The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-12
PUNISHMENT OF
HUN CRIMINALS
Action to Be Held in Allegiance Until
President Wilson Reaches Europe
Britain, France and Italy
A Unit-A List.

Washington, Dec Amy action
looking to a demand upon Holland for
the extradition Of William Hohenzol-
Tern win be held in allegiance until
President Wilson reaches Europe, ac-
cording to information teday at the
state department. The British and
French governments already have
been examining into the legal ques-
tions which might be involved in any
efforts to bring the former kaiser to
trial.
President Wilson, so far as officials
now in Washington are aware, new
er has expressed himself on the sub
ject
A dispatch from London declares
that the allies mean business when
they say they intend to punish the
German criminals.
Steps have already been taken to
set up Grand Court of the allies
to try the Boches guilty Of outrages
and outlawry-from William Hohen-
zollern down to the German private
criminal.
Newspapers in Britain and France
and Italy are unit on the subject;
and they are determined that the
criminals shall not escape through APP
athy on the part of the governments
or in the joy of peace or the stress of
reconstruction.
"unforgetable punishment" must
be melted out to every German crimi-
nal who can be convicted" says Sir
F. E. Smith, British attorney gener-
al and authority on international law.
Dozens Of lists have been put for
ward in Europe of German criminals
who must be punished. Some of these
lists run into the hundred, and even
then, present only chief criminals"
All the lists include one, William
Hohenzollern and his heir. Here are
some Of the others:
Hindenburg: Ordered bread which
had been soaked in paraffin CIV
en- to Russian prisoners as food. At
Rosel (Somme) March 10, 1917, or
dered everything burned, destroyed
and pillaged in area about to be evac-
uated.
Mackensen: Responsible for thefts,
incendiarism and execution of nota-
bles and peasants in Rumania. Order
ed about a thousand children from 10
to IL years, shot, en- the ground that
they had conspired against him.
Rupprecht: Massacred and hanged
Russian civilians in Russian Poland in
1915. Responsible for the deportation
in Lille and elsewhere, carried out
with help Of Won Graevenitz. military
governor of Lille.
Schubert: Shelled old men and
women and children whom he had coll
lected at Boruage, on the ground that
they were useless mouths"
Klauss: Responsible for massacres
at GerbeviIle and Fraimbols; at form
er place go civilians were massacred
one of them being soaked in oil and
burned.
Buelow: Posted this notice at An
dennes Aug. %, 1914: "With my con-
sent. the whole place has been burn
ed and about 100 people have been
shot,
Stenger: Ordered "All prisoners,
even if taken in large numbers, are to
be put TO death No living man is to
be left behind US"
Breicht: Ordered execution of III
hostages while drunk at Arlon, and
on regaining sobriety, laughed when
told order had been carried out.
Manteuffel: Ordered burning Of
Louvain and expulsion Of 10000 civil
ians from the town.
Capelle: Responsible for later sub
marine outrages and gave strict or
ders that hospital ships must not be
spared.
Eberlein: Boosted in an article
in Mnenehner Neueste Nachr:chten
that he had compelled civilians to
march in front of his men as a screen
against enemy fire.