Show OUTSIDE PALE 4 OF HUMANITY frightfulness taught by german leaders belongs to age of barbarism SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS Kai eer statesmen hail had no intention of keeping faith with their agreement on an international law horror horrors told by diarle diaries in giving to the bencan trien clan people the ino uledge of german inhumanely in belgium says a pamphlet issued by the committee on public information the eti ett Jence dence is a draun mainly from german and I 1 merican sources the german sources include official proclamations and ether other official offlie cial letters letteri and diarte of german soldier and quotations from german newspapers neus papers the rules for field bertice Ser tice of the german army each soldier to keep leep such a diary ahill tant on active seme in the wars waged in ati clint times time it was uns taken for that con colt peoples might he be killed killel tortured or held BS as slaps hut that tiela property would be taken talen and that their lands funds would be he devastated 1 I ae tie ac vie w oe to the conquered conque I 1 I 1 or tw centuries or more there has been it stead advance in introducing ideas of humanity immunity and end espi dally in fit confining the ells ot of warfare ur fare to the tile combatants the ideal to have hae become so thoroughly established as u part of in ter national law laa that the powers at the thought it sufficient merely to state the tile general principles in ili article I 1 of the regulations family lion ors and rights lie the lives lles of person persons and private prop crt as lell as religious ns and pr practice netice limit be respected private property cannot be confiscated germany german in common M edth till the other dimir 4 folen pledged her tier faith falth to keep heep thi thia 4 article but her tier military lenders leaders had find no inan anlin tion of doing so they had been in the ideas voiced by gen von yon Hurt artmann mann 40 years ago terrorism Terror lani 14 1 seen to be tt a relatively tiel gentle procedure useful to keep keel the ina masses ses of the people in u state of obed lince tills this had bull been iq policy lt too Ac according cordin to moritz s Ills bismarck murch exasperated b I 1 the resistance resl which was uns still continuing in Junu ar 1871 said if in the territory hecl whick e occupy we e cannot supply cv rattling for our troops from time to time we ic shall send a flying column into the localities which are tire recalcitrant ne e shall 0 s ot hang ban and burn after lilt thit ins his hap bened a few times the ikhil stants will III nally come to their sen sense sest horror horrors told in soldiers diaries the frightful teas taught by the german bleiders heij full xay in belgium thle Is best neen seen in tho the en entries in t the lie diaries of the german Cipri imn sol rol diers duding the night of august augurt 1516 15 16 ti giner gr or gave the alarin in ili the tou town n of I 1 me lre 1 avery ery one was shot or taken prisoner nod the tile hou houses s 1 were ere burnt the pris tiers liers were inide in ide to march find keep keel up with the irom the diary of rioted reinhold koehn of the second battalion of engineer third aria arm corps A horrible bath of blood the whole villi tire burnt the french thrown into the file blazing bouges the tic rest from prom the iford of of the eighth army corp in the night of august IS 18 10 19 the ul it in lage e of aint maurice wa aas punished for having fired on lold lers by being burnt to he tile ground by the ger oer man troops troop two regiments the twelfth lan landeor dehr and the seven the village ven vitis surrounded rounded tur men posted about a yard from one nn an 0 other ther eo so that no one could get out then the he uhland set fire to it 11 ouse by house neither anan woman on nor child could escape only the greater part of the live stock we carried off us hat that could be used anyone who he ventured to come out was as shot down all the inhabitants left in the lie village were ere burnt burrit with the tile bounes from frans the diary of private karl sch fele of the third bavarian na varlan regiment and land chr infantry at ten 0 clock in the evening the th e first battalion of the one hundred and seventy ihla hh in arched down the areep incline into the buding to the burning village to the north of dinant A terrific spectacle of c ghastly beauty at the entrance to the vIll sigo iny lay about clity dead civilians khot shot for harng har an fired upon our troop troops fro fron ri kimiji h in the course of the right meny other others were also hot shot eo 80 that we counted over O 0 W women and children lamp in hand were forced to look on at the horrible we ate our rice latew la in the midst of the be colise co corr fise ses for e had had nothing since morning alien hen we searched tho th houses we ve found plenty of wine mine and shirll but DO no captain wae was drapik thia this last 11 phrase in shorthand 0 brom born the ib dary diary of private philipp of the one If hundred undred and find seventy igaeli of infantry twelfth array corps writing from belgium la in 1010 1910 irvin