Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-12-21
Review of German War Practices

Some of the blacklist pages in all
history, comprising documentary
record of deeds that make one des-
pair of the future of the human
race" are found in book mare |
German War Practices" which has
Just been issued at tn Government
Printing Office by the Committee on
Public Information for free distribu-
ton. II is edited by Prof. D. c. Mum
70, of Princeton, 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 Imper-
ial German Government, letters and
diaries of German soldiers. quotations
from German neWSpa perS. and mater
ial drawn from the archives of the
State Department which lay bare the
story OF inconceivable German atroci-
ties.
The purpose of the book is to show
that the system of frightfulness. it
self the greatest atrocitv. is the def
mite policy of the German Govern
ment. Sc sinister that German sold
dividual acts Of wantc- c~un'-,- ~ ;
barbaric destruction are cited only to
illustrate the operation of the re-
morseless system.
The book supplements the Bryce
report which was the fl; st official sur
vey of the path of horror, ruin. and
death left by the German army on
the lands of innocent and defenseless
&c 81 ~
SO to the official reports Of the Bel
gian Commission and the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it re-
veals more of the damning German
war philosophy as expressed in the
German White Book and various eff
cial utterances, extenuating revoltin 9
crimes on the grounds of expediency
and the advancement of that "Kul-
tur" 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 Ambassa-
dor Gerard. one expressing his pro
test against the slaughter of the Rus
slams in the Masurian lakes and
swamps by saying, There is no God
there is no morality. and no ethic.
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: lone 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,
Lnp boy
book of his experiences in Belgium
says: 1.-The sight of the destroyed
homes and cities, the widowed anG
fatherless, the destitute the physica
misery of the people but PARTIAL,
nourished at best, the deportation ot
men by tens of thousands to slavery
in German mines and factories. the
execution of men and women for pal
try illusions of their loyalty to thei
country, the sacking of every re
source through financial robbery, the
fattening of armies on the slendel
produce of the country. the denuda
tion of the country of cattle, horses
and textiles: all these things we ha,
to witnes. dumb to help other thai
by protest and sympathy, during thi
long and terrible time. and still thes
are not the events of battle heat, bu
the effect of grinding heel of rae,
demanding the mastership of tn
world. All these things are know
TO the world---but what can never b
known is teh dumb agony of the PEG
pie, the expressionless faces of mil
lions whose souls have passed tn
whole gamut of emotions. And why
Because these, free democratic PEG
pie, dared plunge their bodies befor