New-York tribune., 1916-06-25

/ been searched and 80 the inhabitants brought
out from their hidinR-places. he men were
shot; the women and children put in the
convent From this convent, shooting has
come; so the convent will be burned. only
through the giving up Of the guilty and
the paying Of $1,000 francs can IL save itself
The German phrases Of frghtfulness have
sound that matches their meaning;
"Hatten unser Leute bereits vie die Van
dalen gehaust" Manner erschossen"
/ opened the diary Of Private Hassemer, Of
the sth Corps. and in the entry at Sommepy
Il Gin the district of the Marne) for Septem-
Iber 3, 1914 ! read. 1919, 1914. Elm schreck-
|liches Blutbad, Dorf abgebrannt, die Fran
zosen in die brennenden Hadser geworfen,
|Zivilpersonen allies mitverbrandt."
"a hidcous blood bath (massacre), the vii
lage totally burned, the French hurled into
the burning houses, civilians, everybody,
burned together"
The Outlander Theory.
u An unsupported brutality is here revealed
i'm the race. To these men a peasant Of an
other race IS not father and husband and
man. He IS as dog. lie is "Uttlander,"
beyond the pale thing to be chased with
bayonets and burned with fire. to the rollck-
ing amusement Of brave soldiers. Back Of
the slaughter lies the basic idea Of a biologi-
cal superiority in the German race mystic
belief that their duty calls them 20 a sacred
war 10 dominate other races and create a
greater Germany. They think they are a
higher order Of beings. who can kill crea-
lures Of a lesser breed as one slays the
lower order of animals in the march Of
progress. Other races have had dreams of
grandeur but never so mad dream: so CO.
fvio ao
cruel. in its methods of achieving that su-
premacy.
Soldat Wilhelm Schelenberg Of l06th Re
serve Infantry. Of the 18th Reserve Army
Corps, gives his home as Groitzsch bel Leip-
zig, "am Bahnhof," first floor, No. 8. Frau
Martha Schellenberg' is TO be notified.
u held in my hands the diary Of Enrich
Harlak Of the I'd Company. 38th Fusilier
Regiment, of the 9Th Army Corps There is
a cut through the cover and pages Of the
pamphet-probably the stab Of bayonet
Harlak is p Silesian. On the first page ne
writes in German "Bitte dieses Buch gutgst
meinen Eltern zusenden zu wolen." Then in
French, "Je prie aussi les Francas de rendre,
sill vous plat, Get ivre a mes parents. Ad-
dresse Lehrer Harlak." "Meinen lieben FL
tern gewidmet in Grune bel Lisser in Posen."
Plumber Pure and Simple
He writes. 81 noticed how our cavalry had
piundered here lie gives an instance Of
how the men broke to pieces what they could
not carry away. LA Guerre est Ia Guerre."
He writes that in French. lie runs his table
Of values: 1 Klener Sous 4 pfennig;
grosser SOUS pfennig; y sous , pfenng
lie has a vocabulary Of French words in his
own handwriting Eis record is one Of hon
81 d iflt rff htr h
rades
When the French soldiers say "C'est la
guerrc'- that's the way it is with war
they refer 20 the monotony of it, or the
long duration, or some curious ronic con-
trast between n peaceful farmyard scene and
o. Taubc dropping bombs. The Germans say
- again and again i'm their diaries some
times In the French phrase, sometimes "Das
ist der Krieg.' and almost always they use
DO IN speaking Of n village they have burned
or peasants they have shot. To them that
phrase is am absoluton for any abomination
10 is the blood-brother Of military neces-
sty."
Carl thinner lieutenant of the 57th lnfan-
try, of the 9th Corps, has diary that runs
from August TO October II, 1914. On the
o 29th of August. he tells Of marching through
a village Of Belgium
Very many houses burned, whose nhabi-
tants had shot at our soldiers; $50 civilians
shot"
At the head of his diary he writes: INIT
Gotr fur Konig und Vaterland." His rec
ord IS in ink. Biclefeld, in WestpLalia, is
his home town.
All Germany Prussianized.
Prussia has Prussianized Germany. These
diaries cover the empire. The writer's are
Rhenish Pomcraniau and Brandenburgian,
Saxon and Bavaran. And the very people.
such as the Bavarians and Saxons. whom we
had hoped were of a merciful tradition, have
oettered the instruction Of the military hier-
archy az Berlin. What Prussia preached
they have practised with the zeal OF a re-
cent convert eager TO please his master.
Fahlenstein, reservist Of the 3lth Fusi-
liers, I'd Army Corps writes on August 2s:
I They the French troops) lay heaped up
eight TO ten i'm a heap. wounded and dead
always one on top Of the ether Those who
could still walk were made prisoners and
brought with u.s. The severely wounded
with "A shot IN the head or lungs and so forth
VINO could not make further effort. received
one moro bullet which ended their life
That ls indeed what we were ordered to do"
"Dle schmer verwundetcn beka-
men dennoch cine Kugcl zu. dass ihr Loben
elm Ende hattie Das ist uns ia auch befohlen
worden"
His unwillingnoss 20 do the wicked thing
must be subordnated to the will Of the Off
Ger. And so perfectly has he learned obe-
dience that he feels a kind of mystical Joy
in fulfilling that higher Will and order from
above.
Corporal Menge Of tho sth Company o.
the 74th Reserve Infantry, 10th Reserve
Corps writes In his diary for August IS:
"Wir passeren unter dremaigen Hurra
auf unsem Kaiser u. unter den Kangen d.
Liedes Deutschland uber allies die Belgische
D. Creme. ALE Baume ungefallt ais Sperre
Pfarrer "a. dessen Schwester aufgehangt
- Hauser abgebrannt"
1--WE passed over the Belgian border under
three times given Hurrah for our Kaiser
and under the strains Of the song 'Deutsch-
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