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francs-tireurs but the murder OF ls,r.
numbers OF innocent civilians. an a.,
absolutely forbidden by the rule, n,
civilized warfare
In the minds OF Prussian officers war
seems to have become sort OF safr,.
nniesivs, one or the highest Function.
Of the omnipoterw State, which II ,.s,
as much an army as State. Ordinaiv
Aaorality and the ordinary sentimen, IL,
pity vanish In it's presence. superss,,o
hy . new standard which justines 10 ,,a
soldier every means that can couoxc.
to success, however shocking to A p,,u.
raj sense Of justice and humanity how.
ever revolving to mis- own feelings Tho
spirit Of war Is deined Obcdicp.e g.,
the State and its war lord leave. M,
room for any other duty or FEELING
Cruelty becomes Legitimate when
promises victory. Proclaimed bv tno
heads OF the army. this doctrine womb
seem to have permeared the officers
and affected even the private sulil.r.
leading them to Justify the killing ~
non-comba Atlantis as AN act Of war aud
so accustoming them to slaughter tina,
even women and children become at lac
the victims. II cannot be supposed to Iva
a national doctrine. for 1t neither spring,
from nor reflects the mind and feel ng,
Of the German people as they have here.
tOfOre been known to other nations y
Is a specifically military doc,r.na IA.
outcome OF a theory held by ruuo,
caste who have brooded and though,
written and talked and dreamed abou,
war until they have fallen under VI
obsession and been hypnotzed by II,
spirit.
The doctrine 10 plainly set forth 4,
the German Official Monograph on N.
usages OF war on land. issued under tho
direction OF tho German STAFF. Thi,
book In pervaded throughout by the view
that whatever military needs surgAr
becomes thereby lawful and upon ms
principle, as tho diaries show, the Cor.
man officers acted. tNot--"Krler.
branch i'm Landkriese," Berlin, lsl2
In Vol. VI, in the series entitled
"kricgsgeschichtliche Characterization
published In 1905. a translation of mi,
monograph. by Prof j. II. Morgan, ha,
recently been published
n this explanation be tho true one
the mystery is solved. and that v.hlca
seemed scarcely credible becomes moe
Ineligible though not less perulcious
This IL not the only case that hisfo,,
records In which false theory. d..
guising itself as loyalty 10 4 state
or to Church. has perverted tho con.
ceptlon OF duty and become = source
OF danger to tho world.
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TREATMENT OF THE CIVILIAN
POPULATION.

me killing OF civilians I'm Be sgr
mas been already described sufficient.
outrages on the civilian poru,,...r ..
the invaded districts, the burning OF
ages, the shooting OF innoscr, .rh..
tan's and the taking OF hostages d.
iage and destruction continued as o.
herman armies passed into F-.n,.
me diary OF the Saxon officer sh1y. p
ierred to describes acts Of Tits In.
committed by the German snlale-s /,
advancing to the Aisne ar the ert q,
august and after they had passed II
french frontier, as we'll "a whom the,
were In Belgian territory.
proclamation "a specimen n. v.Nlc.
was Prohuced 10 the cor 't'est tssyO
AT hheims, and placarded ovo- he .ov
aHorhs clear Illustration of tho mo-
pHs ADOPTED by the German Higher ror
'nahd' The population Of Rrctms
warned that on the slIgh'.s. dls.v-.
ance part or whole of m. r,,y ,,,r r.
burnt to the ground and all the HOSTAGE,
taken from the city IN long ys, ..
whom Is given IN the proclar,,,,,n, ~
med'ately shot.
Tho evidence however. submitted O.
the committee with regard N .h- cr-tp,.
or the German army IN Franz. =. 70
nearly 20 full as that with regard
Belgium. There Is no body n, r'v!lar
refugees In England. and ,hA Fran
witnesses have generally lad 'hrlr ~
dence before their own Goverrwe-r r
evidence forwarded 10 us consists r-'r
cipally or the statements az R-n'sN o.
ncers and soldiers who took rq-' o. 80
retreat after the battle - MIS- A..
IN the subsequent advance, VT.
the Germans from the N4--s r., ara
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PART II.

