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Show Miscellany" Review of ''German War Practices." Snrre of Tine blarkeft p3rp in all lii?-inry, lii?-inry, rompvisl nc a riorumenta ry record of "rprds that makp one despair- of Dip future fu-ture of til! liuiri:-in ric." are found in a hook named ";ermMn "War Prartirps. whiHi lias juPt bon issncd at. the pov-Tninrnt pov-Tninrnt printlnsr office hy tho ronmilttp on puMio Information for fron distribution. distribu-tion. It is editr-'l by Profsor P. Munro of Ptimenlmi and othor pHiolars. Th dumbfounding evio-in'-n whlHi (hi book presents to the jury of mankind i. d'-a'u mainlv from (Itrman and American sr.urcpp, and' includes official proHanri-ilmw proHanri-ilmw and uitfirminos of the rrsponsihlc Ivaus of ti'O imperial German sovc-i-nrm-Mit . Iletterp anil diaries of German f-oldier?. quotations from Grma.n newspapers, and materli'l drawn from thr arrhivr of thei rtate. department which tuy bare the; stnry of inconceivable German Atrocities.; The purpose of the 'nook Is to show thsu the Fvstem ot" fright fulness, iiself the reatet ntroolty. is the definite pnllry of tht German government, so simpler that German .soldiers have themselves at times revolted. Individ u;.l act? of wan ton cruelty and barbaric destruction are cth'd only to illustrate the operation of the re-m re-m or Si? less sys t tm . The book supplements the Bryre report which was ih first official .survey of the path of horror, ruin and dj,'ith left by the German army nn the binds of tnno-cr-m and defenseless people. The book is supplrneii! a 1 also t the official rpnrt s i.'v the Peistan commission and tbf !"rciifb mmi.-ifi nt fori-';;p ,'jffair.. and i : re f i N iriOi f m' ; he :bi nini n i Ifnn.i n wi r phi 1 1 scph y n .1- evpr'-d 1 1 ' ' :c Ge - m.-.i ' ,U lule K'jok. and various uiih ial ut terances, extenuating revolting- crimes on the grounds of expediency and the advancement ad-vancement of that "liuitnr" which now mocks its own name throughout the civilized world. The humanity of Ger-man Ger-man soldiers was so torn by the pysrem of bnita lily that they vried out in letters let-ters to Ambassador Gerard, one expressing express-ing his protest against the slaughter of the Russians In the Masurian lakes and swamps by s:iiner. "There is no God. there is- no morality and no ethics any more; t here are no human beings any more, but only beast?." In the hope of arousing the sympathy a.nd securing the aid or the neutral nations, na-tions, the Belgian government appointed a committee to ascertain the facts about the German practices. The evidence collected col-lected by the Bl?ian commissioners is detailed a nd explicit, and their reports give names, p)aces and dates. It is not possible, however, to include in this pamphlet more than the following summary sum-mary of the charges they make aga inst the Germans: "1. Tha t thousands of nnoffend ing civilians, including- women and children, were murdered by the Germans. "2. That women had ben outraged. "3. TIih t I lie custom of t tie Germa n soldiers immediately on filtering a town was to break into wineshops and the cellars of private houses and nuidden themselves with drink. "4. Tha t German officers a nd soldiers looted on u gigantic and systematic scale, and. with the connivance of the German authorities, scut hack a large part of the: booty to Germany. "5. Tha t the pillage had ben accompanied accom-panied by wanton, desi ru-'tion and by bestia.l and sa'-rilngjous prm-ticpfl. "P. That cities, i owns villages and istijftted bnildiiigs were ilst royed. i "7. Tha t In ttt-c course of such f destruction de-struction tinman beings were burnt, alive. "S. That thoie whs a uniform practice of taking hostages and threhy rendering great n urn hers of admittedly innocent people rcsnisihle for the alleged wrongdoings wrong-doings of others. "9. That lar.ee. nnmbcrs nf civilian men a nd w omen had been virt ua My cn.sia ved by the Germans, beinc fon-rd against their will to work for the enemies of their country, or had been carried off ))o eat tic into Germany, where all trace of them had been lost. '"In. Th'U cities, towns ami villages had been fined nnd their inhahuanis maltreated mal-treated he.Hiisc of the success gained bv the Belgla.ii over the German soiui.-rs. "11. That public monuments and works of ftrt had been wantonly destroved bv i the invaders. j "12. And that generally the regulations I o," The Hague eonference and the ,-up-I t orris of civilized warfare had been ig- nored by the Germans, and that, amongsr ; other, breaches of such regulations and I ustoms, the Germans had adopied a new and inhuman practice of driving Belgian I men. women and children in front of them ay a screen between them and th-i allied soldiers." The Ipoci,- give excerpts from the dinrle of German soldier.?. 0f whb-h. these are opimeiis; "in the, n is lit of ugut is-le the village of Falnt-JlanrW hp punished for ha vine fired on German soldiers sol-diers bv being burnt to the ground by the German troops. . . . Th'- vibarl hps hi:rrind'-d. n-n p.ste.j fibom a v"., rrj To;,, one another. :-- lb;;t no one ,,',, d -et nni. Then fr.o Phlans ct lire tr. Ui iicic In ltou..c; lieillici man, woman m- child could es.'ape: only the greater part! of the livestock we carried off, as that ! could be uesed. Any one who ventured to come out was shot down. All the in- 1 habitants' eft in the village were burnt j with the houses.'' "A horrible bath of blood. The whole I village burnt, the French thrown into the blazing houses, civilians with the rest." I That the reign of frightfulness was the i definite policy of the German government is terl ified to by an amazing collection of documents and utterances of German officialdom. Herewith are excerpts from documentary proof furnished by ' German records establishing the truth beyond question: "As soon as you come to blows with the enemy he will be beaten. No mercy will be shown! Xo prisoners will tie taken! As the Huns, under King Attila. made a name for themselves, which is still .mighty in traditions and legends today, to-day, may the name of German be so i fixed In China, by your deeds, that no ! Chinese shall ever again dare to look at a German askance. . . . Open the way for kultur once for all." From the kaiser's speech to the soldiers on the eve ot their departure for China in UM'mi "Whenever a national war breaks out. terrorism becomes a necessary military principle." General von llartmann. To get the book, address Committee on Public Information, 10 Jackson Place Washing-ion. I . C. Request one copv of German ar Practices. I |