Show GERMAN Every village they have passed through has boon beon the victim of ot what is only organized pillage Every city has has been practically sacked I ransacked on ou system Its citizens i plundered Its civil 1 officials terrorized terrorized terrorized terror terror- imprisoned outraged or killed The civil populations have havo been contrary contrary con con- to tho the usage of ot modern warfare warfare warfare war war- fare forced to serve serve the Invading armies brutally put to death reduced reduced re r- re- re to wholesale starvation and desolation Vast tracts of the richest richest richest rich rich- est and most moat Industrious districts of Europe have been deliberately stripped and plunged Into famine solely In order that the tho Invaders might make war cheaply Irregular troops contrary to all the practice of ot war have been systematically murdered and civil populations in indiscrIminately indiscriminately indiscriminately in- in massacred solely t to q spread terror A regular system of oC Ingenious terrorism has been directed direct direct- ed against civilians as horrible as anything in the history of civil or re- re religious re re- wars Large Largo and populous cities havo have been not once but 20 30 40 times bombarded and burnt and the women and children In them wantonly slaughtered with the solo object of Inflicting suffering I II I r All this this has been done don not I In license or 01 passion but by the calculating r ferocity fe fo- rocity of ot scientific soldiers The above was not written though it might have o been yesterday last laa week last month or 01 last year I It appeared in the tho English Fortnightly Review February 1871 shortly before be he- fore foro the surrender of ot Paris Frederick Frederick Frederick Frede Frede- rick Harrison the writer is still etil alive Its statements were true then are true now Julius Caesar in hi his Commentaries narrates events which show that even oven before the time o ot of Christ rist th tb the Germans demonstrated the possession of all of ot the rudiments rudl rudi ments of their modern I It ItIs Itis Is no new thing and hundreds o ot of thousands of or men will have havo died in vain min in this war if this sinister thing is not absolutely and utterly exterminated exter exter- forever ore by the tho tho forces o ot of civilization arrayed against it It t- t t-t-t t t |