New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-13
Arrangement of German
Conduct Accepted by
Prominent Americans.
DERNBURG, SOUGHT,
FAILS TO APPEAR
kaiser's Aids Embarrassed, but
Attempt Defence-TeutOns
Charge Trickery.

"Viscount Bryce's report is not al
ordinary communication or dispatch,
but information pregnant with the
most tremendous importance and pos
sibilities; information that must have
and will have vital effect after the
war" Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president Of Columbia University, told
Tribune representative last night.
According TO DR.. Butler, the report is
the result Of the most thorough investi-
cations by the highest possible deliber-
alive body Of jurists Of Europe.
These men are among the most re-
sponsible in all Europe" said DR.. But
Ter, "and what they have found is not
merely an ordinary report, but infor-
nation which will be Of great impor-
lance when world peace congress Is
convened. | am positive that what
these men have reported must have
been thorough and not alone thorough,
but deliberate.
"As responsible individuals their
testimony cannot be set aside. ! do not
care whether they investigated a thou
sand cases or two cases, what they
have to say may be without restriction
or slightest reservation relied upon"
Viscount Bryce's report will have the
effect of consolidating public opinion
still more against Germany, said Pro-
fessor Franklin II. Giddings, of the
department of sociology, Columbia Uni
versity, last night. Professor Giddings
agreed with DR.. Butler that the men on
Viscount Bryce's committee were the
most deliberative in all England.
Five days after the sinking Of the
Lusitania comes this report TO our
United States, where opinion has been
rapidly turning against the Kaiser.
Now. I can safely say that nine-tenths
of the people in the United States, ex-
GLIDING Communications, have be-
come hostile toward Germany"
James Harvey Robinson, professor OF
history, was Of the opinion that atroci-
ties such as were reported through e
Bryce committee TO have been commit
ted by the Germans in Belgium were an
adjunct of war. He said that no par
ticular blame should be attached to
the German soldiers that was not as
applicable to the French, British or
Russian soldiers.
While ne did not care TO discuss the
importance of the report, Professor
James T. Shotwell, of the department
Of history of Columbia University. re-
marked on the high and deliberative
type of mind of the individual members
making up Viscount Bryce's committee.
Germans Discounted.
The publication OF the report OF the
Bryce commission struck like bomb
in the camp of local German sym
pathizers. Following so close upon the
Lusitana outrage, il caught them IN
awares.
DR.. Bernhard Dernburg was absent
from hi. RitZ-Carlton quarters. His
private secretary said;
After the violent attack upon DR..
Dernburg it cannot be expected that
he should volunteer any opinion or
make any statement"
Following the example of Count Won
Bernstorff, Germany's official repre-
sentative in this country, DR.. Dernburg
has engaged the services OF military
looking reservist from one of the Ger
man ships tied up in Hoboken 20 guard
his apartments.
George Sylvester Viereck. "Ameri-
can" advocate and defender OF the Ger
man cause, made this statement yester-
day:
THE atrocity charges made against
the Germans in Belgium by Lord Bryce
came at a very opportune moment for
England Evidently it is the begin
ming of the great offensive predicted
by Lord Kitchener for the first of May.
Having failed on the battlefield. the
English again transfer their activities
TO the newspapers.
at is quite evident that this state
ment was cOncocted in order TO fore
stall the publication of the affidavits
collected b. the German government on
Russian atrocities.
"As matter OF fact, the Belgians
are happier under German government
than they have ever been before"
Mr.. Viereck also severely criticised
the attacks made upon DR.. Dernburg's
"unneutral" activities in this country
in behalf Of his fatherland. He called
attention to the fact that DR.. Dernburg
is now the only man who can authori-
tatively present the German cause to
the American people.
Attaches OF the German Embassy who
are now in the city were plainly dis