The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-12-10

81 foreign affairs and IL reveals inore
Of the damning German war phil
usophy as expressed In the German
> white hook and various official utter
ances ex~tenuating revolving crimes ON
the groun 81 eygedicncy and the ad-
vancrment 81 that "Kuitur' which
nov Knocks IT'S own name throughout
the civilized world. The humanity u
German soldiers was 30 torn by the
system ~ brutality that they cried
out in letters to Ambassador Gerard
n oxpressing his protest against tho
slaughter Of the Russians in the
Masur.an lakes ana swamps by say
ing There ia no God. there is 80
morality. and no ethics ~ more
there are me- human beings an, moro
but onlS beasts
The Illuminating reports ~ Brand
whitlock. minister to Belgium. tell %
missries inflicted upon the Belgian
people. AIR. whitlock saying "Onc o.
80 overwhelmed with the horror o,
the thine itself. nat d has been ana
Even nov H. difficult To write calmi,
and Justly about IT,"
Herbert Hoover writing for thu
book 81 his experiences iu Belgium,
says The sisht 81 the destroyed
homes and cities. the widowed ana.
faiherless. the destitute. the phySictl
misery Of the people hut PARTIAL
nourished az best thc deportation -.
men by tens 81 thousands To slavery IN
German mines and factories. the exc
cution Of men and women Tor pa!try
effusions Of their loyalty to their
country. the sacking of every
through financial robbery. the faiten-
Ing Of armies on the slender produce
~ the country. the d%euudation ~ IN,
country u cattle. horses and textiles
dImb To help other than by protest
and sympathy. during his lone and
terrible time. and stil these are not
tho events of battle heat. out the.
effects - a grinding heel ~ a ace
demanding the mastorship of the.
world. An these things are known ~
the world-but what can never be
known p the dumb agony 81 the peo-
pie. the expressionless faces Of MIL
H.. d. r - - 49,.
whole gamui Of emotions And why
Because these. a free and democratic
people. dared plunge their bodies Ice
fore the march II autocracN
Frederick G. woicoti's description
81 devastated Poland comprehends
the monstrous woes Inflicted hy the
Prussian system upon those defense
less people.
In "a statement prepared for the
book. vernon Kellog said = went
into Belgium and occupied France a
and ! maintained while there
a s~ieadfastly neutral behavior. bat T.
came out no neutral 7 went i1
ALSO q batter N war. but ! came out
more arden halter Of war, Aut ai-u
I came uut with .ucradiolhic lun,ie-
tiou. again that he only way iu viii
Germany under lt- present RUE and
its present state u mind can Dee kept
from doiug what DC has done .s '
force 81 arms
The book gives excerpts from ,h'
diaries of German soldiers "f whic0
these are specimens en- the night.
Of August ISIS the village of saint
Maurice was puni he'd for hHying fired
German soldiers by being nurni 60
the ground BE-, IA. German troops
The village was surrounded
men posted about "a yard from oH
another So that uo one could get uu.
Then nae Uhlans set Or" 90 b. hou-"
hv hous' neither mau oma nr
mia could cscaur only the create
part 81 The li,e stock Wr carried Off
a. that could be used ANY ono win
ycntured Co come out was shot dow
All the inhabitants left u the ,iljag
Vere burn, with The houses
"A horrible bath ~ b,"ud The
whol. village burnt the French
brown into the blazing houses ci,-
Jams with the rest
That ia, re.an - f~rightrIu,.- $3.50.
th. t,fuitr Money .ffh, German u...