New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-12-14
GERMANY GUILTY
Of bARbAR|T|ES
N WAR CONDUCT
Atrocious Treatment Of the Help
less Part Of Campaign Plans
Of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRIGHTFULNEss
Terrorism Declared q Necessary PrIn.
eiple In National Warfare-eru.
ta'ities May BE Said to Be pi.
reetly Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.

ta'it'es May BE Said to Be Di.
reetIy Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.
A pamphlet Just issued by the Com.
m'ttee on Public Information tells Of
the horrors deliberately and systemat.
iealIy inflicted upon the people Of Bel.
GUM by the German soldiers, under
the orders Of their commanding OH.
eers. Quotations given are from doeu.
ments already made public or In the
possession Of the government At Wash.
Ington.
For many years leaders in every civ
lhzed nation have been trying to make
warfare less brutal. The great land
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 Mt Ge-
neva, In 1864, it was agreed, and until
the present war it has been taken for
granted, that the wounded, and the doc
" r and nurses who cared for them.
would be safe from all attacks by the
enemy. The Hague conventions.
drawn up In 1899 and 1907, made addi-
tional rules to soften the usages of war
and especially to protect nOncOmbat-
ants and conquered lands. Germany
took a prominent part in these meet
ings. and with the other nations SOL
EMMY pledged her faith to keep all the
rules except n article in the Hague
regulations. This was article A.
which forbade the conquerOr to force
any Of the conquered to give informa-
tion. All the other rules and regula-
tons she accepted in the most binding
manner
But Germany's military leaders had
no intention Of keeping these solemn
promises. They had been trained
along different lines. Their leading
generals for many years had been urg-
ing a policy Of frightfulness. In the
middle Of the nineteenth century Won
Clausewltz was looked upon as the
greatest military authority, and the
methods which he advocated were used
by the Prussian army in its successful
by the Prussian army in its successful
cause these wars had been successful,
the wisdom of Won Clausewitz' meth
DDS seemed to the Prussian army to be
fully proved.
Policy Of FrishtfuIness.
Now, the essence of Won Clausewitz'
teachings was that successful war in
wolves the ruthless application Of force.
In the opening chapter Of his master
work, "vom Kriege" con War"), he
violence arms itself with the inven-
lions Of art and science. . Self
imposed restrictions. almost impercep-
and hardly worth mentioning.
usages Of international law.
accompany 1t without essentially i'm
pairing Its power. . . Now. philan- |
souls might easily imagine that
there is a sklllful method Of disarm- |
Ing or subduing an enemy without
too much blOodshed. and that
This is the true tendency of the art Of
war. However plausible this may ap-
pear, still 1t Is an error which must be
destroyed; for in such dangerous
'hings as war, the errors which pro-
reed from a spirit Of 'go%od-natured-
ness are precisely the worst. As the
use Of physical force to the utmost ex-
lent by no means excludes the CO.
operation of the intelligence, 1t follows
hat he who uses force ruthlessly, with
,ut regard to blOOdshed, must obtain
/ superiority, If his enemy does not
10 S It,"
In 1S77-7S, in the course of a series
# articles upon military Necessity
md Humanity" General Won Hartmann
wrote. in the same spirit as Won Clau-
THE enemy state must not be spared
he want and wretchedness of war;
hese are particularly useful in shat
ering Its energy and subduing its WILL"
Individual persons may be harshly
|ealt with when an example Is made
I them, intended to serve as a warn
ng. Whenever a national war
reaks out. terrorism becomes a nee
ssary military principle" ut Is a
ratuitous illusion to suppose that
1odern war does not demand far more
rutality, far more violence, and an
ction far more general than was for
,erly the case" when international
,ar has burst upon us. terrorism be-
ONES a principle made necessary by
considerations"
"yar Established by God"
In 1881 Won Moltke, who had been
in chief of the Prussian
in the FrancO-Prussian war, de-
Perpetual peace is a dream and not
ven a beautiful dream. Wal Is an ele-
tent in the order Of the world estab- I
shed by God. BY it the most noble I
Irtues of man are developed, courage
"a remuneration. fidelity to duty and
le spirit of sacrifice-the soldier gives
is life. without war. the world would G
generate and lose itself in material
M" The soldier who endures suf- I
ring. privatiOn and fatigue. who q
,urts dangers, cannot take only in
'opOrtion to the resources Of the t
,untry.' He must take all that Is nee t