Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-12-19
General Won Bissing'S Defense of German War Practices Is
 Significant.
INNOCENT NOT ID BE SPARED
Governor General of Belgium Declared They Must Suffer With the Guilty Irwin Cobb Tells of Respon- sibility of Kaiser's High
 Command.

The Committee on Public 'nforma- tion, appointed by the presldent and consisting of the secretary of state, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, and George Greet, official censor, has made public mass of evidence dealing with German war practices which shows the kaisers leaders in the field and in command of captured points to be directly responsible for the beastliness which has character zed the operations of the "Huns," in the present conflict. Quotations from the pamphlet follow:
 This interview was reproduced in the Berliner Tageblatt of November 20. 1914
 MT. F. c. Walcott of the Belgian re- lief commission tells in the Geograph- teal Magazine for May, 1917, of meet ing Gen yon Bernhardi:
 AS I walked out, Gen. yon Bern hardi came into the room, an expert artilleryman, a professor in one of their war colleges I met him the next morning, and he asked me if l had read his book, Germany in the Next War
 T said I had. He said: Do you know, my friends nearly ran me out of the country for that? They said, You have let the eat out of the bag I said 'N), I have not, because nobody will believe it. What did you think of 1t?
 q said. General, did not believe word of it when I read 1t, but ut4IL~I ] pow eelsA.z-.sT=71-t, CTfd nOC4sS.s ~rr'Ie zss,lth : land the old general looked actually pleased"
 Speaking on August %, 1914, at Munster, of the extreme measures which the Germans felt obliged to take against the civil population of Bel gium. Gen. von Bissing said:
 "The innocent must suffer with the guilty. In the repression of infamy, human lives cannot be spared, and if isolated houses, flourishing vil- lages, and even entire towns are anni- Inflated, that is assuredly regrettable, but it must not excite ill-timed senti- TIutHldiIiN. All Llllo must uOl III Oul eyes weigh as much as the life of a single one of our brave soldiers-the rigorous accomplishment of duty is the emanatiOn of a high kultur, and in that, the population of the enemy countries can learn 6 lesson from our army"
 Officers Encouraged Atrocities.
 Gen. von Bissing, after his appoint ment as governor general of Belgium, repeated in substance the above opin- ion to a Dutch journalist. The inter- view is published in the Dusseldorfer Anzeiger of December 8, 1914.
 Irwin S. Cobb states his conclusions on the responsibility of the higher Ger man command for the atrocities:
 But I was an eyewitness to crimes which, measured by the standards of humanity and civilization, impressed me as worse than any individual ex- cess, any individual outrage, could ever have been or can ever be; be- cause these crimes indubitably were instigated on a wholesale basis by or der of officers of rank, and must have been carried out under their personal supervision, direction, and approval. Briefly, what 1 saw was this: I saw wide atfas of Belgium and France in which mt a penny's worth of wanton destruction had been permitted to oc- cur. in which the ripe pears hung un- touched upon the garden walls; and I saw other wide areas where scarcely one stone had been left to stand upon another; where the fields were rav- aged; where the male villagers had been shot in squads; where the miser- able survivors had been left to den in holes, like wild beasts.
 Taking the physical evidence offer ed before our own eyes, and buttress- ing it with the statements made to us not only by natives, but German sol diers and German officeis', we could reach but one conclusion, which was that here, in such and such place, those in command had said to the troops: Spare this town and these people, And there they had said: Waste this town and shoot these peo- ple.' And here the troops had discrm- inately spared, and there they had in- discriminatory wasted, in exact ac- cordence with the word of their supe-