The Washington herald., 1917-12-08

can hardly fnd time 10 glance them
over. President Wilson bases bis ar
guments and action exclnEively upon
Right Justice and International Law,
a. nearly a. can recoliect. He
acts M an. eminent and. nrst OF all.
q conscientious lawyer. He points
out m the ciearest manner Germsny's
wrongs. which are constantly grow
ing worse IN this war. and the ne
cessity OF the United States 70 have
Right Justice and Law respected.
He Is especially against the ruling
claas Of Germany. This 10 all
can recall at present
Here is something OF which should
Ike 70 speak TO you. The Germans
are treating our prisoners IN a man.
ner beyond human endurance. Tens
Of thousands Of French soldiers in
Germany have already died. The
others will be returned to US all
broken down and worn out. Accord
ing to a German oficial report, pub
lished a year ago, 1000 Of our SOL
diers were then filling the insane asy-
.lums Of Germany. Under all sorts
Of pretexts they are infiicting terri
BILE repfisals upon our unfortunate
prisoners. Last year they sent 1900
Of them TO Russian Poland. This
year. at the end Of January, they
sent 2. 900 TO the French front, where
they were exposed 20 the fire from
our guns. These poor men were pack
ed in barracks too small to afford
them the least comfort. and had no
fire. They were not allowed to re-
ceive parcels from home and were
made TO work about 100 yards be-
hind the first-line trenches. OF the
5000. nearly 1000 were killed by our
projectiles or perished from disease.
The others were taken back TO Ger
many in a pitiful condition, crippled
for the rest Of their lives.
The Germans practice their reprissIG
especially upon ofiicers and intellec-
tuals. The French prisoners who,
during the last two years have been
working in German mines, are ruined
for life. They remain there for a few
months, underfed and doing work 10
which they are not accustomed, and
return to camp exhausted or sick.
Germany acts in this manner because
she has twice as many French pris-
oners as We have German. At frst
she treated the English prisoners
even worse than ours, but now that
England has more German prisoners
than Germany has English. our ac-
cursed enemy has changed tactics
She no longer troubles the English
prisoners. Just think Of this coward
ice, Well, the allies should be united
on the question OF the treatment OF
prisoners OF war. as on the conduct
Of military operations. America which
has on her soil q large number OF
German subjects, could threaten 90
take "reprisals" on these German
subjects, unless Germany gives
French prisoners a better treatment.
II is a question Of the future OF our
race which Germany seems TO want
10 annihilate.
This is a thought which submit to
you and you can develop il there as
you think best. AS for me, / shall do
all 1 can TO spread it and prop2gate
il here
! have just been notified that shall
be released for good in September 10
take UP again my work as professor.
will go on leave September 9Th and
will not return to Pontarlier. ] Will
be dcmobilized at the end OF my leave.
I am not sorTy that do not have 20
spend a third winter in SO cold q
town as Pontarlier.
1 am going to meet my wife and
children at Bpoisses and will be
back in Bourg at the end Of Septen-
Der to resume my work In the Lycee.
Oct. md.
l have good news from Garchey and
young Renard Cof MandeloO and from
all the ''poilus" know. Our soldiers
know how to fight and their losses
are relatively small History can
never do them justice. Their heroie
deeds baffle description
HENRI CHOMARD.