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URGED TO SLAY
AND SPARE NOT
Berman Soldiers Incited to Acts
of Cruelty by General Von
Bissing.
EMANATION OF HIGH KULTUR’ ;
Governor General of Belgium on Rec
ord as Declaring the Innocent Must
Suffer With the Guilty—Irvin
Cobb’s Tale of Horrors.
The. horrors deliberately and sys
tematically inflated upon the jieojrle
of Belgium by the German soldiers,
under the orders of their command
ing officers, art shown in all their
hideousness by official documents
end the testimony of eye-wit nesses,
as well as by letters written by Ger
man soldiers in the field. The bra
zen effort of Emperor William to
cast the odium of the fearful deeds
on the Belgians is also shown. Quo
tations given are from documents
already made public or in the pos
session of Ihe government at Wash
ington.
This Interview was reproduced in
the Berliner Tageblatt of November
20, 1014.
Mr. F. C. Walcott of the Belgian re
lief commission tells in the Geograph
ical Magazine for May, 1917, of meet
ing Gen von Bernhard!:
“As I walked out, Gen. von Bern
hardt came into the room, an expert
artilleryman, » professor in one of
their war colleges. I met him the
next morning, and he asked me If I
had rend his hook, ‘Germany In I lie
Next War.’
“1 said 1 had. He said: ‘Ito you
know, my friends nearly ran me out
of tiie country for that?’ They said,
‘You have let the cat out of the hag.'
I said, ’No, I have not, because nobody
will believe It.' What did you think
of it?’
“I said. ‘General, 1 did not believe a
word of it when I read it, but I now
feel that you did not tell the whole
truth;’ and the old general looked
actually pleased.”
Speaking on August 29, 1914, at
Munster, of the extreme measures
which the Germans felt obliged to take
against civil population or nei
gium, Gen. von Kissing said:
“The innocent must suffer with the
guilty. ... In the repression of
infamy, human lives cannot be spared,
and if isolated houses, flourishing vil
lages. and even entire towns are anni
hilated, tfiffF*!siifSsuredly regrettable,
but it must not excite ill-timed senti
mentality. All tills must not in our
eyes weigh as much ns the life of a
single one of our brave soldiers—ihe
rigorous accomplishment of duty is the
emanntion of a high kultur, and in
that, the population of the enemy
ennnt*'ies can learn a lesson from our
army.”
Officers Encouraged Atrocities.
Gen. von Kissing, after his appoint
ment as governor general of Belgium,
repeated in substance the above opin
ion to a Hutch journalist. The inter
view is published in the Dusseldorfer
Anzelger >>f December 8. 1914.
Irvin S. Gobi) states his conclusions
iin the responsibility of the higher Ger
man command for the atrocities:
"But I was an eyewitness to crimes
which, measured by the standards of
humanity and civilisation, impressed
me as worse than any Individual ex
cess, any individual outrage, could
ever hove been or can ever he; be
cause these crimes indubitably were
instigated ou a wholesale basis by or
der of officers of rank, and must have
been carried out under their personal
supervision, direction, and approval.
“Taking tlie physical evidence offer
ed before our own eyes, and buttress
ing it with the statements made to us,
lie; only by natives, but German sol
diers and German officers, we could
reach but one conclusion, which was
that here, in su^h and such a place,
those in command had said to the
troops: ‘Spare this town and these
people.’ And there they had said:
‘Waste this town and shoot these peo
ple.’ And here the troops had diserim
inately spared, and there they had In
discriminately wasted. In exact ac
cordance with the word of their supe
riors.”—Irvin Cobh, Speaking of Prus
sians, New \ork, 1917, pp. 32-34.
Hoodwinked German People.
These Ideas, ihen, were systemat
ically impressed upon the military and
official classes. it was necessary,
however, to work upon the minds of
the German people, so that they might
lend themselves to the inhuman poli
cies advocated by the military leaders.
