Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-06
OF CIVILIANS A
MOST BAIfBAROUS FORM OF
WARFARE.

WARFARE.
This country as a neutral nation
should deal with all violations Of its
rights as a nation or OF the rights OF
its nationals without fear, favor or
prejudice to any and all of the bel
ligerent powers says The Washing
ton Post.
1T should just as swiftly, as for
chilly, as decidedly call down the al
lies in their violation of our coun-
try's rights, in their unwarranted
interference with the rights of our
citizens and of their commerce as it
would Germany or Austria or Turkey
or Bulgaria If they attempted such
violations.
Whatever sympathy our people
may have had with a law-abiding
Great Britain or Germany or Austria
or France there can be none with
any Of these when they deliberately,
continuously and notoriously proceed
to disregard all international law,
treat with contempt international
precedents and act totally at var
lance with their own former de-
cisions, claims and practices.
Whatever sympathy was won by
Great Britain and France through
their somewhat awkward attempts to
pose as champions of neutrality in
the case OF Belgium has been lost by
their conduct in Greece, their dis
regard of Chile's neutrality, their
unjust, Illegal and indefensible"
practices under 'the orders in coun-
cil' against our neutral country and
the neutral and peaceful countries
Of Holland and Scandinavia.
While generous and whole-souled
Americans were ready to aid dis
tressed Belgians and Serbians. are
ready now to comfort and aid the
distressed and oppressed Jews in
Russia or the people distressed or
opposed in any land, in any zone on
the whole globe, their very sense of
humanity, their very love for man
kind forbids them to approve of the
craftsmanship OF Great Britain,
which for months has striven to
starve 100,000,000 of men, women
and children, and which is so savage
in its instincts, so barbarous in its
practices as to doom infants to death
through lack of milk as it does their
mothers through deprivation of food
1t is impossible for Americans to
believe that any country or countries
that forbid their enemies the use OF
rubber gloves to save their wounded
from the dangers Of infection OF
their wounds or that deny milk to
dying babies are either fighting the
battles of civilization or have true
sense of humanity.
What a cry went up from the
whole civilized world when the ma
tives of Cuba were underfed in the
RECOMMENDATION camps OF the Span
iards, underfed, partially fed and
how Cen Weyler was held up to the
scorn, contempt and denuncation OF
all humane people because he failed
TO fully supply provisions to these
helpless and dependent creatures.
That was in 1897; and who could
have imagined that ere eighteen
years would elapse the government
OF Great Britain, humane Great Brit
ain, Christian Great Britain. civilized
Great Britain would officially pro-
claim to the world it's policy OF star
vation of 100,000,O0O of people
without distinction of age, sex or
condition
Why, Weyler, the cruel Weyler,
the pcrsonification OF military saw
agery, he attempted to excuse him
self, yea, denied the truth of the
charges that he furnished insufficient
rations to the people OF Cuba, while
now we have the high.toned and dis
tinguished statesmen, prelates, diplo-
mats, nobility. business men, aye,
even philanthropists of Great Brit
ain openly boasting of their desire
to starve entire nations of people and
ah cft fetrr In
make that starvation most effective,
And to starve Germany and Aus
tria, to carry out plans to deprive
Gods creatures Of food, Great Brit
ain and France break all internation-
al laws, fling away all regard for
their own precedents and, willing to
violate all rights of neutral coun-
tries, would compel those neutral
countries to become participants in
these barbarous practices
Germany and Austria have dis
avowed the acts Of officers who have
torpcdood vessels in violation Of in
ternational law VIII Great Britain
and France continue to break all in
ternational laws and their own de-
cisions and proccdents by seizure OF
vessels carrying foodstuffs to neutral
HdllOuS. Will llty ulSdNOW anu
abandon their efforts to out-Weyler
Weyler in their cruel, heartless, saw
age, inhuman policy OF attempting to
starve more than 100, 100000 OF
civilians, men, women and children?
Nero or Caligula might be the
author of such a policy but that
after ages we have to charge such
policy to the statesmen Of civilized
Great Britain, and that in the twen-
tieth century, will be a fearful blot
upon the page Of history.
War is a fearful thing in any OF
It's aspects, but war in the trenches,
war in bombarded or stormed cities.
with all its horrors, is refined war
faEe manly warfare. compared with
warfare made through attempts to
starve women, deprive infants Of
means Of sustenance. or refusals to
pass ample surgical aid to the
wounded
Is it to be wondered at that the