The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-12-13
GERMANY GUILTY
Of BARBAR|T|ES
!! N WAR CONDUCT
Atrocious Treatment Of the Help.
less Part Of Campaign Plans
Of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRIeA1FuLNEss
Tsrrerlsm Declared 4 Necessary Prln.
eipis In National Warfars-Bru.
talitiss May Dc Said to Be 81.
rsetiy Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.

taitties May Dc Said to Be 81.
rsetiy Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.
A pamphlet Just Issued by the Com.
mittse on Public information tells Of
The horrors deliberately and systsmat.
teaiiy INFLICTED upon the people Of Bel
slum BY the German soldisrs, under
the orders Of their Commanding off,
esrs. Quotations given are from deeu.
msnts already made public or In the
possession Of the government at Wash.
inston.
For many years leaders in every CIV
tlized nation have been trying to make
warfare less brutal. The great land
marks In this movement are the &C.
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 at Ge-
neva. in 1884. 1t was agreed. and until
the present war 1t has been taken for
granted. that the wounded, and the doc
tors and nurses who cared for them,
would be safe from all attacks by the
enemy. The Hague conventions,
drawn up In 1890 and 1907. made add.
tional rules to soften the usages Of war
and especially to protect nOncombat-
ants and conquered lands. Germany
took 4 prominent part In these meet
ings. and with the other nations sol.
emmy pledged her faith to keep all the
rules except one article in the Hague
regulations. This was article A,
which forbade the conqueror to force
any Of the conquered to give informa-
ton. An the other rules and regula.
lions 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 q policy Of frightfulness. In the
middle Of the nineteenth century Won
Clausewitx 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 hnd been successful.
the wisdom Of Won Clausewitz' meth
Nlx seemed to the Prussian army to be
fully proved.
Policy Of Frlshtfulnsss.
Now. the Essence Of Won Clausewitx'
teachings was that successful war In
Wolves the ruthless application Of force.
In the openInx chapter Of his master
work. "vom Kriege" ("On Wary. he
xnys:
violence arms itself with the inven-
tions Of art aud science. Self
imposed restrictions, almost impercep-
tihie and hardly worth mentioning,
termed usaEes Of international law.
accompany It without essentially I'm
pairing Its power. Now. philan-
thropIc souls might easily Imagine that
there Is q Sklllful method Of disarm-
Ing or suhiuipg an enemy without
causing too much bloOtlshetl. and that
this IN the true tendency Of the art Of
war. However plausible this may ap-
pear. still 1t is nm error which must be
destroyed: for In such dangerous
things az war. the errors which pro-
coed from 4 spirit Of 'good.naturetl-
ness are precisely the worst A the
use Of physical force to the utmost ex-
tent by no means excludes the co.
operation Of the intelligence. It follows
that he who uses force ruti,lessly. with.
out regard to blONlshed. must obtain
n superiority. II his enemy does not
=" use It."
In IS77-78, In the course Of q series
Of articles upon military Necessity
Hnd Humanity" General Won Hartmann
wrote. In the same spirit a. Won Clau.
sewitz:
THE enemy state must not be spared
the want and wretchedness Of war:
these are particularly useful In shat.
tcring Its energy and subduing Its will"
"'ndividusl persons may be harshiy
dcalt with when IN example n made
~ them. intended to serve a. Q warn.
'ng. Whenever national war
h.nks out. terrorism becomes Q nee.
"ssnry military principle" ut Ia .
grntuItous illusion to suppose that
modern war does not demand far more
brutality. far more violence. and an
action fax more general than was for.
msrly the case" "When international
war has burst upon ~. terrorism be.
comes q principle made necessary by
military considerations"
'War Established BY osd."
In 1891 Won Moitks. who had been
commander In chief Of the Prussian
""'nv In the Franco.Prussian war. de-.