The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11
Black Crimes Are
Officially Proven

pair 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 Of
flee by the committee on public infor-
nation for free distribution. 1t 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 the
Imperial German government, letters
and diaries of German soldiers, quo
tations from German newspapers, and
material drawn from the archives of
the state department which lay bare
the story 1of inconceivable German
atrocities
The purposes of the book is to |
show that the system of frightfulness,
itself the greatest atrocity, is the def
mite policy of the German government, |
so sinister that German soldiers have |
themselves at time revolted. Individ |
ual acts of wantOn cruelty and bar
barrie destruction are cited only to il |
lustrate the operation of the remorse- |
less system.
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 peo-
pie. The book is supplemental also
to the official reports by the Belgian
Commission and the French minister
OF foreign affairs, and it reveals more
of the damning German war philOso-
. : nh q e n,-rraccad in, 10 n, White
Book and various official utterances,
eXtenuating revolving crimes on the
grounds of expediency and the ad
vancement of that "kultur" which now
mOcks its own name throughout the
civilized world. 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 slaughter of the Russians in the
Masurian lakes and swamps by say
ing, There is no God, there is no NOR
atty, 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 of
miseries inflicted upon the Belgian
people, Mr.. Whitlock saying: zone is
so overwhelmed with the horror of
the thing itself, that it has been, and
even now is, difficult to write calmly
and justly about it."
Herbert Hoover, writing for this
book of his experiences in Belgium,
says: 1.-THE sight of the destroyed
homes and cities, the widowed and
fatherless, the destitute, the physical
+ misery of the people but partially
S nourished at best, the deportation OF
l. men by tens of thousands to slavery
3, in German mines and factories, the
J execution of men and women for pal
II try effusions of their loyalty to theil
# country, the sacking of every resource
II through financial robbery, the fatten-
l. ing of armies on the slender produce
o of the country, the denudation of the
!" country of cattle, horses, and textiles
81 all these things we had to witness
y dumb to help other than by protes
s and sympathy during this long anC
t. terrible time, and still these are no
{; the events of battle heat, but the eff
e fects of a grinding heel of a race de
l. handing the mastership of the world
lie All these things are known to thu
ID world-but what can never be know
1t is the dumb agony of the people, thu
ID expressionless faces of millions who's
y souls have passed the whole gamut o
e. emotions. And why? Because these
,e free and democratic people, dare
is plunge their bodies before the marcl
of autocracy."
Frederick c. Walcott's description
. of devastated Poland comprehends tn
, monstrous woes inflicted by the Prus
sian system upon those defenseles
| people.
= In a statement prepared for tn
L hook. Vernon kellogg said: II went t
re Belgium and occupied France neu
trail, and l maintained while there
n, steadfastly neutral behavior, but
ut came out no neutral. I went /
ie also a hater of war, but I came out
more ardent hater of war; but, also
ly came out with ineradicable conviC
IT. ton, again, that the only way i
n which Germany under its present rul
and in its present state of mind ca
no be kept from doing what it has don
re is by force of arms"
u The book gives excerpts from tn
10 diaries of German soldiers of whic
-, these are specimens I'm the mgr
gu of August 1919 the village of Saint
US Maurice was punished for having fiji
III ed on German soldiers by being burr
DC to the ground by the German troop
The village was surrounded, men pos
ed about a yard from one another,
that no one could get out. Then tn
10 Uhlans set fire to it house by house
Gu neither man, woman, or child coul
IL escape; only the greater part of I'll
er live stock we carried off, as thu
II could be used. Any one who ventu
ed to come out was shot down. A
~ the inhabitants left in the village
were burnt with the houses"
"a horrible bath of blood. TT
ca whole village burnt the French WEI
80 thrown into the blazing houses eli
or ilians with the rest"
That the reign of frightfulness VIZ
the definite policy of the German go
eminent is testified to by an anna