The daily Alaskan., 1918-01-31
Murder, PilIage and Arson Part of Deliberate Scheme of
 Warfare.
HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD
No Possible Evasion of Responsibility for 5estiaI Acts Which for Centu- rles Have Had No Parallel
 Officially lndorsed.

are OCylHRlRg 10 teGrn me tFutH COft- Cerning the conduct of th6 WGr by Germany. Proof IS offered that Ger man officials deliberately lied n their statements concerning atroCt- ties committed by the BelgianS and allies. That their own soldiers 'Oere diSgusted by the crucItieS practtcea at the order of high officers of the kaiser IS Shown. ErtractS taken l from pamphlets issued foll0w::
 The yorwaerts of Berlin, October 22, 1914, said:
 "We have already been able to es- tablish the falScnesS of q great number of assertions which have been made with great precision and published everywhere in the press, concerning al- legged crueltles committed, by the popu- latiOnS of the countries with which Germany Is at war, upon German sol dlers and civilians. We are now in po- SitiOn to silence two others of these fantastic stories.
 "The war correspondent of the Der liner Tageblatt spoke q few weeks ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with powder alleged to have been given out or sold to our soldiers with diabolical intent. He even prctended that he had seen with his own eyes hundreds or this kind of cigarettes. We learn from an authentic source that this story of cigars and cigarettes K nothing but brazcn invention. Stories of soldiers whose eyes are alleged to have been torn out hy francS-tireurS are circulat- ed throughout Germany. Not q single case of this kind has been officially es- tablished.
 Tt matters little that reports of this 1 nature bear an appearance of positive certitude, or are even vOuched for by eye-witncSSeS. The desire for nOtoriety, the absence of criticism, and personal error play an unfortunate part in the days in which We are living. Every nose shot off or simply bound up, every eye removed. Is immediately transformed into nose or eye torn away by the fruncs-;ireurS Already the Volkszeltung of Cologne has been able, contrary tO the very categorical asser- tionS from AlN-la- -Chapellc, to prove that there was no soldier with his eyes torn out in the field ambulance of this town. Ii was said. also, that people 1 wounded in this way were under treat ment in the neighborhOOd of Berlin, but whenever inquiries have been made in regard to these reports. their abso- lute falSity has been demonstrated. At length these reports were concentrated at Gross Lichterrelde. 4 newspaper published at noon and widely CirCu- lated in Berlin printed a few days ago in large type the news that at the Lazaretto of Lichtcrfclde alone there were ten German soldiers. only slight Iy wounded. whose eyes had been wick edly torn out But to a request for information by Comrade LiebkneCht the following written reply was sent by the chief medical officer of the aforementioned field hospital, dated the eighteenth of the month:
 "Slr:. Happily there is no truth whatever in these stories.
 Yours Obcdiently,
 PROFESSOR RAUTENBERG,'"
 German Soldiers Protested.
 Thus the teachings of the German Wor Book and of the German apostles of frightfulness. suspicion and hatred, had now begun to bear their natural fruit. But the voice Of protest was not entirely silent. X considerable number of letters by German soldiers who were shocked by the German atrocities were sent to Ambassador Gerard. because he was the representa- tive of the United States, the leading neutral nation. The three letters which follow, in translation, were re- ceived by the American ambassador from German soldiers.
 Here Is the protest of a German sol dier, an eyewitness of the slaughter of Russian soldiers in the Masurian lakes and swampS:
 l II was lIlEullul, uGul l-ACuuAiSt dS these masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the ter rible thunder of the cannon could be heard the heart-rending cries of the Russians: Q PrusSianS O PruSSians ? but there was no mercy. Our captain had ordered: The whole lot must die; so rapid fire AS have heard, five men and one officer on our side went mad from these heart-rendlng cries. But most of Hly comrades and the off cers joked as the unarmed and helpless Russians shrleked for mercy while they were being suffOcated in, the swamps and shot down. The order was: Close up and at 1t harder! For days afterwards those heart-rending wells followed me and dare not think of them or shall go mad. There is no God, there is no morality and no ethics any more. There are no human beings my more, but only beasts. Down with militarism.
 If you are a truth-loving man,