimental fashion. Tin*
more pitiless the conduct of
war, the more humane in its
reality, for it will run its
course all the sooner” General
Von Bcrnardi.
“The innocent must suffer
with the guilty. All this must
not in our eyes weigh as much
as the life of a single one of
our brave soldiers—the right
eous accomplishment of duty
is the emanation af high Kul
tur, and in that the population
of the enemy countries can!
learn a lesson from our1
armies.”-—General Von Biss
ing.
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