Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1917-12-21
General Won Blssing's Defense OF
German War Practices Is
Significant.
INNOCENT NOT TO Be SPARED
Governor General Of Belgium Declared
They Must Suffer With the Guilty
--irvln Cobb Tells Of Respon.
sIblllty Of kalser's High
Command.

Inc Committc on FuDlc lHfoFma.
ton, appointed by the president, and
consisting Of the secretary Of state,
secretary OF war, secretary Of the
navy, and George creel, official censor.
has made public n mass Of evidence
dealing with German war practices
which shows the kalsers leaders In the
field and In command OF captured
points to be directly responsible for
the beastIlnese which has character.
lied the operations OF the "Huns," In
the present conflict. Quotations from
the pamphlet follow;
This Interview WINS reproduced In
the BerlIner Tageblatt OF November
20. 1914.
Mr.. r. @. walcott OF the Belgian re-
lief commission tells In the Geograph.
zeal Magazine for May, 1917, OF meet
ing Gen Won Bernhard
"As ! walked out, Gen. Won Bern.
hard came into the room. nm expert
nrtilleryman, n professor in n Of
their war colleges. ] met him the
next morning, and he asked me II
had read his book. Germany in the
Next War;
II said I had. He said: DO you
know my friends nearly ran M out
OF the country for thntf' They said,
'You have let the cat out OF the bag
said, No, ! have not. because nobody
viii believe It. What did you think
OF itr
II said. General. I did not believe n
word OF II when I read II. but ! nov
feel that you did not tell the whole
truth; ! and the old general looked
actually pleased"
Speaking on August 20, 1914, at
Munster. Of the extreme measures
which the Germans felt Obliged to take
against the civil population OF Bel
GUM, Gen. Won Kissing said:
'"The innocent must suffer with the
guilty. In the repression Of
infniny, human lives cannot he spared.
and II isolated houses, nourlshlng VII
lagos. and wen entire towns are ami
kilated. that Is assuredly regrettable.
but Il must not excite lll-tlmed sentI-
mentality. All this must not In our
eyes weigh MS much MS the life Of a
single one Of our brave sOldlers-the
rigorous accomplishment Of duty Is the
emnnntlon OF II high kultur, and In
that, the population Of the enemy
countries can learn n lesson from our
army"
officers Encouraged Atrocities.
Gen. Won Kissing, after his appoint
ment MS governor general OF Belgium,
repeated In substance the above opln-
ion TO n Ditch journalist. The inter
view II pub 'lshed In the Dusseldorfer
AnzeIgcr OF December g., 1914.
Irwin S. OJbb states his conclusions
on the responsibility Of the higher Ger
man command for the atrocities:
"But ] was nm 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 he; be-
cnmse these crimes Individually were
~instignted on u wholesale basis by or
der OF officers Of rank. and must have
been cnrriod out under their personal
super Vision. direction. and approval.
Briefly. what ! saw was this: | saw
wide areas Of Belgium and France In
which not n penny's worth Of wanton
destruction had been permitted TO oc-
cur. IN which the rlne pears hung I'M
touched upon the garden walls; ana !
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left TO stand upon
another; where the fields were raw
aged whore the male villagers had
been shot In squads whore the mlser-
able survivors had been left 20 den In
holes like Wild beasts.
"Taking the physical evidence offer.
cd before W eyes, and b%uttress.
Ing II with the statements made to MS.
not only by natives, but German sol
diers and German officers, we could
reach but one conclusion. which wns
that here. IN such and such a 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-
pie And here the troops had dlscrlm.
inntely spared. and there they had In
discriminatory wasted. IN exact nc
rordanco with the word OF their suue-