The daily progressive-miner., 1917-08-30

| LONDON, Aug.-(By ASSOclateO Press Correspondent The American committee of engineers in London, re. gently formed to help as it might in 1 the prosecution of the war, has ap. pointed a subcommittee whose chief function is to bring together accounts of such acts and words of the enemy as they think should be presented to the American people Test we forget what determined and ruthless enemy we are fighting" This subcommittee is made up of men who have had .ex- ceptional opportunities to study the events of the war, many of them at first hand In a statement further ex- blaming the reasons for appointing the subcommittee, the engineers commit tee as whole says:
 Great care will be taken in assem- bling only reliable information, chiefly the words of the Germans themselves in order that they may be condemned out of their own mouths. The con- mittee believes that there are still many good people in America ,as in England who say to themselves, if not aloud, Are the Germans as bad as painted?" We hope that a weekly record of German doings and sayings will help answer that question and be a reminder that such spirit, manner of reasoning and acting as the enemy manifests now no less than at the be- ginning of the war must be met and overcome, if this world is to be safe and fit place to live in.
 The first statement of the sub-com- mittee under the caption, German ism Week by Week." follows:
 "The policy of the Germans with re- gard to the deported Belgians seems to be to send home such as are too weak to work. Thus of 5S7 able-bod- jed men, slate-quarriers in the Bel gian town of Ecaussines, deported to Germany, 62 died there, and of the 216 repatriated, all in a lamentable condition, 70 have since died We are not in position to check these figures though they compare reasonably with figures from other places. But what we do know and this is the true Germanic touch-the Germans inn posed a fine of S5,000 on this town be- cause they refused to hold their usual Bachelors Tea party on Whit Monday because they refused in other words to celebrate their fellow citizens de- portation into slavery and starvation. Events like these are to the kaiser's taste, and are daily occurring.
 We have the absolute evidence of a neutral who was present at the fol lowing circumstances ill southern Ser- bia. A Serbian farmer shot an Aus trian officer in the leg (not meaning to kill him) because the officer refus- ed to pay for foodstuffs he had requi- sitioned from the farm, as he was bound to do. The ball struck an ar tery and the officer died. Thereupon the Austrian military authorities shot every tenth Serbian male in three surrounding villages"
 The town of Mons, famous for the retreat, was fined s100,OOO the other day because Belgian newspaper pub ch i,, IIA11 cta hot D,,lyn of Bavaria was at Mons during a re- cent allied air raid. Mind you, there was no evidence taht anyone from Mons had conveyed the information, but one of the dukes generals was killed and the Germans were furious. But this is not the first time that Mons has been fined. It was fined 250,000 marks in the first days of the war as contribution But this was waived because, as the official poster says. the people preserved such good be- haviour.'
 This good behavior did not pre- vent the Germans from burning port ion of Mons, like every other town they entered. This general burning they afterwards apologized for by say ing that they had been fired at by civilians. This was not the case at Mons, according to their own state ment of the good behavior of the peo- pie.
 Mons was later fined 10000 marks 1 because of a derailment' This was all the explanation. The town coun- cil asked for further details, only to receive a written reply, stating that the derailment had occurred months before at such spot, which proved to be 100 yards over the Mons line in the town of Jemappes. Jemappes was fined an even amount. Mons protest ed that the derailment occurred out