To do this was difficult, for, as has
been shown often, many of the civil
ian leaders of public opinion, time and
again, expressed their horror of the
new spirit which was animating tin*
military authorities. The reichstag
debates gi"' ample evidence of this,
and the task of the military leaders
would have been still more difficult if
the reichstag had any real power.
(See War Information Series No. 3,
"The Government of Germany;’’ see
also Gerard’s "My Four Years in Ger
many,” chapter 2.)
The military authorities and those
In sympathy with them have done ail
In their power to stimulate a hatred of
other peoples In the minds of the Ger
mans. A campaign of education be
’ >re the wnr was cnrrlpd on with the
.object of impressing upon the minds
of the Germans the treacherous nature
of the peoples agnlnst whom the mili
tary lenders were anxious to wage
"nr. Not only were the Geniur'S grail
•tally led to believe that It was neces
sary to fight a defensive war against
unscrupulous foes, hut also that these
foes would violate every precept of hu
manity, and consequently must be
crushed without mercy as n measure
pf self-defense. The fruits of this
campaign of suspicion and hatred be
-ttnie evident when almost at the out
break of the war many Germans be
came possessed with the belief that
the whole population of Belgium, the
first country to be invaded, bad vio
lated every rule of honorable warfare,
that the frnnes-tireurs (guerrillas)
were everywhere present doing their
deadly work In secrecy or under the
cover of darkness; that women and
even children were mutilating and kill
ing the wounded or helpless prisoners.
Extract from a letter written by a
German soldier to his brother. (This
letter, now in the possession of the
United States government, was obtain
ed for this pamphlet from Mr. .1. U.
Grew, formerly secretary to the United
States embassy at Berlin.)
“November 4, 1914.
"The battles are everywhere ex
tremely tenacious and bloody. The
Englishmen we hate most and we want
to get even with them for once. While
one now and then sees French prison
ers. one hardly ever beholds French
black troops or Englishmen. These
good people are not overlooked by our
Infantrymen; that sort of people is
mowed down without mercy. The
losses of the Englishmen must be enor
mous. There is a desire to wipe them
out. root and all.”
Urged to £ill Without Pity.
Extract from another letter to a
brother:
Schleswig. 25. 8 14 (Ang. 25. 1914).
“Dear Brother, . . . You will
shortly go to Brussels with your regi
ment, as you know. Take care to pro
tect yourself against these civilians,
especially in the villages. Do not let
anyone come too near. They are very
clever, cunning, fellows, these Bel
gians; even the women and children
arc armed and fire their guns. Never
go inside a house, especially alone.
If you take anything to drink make
the inhabitants drink first, and keep at
a distance from them. The newspa
pers relate numerous cases In which
they have fired on our soldiers whilst
they were drinking. You soldiers must
spread around so much fear of your
... ...
to come near you. Remain always in
the company of others. I hope that
you have rend the newspapers and that
you know how to behave. Above all
have no compassion for these cut
throats. Make for them without pity
with the butt-end of your rifle and the
bayonet.
“Your brother, WTLLT.”
The emperor gave his sanction to
the reports of tlie brutal acts of the
Belgians in a telegram to President
Wilson.
“Berlin, via Copenhagen. Sept. 7, 1!>14.
“‘I feel it my duty, Mr. President,
to inform you as the most prominent
representative of principles of human
ity, that after taking the French fort
ress of Longw.v, my troops discovered
there thousands of dumdum cartriiiges
made by special government machin
ery. The same kind of ammunition
was found on killed and wounded
troops and prisoners, also on the Brit
ish troops. You know what terrible
wounds and suffering these bullets in
flict and that their use is strictly for
bidden by tlie established rules .if in
ternational law. I therefore address
a solemn protest to you against this
kind of warfare, which, owing to tlie
methods of our adversaries, has be
come one of the most barbarous known
in history. Not only have they em
ployed these atrocious weapons, hut
the Belgian government has openly en
couraged and long since carefully pre
pared the participation of the Belgian
civil population hi [lie fighting. The
atrocities committed even by women !
