The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-15

'"''~ |O'oo'oCHeJ " UCo ocCf oOUf y VI
state, secretary of war, secretary of
the na0y, and George Creez, official
censor, has made public a mass of
evidence dealing NTH German war
practices aohich shows the kaiSer's
leaders in the field and IN command
of captured points to be directly re-
sponsibIe for the 5eastliness qUhich
has characterized the operations of
the Huns IN the present conflict.
Quotations from the pamphlet fol-
loW:
For many years leaders in every civ
ilfzed nation have been trying to make
warfare less brutal. The great land
marks in this movement are the Ge-
neva and Hague conventions. The for
mer made rules as to the care of the
sick and wounded and established the
Red Cross. At the first meeting at Ge-
neva, in 1864 it was agreed, and until
the present war 1t has been taken for
granted that the wounded, and the doc
tors and nurses who cared for them,
would be safe from all attacks by the
enemy. The Hague conventions,
drawn up in 1899 and 1907, made addi-
tional rules to soften the usages of war
and especially to protect noncombat-
ants and conquered lands. Germany
took a prominent part in these meet
ings, and with the other nations sol
EMMY pledged her faith to keep all the
rules except one article in the Hague
regulations. This was article A.
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any of the conquered to give informa-
ton. All the other rules and regula-
lions she accepted in the most binding
manner.
But Germany's military leaders had
no intention of keeping these solemn
promises. They had been trained
along different lines. Their leading
generals for many years had been urg-
ing policy of frightfulness. In the
middle of the nineteenth century Won
Clausewitz was looked upon as the
greatest military authority, and the
methods which he advocated were used
by the Prussian army in its successful
wars of 1S66-1S71. Consequently be-
cause these wars had been successful,
the wisdom of Won Clausewitz' meth
DDS seemed to the Prussian army to be
fully proved.
Policy OF FrightfuIness.
Now, the essence of Won Clausewitz
teachings was that successful war in
wolves the ruthless application of force
In the opening chapter of his master
work, "vom Kriege' con War"), he
says:
evidence arms itself with the inven
tions of art and science. Self
imposed restrictions, almost impercep
tible and hardly worth mentioning
termed usages Of international law
accompany 1t without essentially i'm
pairing its power. Now, philan
thropic souls might easily imagine thai
there is a skillful method of uisarm
ing or subduing an enemy wlrnou
causing too much bloodshed, and tina
this is the true tendency of the art Of
war However plausible this may ap
pear, still it is an error which must b'
destroyed; for in such Dangerous
things as war, the errors when pro
coed from a spirit of 'good-nauured
ness are precisely the worst. as thu
use of physical force to the utmost eX
tent by no means excludes the co
operation of the intelligence, H. follow
that he who uses force ruthlessIy, with
out regard to bloodshed, must obtail
a superiority, If his enemy does no
so use it."
In 1877-7S, in the course of serie
of articles upon military Necessit
and Humanity" General Won Hartmann
wrote, In the same spirit as Won Clau
sewitz:
''The enemy state must not be spare
the want and wretchedness of war
these are particularly useful in shat
tering its energy and subduing its Will.
Individual persons may be harshl
dealt with when an example is mad
of them, intended to serve as a warn
ing. Whenever q national wa
breaks out, terrorism becomes nee
essary military principle" ut is
gratuitous illusion to suppose tina
modern war does not demand far NOR
brutality, far more violence, and a
action far more general than was fol
merly the case"
In 1881 Won Moltke, who had bee
commander in chief of the Prussia
army In the Franco-Prussian war, d.
clared:
perpetual peace is a dream and nc
even q beautiful dream. War is an ell
ment in the order of the world estal
iished by God BY it the most nobl
virtues of man are developed, courae
and remuneration, fidelity to duty an
the spirit of sacrifce-the soldier give
his life. Without war, the world woul
degenerate and lose itself In materia