| Show lt is 16 air british intelligence officers tuve have announced complete indio ment against several sever hundred german officer officers from generals d down own whom there teems seems to lie evidence of atrocious acts those who hav felt that to place the guilt for heinous misdeeds would bean be an impo impossible sible bisk task i and that german horror would go t unpunished through inability to single out the criminals nals in the great mass of war ar settlement my be reassured the lilies allies hive not forgotten ind and while their armies hav havo been beep prosecuting warf ire in i the field the civil instruments of justice hive been likewise alert president wilson will find reidy acceptance of his pronouncement that we have no quarrel with the german people when it come comes time for jibed allied action on the charge charger german officers accused of unnar unnamable ts s while many nuy way not agree with the president that the german people have haye been thrust into warfare are against thur better judgment t they will quickly that the t junkers junkets jr aro responsible for their sh shire ire of it and take comfort li in the dit t prospect that the murderer murderers of and children will suffer proper penalty for their mb deeds it would be difficult to select from the mass of th german people those to be handed hanged but the I 1 british have simplified simpli hed the ts w of picking out the right junkers the president can easily ac pt r his own version that the military caste is responsible and amen ible to justice in his attitude toward the prose cution of the trusts mr vilson wilson tut terea ithe phrase guilt is per tonal I 1 he lie list of guilty ger man officers tile the president furt hiir ri ason for busta ininA brit lh ish action against them ith lit I 1 own expressed doctrine it is 15 possible pok sible for the president prebi deit deat to loin in a demand for personal person jl punish f ment aslet from Wh chatell AteLl beni ajl demands kiy m ay iy be aidt for tin political resurrection of the girman people I 1 ha djs publish d in pris paris a book in aich winch lit fic art bents writs he the case against gleman gen cral officers otTi cers in thi who kllc s who of atrocity thre th re arc germans n knitch antu toli toe hier chier sith ill the specific crimes theal I 1 or example von I 1 lindenburg ordered bread soaked in p draffin for rus si in prisoners von vor hackinsen Mack insen ordered 1 LOW 1000 Rou doumanian manian children shot because they red at finst him rupprecht a n d lunged hinged russian civilians ordered from lille aix and nd t von caused thirty one girls to be carried carrie d 0 off IT as ord orderlies erliss to his officers offic rs von billow posted this notice in ardennes I 1 en hostages will betaken be taken in each street if there i v any disturbance ditt in tit the street all hostages will be he hot shot klaus sixty civilians in gerb viller shut shot red cross worker birned b in petroleum stenger ordered ill prisoners hot von creich when drunk or dered civilians shot prince eite friedrich confirmed thief thes jre are merely in ins tanies in each of these cases as in all the remainder of 0 the the amusa eions art am many and detailed here hive be been ben n set down some of the more conspicuous in prince cefie e there is direct evidence of numerous thefts of small things including furniture and household good goods delivery of these men over to the military and the execution of swift justice ju stio ct upon them will have a mighty influence on the future of warfare and may baube future warriors to respect the conventions of conflict if no other good is achieved chicago tribune |