and priests In this guerrilla warfare,
also on wounded soldiers, medical staff
and nurses, doctors killed, hospitals
attacked by rifle lire, were such that
my generals finally were compelled to
take the most drastic measures in or
der to punish the guilty and to fright
en tlie bloodthirsty population from
continuing their work of vile murder
and horror. Some villages and even
the old town of Loewen (Louvain),
excepting the tine hotel de ville, had
to tie destroyed in self-defense, and
for the protection of my troops. My
heart bleeds when I see that such
measures have become unavoidable
and when I think of the numerous in
nocent people who lose their home and
property as a consequence of the bar
barous behavior of those criminals.
Signed. William. Emperor and King.'
“GERARD, Berlin.”
Lorenz Muller in the German Cath
olic Review. Dcr Feis, February, 1915,
made the following statement in re
gard to the emperor’s telegram:
“Officially no instance has been
proven of persons having tired with
the help of priests from the towers of
churches. All that has been made
known up to tlie present, and that has
been made the object of inquiry con
cerning alleged atrocities attributed to
Catholic priests during this war, has
been shown to be false and altogether
imaginary, without any exception. Our
emperor telegraphed to the president
of the United States of America that
even women and priests had commit
ted atrocities during this guerrilla war
fare on wounded soldiers, doctors and
nurses attached to tlie field ambu
lances. How this telegram can be rec
onciled with tlie fact stated above we
shall not be able to learn until after
the war.”
AMERICAN
IN ITALIAN GAMPS
(By Associated Press)
AMERICAN AVIATION TRAINING
CAMP, Southern Italy, Feb. 1.—"You
can't kill an American,” is the dictum
of the Italian officers training the sev.
oral hundred young aviators who have
been flying here since the end of Sep
tember, when, by arrangement with
the Italian government, this camp was
established.
The Americans have such a reputa
tion for luck that Italian soldiers come
here so they may touch one of the
aviators. “It brings us good luck, too,”
they explain.
The Americans fly from morning un
til night virtually every day. Not a
single one has been killed and but
three have been injured at all seri
ously. One of the latter, on his third
trip alone, got into an air situation
which he did not understand, with the
result that he stopped his motor,
whereupon the machine began t»
plunge downwards until its fall was
checked by the telegraph wires of the
railway station of the nearby city.
Thence the machine dropped to the
ground ami was smashed. The aviator
was picked up for dead, but in five
days he was ready for another fly.
The prize story of the camp con
cerns Harry Harris of California, who
got lost, first in the clouds, and then
in central Italy. He was a couple of
hours going away and a whole week
coming back to camp. As he after
wards explained, he went up for are
altitude and when he got above the
clouds he was unable to discover
whether he was flying upside down or
right side up, or whether the earth
was above or below him.
Finally, after grazing a few mourn
tain tops of the Appennines, he lighted
in the center of a village square, beg
ging for something to eat. As he
couldn’t speak Italian, his explanation
that he was “Americano” didn't satis
fy the local police, who had never
heard of American aviators in Italy
but had heard a lot about those of
Austria who have the unpleasant hab
it of dropping bombs on coast towns
along the Adriatic.
However, he was fed and started
eampwards, after a couple of days of
fletentlon. He had flown nearly a
hundred and fifty miles away from
camp, and when he got back there, he
was accused of having been on a visit
to some sweetheart.
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FRENCH GOLD RESERVE.
(By Associated Press)
PARIS. Feb. 1.—The flow of gold
into the Bank of France was given a
fresh impetus by the third war loan.
After reaching more than 100,000,000
francs a week during the early stage1
of the campaign and gradually declin
ing to a little over a million, the re
ceipts went up again to more than two
millions. The total gain to the bank’s®
gold reserve since the beginning of the
war now totals 2,250,000,000 francs,
bringing the reserve up to 5,351,000,00i>
million francs without recourse to any
other than persuasive measures;.
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