New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-03
OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH
The Huns Standard Used to Meas
ure His Humanity.
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
! Sir: Kpling wrote recently that the ten
ants Of this planet were men, women and
Huns. And it is important that the Amerl-
can nation should during the abandon OF war
Accumulate the evidence as TO the third per-
son in this trinity.
The Prussian case against II. ". :. Bara-
! long has been well aired in our press ana
yours. We here all knew that II was but tho
herald of more wicked murders OF women ana
children within England by Zeppelins that
the Baralong was on trial m Prussia 70 JUS
Itify "reprisals." Accordingly, last week half a
dozen of these night-haW killed outright
four dozens Of our people, and the incident
If two victims, "A father. with his child aged
seven. living on the outskirts Of Derby may
as well 60 on the record. The father was
blown to pieces in the street. The child ran
into the house to her mother and said; "'h'
they have killed my daddy, Look what they
have done 20 me-" The girls left arm was
hanging by a shred. She died the next day
Now. one Of these six Zcppclins home"ard
bound dropped its card on the Franz lschor,
a ship, German owned and built but AZ
anchor. with eleven English sailors on board
The bomb sank the ship, All the ere" DcihG
Killed.
When next We hear Of ono Of these six
pirates the Tic % is British ta"ler
which discovers her wrecked m the Norm
sea. The fsher-folk along our east coast Do
the early DAYS of the war still piled their
trade One Of their number SAID to me; We
never supposed German submarines would
modest a fishing boat, because in all the wars
OF hundreds OF years we fishermen have been
as the Red Cross Of the sea-wc have picked
tp any and all who were IN danger from
the deep" But unable 10 get near our ware
ships the Prussians have 50 shot up our
trawlors that the coast towns OF the eastern
counties are denuded Of bread-winners. The .
towns arc to-day populous with widows ana
orphans.
And 80 II happened that a fishing traw.cr,
with nine unarmed men, not pistol among
them. discovered this U-l9 with twenty 81 i's
crew on the roof of the balloon. .ho tra".er
came within hailing distance Of these iaur-
dercrs returning from their Derby picnic,
and apparently our kindly fellows were m
two minds whether 10 take the Huns OF OF
20 leave them 70 their fate But the mate,
strange 70 say. advised NO He said;
Here are twenty Germans, all armed. We
are nine, without weapon. Is u hseF
that they will c, us take them all into llar'
wich. to be pu, into PRISON. SO. albeit these
hapless mariners from the skies ~crc i1I
% strange oaths and profcrs Of gold untold
tho fishermen went of 10 send British oe'
stroyer TO their succor, and thus far We have
no tdings Of the sad fate OF the Hun dere-
licts. But the German press Of to-day re-
,orberates fury. beg you 20 permit yosf
readers to consider the following ou,bgrc
from three very important organs:
The PARLIAMENTARY: This fresh r.
famous action provides yet another Of tho"
disclosures which the present war has fv,'
rshed US Of the brutality Of the Bru's
character. OF which we barbarians were 50
little aware that Il took as long tine
realize its possibilities
The "Nossische Zcitung": avery one VI,
tas still preser, ed an impartial judgment VIZ
agree that the King Stephen affair IKE %,
Baralong case, IS bio, on the oscgiche9D
Britannia
The "Kreuzzeitung": "The attitude Of 70,
crew of the King Stephen was more cruz.
than that Of the Baralong. who made sao''
work OF the hated enemy Ii the crew OF 70.
King Stephen feared an attack from wv
shipwrecked Germans they could have GU
armed them. but who believes IN such '.S,
which would have been simply and s0'''
proof of base cowardice?"
| venture TO ask any impartial reader, "
the conduct Of this traVler the hing 81
phen. "was more cruel than that Of the pA'
long then hoC cruel wos The Bord'oW,
how much Of case on Hun showing lh'''
against the Barslons? 20 NC. DO you, reqs'.,
TO know more rs 20 the absurd humanity
our British methods lie, me "krcutIe'uH,.
be the judge The King stephen MAS "'''
cruel than the Baralong' 49,.
! Is II any wonder that Germany "oo'o
submit the case OF the Baralong TO !u,s
American naval officers. as Sir tdwaro ~"
proposed? MoREroN tEh"'"
: London, Eng, Feb 9th. 1916.