Having thus narrated the offences
committed in Belgium, which /, has
been proper To consider as whole
we now turn to another branch n N.
subject. the breaches OF the usages ~
war which appear IN the conduct OF the
German army generally.
This branch has been considered un.
der the following heads:
First. The treatment OF non -os-,.
batants, whether in Belgium or r.
France. including ta) tho Killing o.
non-combatsnts in France thD the
treatment OF women and children. ,c,
the using OF innocent non-comha'arts
as screen or shield IN the ru,luc,
of military operations. Cd lpo2yr
burning and the wanton destruction o..
property.
Secondly. Offences committed In ~,
cause OF ordinary military operation
which violate the usage. OF var Ar
the provisions OF the Hague con,e,
ton. This division includes ,al kr
Ing the wounded or prisoners. ,t
hring on hospitals or on the Rod or
ambulances and stretCher bearers ~.
abuse OF the Red Cross or os the VIII,
flag.
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army from the church were almost
starved.
At Haecht several children had been
murdered. One, two or three years old
was found nailed to the door of a farm
house by Its haiids and feet. a crime
which seems almost insredibis but the
evidence for which We feel bound to
accept. In the garden OF this house
was the body of a girl. VINO had been
shot In tho forehead.
Capelie-a Bois - Al Capelle- Bots
two children were murdered in . cart
and their corpses were seen by many
witnesses at different stages Of the
carts journey.
Eppeghen-At Eppeghen the dead
body OF n child Of two was seen pinned
to the ground with a German lance.
Same witness saw a mutilated woman
alive near weerde on the same day.
Tremeloo-Belgian soldiers on pa
troll duty found a young girl naked on
the ground. covered with scratches. She
complained of having been violated. On
the same day an old woman was seen
kneeling by the body Of her husband.
and she told them that the Germans
had shot him a. he was trying to escape
from the house
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SPECIAL. NOTICES
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AERsCH0T AND DISTRICT.
Period III. (sept~ m b~r).

= 10 unnecessary to describe with
much particularly the events OF the
period beginning about September 10
The Belgian soldiers who had recap
tured the place found corpses OF civilians,
who must have been murdered In Aer-
schot Itself. Just as they found them In
s;empst and the other villages on August
25 Some of these bodies were found In
wells. and some had been burned alive
In their houses.
The prisoners released BY the Belgian
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That these acts should have bern
perpetrated on tho peaceful population
OF an unoifendng country which was not
at war with It's invaders but merely
de'endIhg It's own neutrality. guaran-
teed by the invading Power. may excite
amazemcnt and even incredibly 1t
was with amazement and Amos, with
incredulty that the Committee first read
the dispositions relating to such acts
But when the evidence regarding IIeRe
was followed by that regarding Aerschot
Louvain, Andcnne. Dinant and the other
towns ana villages the cumulative effect
or such mass OF concurrent testimony
became irresistible and we were driven
10 the conclusion that tho things de-
scrlbed had really happened. The cues
ton then arose how they could have
happened. Not from mere military II.
cense. for the discipline OF the German
army Ia proverbially stringent and its
obedience implicit Not from any special
ferocity Of the troops, for whoever has
travelled among the German peasantry
knows that they are az kindly and
good natured as any people In Europe,
and those who can recall the war OF
1870 will remember that no charges re
semhling those proved by these deposl.
tions were then established The ~ +.
cesses recently committed in Belgium
were, moreover, too widespread ana to,
uniform In their character TO he mere
sporadic outburSts OF passion or ra-
pacity.
The explanation seems To ne that
these excuses were cmmt'ed---,n some
cases ordered, In others allowed-on a
system and In pursuance OF a set pur-
pose. That purpose was 10 strike tor
ror into the civil population and dis
hearten the Belgian troops. SO rs to
| crush down resistance and extinguish
the very spirit Of self.defence The
pretext that civilians had fred upon
the invading troops was used 10 Justify
not merely the shooting OF individual
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TernsOndc.