S cobb said lir briefly lefly what I 1 saw wa will thia I 1 faw aw wide areas of and prance france in which not a worth orth of wanton mauton destruction had been permitted to occur I 1 in which milich tit the ripe peara pears hung un touched upon tho the garden walla walls and I 1 saw SAU other vide ulde anas atas where sta scarcely reely one atone stone had hall been lift to stand upon another where the were ere need where the male mate villagers had been shot lu in squads where here the tile miser able lible had been left to de in holt 4 like wild beasts even soldier soldiers horrified some ce aman we fire to twe she showed ed their horror at the f deeds ed in III ili lalun the rile inhabitants hae hane taul in the vii last lag it was horrible vitro was clot led tell blood on nil till the beardi anti na what a t auces one wv sim terrible to behold I 1 the tile detail CA in ili ull all were pro nt at once burled buried A long atin were sere many old women lomen some old men and unit a half halt delli delivered ered woman anian awful to rip three childr children tn imd had clasped ench pach oilier other anti died thus the altar and find tin maults of the tile church are tire shuttered shattered they illey bud a telephone then to communicate a alth with lite binemy this morning ei of ten ber 2 all the sur tur bior hors 4 were pro k spelled and unit I 1 saw raw four little bos carling a radio radle with inith a baby the alp or months od in ili it on two stills all this 4 was mim to we oe shot shots thunderbolt I 1 lifter sifter thunderbolt I 1 Is ghen glen mer ocr to pillar fowl and the rest at nil killed lifted I 1 1 diw I a In othir too with her two wo children one had it great wound sound nn the head find hall lost lort an ee pe aroni t rom the ibur of lance corporal datil of the tile 1 apt t bri gade of infants In funti dt f the guard in lie the night the tile inhabitants of alec became mutinous persons sons wen shot ami and 1 houes demol 11 ched hal 10 shot lite slats here make male oil cry on the 21 nf nt allut ll ut thing the have xo so far elv cl en in sf anent ent Mu lents m were ere shot keit kei i inhabitants re turn iniz to I 1 liege leg Ait august gut 21 24 at noon with 40 14 men on ill dut lot sentry deity Is 1 A I 1 no post iti allocated located to nic me our occupation apart from bathing 1 Is tat tating lii and drinking vc we lle like in from the diary of joh van der school re aerl spalt t of ill the tenth company thirty ninth resen infantry re itar t bev anth re 4 re army u corlet behaved like vandal vandals a augu ct 17 jo in the afternoon I 1 had it 11 look ni at the little belo tiling to one of tho the kings not cot nt at home li oine our men had hall behil icil like regular they had find looted the cellar first and then hey they had turned their attention to the lite bedrooms and thrown things about all our the lie place they had ten nado effort to t mash the hife site open pen hi er thing mats tops tur fernl tun alk alk und slid ten tion hina that if what hapan flinn the men lire tire allo allowed c to requisition for I 1 am bill mire sure alit 11 hie 1 0 awn a heap of if dustless 4 4 sault imply for the plia ure eure of looting oth brosi fl d frontier gitautis ion pra bood to us and gaic its bissu hinss things ihirg 1 i no dif dlf fiann audist aird ird sundia bleen bh Ite tween een ilir nal tint and II hinant nant of Di songe at 11 the order bimm to ad ance after the artillery has thorough up tip pre prepared lared ano tn ground ahead I 1 ahe fie 1 and infantry regiment wire mire isi marching arching in front of us near neur it small liliie lie be latter were here tired on by the tile inhabitants about 2 U inhabitants were hot shot and the Il lagi was burnt artill artillery try Is 1 continuously shooting the illius lies in a it 1 large brunine just no bix ua 0 clock in tit li afternoon tile cros crossing bing of the lans inns bins near 1111 all vill villages chateaux and houses arc are doai during this night it will a beautiful sight to see the tile tires all round us in the fie distance I 1 august 24 in ealr evio gillage one finds only heaps of ruins and anti muna diun dead dealt I 1 ron the diar ol 01 Atilt bern fourth company jagir bat tallon marburg all male inhabitant shot A shell shelf burnt near the tile eleventh Y company and wounded reven throe ery at clock wo were ordered b the in coin coils roand inand ot of the lite regiment to all the tile in mile lie of f ameny um ol eny nenY the population was foolishly attempt ate ropi ing to stay file adrance of the german troops by force of arms U e broke into the tile houses anti nd seized nil all who resisted reil sted in order to execute them according to mar martial lav the houses which had not been already de destroyed troed by the be i rench artillery and our own were set on fire by u us no that nearly he the whole town was man 11 to aphea it is a tr erht when help helpless lesi women omen and children utterly destitute desU tute are herded together and 11 into hato france ranee 1 from the diary of Il riale Elit blitcher cher ri lids Ila regiment of infantry thirty th airty tl U ird teseree division |