Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-05
Tl.orpedoing Of HospltaI
Ships. Says French Vio
lation Of Belgian Neutral
ity and .Great Crime 6
Rheims, Say Others.

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Paris, Dec. .-4sThA question what
Is the greatest crime committed
ing 9theEwar! =, s9put8 by the Spanish
review L'America. Latina to conspicu-5
GUS lei in Europe. sfs /.
THE t~orpedoing Of hospital ships
Is the reply OF Field Marshal Lord
French, of Great Britain /
,'.The. declaration OF war, itself" says
stephen SPichon, French minister OF
foreign affairs. Among ssoS many
ignominies that have been perpetrated
since he adds. II renounce ma AkaIagGr
''"The great crime Of Rheims. the
abnominable destruction { the
cathedral Is the M that makes bleed
most my heart OF a, Frenchman and
al artist, but q n establish "a
hierarchy of crimes Of the barbafi-
ans?" replied Auguste Rodtns the
''The murder Of sailors whose yes
sells had been ~torpedoed isFthe most
atrocious act .committed during n
Dunn. formerly Lord Mayor Of Lon
POLITICALLY the greatest crime com
mttted during the war is b violation
of the neutrality OF Belgium by Those
who had sworn to defend it." says
Monseigneur Raudrillart, Vicar Gener-
al of the Catholic Institute OF Paris.
Morally, mi is embarrassed TO
adds. 1.-THE worst crime in my eyes
Is the re-establishing OF slavery by
signor Vicente Blasco 1banes re-
piled: The greater. crime OF intel
1ectual Germany consisted In the
troubling ofsz the course. OF human
thought and the proclaiming Of the
HE! atrocities efathe Germansfsagainst
and things are only the material
consequence Of scientific barbArity."
The massacre and deportation of
~hundredsgof thousands Of innocent
Armenians while Germany. protector
and ally Of Turkey, gave e. tacit con-
sent by its attitude. is considered as
"the most gigantic crime Of the
by Viscounts James Bryce. while he
says "the most abiect- crime Of the
war thus far is that Of the German
government carrying. OFF into slavery
hundreds Of young French and Bel
.gian girls and thousands Of Belgian
laborers, obliging them to work
against their own unfortunate coun-
try ruined by the INVASION" !
is A a1fo O. c opinson ed thss che: e eh mos aass (
ecrable crime of the Germans#was the
deportation Of French families from
Lille" :
Maitre Edouard c,unet. the Frepch
authority on International law re-
cards. as the greatest Of Germanv's
crimes "the ruin Of the moral founda-
ton Of international relations by set
ting up as a principle the right Of the
strongest to violate pledged faith az
NAV accord with his interest"
The war itself Is the most stro-
cious act ;;says Sienor Gomeb Garlic.
the Suanish writer and Journalist. "N0
one can forget that 1t is q German
war. prepared by the Germans.
Everyone Gays go and the horror, the
cruelty. the MURDER the pillage and
assassination say 80 also" .
MORE SHIPS FOR FNGLANDg
London. Dec. Sit was announced
in the House of Commons that theato-
tai number Of standard ships built,
comnleted and put into service upSto
October rs, was eight. The: TONNAGE
was approximately $500 gross each.
The number Of standard ships exnect-
ed to be completed between October
| Is and December 81 was eighteen, OF
which sixteen would be Of sapproxi.
mately $500 gross tons each n OF
1900 tons and one Of z, 1000 tons.