Williams news., 1918-03-14

judgment of the emperor by declar- ing that the said sum shall be paid when the Chateau de Marchais will be free from the danger of intentional destruction.
 "I am, with great respect, your ma- jesty's devoted servant and cousin,
 ALBERT, Prince of Monaco"
 Letter Addressed to Won BueIoW.
 Monaco, Oct. %, 1914.
 "To avert from the commune of Sissonne and that of Marchias the rig orouS treatment with which you have threatened them, I give my word of honor to remit to his majesty the Emperor William, should the war come to an end without intentional damage being caused to my residence or to these two communes, the neces- sary sum to complete the amount of 5OO,OOO francs imposed by you upon Sissonne.
 "As a sovereign prince, I wish to deal In this matter with the sovereign who, during 15 years, called me his friend and has decorated me with the Order of the Knight of the Black Eagle.
 My conscience and my dignity
  sonal will shall elevate me above re- gret; but should you destroy the Chateau de Marchais, which is one of the centers of universal science ana charity, should you reserve to this archaeological and historical gem the treatment you have given to the Ca thedral of Reims- when no reprehen- sible action has been committed there the whole world will judge be- tween you and myself.
 "I tender to your eXcellency the e1- pression of my high regard.
 ALBERT, Sovereign Prince of Mon-
 aco."
 DeportatIons and Forced Labor.
 Until the present war the whole civ ilized world has boasted of its advance in humanity. This advance has been marked in many fields, and in none had greater progress been made than in the protection to be given to the private citizen in an invaded country. As far back as 1863, in the 'Instruc- tions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field" the United States declared:
 '23. Private citizens are no longer murdered, enslaved, or carried of to distant parts, and the inoffensive 1n- dividual is as little disturbed in his private relations as the commander of the hostile troops can afford to grant in the overruling demands of a vigorous war.
 "24 The almost universal rule In remote times was, and continues to be with barbarous armies, that the pr1- vate individual of the hostile country is destined to suffer every privation of liberty and protection, and every disruption of family ties. Protection was, and still is with uncivilized peo- pie, the exception"
 Reversion to BarbarIsm.
 These declarations were made in the midst of our Civil war-one of the worlds f1ercest conflicts. A half-cen- tury later, after more than 50 years of progress, the German government has gone back to the methods used by "barbarous armies" and "unciv- ilized people" It has deliberately adopted the policy of deporting men and women, boys and girls, and of forcing them to work for their cap tors; 1t has even compelled them to make arms and munitions for use against their allies and their own flesh and blood.
 No other act of the German govern ment has aroused such horror and de testation throughout the civilized world. Thousands of helpless men and women, boys and girls, have been enslaved. Families have been broken up. Girls have been carried of to work-or worse-in a strange land, and their relatives have not known where they have been taken, or what their fate has been.
 WhitIock's Story of Horrors.
 In less moving phrases, but in dead ly corroboration, the continuation of the report of Minister Whitlock says:
 "The rage, the terror, and despair excited by this measure all over Bel gium were beyond anything we had witnessed since the day the Germans poured into Brussels. The delegates of the commission for relief in Bel gium, returning to Brussels, told the most distressing stories of the scenes of cruelty and sorrow attending the seizures. And daily, hourly almost, since that time appalling stories have been related by Belgians coming to the legation. It is impossible for us to verify them, first because it is nee essary for us to exercise all possible tact in dealing with the subject at all, and secondly because there Is no means of communication between the Occupations-Gebiet and the Etappen- Goblet Transportation everywhere in Belgium is difficult, the vicinal railways scarcely operating any more because of the lack of oil, while all the horses have been taken. The peo- plo Uho aro forced f0 on from ono