The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-12

record of"deeds that make one despair of the future of the human race," are found in a book named German War Practices" which has just been issued at the Government Printing Dmce by the Committee on Public h. Formation for free distribution. It is edited by Prof D. c. Munro, of Prince ton. and other scholars.
 The dumbfounding evidence which this book presents to the jury of man. Kind is drawn mainly from. German and American sources, and includes official proclamations and utterances of the responsible heads of the 1mper- 1aI German Government, letters ana diarfos of German soldiers, quotations from German newspapers, and material drawn from the archives of the State Department which lay bare the story of inconceivable German atrocities. The purpose of this book is to show that the system of frightfulness, itself the greatest atrocity, is the definite policy of the German Government, so sinister that German soldiers have themselves at times revolted Individual acts of N1anton cruelty and barbar1c destruction are cited only to illustrate the operation of the remoreless sys- tenn.
 The book supplements the Bryce re- port which was the first official sur vey of the path of horror, ruin, and death left by the German army on the lands of innocent and defenseless people. The book is supplemental al- 90 to the official reports by the Bel Rian Commission and the French Min ister of Foreign Affairs, and~it reveals more of the damning German war rhilcsophy as expressed in the German white Book and various official utter rilces. extdnuating revolting crimes onthe grounds of expediency ana the Advancement of that fsKulter" which now 1nocks it's own name throughout the civilized wcSld The humanity of German soldiers was so torn by the system of brutality that they cried out in letters to Ambassador Gerard, one expressing his protest against the elaugfter of the Russians in the Mas urian lakes and swamps by saying There Is no God, there is no moral ity. and no ethics any more; there are no human beings any more, but only beasts"
 The Illuminating reports of Brand Whitlock, Minister to. Belgium, tell or Tufsefdes ainfiicted upon the Belgian people. MT Whitlock saying: 'One IS so overwhelmed with the horror or the thing itself that it has been, ana even now is, difficult to write calmly and justly about it.
 Herbert Hoover writing for tblT book of his experiences in Belgiuli hnnes and cities the widowed and fatherless, the destitute, the physical rniserv4 of the people but partially nourished at best, the deportation or men by tens of thousands to slavery sr German mines and factories the execution of men and women for pal trv effusions of their loyalty to their country. the sacHing of every resource through financial robbery, the fatten- ing of armies on the slender produce of the country, the denudation of the country of cattle, horses, and textiles; an these things we had to witness, dumb to help other than by protest and sympathy, during this long and terrible time, and still these are not the events of battle heat, but the eff ects of a grinding heel of a race de- nnanding the mastership of the world. All these things are known to the
 
 is the dumb agony of the people, the expressionless faces of millions whose souls have passed the whole gamut of emotions. And why. Because these, A free and democratic people, dared plunge their bodies before the march of autocracy."
 Frederick c. Walcott'a description of deyasted Poland comprehends the monstrous woes inflicted by the Prus- sian system upon those defenseless people.
 In a statement prepared for the book, verono Kellog said: q went to Bel eium and occupied France a neutral. and I maintained while there stead lastly neutral behavior, but I came out no neutral I went in also hater of war, but I came out a more ardent hater of war; but, also came out with eraidicable conviction again, that the only way in which Germany under it's present rule and in its present state of mind can be Kept from doing what it has done is by force of arms.
 Ehe book gives excerpts from the diaries of German soldeirs of which these are specimens: 'In the night oi August 1s-19 the village of Saint-Mau- t1oe was punished for having fired or German soldiers by being burnt to the ground by German troops. The village was surrounded, men posted about a yard from one another, st that no one could get out. Then th' UhIans set fire to it house by house neither man, woman, or child coult escape; only the greater part of the live stock we carried off, as tha' could be used. Any one who ventureC to come out was shot down. All th' inhabitants left in the village wer burnt with the houses"
 "A horrible bath of blood. The whol village burnt, the French thrown int the blazing houses, civilians with tn rest%
 That the reign of frightfu1ness wa Government Is testified to by an amaz ing collection of documents and ut terances of German officialdom. Here with are excerpts from documentar proof furnished by German record establishing the truth beyond ques ton:
 As soon as you come to blow with the enemy he will be beaten. N mercy will be shown!I No prisoner will be taken! As the Huns, unde King Attila, made a name for them selves, which is still mighty in trad tons and legends today. may tn name of German be so fixed in Chin by your deeds, that no Chinese sha