The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-02-28

 Ing the wounded or helpless prisoners.
 Extract from letter written by a German soldier to his brother. (This letter, now in the possession of the United States government. was obtain- ed for this pamphlet from MT. J. c. Grew, formerly secretary to the United States embassy at Berlin.)
 November f. 1914. -Thp battles are everywhere eK- trerneiy tenacious and bloody. The E1gliShmen We hate most and we want f. get even with them for once. While ofse ilSw and then sees French prison CTS. @ne hardly ever beholds French black troops or Englsllmen. These good people are not overlooked by our fnfantrymen; that sort of people Is 1nowed down without mercy. The losses of the Eng'iShmen must be enor- nous. There is a desire to wipe them out, root and all"
 Urged to Kill Without Pity.
 Extract from another letter to a brother:
 SchleswiE 25. 6 II (Aug. %. 1914).
 "la,Aar Brother. You will shortly go s0 Brussels with your rcgi- snefat. tts you know. Take care to pre- taef yonrse1f against these civilians. especially ia the villages. Do not let apyoaap eoIne too nenr. Tbey are very gial%; eweTa inc women hnd children are armed and fire their guns. Never go inside Il Gtasse. especially alone. If yoal take anything te drink make the inhabitants ,1rinil first and keep ut distance fr,m tsaein. The newSpa- pers relate n11inerous cases fla which they nave Gred 4,l ouf soldiers whilst they were drinking, You soldiers must spread around so much fear of yMlr- selves tilat no civilian will venture to come nenr you. Remain always la the company of others. I nope that you have rend the newspapers and that you know how to behave. Above all have no compassion for these cut thrpAts. Mnke for them without pity with the hutt-end of your rifle and the bayonet
 "Your brother. WILL"
 The emperor gave his sanction to the reports of the brutal acts of the Belgians in a telegram to President Wilson.
 "Berlin, via Copenhagen. Sept. ', 1914
 "'I feel It my duty, Mir. President. to inform you .ts the most prominent representative 0f principles of human ity. that after tnkiag the French fort ress of LOngwy, my troops discovered there thousands of iu1nds1n cartridges made by special government iftacAin- cry. The same kind of ammunition was found on killed and wounded troops and prisoners, also on the Brit ish troops You know what terrible wounds and suffering these bullets in- flict and that their use is strictly for bidden by the established rules of ln ternatimal law. I therefore address soleann protest to ynn against this kind of warfare, which. orwi1fg ts faae methods of our ,ldversarie>S. haS be- come one of the most barharous known in history. Not only fsee they eIn-
 
 the Belgian government has openly en- courlged and long since carefully pre- pared the participation of the Belginn civil Fopuiatioa in the fighting. fNe atrocities committed even hS wodnen and priests in this guerri1fa warfare, also ons wsSuntle& soldiers. medical staff and nurses. doctors killed, hospitals attacked by rife fire. were Safeh that my generals finally were compelled to 1nke the most drastic measdres an os- der to punish the guilty and to fright en the haOodthir%ty popufatiOa from continuing thelr wark sf rfse fMxrder md horror. Some villages ard ee.Teh the old town of LoeweH N1ossv;aln). exeeptlng the fine hotel dae Ifif%, Nra sN he destroyed in seif-iefeahSe. AFsA for the rroteetion of tny tr"r~. My heart bieeds when 1 see 1&At such measures hnve become unavoidable and when I think 0f the nHmerOuS iA- sneent reople who lose their home and ysrorerty as n consequence of the bar t,arOus behavior of those crinimAas. Sixnad. William, Emperor and K1Ng.' 'GERARD. Berlin"
 Lorenz Muller Tn the German Cath olic Review, Der Feis. February, 1915 made the following statement In re- gard to the emperor's telegram:
 "Officially no instance has been proven of persons having fired with the help of priests from the towers of churches. All that has been made known up to the present, and that has been made the object of inquiry CO., corning alleged atrocities attributed to Catholic priests during this war, has been shown to be false and altogether imaginary. without any exception. Our emperor telegraphed to the president of the United States of America that even women and pK1ests had commit red atrocities during tiias guerrilla war. fare on wounded soldiers, doctors and nurses attached to the Aeld ambu- lances. How this selexrAaa can be rec onciled with the fact stated above we