Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
SAVAGERY in WARFARE

En-"
The above item shows the humane,
civilized manner in which France and
III the allies are making war, and the
savage manner in which
Germany is doing so.
Though brutal Germany has from the
very beginning been thus cowardly
making war on unarmed non-combatants
on women and children, numbering
hundreds of them, often at night in
their beds, the Allies have refused to
retaliate, but have honorably confined
the use of their bomb-armed aeroplanes
to attacking military positions and
stores, war ships and armies. No brave
Frenrhman, Englishman nor even fear
fully wronged Belgians ever descend so
low as to make war on women and
babiesI
In their mad campaign of terrorizing
England, these German devils incanate
have made 10 Zepplin attacks upon de-
fenceless towns and villages, killing
many innocent people and destroying
much property. But these barbaric
practices which are in violation of the
warfare rules agreed upon in the Hague
Convention to which Germany was a
signatory party, have accomplished alb
solutely nothing but this senseless de-
struction of life and property have not
in the least benefited Germany or
harmed England in military sense !
This insane frenzy of Germany re-
minds one of that ferocious maniac,
Nero, who, in his senseless hatred of
the Roman people and his crazy thirst
for blood, 'Wished all Rome had but
one neck so he could hew it off at a
blowW
Since Germany's half-naked, barbaric
ancestors piled the torch indiscrimi-
nately to- towns and villages, and put
defenceless men, women and children to
the sword, many centuries ago, the
world has seen nothing equallnig the
merciless, senseless brutality, the wan
ton cruelty, the devilish ingenuity tc
inflict pain showed ever since she began
this awful war by Germany, the boasteC
home of the new ''Kultur"!
Dropping bombs on sleeping villages
spraying burning oil, and firing shells
filed with gases which cause the
wounded to linger hours in terrible
agony; blowing up without warning un
armed sailing vessels, those of neutral
as well as those of her enemies; poison
ing wells, as was done in the South AT
rican campaign by the Germans, ant
openly defended by them; sinking pas
senger ships like the Lusitania, where
by thousands of innocent passenger
have been mangled or drowned; pillage
rape and murder wholesale in Belgium
neutral, inoffensive Belgium, as wa
conclusively proved after months Of i'm
partial investigation by two separat
committees of Belgium and France, an
/ of England these, are some of tn
! methods by which this insane Kaise
! and his war crowd are seeking to in
pose upon shocked and outraged worl
! their war "Kultur" boom in hell
} 1t is now apparent to all that it is ii
, deed, as The Transcript said EDITORIAL
eight months ago, "a war betwee
( Barbarism and Civilization. In fe7
e days more, all Europe will have take
up Germany's insolent guage of battle
and in sheer self-defence to save tn
world from returning to the savager
0 of the early centuries, will be league
e in arms to throttle this huge, Teutoni
/ wild beast
0 Only one nation has made commo
s cause with the Germans-barbarou
= Turkey-"a fellow feeling makes L
) wondrous kind'l-and even she mus
now be ashamed of her yet more cru,
n ally!
r Though Germany with cunning, 81
s tanic premeditation has worked
a years for 'The Day." and made a we
: preparation never equalled in the histor
of nations, nay, never even dreame
e possible, and though because of thi
: and the infatuated, patriotism of til
, brave but deceived German masses ths
r has rallied them as one man to max
n their arms successful, yet in the enc
s Germany will be observation-disclosures
J; overwhelmed, because "God still lives!
r BRYAN'S DISCRETION
PRYAN'S 'desertion of the Presidel
7 - at this critical moment is vei