The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-11-29
FOE BRUTALITY TO PRIS-
ONERS STIRS BRITAIN

London, Nov. 22.-The Times, in
discussing the casualties during the
war, calls upon the Allied Govern
ments to compel the Germans to
treat prisoners in their hands with
out abuse. 1t says that the losses in
the war are the greatest since the
Asiatic barbarians carried on wars of
determination.
Now, for the first time" it says,
1--WE begin to learn officially at how
great cost the victory has been won.
Our casualties on land amount to the
enormous figure of 3,O49000. To
judge the full sum of bloody sacrifice,
the casualties Of our allies and the
murders Germany has done must be
added.
Since wars of determination were
carried on by the barbaric conquer
ors of Asia, no such sea of blood has
deluged the world. These published
casualties are more than double the
entire white population of New Yea
land or of the Union of South Africa.
They are far greater than the popula-
ton of any city IN the world except
London and New York.
German Brutalities Continue
even now, when the Germans are
whining and clamoring for the modi-
fication of conditions incomparably
milder than those they forced upon
Russia and Roumania, they show
neither pity nor common prudence to-
ward the helpless victims still in their
power. The brutality they are show
ing our unfortunate prisoners almost
exceeds belief. They already have re-
duced the numbers by systematic cru
city and starvation. They now are
turning them adrift without food,
warm clothing or money, to find their
way through hostile populations to
the frontier as best they can.
1T is time, and high time, for the
Allies to tell the Germans that this
monstrous and inhuman abuse must
cease promptly. They have the right
to make the demand, and the power to
enforce it. Their own peoples will
fiercely resent hesitation in the exer-
else of either"
The Daily News urges that the
names of commandments and all off
GERS In the German camps which re-
lease prisoners in helpless condi-
ton should be demanded at once,
preferably by wireless" so that they
may be made to answer for their be-
havior 1t adds that the Allied Gov
ernments should establish at once who
it is that now is responsible for the
conduct of affairs in Germany and
what is the exact position of the new
Government.
Must Punish Guilty
The Daily Chronicle says: eve are
glad to see that our Government has
wirelessed a stern warning to the
German Government regarding the
barbarous treatment of British pris-
oners, who have been discharged with
out food and in rags, and sent to find
their way on foot to the Allied lines.
at ought to be made quite clear
not only that any continuance of such
atrocities will forfeit the claim of the
German people to compassionate
treatment in the matter of food, but
that every German who has already
incurred responsibility for them will
have that responsibility brought home
to him by punishment. The case of
wanton cruelty to war prisoners is one
in which failure to exact retribution
would be betrayal of the future in
terests of civilization.
Urges Hanging
"Posterity must have placed before
its eyes the record of stern examples
calculated to deter those in charge Of
helpless prisoners from venturing
again to commit savageries on our
men in this war by Germans, Bulgars
and Turks.
"The terrible stories of the Turkish
treatment of the captured Kut gar
rison, now revealed to the public in
all it's horror by the official White Pa
per, points the same moral. Our
has in the past declared
that it would hold Enver Pasha for
mer Minister of War;, and Talaat
former Grand Vizier), and their col
leagues personally responsible for the
of our wounded British
prisoners. This declaration ought to
be carried out to the letter. Criminal
Turkish Ministers should without more
ado be hunted down, brought to pub
lie trial, duly convicted and hanged"