Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-23
GERMANY GUILTY
 0F BARBAR|T|ES
 IN WAR CONDUCT
Atrocious Treatment of the Help less Part of Campaign Plans
 Of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRIGHTFULNeSS
Terrorism Declared a Necessary prin- o'ple In National Warfare-Bru. talities May Be Said to Be Di. rectIy Attributable to the
 Emperor Himself.

Emperor Himself.
 pamphiet just issued by the Com,
 -'ttee on Public information tells of
 the horrors deliberately and systera. hAhS innioted upon the people of Bel.
 sum oJ the German soldiers. under tHe orders Of their corr,anoino off
 2ers- Guotasons given are from docu. ~ents already wade public or in the oossession Of the government at Wash. lnston.
 For many years leaders in every riv- n'zed nation have been irving to nak.. warfare less brutal The great land marks in this movement are inc G. neva and Hague conventions. The for Tror made rules as to the care O, ,l,.. sck and wounded and established -lle Red Cross. ht the tr>- meeting af ,ie- neNa, in 1864. it was agreed and until ne present wnr r has been taken ror granted that the wounded and tle doc. 'ors and nurses who cared for them would be safe from all attacks hy The enemy. The Hague conventions drawn up in Is99 and iaO- made addi itonal rules to soften the u>a.eS O, war snc especially [" protect noncombat ants and conquered lands Germauy took prominent part in these meet 'nrs, and with the other nations sol errnly pledged her faith 70 keep all The rules except one article in the Hague regulations. This was article II which forbade the conquerur ;o force any of the conquered 10 give iuforma- ton. All the other rules snd r.gula ,ions she accepted In the mos. binding manner
 But Germsny'> military leaders had DC intention of Keeping these solemn promises They had been trained along different lines Their leading generals for many years had been Urg- inc policy of frighffulucss In the middle nr the nineteenth century Vou Causewitx was looked upon aS inc greatest military authority. and the methods which he advocated were used by the Prussian army in its successful .y the PrussIan srmy Iu lis successful e use these wars had been successful tfe wisdom of Won Claus.witz' meth ods seemed to the pru>slsn army 70 be ra.ly proved
 Policy of Frishtfuiress-
 Now. rh. esseuc- or Won Clausewltz' teachings was that successful var in voives the ruthless application of force In the opening chapter of his master work. "Voru KricSe" con War'D. he says:
 Violence arms itself win the iny-n- ;ioDs of art and science. Self imposed restrictions. almost impercep tible and hardly worth mentioning termed ussges of international law accompany 1t without essentially i'm pairing its power. Now. philan- thropic souls might easily imagine tllai there is skillful method of di>arm- ing or subduinC an enemy without ca using too much blOodshed and that this is the true tendency of the art of WAT. However plausible this may sp- pear. still it is an error which must be destroyed: for in such dangerous things as war. the errors which pro ceed from a spirit of good. natured ness are precisely the worst As the use of physical force to the utmost ex- 'ent by no means excludes the co operation of 'he intelligence. it follows that he who Uses force ruIhleS>ly. with out regard Io bi"od>hed. must obtain . superiority. Y his enemy does not so use it."
 In IsTT-Ts. in inc course of series of articles upon Military Necessity . nd Humanity" General vnn Hartmann wrote. Tn the sam. spirit & Won CIau- sewitz:
 "The enemy stnte must not he spared the want and wretchedness of WIT: these gre particularly useful in shat ter.nS its energy and subduing its will" Individual persons may he harshly deal: with when an example is made or them, intended to serve as warn ing Whenever national war breaks out. terrorism becomes a nee essary military principle Tt is a grs tuitous Illusion 10 suppose that modern war does not demand far more brutality, far more violence. and an ! ee1en fsr more general than was for ,nerly the case" When international var Aas burst upon us. terrorism be- comes . principle made necessary by l military considerations"
 ~War Established by God"
 In 1881 von Moltke, who had been | Tn chief of the Prussisn | rrnv in the Franco Prussian war. de ] -larec:
 Perpetual peace is dream and not l wen a beautiful dream. War Is sn ele- | nent In the order of the world estab- 1 Ished by God. By it the most noble virtues of man are developed. courage nc renunciation. fidelity 10 duty and | he spirit of sscrIfice-the soldier gives ,is life. Without war ihe world would | ,sgenerate and lose itself in material sm." The soldier who endures suf- 'er.ng. privation and fatigue, who ,onTts dangers. cahnot take only rn ,SoportIon to the resources of the He must take all that 10 nee |