Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
NOW
CHARGE GERMANS
WITH ATROCITIES
French Ambassador Submits to
U. S. Ten Official ACCUSE
tions of Cruelty.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2o.-The
French ambassador, Jules J. Jusser-
and, made public today ths sum-
mary of ten documents drawn up by
various officials, accusing the Ger
man soldiery of a systematic cam
paien of atrocities. The documents,
! which were placed in the hands of
! Aes ny See erary Lansing, of the
STATE d partment, by thu ambassa-
Cor. were so delivered to all sigma
teries of The Hague convention.
With the documents a letter was
delivered, which explained that the
French government did not take the
step with the view of demanding any
action on the part of the United
States, but merely to report to this
country, as signatory of, The
Hague treaty, evidence of how the
treaty was being carried out. -
The statement made public BY the
French ambassador is as follows:
"By order of the government OF
the French republic a series of off1-
cial reports as to the way in which
the present war is being carried on
in the French territory by German
troops have been communicated to
the powers who signed The Hague
convention. the United States being
one of them.
"These documents, ten in number.
show that the distractions and as
sassinations which have taken place
have been systematic and performed
in accordance with orders from the
officers, and not as the result OF an
acct entail lack of discipline.
"The facts quoted are given only
as samples and not as complete
enumeration; they cover, moreover,
only the first three weeks after the
beginning of hostilities 1.-TWO weeks OF
actual warfare). and worse deeds have
been committed since.
"Such as they are. they show.
among other things, that wounded
soldiers have been finished In large
numbers by shot fired right against
the face of the wounded; that Pont-a-
Mousson, an open and undefended
town. was bombarded, the hospital
which is an historical building, hav-
ing especially suffered; a number OF
villages, among them Parux and At
fleville, have been methodically de-
stroyed house by house, soldiers be-
ing, at 1t seems, provided with imple-
ments enabling them to perform that
kind of work with minimum OF
trouble; nurses bearing conspicuously
the badge of the Red Cross have been
Observation-Disclosures, nullcIOuo iiliidplt1iIo
have been put to death without pre-
text or provocation (among whom, at
Badomviller was the wife of the
mayor, in some cases, notably at
Billy, on the tenth of August, the
German troops, when they marched
out of the place to chargesth the French
troops, made the women and children
walk In front of them.
Attention Is called, as regards
such deeds, to two texts: Article 3
OK the convention of The Hague.
which was proposed by the German
delegates themselves, states that the
belligerents, who might cause such
destruction as those mentioned
above, would be bound to indemnify
the interested parties, AMI would be
responsible for any acts committed
by members of his army.
I'm the second place, even IL civil
ians had taken arms upon the inva-
sion of French territory by the Ger
mans, which was nowhere the case,
they would have been within their
rights, and the killing of them
BILE, for article 4 of the same conven-.
ton reserves to the population of a
non-occupied territory the right on
tho approach of the enemy, to spon-,
taneously take arms and repel the
invading troops.
Appended to this convention, be-
sides the signature of the United
States, France and many other coun-
tries, is to be found that of Ger
many"