To understand the dispositions de-
scribing what happened at Termonde II
In necessary to remember that the Ger
man army occupied the town on two oc-
casions, the first. from Friday, Septem-
her 4. to Sunday, September 9, and again
later In the month, about the 18th. The
civilians had delivered up their arms
fortnight before the arrival OF the Ger
mans.
Early In the month. probably about
the Attn. witness saw two civilians
murdered by Uhlans. Another witness
saw their dead bodies which remained In
the street for ten days. Two hundred
civilians were utilized as screen by the
German troops about this date
on the 5th the town was partially
burned one witness WAS taken pris-
oner In the street by some German vol
diers together with several other civil
ians. About ~ o'clock some OF tho tall
est and strongest men among the pris-
oners ware picked out to 60 round tho
streets with paraffin. Three or four
carts containing pRraffin tanks were
brought up. and n syringe was used to
put parsftln on 10 the houses which were
then fired, The process OF destruction
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27

Trickery is almost az much a
part of pitching as is throwing
the ball.
There are two things man
ager strives 10 impress upon
young pitchers: First. watch the
bases; seconds, have look
around"
The pitcher who is success
studies first his catcher's signs,
glances around to see that all
players are in position and know
what is coming and then pitches.
With men on bases he must do
both these things, and always
keep his eye on the runner.
A pitcher who cannot hold run
ners close to the bases is a fail
ure no matter how we'll he can
pitch. To do this he must use
trickery.
The balk rule. governing pitch
ing. was designed to assist base
runners on the theory that the
fans want to see action and like
to see attempts TO steal bases.
Permit a pitcher to use false mo-
lions toward the plate and he
could catch four out Of every five
runners off first base, or else
force them to stick so close to the
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is therefore compelled to call
upon the fans to assist in meeting
the payment due on the present
home of the Tigers. The Taco
ma merchants, realizing the ex-
cellent advertising medium the
Tigers are to Tacoma, came to
the clubs assistance by agreeing
to the profit-sharing plan.
Therefore when you buy one or
more shares of stock when APP
preached by the solicitors now
commissioned by the club, you
will receive, in addition to your
stock, the amount of your sub
scription in coupons redeemable
at various Tacoma stores. Here
Is a way in which any one, no
matter how small his or her in
come, can subscribe to a worthy
cause, and yet get the actual
value of his investment in mer-
chandise. Don't lose this oppor-
tunity to help your baseball club.
Subscribe today.
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Right off theBat

and Casey. Some of the directors
believe that three jumps are suf-
ficient.
Manager Bob Wicker of the
Spokane team has made no Off
cial protest over the result of that
1 4-inning game last week, when
he declared that johnson was
given running assistance while
scoring the winning tally. Wicker
offered affidavits to prove ais
contention, but when President
Blewett found that his umpires
had not seen the play, he refused
to entertain any official protest.
After starting the Tiger stock
selling campaign, President Mo
Ginnity of the Tacoma Tigers left
last night for Victoria, where he
is scheduled to pitch today. Bill
Petrain, a veteran sporting writ
err, has been brought to Tacoma
to handle the publicity for the
campaign.
Tony Boeckel, former Tacoma
second baseman, left Tacoma at
o'clock yesterday on his way to
Juneau, Alaska. He has a $780,
a-month job playing in the Ju-
neau infield. The Alaskan team
Is said to rank well with the
Northwestern league teams.
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base as to make stealing impns-
sibie.
The pitcher to succeed must
outtrick the balk rule. He must
balk without baking; deceive the
runner into thinking be is going
to pitch to the batter.
The most successful balk mo-
tons in the history of the game
were those OF Matty Kilroy, the
great left-hander, Ed Walsh and
Clark Griffith. Billy Campbell,
once with the Cincinnati Reds,
was in the same class but did not
last long enough to become IA
nous.
Kilroy could snap ball TO first
base with q wrist motion. To the
runner at first he appeared to be
throwing to the plate, to the UNI
pire and batter he clearly was
throwing to first.
Walsh achieved his balk motion
by long and painstaking efforts.
He did II with queer launching
movement of the shoulder that
led the runners to think he. had
started his pitch.
Spectators often wondered why
he caught runners. He had trick
ed the runner into starting and
the rest was easy.
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VICTORIA. May 27-(Special.)
"A drizzling rain---just what the
Tigers have become accustomed
u In their first five weeks of
baseball-came to the reseIe of
the Tacoma team in tho eighth
inning of yesterdays game The
hall became wet and slippery. The
Victoria team fumbled and boot
"a. The Victoria pitcher lost his
control. And the Tigers indug-
"a In q regular swatfest that net
ted six runs In one inning and
gave them the game. 10 to z.
Dick Kaufman pitched an up
hill game He was hit Is times
In nine innings and in the sixth
inning the Maple Leafs tailed
five fat runs. Victoria thought II
bad the game, and Hansen was
sent In to replace House. Han
sen got his In the seventh, how
n or. In a manner that he will re-
member for many day. Faur
Tigers-including Johnny Butler
got doubles, and Johnson made
two of EN-. Every Tacoma play
Or except Kaufman got hit. 1t
was sweet day for fattening
srstwhile shriveled-up batting av-
srages.
Today, 1t is announced, Iron
Man" Joe McGinnity will deliver
TO the home team. Yesterday
score:
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Arthur Klein, sensational
Youngstown CO., pilot, who will
drive car of his own construc-
ton in the next Indianapolis 500
mile race. Klein Is one of the
most promising drivers in the
game, having won second and
third in the Tacoma Potlatch and
Montamarathon contests, respec-
lively. last fall, and averaged So
miles an hour in second place AZ
Corona until put out by a seized
piston. He drove at Indianapolis
last year. but failed to get in the
money through mechanical mis-
haps.
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The Northwestern league direc-
tors will hold a special meeting
at the Tacoma hotel Sunday
night. The meeting was to have
been held in Seattle today, but
the date was changed for the sake
of convenience. Vancouver will
be here, Victoria at Seattle and
Spokane on the way to Aberdeen,
SO that Tacoma will be the GEN.
trail place for a meeting.
Several important matters will
be taken up. including the ques-
ton Of staging postponed games.
1t had been agreed that no dou-
ble-header Sunday games should
be held until after August. Now
the directors want to hold dou-
ble-headers whenever the team
managers see fit.
The question of keeping four
umpires will also be taken up.
At present President Blewett Is
hiring Lynch, Frary, McGreevy
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HIGGINBOTHAM--HE GOES ON
FOREVER--21 YEARS AT BALI

