The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-11-28
Atrocious Treatment Of the Help
less Part Of Campaign Plans
of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRIGHTFULNEsS
Terrorism Declared q Necessary Prin-
cIpIe In National Warfare-Bru-
taiIties May BE Said to Be d.
rectIy Attributable to the
Emperor Himself.


nation, appointed BY the president.
and consisting of the secretary of
state, secretary of wur. secretary of
the napy. and George Creel, official
censor. has made public a mass of
evidence dealing Nth German war
practices which shows the kaisers
leaders in the field and in command
of captured points to be directly re-
sponsible for the beastliness which
has characterized tho operations of
the Huns" in the present conflict.
Quotations from the pamphlet fol-
low:
For many years leaders In every CIV
ilized 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 1854, 1t 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
fngs, 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,
which forbade the conqueror to force
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 Frightfulness.
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 Wary, he
says:
evidence arms itself with the inven
lions 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 it's power. Now, philan
thropic souls might easily imagine tina
) there Is skillful method of disarm
, ing or subduing an enemy withou
) causing too much bloodshed, and tina
this is the true tendency of the art O.
; war. However plausible this may ap
pear, still II is an error which must b.
! destroyed; for In such dangerou
things as war, the errors which pro
! coed from a spirit of 'good-natured
ness are precisely the worst. As tn
. use of physical force to the utmost ex
tent by no means excludes the &C
operation Of the intelligence. 1t follow
that he who uses force ruthlessly, with
! out regard to bloodshed. must obtai
a superiority, II his enemy does nc
so use It."
In 1S77-78, In the course of serie
of articles upon Military Necessit
|. and Humanity" General Won Hartman
wrote, In the same spirit as Won Cha,
I sewitz:
1.-THE enemy state must not be spare
the want and wretchedness of wal
these are particularly useful in sha
. tering its energy and subduing Its Will
I "Indiyiduai persons may be harshl
dealt with when an example Is mad
7 of them, intended to serve as war;
ing. Whenever a national VIZ
= breaks out, terrorism becomes ne
essary military principle" 1T is
gratuitous Illusion to suppose thu
I moderr ,.cr does not demand far MOI
brutality, far more violence, and q
action far more general than was 70
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 dream and nj
even a beautiful dream. War is an ell
ment In the order of the world esta
lished by God. By II the most mob
virtues Of man are developed, courai
and remuneration, fidelity to duty ar
the spirit Of sacrince-the soldier Civ
his life. without war. the world wou
i! degenerate and lose itself In materis