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Show uu WAR RECOGNIZES NO RESTRAINTS. It is all nonsense to say the. rules of war must he observed, when the strongest nations of the earth are at war. Armed conflict in itself is a breaking away from orderly government govern-ment and rules and is a resorting to the arbitrament of might. That the Germans will not be slow to make use of every .force that will lend them aid is made evident by the statement of j Major General von Ditfurth who declares de-clares his country glories in being calied barbarians and will wage war relentlessly and to the uttermost degree de-gree The Hamburger Nacbrlchten quotes General von Ditfurth as saying: say-ing: "There is nothing for us to justify and nothing to explain away. Elver act of whatever nature committed by our troops for the purpose of discouraging, dis-couraging, defeating, and destroying our enemies is a brave act and a gootl deed, and is full justified 'Germany stands as the supreme arbiter of her own methods, which in the time of war must be dictated to the world "It Is of no consequence whatever if all the monuments ever created. ;il I the pictures ever painted, and all the buildings ever erected by the gioat architects of the world be destroyed, de-stroyed, if by their destruction we promote Germany's victory over her enemies, who vowed her complete annihilation. an-nihilation. "In times of peace we might perhaps per-haps regard the loss of such things, but at the present moment not a word of regret, not a thought should be squandered upon them. War is war and must be waged with severitv. "The commonest, ugliest stone placoJ to mark the burial place of a German Rrenadier is a more glorious and venerable monument than all the cathedrals in Rurope put together |