New Britain herald., 1918-05-11
GermanY's Infamies.

ing responsible positions in London and others. It represents. we believe, views of very large prportion of the pubic in this country who are not identified with active propaganda, fhs view, that is. of the great silent ma- 1 jority:
 Tn 1914, Germany, after long prep- aratlon, fell upon Europe. Pos- ! sessed with the evil spirit of domino ton and filled with envy, her roiIi+arv caste. headed by her Emperor had led her peoples toward the eoa1e ot ! conquest and power. Her plans were well laid Nothing lacked of forcs ana fraud. Her armies were never so strong, her material never so ab,,nd ant, her will to conquer never so ve- he1nent., She had placed spies. sub orneo the venal, bought a press. as '@ollsheo the machinery of sabotage Tn every country of Europe and heyord 'i'e seas. When she struck, she had organs of publicity to represent ber es the victims of attack, agents to nro yoke riot and disaffection. informArs to petray-and all these things rot only Tn enemy countries, but in neu- traT. The crowning infamy of Germany Was-and remains-her treatment og | belslum. Publicly avowing the wrong she wrought and the breach of tbs treaty she broke, she pleaded her necessity, threw honor, justice and mercy to the winds, and fell 11non tbis httie helpless nation. Because sbe was resisted--by every right. wbetbey in the sight of God or man-she mur.
 
 "efeo' raped, tortured robbed, stary- eu' @ho ensIaVed her victims. All this Sne oao; all this while you read these words she still does today. If Rel gium fs not restored with the ,ra,,; slon Of full restitution for material JOSS (so poor. indeed, resolution the world will perish. for the world Will slcken. And if the men who or dered rape, superintend massecre. schemed plunder and organized ob- scenfty as a cold blooded calculated ihethoo of terrorism, escape justice and Judgment, the moral sense of mankind will be shriveIled.
 But it is not only Belgium that hs.s pled Serbia has been murdered And plundered; Armenia, by the bloodv comphclty of Germany. has been 'hlnned out as sheepfold by butch. ers'' france, that brave, that noble,
 
 and children, her old men and maid- ems nave been wronged, despoiled car- a rred into exile by night, secretly. tn places unknown, for purposes but dimly guessed. Her churches havsg been burned, her towns and villaxey reduced to corpse strewn rubbish heaps, her mines plundered, and the very trees in her little village or- chards scored into death.
 of our wrong it is less proper to speak. But We shall not forget A captain of merchant vessel shot in |" cold blood, and a nurse murdered al daybreak, shall be rememb bered And avenged. Our great-hearted merchant seamen, drowned upon the high seas. shall be avenged. Our people killed by bombs from the air and shelIed rom the sea by night shall be avenged. And if any object, let hin, ask himsel if these things should 20 unpunfshed and if murder is to be immune. And have We forgotten our unhappy men imprisoned in Germany Jeered at and struck as they passed in trucks to camps where they were to be starved, and denied food and water, reviled, denied the decencies or existence, bitten by dogs and aban- doned by German doctors when thev, lay dying? These things are an in- fanny, and their stain is indelible.
 The war is nearing the completion of the fourth year of it's bloody and hateful course. Men sicken of it, and all would have it end. How?
 There are some who would com promise on right and wrong. That was dishoner lies. and the British people will have none of it. All of . us would gladly welcome peace if we could find means that satisfied ius-- tice, reasserted public right, and as- sured the freedom of small nations and the just claims of nations
 No! We must struggle still Ours noble, brave, enduring warriors, by sea and land and in the air. must continue the conflict
 But let us remind ourselves of our dut1es-we stay-at-homes We must be united, and judge one another Justly and even kindly. The merchant the workman, the shopkeper, the doe- tor. tue minister, the peasant has each his work to do. and the work of each is as honored and necessary as his brother's
 And we must remember another duty. Do We recall daily in prayer = and gift our immense debt to our men at arms? DO we send them books to HIl the long and difficult hours of trench and billet? Do we write them sufficiently often: above all. do we murmur the little frequent prayer that all shall go we'll with them if God wills. and that they shall be vic- tors? And have we determined that our debt to them Is lifelong, and that we mean to honor it to the full?
 Many Of us have lost our dear boys we mean that they shall not have