Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-29
HISTORICAL WARFARE

If the German nation should find out who gave the order for the arsbp raid defenseess English cities and should take taht man-even if it were the Kaiser himselfand shut him up a sanitarium until Che war is over, it would perform a service to the Fatherand equal to a great victory
 Such bombardment is not war It is murder But it be objected that "al warfare is murder" and that the form in which it perperated is mere accident and that judgment of it depends solely the point of view Of the judge let us be more explicit:
 Such slaughter is either the result of calculating cruelty deliberately indifferent 10 the moral opinion of mankind, is the result of hystera which knows not what it does I is charitable and perhaps more reasonable, to take the latter view. The Germans we know not deliberately cruel or deliberately conemp- tuous of public opinion. Neither. we believe are the Germans in Germany Such deeds cannot be committed except by hystera and be defended except by hysteria.
 Let us consider first the moral issue. All warfare be considered immoral but the moral sense of civ
 zaton has restricted immoralities through inter national law and treaties The latest notable restriction resatemen of the rules of warfare was effected in the Hague Conventions in 19O7 That conference of representatives of all the powers took up Noecifcay Inc question of bombardment from arships or aero planes Great Britain and Belgium wanted 10 prohibit altogether the dropping of bombs from the sky The other nations would consent But the conference did odopt with the acquescence of Germany a regulation orbiddiag absolutely the attack or bombardmcnt by any means whatsoever of towns villages habiations or buildings which defended" And it was provided that in case of attack on defendede places "he com uauder of attacking force before commencing bonn bardment except in the of an assault should dc II he tc waIn the authorities"
 Tho first of these provisions outlaws the attack by he German airships on the towns of the Norfolk coast with their indiscrimnate slaughter of civilians The second would have demanded warning before the bo7bardment even if the towns were fortified or de Ionded-which they are not In this connection it win be recalled that the German warshps gave no warn. when they bombarded both defended and undefended iorksrire searorts a month ago.
 That Germany never, in cold blood contemplated uch acts is shown by statement of her representa- tive at that same Hague conference Baron NarschaI son Eieberstcin, who said officially We are not O. the opinion that what is expressly forbidden is per nitred. Nor military operations governed solely ty the provisions of international law There are other actors: conscience, common sense, and the sense O. duty imposed by the principles of humanity"
 dow far Gemanyat-war has departed from that honorable intent Who would have supposed eigh years ago-or eight months ago-hat German air craf would without shadow of international right and ar prenty without excuse of military necessity rain de sruction sleeping towns and villages in a campaign sf terror?
 It is not prejudice that reyos Americans and other ueutras at such deeds If he English waged war agans women and children in this fashion we should condemn them even more bitterly. But the British airshp rail on Cuxhayen a legitimate attack on German naval and aircraft base When British ayiators bombarded Duessedorf and schaffhausen they confined their at ack to Zeppn arship sheds It is significant that ir l the bandyns about of atrocity stories the Engsl have suffered not from accusation.
 Morally then we cannot excuse such attacks From the viewpoint of military tactics they seem even less defensibe What object is gained by blowing a boy tc pieces in his bed or killing widow is she stands gos spine with neighbour or what benefit to Germany i. the demolition homes churches and the frghen ing of a countryside? The killing of a thousand women and children and old men in remote villages of the pemys country is not equivalent to the killing Of abebodied English soldier in the trenches But the kill ing Of thousand noncambatants in such fashion would add a million recruits to England's army. The few deaths from this raid win add 100000
 No, there's neither morals nor genemlship in such warfare And the Nndest thing can is that t must be the hysera of leaders who cannot understand worlds opinion and whose leadership is therefore to Germany more serious than the menace Of hostile armies.
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