! SAN FRANCISCO, May 81. -
Pitchers may come and pitchers
may go, but Trying Higginbotham
who is earning his daily bread at
present by twirling for the Port
land Pacific Coast league team,
goes on forever.
When the season of 1915 has
passed into history, Higginbotham
will have completed his twenty
first year in baseball as pitcher.
Ii was away back In 1897
when he was only IL years old
that Higginbotham started his ca
reer in the national pastime as 4
member of a mining camp team
that played only Sunday baseball
in the Black Hills of South Da-
kota.
Higginbotham pitched semi-pro
and independent baseball from
that year until 1906, when ne
signed with the Tacoma team of
the Northwestern league. Two
years later he graduated into the
National league with the Chicago
Nationals. Later he Joined the
st. Louis Nationals. =
Losing the effectiveness de-
manded in the big Eastern
leagues, Higginbotham was sold
to the Toledo, Ohio. squad of the
American Association. He re-
manned there only one season,
however, and was sold to Port
land, which club has won two
pennants since he Joined it In
1912.
Higginbotham has won exactly
IA games in the Pacific Coast
league, while his defeats number
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27

A novel stock subscription plan
has been launched by the Tacoma
Baseball club officials, and by it
the club hopes to raise enough
money in the immediate future to
hquidate a payment due on the
baseball park.
The new plan involves the CIV
ing of the stock subscriber the
equivalent of the amount Of
stock he buys IN merchandise
certificates redeemable to, the ex-
tent Of ten and five per cent Of
the purchase price of any COM
modify handled by some dozen or
more Tacoma merchants. In ad-
dition he retains possession of
shares of stock in the club to
the amount of his subscription.
Inclement weather. conditions
all over the circuit have lessened
the attendance to such an extent
that the club found itself handi-
capped in anticipated receipts and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27
HOUCK IS EASY

NEW YORK. May 81. - AL
though Leo Houck of Lancaster.
Pa, weighed 165 pounds, seven
pounds more than the required
weight, and ten pounds more than
Mike Gibbons, Gibbons last night
defeated him decisively in a To-
round battle. Gibbons had the
best of every round. He made no
effort to forfeit the fight because
of Houck's weight.
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CAN'T PLAY

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 81.
Taking Princeton's protest as
being well founded, the Yale
baseball officials have ruled that
Right Fielder Hanes shall not
play in any more games this sea-
son. Hanes has played three
years of college ball already,
making him ineligible under the
three-year-limit rule of collegiate
athletics.
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BODY UNIDENTIFIED

