The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-31
SEES KAISER'S
RUININ AWFUL
TOLL OF LIVES
PichOn Recalls Metternich's
Prediction of Downfall
of Napoleon.
CALLS FOR AID OF
JAPANESE ARMY
petit Journal" Says Allies
Are Undecided About
Mikado's Troops.


PARIS, Aug. 3O.-stephen Pichon In an
editorial In the Petit Journal to-day
quotes Napoleon as saying to Meter
Mich:
"a man like me cares little for million
lives"
| To which Metternich replied:
you are lost. I thought so when ]
came here. Now | am certain"
NJ. Pichon says 1t will be the same with
the Kaiser after many battles
But how many trials must we un-
dergo?" NJ. Pichon continues. How many
battles must we fight? We should assure
every assistance possible. which leads me
to ask why the allies have not yet resched
an understanding az regards the condi-
lions OF the intervention Of the great
Eastern Power which has not hesitated to
mobilize It's feet against the German pos
sessions in China. Why should not
Japan's land forces intervene in Europe
As its fleet IL intervening in China? NJ.
Clemenceau already has developed this
idea in L'Rommc Libre. / can add that II
is not new and that il had some connec-
| flpn Win lnt UtEOtldtlOu VI VIC i'''
agreements. am sure London. st.
/ Petersburg and Paris could reach an
agreement whereby several hundred thou
sand Japanese could be sent to our coasts.
That undoubtedly demands time. but as
events proceed Il Is more and more DIM
! cult to believe in the rapidity OF the war.
The English are appealing to the Domin-
ion TROOPS and the Indian contingent.
What fine support Japan could give with
her trained. disciplined. courageous and
powerful army. II would be wrong to dis
card such an eventuality as chimera.
1t deserves consideration and l need no,
add that We must waste no time"
Edouard Clunet discusses in the Figaro
! the question whether aeros,ats should be
allowed to drop bombs on the enemy and
between what limits this means OF COM
bat should be employed, He concludes
/ that the use OF atrostats as means Of
combat is permissible. the aeros,at icing
an instrument Of war which may employ
the same engines in the same way. but
not o,herws,. as land and sea artillery.
As regards the second point he says
"A be.ligerent using an aeroplane to
drop bombs on a fort ought to observe
the rules Of bombardments. Moral duty
does not change because the deadly engine
changes the element wherein it moves.
! Antwerp must be regarded as for
| titled town. hence under the 1907 Hague
convention signed by Germany and Bel
| GUM the commander of attacking troops
ought TO warn the authorities Of his in
| tention 10 begin bombarding. The ira
dition formerly was that bombardment
should be directed against Notifications
and military buildings as the French and
( English did before Sebastopol The Prus-
sian headquarters staf inaugurated an
other theory in 1870, Commandment by
intimidation consisting in Smelling a be-
sieged town and throwing the population
/ into panic to drive II into making the
military authority surrender The new
system was applied against Strassburg,
Paris Peronne. Marsal and other cities.
Twice since then Germany has shown
Willingness to change this practice, de-
claring at Brussels in 1874 and agreeing
at The Hague in 1907 that all measures
should be taken during sieges and bonn
( bardments to spare religious and artistic
buildings. historical monuments, hospitals.
sc
Hence" NJ Clunet concludes, the
triple belt of forts and the ramparts and
barracks at Antwerp should have been
the target OF the German drigible, other
destruction belongs to 'bombardment by
] intimidation which civilized nations have
I condemned"
| NJ Clemencesu says in his L'Homme