Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-11
Some u HistorysB Blacklist
Pages Written ~ Germans
in Belgium and N. France

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"German War Practices"
Official Publication. Gives
Proof Of .Frightfulness"
-Ambassador Gerard,
Brand Whitlock, Herbert
Hoover, and Others Tell
What "Kultur' Has Done.
Some Of the blackest pages in sall
history. comprising d documentary
record OF deeds that make one de-
SPAR OF the future Of the human
race -a are found In a book named
German War Practices" which has
just been issued at the government
printing Office by the committee on
public information for free distribuA
ton. It is edited by Prof. D. G.
Munro of Princeton, and other schol-
ars.
The dumbfoundins evidence witch
this book presents to the jury of man
kind is drawn mainly from German
and American sources, and includes
of the responsible heads of the i'm
pertal German government letters and
diaries of German soldiers, quotations
Q German newspapers, and ma-
terial drawn fromfthe archives of the
state department which lay bare the
story OF inconceivable German atroci-
ties, ",
The purpose Of the book. is to show
that the SYSTEM of frightfulness,
itself the greatest atrocity, is the def
policy of the German govern
have themselves at times revolted.
Individual acts of wanton cruelty and
barbaric destruction are cited only to
illustrate the operation Of the re-
system.
The book supplements the Bryce re-
port which was the first official sur
vey of the path of horror, RUM and
death left by the Gefman army on
the lands of innocent and d~efenseless
people, The book is supplemental
also to the official reports by the Bel.
lister of foreign affairs, and it reveals
more of the damning German war
as expressed in the Ger
White book and various official
utterances, extenuating revolving
crimes on the grounds Of e~xpediency
and the advancement of that "'Ku1tur"
noY Knocks it's own name
the civilized world. The
of German soldiers was so
torn by the system of brutality hat
they cried out in letters to Ambassa-
dor Gerard, n expressing his pro-
test against the slaughter of the Rus
in the Masurian lakes and
by saying There is no God,
there is no morality, and nc ethics any
more; there are no human beings
any more, but only beasts
The illuminating reports of Brand
Whitlock, minister to Belgium, tell Of
niseries inflicted upon the Belgian
people, Mr.. Whitlock saying: One is
80 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the horror of
he thing itself, that it las been, and
even new is, difficult to write calmly
justly about It."
book of his experiences in Belgium,
ays: The sight Of the destroyed
homes and cities, the widowed and
:atherless,; the destitute, the physical
misery Of .fBh4 peotfA hat ps1tially
1ourished at best, tie deportation of
men by tens of tssdsands to slavery
German mines and factories, the
execution of men and women for
oaltry effusions of their loyalty sto
heir country, the sackins of every
'esource through financial robbery.
he %fattening Of armies on the slender
of the country, the denud-
alton of the country of cattle, horses
textiles; all these things we had
@ witness, dumb to- help other>than
~ protest and sympathy, during this !!
ong and terrible time, and still these
Ire not the events of battle heat,
but the effects of a grinding heel of
c. demanding the mastership of
the world. All these things are
known to the world-but what can
never be known is the dumb agony
Of the people, the expressionless faces
Of millions whose souls have passed
whole gamut of emotions. And
why? Because those, a free and
people, dared plunge their
bodies before the march Of autoc-
Frederick C. walcott's description
Of devastated Poland comprehefds the
monstrous woes inflicted by the Prus-
sian system upon those d~efenseless
In a statement prepared for the
book, Vernon kellogg said: II went
into Belgium and occupied France al
al, oIlo IL manufactured Willy lIlSIc
steady neutral behavior, but I came
no neutral I vent in
also a hater Of war, but I came out a
more ardent hater OF a but, also
came out with ineradicable convic-1
ton, again, that the only way in
Germany under It's present
rule and in its present state of mind
can be kept from doing what it has
is by force of arms"
The book gfveA excerpts from the
Of German soldiers Of which
these are specimens: "In the night
of August 1912 the village Of Saint
Maurice was punished for having fired
German soldiers by Being burnt to
h e.-ground by the German troops.
: The village was. surrounded.
men posted about q gard from one
another so that no one could get out.
Then the Uhlans set IRE to 1t house by
neither man, woman or child
could escape. only the greater part Of
the, live. stock we carried on; as that
could be used. Any one who venRured,
to come out was shot down. All, the.
left in the village were
burnt with the housess%
IA horrible bath. of blood: The
village burnt the French
into the blazing houses.
civilians with the. rest ~ ~ $40
That the reign Of frishtfulness was,
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