Arizona republican., 1917-08-05
C0MMITTEEWlLL
 GUARD AGAINST
 RUTHLESS ENEMY
TRepublican A. P. Leased wirel


 LONDON, Aug. 1.-The American Committee of Engineers in London, recently formed to help as it might in the prosecution of the war, has ap- pointed a sub committee whose chief function it is to bring together accounts of such acts and words of the enemy as they think should be presented to the American people Test We forget what a determined and ruthl Is enemy we are fighting" This sub committee is made up of men who have had ex- ceptional opportunities to study the events of the war; many of them at first hand. In a statement further explain ing the reasons for appointing the sub committee, the engineers committee as a whole says:
 Great care will be taken in assemb- ling only reliable information chiefly the words of the Germans themselves. in order that they maye be condemned out of their own mouths. The commit tee believes that there are still many good people in America as in England who say to themselves, if not aloud, Are the Germans as bad as painted?' We hope that a weekly record of Ger man doings and sayings will help an swer that question and be reminder l and acting as the enemy manifests now l no less than at the beginning of the war must be met and overcome, if this | world is to be a safe and fit place to 1 live in.''
 l The first statement of the sub-com- mittee, under the caption "Germanlsm Week by Week." follows:
 | "The policy of the Germans with re- gard to the deported Belgians seems to be to send home such as are too weak | to work. Thus of 5S7 able-bodied men | slate e-quarriers in the Belgian town of Ecaussines, deported to Germany, 62 i died there, and of the 210 repatriated all in a lamentable condition 70 have since died. We are not in a position
 to check these figures. though they compare reasonably with figures iron
 other places. But what we do know and this is the true Germanic touch,-
 the Germans imposed fine of S1,00O oI this town, because they refused to holt their usual Bachelors Tea Party or | Whit Monday, because they refused il other words to celebrate their fellow
 citizens deportation into slavery ant
 starvation. Events like these are to th'
 kaiser's taste, and are daily occurring
 We have the absolute evidence of ;
 neutral who was present of the follow
 ing circumstances in southern Serbia
 A Serbian farmer shot an Austrian of
 ficer in the leg (not meaning to XII
 him) because the officer refused to pa,
 for foodstuffs he had requisitioned iron
 the farm, as he was bound to do. Tn
 ball struck an artery and the office l died Thereupon the Austrian militar
 authorities shot every tenth Serbia
 male in three surrounding villages
 "The town of Mons, famous for tn
 retreat, was fined s100,000 the othe day because a Belgian newspaper, pub lished In Holland, stated that the Duk
 of Bavaria was at Mons during a recen
 allied air-raid Mind you. there was n
 evidence that anyone from Mons ha
 conveyed the information, but one c | the dukes generals was killed and tn
 Germans were furious. But this is nc
 the first time that Mons has bee
 fined. It was fined 250,000 marks i
 the first days of the war as a 'contrl
 bution But this was waived because
 as the official poster which says tn | people preserved such good behavior This good behavior did not preven the Germans from burning portions o Mons, like every other town they en tered. This general burning they after
 wards apologised for by saying tha
 they had been fired at by civilians This was not the case at Mons. ac cordng to their own statement of tn good behavior of the people.
 l Mons was later fined 10000 mark because of a derailment This was al 1.-the explanation. The town counci asked for further details, only to re ceive written reply, stating that tn , derailment had occurred months be
 fore at such a spot. which proved to b a hundred yards over the Mons line il the town of Jemappes. Jemappes Wa
 fined an even amount. Mons proteste' that the derailment occurred outsid . of the township and on the railroad
 over which the German authorities, ant not the commune, had jurisdiction l Nevertheless Mons had to pay 1000
 marks and before sundown. Could any . thing be more contemptible in the jus tice of things?
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