Show HERE IS EMPEROR WILLIAMS WILLIAM'S J Ji i MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT WILSON LONDON Sept Sent 10 9 si t m. m The m.-The The correspondent of tho the Daily Mail Mait c at dam has hall telegraphed tho the text of tho the mf ngo lont b by Wile Ml Vil liam ham to President Wilson date dato of or September t 4 t ci It is as follows I f I consider it my duty sir air to inform you OU a tho the most notable tentative tentative- of the principles of humanity that after the capture of or thoi the tho i Preach French fort of or l my troops found in ta that place thousands of ot dum dum-dum dum um bullets which had lJ been n manufactured in special works by tho cov- cov o t Such bt bullets ballets lets found not only on Trench French killed 1 and wounded Bounded soldiers sol tol diers diera and on French rench prisoners but hut also on In trop troops You iTou ou know what terrible wounds and awful suffering are arc caused by those and lIDd that their u uso o is strictly forbidden cn b by the tho generally recognized rules of international warfare ti I I I solemnly protest to you against the wa way in which this thi war is is waged by our opponents whoso methods aro are making it one of tho the most barbarous bar barous in tho the his history tory ot of war t Besides the URO uto of these awful weapons the Belgian government o has openly incited the thu civil population to participate in tho fighting and has for forE forI I E a a. long Jour time timo carefully or organized their resistance I The cruelties practiced in this thit guerilla warfare even cn by women and nd priests toward wounded soldiers an and doctors doctore and hospital nurses wore were such I a that eventually mv generals worn compelled to adopt the stron strongest c t measures to punish the tho guirty and frighten tho bloodthirsty population front from continuing continuo C in jug ing their shameful needs I Some illa villages es and oven even the tho old oM town of at I with the exception of its beautiful town hall hail Hotel do Ville had to bo be destroyed 1 for lor the protection pro g of m my troops I M My heart bleeds when I see seo such b measures inevitable inc and when II I 1 I think of the many nany innocent people who have haro lost their houses an and property s a result of misdeeds or of the tho guilty r Signed WILHELMI WILHELM I. I R. R I Is I's |