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Show GERMANY'S WEAKNE8S IN FACE OF CHARGES It the fatal blunder ot tho kaiser and his war party In tearing up "a scrap ot papor" and Invading Belgium required any further proof or demonstration dem-onstration tho case of the. atrocity charges gives all that could bo required. re-quired. The military aspect may be loft to ono side, though in tho story of tho great wnr yet to bo written tho delay at Mego, small and brief ns It was in comparison with later days of destruction, wjll loom largo as a determining factor. Wo point now to tho Influence which that Initial In-itial barbarity nnd breach ot fnlth havo had In forming Impartial opln ion tho world round, Tho American, peoplo must make n .distinction between tho German rulers nnd tho German soldiers hnd reserve decision In the caso of tho latter. Thero can bo no defense of tho German Invasion or tho Gorman crlmo at Antwerp nnd Louvnln. Thero can bo no defense, hnd thero is, on tho evidence thus tar presented, likely like-ly to bo a strong defenso ot tho German Ger-man soldiers from the charge of Individual In-dividual atrocities. President Wilson's Wil-son's words aro strongly to tho point here. Tho caso Is one that chnnot be decided on one stdod ovldotice In tho heat of battle. It Is essentially a charge which' must bo left to tho calmer days ot peaco for final judgment. judg-ment. The ruined walls of Louvhln aro a silent nccusatlon ot German militarism militar-ism which no words can over refute. The charges of atrocity against the German rank hnd file aro no more than an Indictment which It will bo tho hopo of every fnlr minded American Amer-ican maturcr evldcnco will disprove New York Trlbtino. |