The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1918-10-02

The kaiser beamed all over as he
contemplated the results of Rouma-
MAS entry in the war.
When the German troops entered
Tarnapol, Russia, at later time they
captured vast quantities of American
made hospital supplies.
1--WE were just figuring what this
seizure amounted to, and my army
doctors were strutting around as If
they owned the world" declared the
kaiser, "when one of my officers was
approached by group of long-haired,
greasy Jews. who claimed that these
supplies belonged to them. They are
our private property; We bought them
and we should be compensated If you
seize them they commended. Did you
pay for them?' my officer asked. No,
we didn't pay for them, but we gave
our notes. they replied. Then said
my officers. when you take up those
notes weIl pay for these stores; in
the meanwhile Wen just take Them
We secured bandages, serums-every-
thing, In fact, that We needed so very
badly, and we got them all for moth
mgr
did not know at that time that the
German army lacked medical supplies,
but later / saw paper bandages in use.
have previously referred to the
kaiser's defense OF the use or Zeppe-
Inns against Paris, London ana other
nonmilitary cities. He claimed that II
was proper to make war ON civilians,
because England was endenyoring to
starve Germany. On one occasion l
pointed out to him that In 1870 the
Germans had besieged Paris and had
starved Its population.
1.-The cases are entirely different"
ne answered hastily. Then we were
besieging a city and the civilian pop
ulation had plenty of opportunity to
evacuate 1t before the Siege began.
England Is besieging a whole nation
and trying to starve my women and
children, who have nothing to do with
war"
couldn't help thinking of the
''whoie nations" which had been alb
solutely crushed under the kaiser's
heel-of Belgium, Servin and Poland.
The kaiser never admitted that the
destruction of the Lusitania was re-
suit of special instructions from him
to the U-boat commander. but in dis
cussing the general subject Of subma-
rine warfare he asked:
What right have Americans to take
passage on these vessels, anyway? II
they came onto the battlefield they
would not expect us to stop firing,
would they7 Why should they expect
any greater protection when they en-
ter the war zone at sea?
Don't ever forget" he went on, "a
bullet from a pistol would be enough
to sink one OF our U-boats. How can
we stop and board vessels we encoun-
ter to ascertain whether they are neu-
trail and not carrying contrabnnd? II
what appears to be neutral should
in fact prove to be q belligerent. or II
d belligerent should heave to In re-
Spouse to the command of one OF sour
submarines, how could we safely send
a boarding party over when n rifle
shot from the vessel In question would
send us to the bottom? Obviously II
to the allies, there Is but ose thing
for us to do-sink the vessels"
When suggested that while the
of the submarine I'M
lessened its value in con-
nection with the right OF search which
belligerents have under international
law, still the law ought to be oh
served. the kaiser interrupted me has
lily with the remark:
"International law, There IL no
such thing as International law any
morei"
In that assertion of course. lies the
answer to all the questions which have
arisen In connection with the conduct
of the war. If the Germans recog-
nized no international law but were
guided solely by their ideas of expedi-
ency and the demands of "kultur."
then the whole course OF the war be-
came perfectly clear. The use of poi
sOnous gas, the destruction of unfor-
tilted towns, the Dissertation of
churches. the attacks on hospitals and
Red Cross units the countless atroci-
ties committed against civilians and
prisoners of war require no other ex-
PLANTATION.
No such thing us International law
any morel