The daily Alaskan., 1918-01-31

German soldier on the eastern front!
 Russian Poland, December IS, "A.
 'In the name of Christianity l send you these words.
 "Wounded Russians are killed with the bayonet according to orders.
 And Russians who have surrender ed are often shot down In masses ac- cordlng to orders, In spite of their art.rending prayers.
 Tn the hope that you, as the repre- sentative of Christian state, win protest against this, sign myself, "A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS
 TIAN."
 The third letter, from the western front, shows the same horror of ths system of which the writer was a wit ness.
 "To the American Government,
 Washington, U., s. A.
 "Englishmen who have surrendered are shot down in small groups. With the French one Is more COnsiderate. l ask whether men let themselves be | taken prisoner in order to be dls- armed and shot down afterward? Is that chivalry in battle7 It Is no longer a secret among the people; one hears everywhere that few prisoners are taken; they are shot down In small groups. They say nalvely; We don't want any unnecessary mouths to feed. Where there is no one to enter con- plaint, there is no judge Is there then no power in the world which can put an end to these murders and res cue the victims? Where Is Chris tianlty? Where is right? Might is | right. ... ..t
 "A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS
 NO BARBARIAN"
 Socialists Oppose System
 Many of the Germans, as has been ! already indicated, do not believe the reports of the atrocities committed by | the Belgian civilians and refuse to ac- cept the system of frightfulness. The Vorwaerts, the leading socialist paper. which has q very wide circle of read CTS, has opposed the policy of fright | fulness. All honor to its editors who have so courageously opposed the pow erful military authority! Its editorial, entitled "Our Foes" published August g, 1914, reads as follows:
 What should one say when even such an organ as the Deutsches Ofl. zIer-Blatt expresses its sympathy with a demand that the beasts who are taken as francs-tIreurs should not be killed. but only wounded so that they may then be left to q fate which makes any help impOssibleT Or what should we say when the Deutsches Offizler. Blatt states that a punitive destruc. ] ton even of whole regions cannot 'nf' ] ford full recompense for the bones of | single murdered POmeranlan grena dierT Those are the desires of blood thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly ashamed of ourselves because 1t Is possible that there are people among us who urge such things"
 "Barbarlsm," Declares Vorwaerts.
 On, the following day August "A 1914, the VOrwaerts returned to the attack In an editorial Against Bar barlsm."
 "One might, In the first | place, possibly believe that such de- mand for a bloody vengeance [agaInst alleged Belgian Outragesl emanates from single disease-racked brain [ but 1t appears that whole groups l among certain classes who represent German kultur want to indulge in or gles of barbarism and to devise a whole system for the purpose of or. ganizing a war of revenge
 What of law and custom! Such 1 thoughts do not stir great nation.' Thus in a leading article of the Ser liner Neueste Nachrichten, the de- mand is made that all the authorities in BruSsels-one, the second burgOmas 1 ter. Is generously eXcepted-should be immediately seized and subjected to trial In order to expiate the wrongs which, according to fragmentary and highly uncertain reports, were said to have been committed by the people 1 They demand that the captured city should immediately pay q fine of 50O,' 100000 marks; that all stores of the conquered territory be requlsitioned without paying the inhabitants single l nenny for them"