The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-09-11

fcring, priNatiOn md fatigue, who
courts dangers, canrot take only In
proportion to the resources of the
country He must take all that is nee
cssnry TO his existence. One has no
right to demand OF him anything super
human" "i'hc great good in war is
that 1t should be ended quickly. In
view of this, every means, except those
which are positively condomnable, |
must be permitted. | canhot, in any |
way, agree With the declaration of st. |
petersburg when 1t pretends that the ,
weakening of the military forces Of the !,
enemy constitutes the only legitimate
method of procedure in war. No! One
must attack all the resources of the
enemy government, his finances, his
railroads. his stock of provisions and
even his prestige. :"
Nany oLiscr examples might be cited
from the writings Of German generals
I,he very beat MIStratOn Of this atti-
tuGe, however, rs TO be found in the
elnpcror's v,riua$ speeches, and Cspc
cistl(S in his speech to his soldiers on
the eve of thS." departure for China in
$500. Oh JlmT q the kaiser went to
BremerlE,vcn to bid farewell to the
German troops. AS they were drawn
up, ready TO clsabarll for China, he ud-
dressed to than n Inst Official message
from the fathGRElnd. The local news
paper reported his speech In fuH. In
| 1t appeared this advice and adlnonition
trom the emperor, the commander In
chief Of the army, the head Of all Ger
many:
Soldiers TaId RI Re MerctIaSe
"As soon as you come to blows with
the enemy he will be beaten. No mercy
Will be shown No prisoners will be
taken! AS the Huns, under King At
tia, made a name for themselves,
| which is still mighty in traditions aud
legends today. may the name Of Ger
man be so fixed In China by your deeds,
that no Chinese shall ever again d,Me
even to look at German nskance. ).
Open tho way for Kultur once for ALL"
Even the imperial councillors seem TO
| have hcen shocked at the elnpcror's
! speech, and efforts were promptly
made to suppress the circulation Of lAs
exact words The efforts were only
! partly successful. A few weeks later.
/ when the letters from the German sol
diers in China were being published,
in Local German papers, the leading
socialist newspaper Vorwaerts, eH-
cerptcd from them reports Of atroCi-
ties under the title Letters of thu
Huns" Many Of the leaders In the
reicllstag felt very kccny the brutality
Of thc cmpcrCr'S speech The obnoX'
ious word "Iluns" had excited almost
universal condemnation. when tho
rcchStag met. in November, the speech
was openly discussed. Herr. Jicbcr Of
the center Catholic pafty), aftrr,Quot-
Ing the ''no mercy" portion Of the
speech, added, '"I!hcrc are, alas, in Ger
many groups enough who have regard"
ed the atrocities told in the letters
which have hocn published as the duti-
ful response of soldiers so addressed
and encouraged" The leader Of the
social democrats, Herr Bcbcl, spoke
even more pointcdly. Toward the cnti
of 2 two-hOur address on the atrocities
committed by the German soldiers in
China ana on the speech Of the EN-.
pcror, he said:
"lf Germany wishes to be the bearer
O! civilization to the world, we viii
follow without contradiction. But the
ways and means in which this world
policy has bccn carried on thus far in
which It HAS been defined by the en-
pcrOr are not, in our opinion,
The way TO preserve lie world position
of Germany TO gain for Germany the
respect Of the world"
The consequences OF the cmpcrov's
speech ncbrl "Ntly described:
"By ii the signal was given, Inrhrd
IN The highest authority OF the German
empire. which must have most WcGhty
consequences. nbt only for the troops
who went 20 Chime but also for those
who stayed N hoMc. An expedition
Of revenge so barnarous as this has
never occurred in the last hundred
years and not oftcn in history; nj
tc;lsl nothing worse than this has hap
pcncd in history, either done By the
Huns hy the Vandals, by GcnGhis
Eian, by Tamrri"nc, or even by TiNy
Wien he sacked MagdcburG."
AtrocItice in China.
These atrocities in China or WLcttcrs
Of the JiIus" continued 90 be published
IN the Vurwucrtr fer several years and
appeared internationally in the debates
Of The rcicils,Nc n% late as ia1G ~
that time the socialist, Herr Kuncrt
reviewing Tho procedure in trial OF
j., which he had been the victim in thc
previous summer, stated that he h2o
offered 60 prove "innt German soldiers
in China had engaged in wanjon GnC
brutal ravu@n%; thut pIundcr, piIl&Gc
, cxturtion, robbery, ;S Wcil rs rape 0uC
, srNuai ann#cS Of thc worst lind has