Although numerous persons
have called at the Buckley-King
parlors. no one has as yet iden-
titled the body of the dead man
found floating in Tacoma harbor
Tuesday afternoon. According to
Coroner Stewart. there is no indi-
cation of foul play.
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oUmIndfy. IWO-Ddse hltS =
Wilson, johnson 2. J. Butler,
Stevens, Shaw, Menges, Nye.
Three-base hits-Tobin, Growers.
Sacrifice hits-Kaufman, Shaw.
Stolen bases - Wilson, Butler.
Double plays-Stokke to Butler
to Stoke; Hester to Stoke;
Hester to Butler to Stoke;
House to Hoffman to Kelly; But
Ter to Nye to Kelly; Nye to But
Ter to Kelly. Struck out-By
House 4. by Hanson /. Bases on
balls-Off House 3, off Hanson
1, off Kaufman 3. Time Of game
-1:55. Umpire-Casey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27
OLDFIELD IS
TO RACE HERE

INDIANAPOLIS, May 81. =
6arnsy Oldfield will race in the
Tacoma Speedway classics this
summer. Secretary George Dunn
Of the Tacoma track yesterday
signed Barney. and the famous
racer will leave for Tacoma i'm
Wediately after the Indianapolis
Memorial day contests. Oldfield
Will drive q front-drive Christie
md . Fiat Cyclone.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27
LABOR COUNCIL GIVEN
RIGHT TO USE STREET

The city council today granted
to the Tacoma Labor council the
privilege of blocking off | street,
from Sixth to Division avenues,
and using the street for q conces-
sion and amusement boulevard
during the Labor day. festivities
Sept. 6. Permission to use Wright
park. adjoining ! street, has al
ready been granted.
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WINS MATCH;
CLOSE MARGIN

Roy Leduc of Seattle defeated
James Mature of Seattle in a
125-point tournament pool con-
test at the X street club last even-
ing by score OF 125 to 116.
Leduc's high runs were 46 and
3s. A large crowd witnessed the
match.
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an even so. In order to establish
an average of rs victories for
each year that he has been in the
league, Higginbotham must win
"a games this season, or eight
less than he won last season.
During his wonderful career
Higginbotham has naturally twirl-
ed many wonderful games, but
he points with pride to his / to
0. thinning victory over Walter
Johnson in Colwell, Id, in 1911.
Both he and Johnson struck, out
10 batters in that game.
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WITH AMATEURS
AND SEMI-PROS

young men living in and around
Rosedale and Arletta. The
grounds are good and level, free
from gravel, and we guarantee
fair treatment and pleasant trip
to all teams. Yours,
WHITE"
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Results Yesterday.
Venice 4, Oakland O.
San Francisco g.. Portland 3D.
Salt Lake 2, Los Angeles 1.
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THEY WANT GAMES

The Mckinley Stars are look
ing for games these days; They
have a fast team and have won
five games out of the six that
they have played this year. They
would especially like to sign up
with the Spanaway seconds. Any
team around the age of 10 or 16
wanting a game should call up
Merit Stewart, Main 8927R.
THEY DO, TOO
The Falkland team of the Ia
coma Amateur league Is also anx-
ious /or games. II is a fast ig-
gregation, and has been playing
| Iiyely ball thus far. Call up
Gourd, at Fred Hanby's apart
ment. They would especially like
games with Eatonville, Kapowsin
or Buckley.
A NEW TEAM
The Little Tigers, managed by
Bill Libke, Ia a newly organized
amateur team. They will play
the East End Cubs Sunday at L
o'clock on the tideflats. Libke
used to be captain of the Cubs.
PLAY SUNDAY
The Cooks and Waters will
play the w. o. W.. team on the
tideflats Sunday. -,
SIGN 'EM UP
Gig Harbor.
I"Amateur Editor, Times:
"Areletta on Hales Passage
would like games with good gen.
ltlemenIy teams. For dates, adj
dress w d. White, Rosedale, Wn
This team is composed OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-27
WANT HIM?

AL Libke would like to get on
some fast amateur team. He can
play any position in team ex-
cept pitcher. His regular position
is catcher.