The Carlisle independent., 1917-12-20
GERMANY GUILTY OF BARBARITIES
 IN VAR CONDUCT
Atrocious Treatment of the Help- less Part of Campaign Plans
 of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRlGHTFULNESS
Terrorism Declared a Necessary Prjn- ciple in National Warfare-8ru- talities May Be Ssld to Be D. rectIy Attributable to the
 Emperor Himself.

A pamphlet just issued by the Com nittee on Public Information tefIs e the horrors deliberately and systemat. leally inflicted anon the people Of Bel giurn bY the German soldiers. under the orders ef their eonmandiaa off cers. Quotations given are from docu- ments already made public or in the possession Of the government at Wash- lngton.
 Tor many years leaders in every civ tliZed nation have been trying to make warfare less brutal. The great IanGz marks in this movement are the Ge- neva and Hague conventions. The for mer made rules as to the care of the sick and wounded and established the Red Cross. At the first meeting at Ge- neva. in 1864 it was agreed. and unrfI the present war it has been taken for granted, that the wounded. and the doe tors and nurses who cured for them would be safe from all attacks by the enemy. The Ua1ge conventions drawn up fn 1899 and fao7 nude addf= tionai rules to soften fha Hsaeas af HaH and especially 10 protect n9naaubat- ants and conquered iand~ Germany took a prominent part in thoSe meet ings, and with fhe other nations sol emnlF pledged her faith ta Keep aI1 rhe rules except ono article in The HaeaH regulations. This aas article 4a which forbade tte eaEeraEar ta force any of the conquered n give infarmaz lion. AT tha other r7s and rervFa= lions she aeeeeza2 ia =he saea- hindinS manner.
 Er- ce~manT's rtf'.srE lenders has no intention ~s Feenag these solemn praraise 'TEse HaaI haan trained along dsearant lines. Their .aadina general sar many vaar~ had been urE= ing T pelirv e frieH5fu'H=<s Ta the middle af the nineteenth century Won Clausew1tz was looked gnan as tha greatest military authority. and t5s methods Whieh ba ndear~ta=t were r.S==-3 by the Prassian aruix in tez sueeessfaz hv she PfHsS,aH qrmv fn irs successful cuuza these wars he'd beer sUceasSfuI. the wisdom of Xan CIarsaseirz meth Ods seemed to The PYuS~tau Grry fo be fully proved.
 Policy of FFiahtfG'ress.
 Naw fhe essence of Fan Glaasewitz teachings was that successful war in= wolves the ruthless application of force Tn the onening chapter ef his master work. "Vom Kriesea con War=), he says:
 "Tfo1ence arms itself witb the iovo7 lions of art and science, Self imposed restrictions. almost tmna-oeu- tihle and haea1v eeerth mentioning termed uSaeps If international la@ accompany f without essentially im- pairing it's power. Now, pai'an- thropic s9als mtaht eae.tr imagine that here Is 2 e'.l1lfHl mefha3 of azzarn- ing or SHhdu.ur an eeeav without causing too mueA bloodshe3. and thaf this is the true tendency as -he art at war. However p'qusfht4= tas7 may aH- pear. still ft fs=an erzar E-h=ah H1usr he destroyed: for in such 7angerous things aS v-a~ fha errar= which pre- ceed from Q spirit af .zard-aa-uref= nosss ara nracf sa.v tbH esrz As tHle uea 6f n1vs1csf farea ro -s= utme~r eE- tent bv no ne-1s H##taS #'fa ea= 0Dera +for er ts4- -1r.tH t.-eHess. f. follow that he Vho tsss force rHzH .~zH F.H F out recaf7I to bI0ai7Had HG@T antFiH g superiority. f h.s auasE does Hz+ SO use if
 h fS--=7Q 88 01 se ..arffeies mon -aii..arF %sees end Hrrnanity. General ve1 ''arrraaas wrote. tn tre game spirit as Fo1 t.'1H- sewitz
 "The epenlr state eu~t nat An- -HHre4 the want and w~e-ahef1.s~ of ws-s these are particularly u~esE' .a elsat- teriug its aHe=e= arA sHba#tHg it- wii "IrdiyfdHal arsaHs# may be harsl It dealt with when an example is made or them. intended ta serve as warm snc Whenever national war breaks out terrorism becomes a nee es~arv military principle" 'It is rrataitous illusion to suppose that modern war does not demand far more brutality. far more violence and an action far more general than was for merly the ease" sWhen international war has burst upon us. terrorism he comes a principle made necessary by military considerat tions."
 "War Established by God
 Tn 1881 Yon Noltke who had been commander in chief of the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussfan war. de clared:
 "Perpetual peace is a dream and not even beautiful dream. War Is an ele- ment in the order of the world estab- lished Dy God By if the most noble virtues of man are developed, courage and rent nciation. fidelity to duty and the spirit of sacrifice-the soldier gives his life. Without war, the world would degenerate and lose itself in material ism.- 'aThe soldier who endures sui fering. priyation and fatigue, who courts dangers, cannot take only in proportion to the resources of the country. He must take all that Is nee