The sun., 1918-09-14
THE GERMANS IN CHINA.
A Description Of Their Brutality BY q
Famous Reporter.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sty: In
TIE SON OF Thursday there 10 quoted
from the condemned book that had
Creers o. X. the following:
p. .25. o-were German soldiers worse
than others In the march on Pekin7
A--AccordinS to revelations made By
correspondents who managed TO get
through to Pelin. and by oficers after
the trouble was over. there seems to have
been very little to choose between tho con
duct of the various troops. OF all, the
japanese emerged with the cieanest record
and the Tonkinese troops Of the French
with the wort.
Let me quote the late Wilbur J.
Chamberlin. who represented THE Sun
in China at that time and for whose
accuracy you doubtless can vouch:
"our officers did not loot. Our men
who were caught at 1t were punished
martial. One was sentenced TO ten
years Imprisonment at hard labor, and
tho other TO five years, and they are
| serving their sentences.
THE Germans did not get here until
the worst Of the fighting was over. and
they have been trying to make UP fol
loss OF time since. Scarcely a day
passes but three or four Cinnamon are
shot In their district, and sometimes the
number reaches fourteen or fifteen. Ar
| English officer who Is attached to the
stan Of Count Won waldersee said to
1 me yesterday: Why. it's so bad around
| these headquarters that / don't dar'
stick my head out of the window aftel
dark for fear OF being shot They arr
shooting all the time.
"Our policy has been from the star
| to keep the peace, to clean UP. TO en-
courage industry and to give tho unfor
Inmates an opportunity to get together
enough TO keep them from starving L
death this winter. The new
spread that II was safe to live in tn
American district. The Chinese VIII
had escaped killing came back In drcve'
and the district became overcrowded
Trough naturally filthy. they are forcet
IL keep clean. They are pleas
ant and respectful. and an American Il
as safe in that district as he Ia at home
THE contrast in the German dlstric
Is striking. There the streets are de
serted. The stores are all closed. Nov
and then you see q Chinaman skulkin
| around, afraid to say his eoul Is hi
own. II a shopkeeper opens his shop
the German soldiers rob him II h
shows himself on the street. he is com
Wandered and forced to do coolie work
ard, likely as not, II he protests he !
shot and the Official report is that h
was a Boxer.
The English district Is better ths
the German. but away behind our owr
The only district that compares wit
ours is that OF the laps. Like ours.
10 overcrowded. but unlike ours It reek
with filth.
II sent of q long cable to-day INC
vember rs. 1901 expressing a few sue
cinct opinions concerning the German.
They are still shooting around herr
just as IL a war were going on. The
don't think anything at all Of a China
mans life. and On the least excuse the
shoot them down like so many dog
AS you have probably noticed in m
dispatches. l have not much use fc
the German soldiers anyhow. They ar
a big lot OF swine, IL human beings eve
. are swine
, All this Is taken from "Ordered
China" a compilation OF letters b
Chamberlin, mostly 10 his wife, whic
} was printed shortly after his untimel
death. He says nothing concerning tn
behavior OF the Tonkinese.
G. F. kAucHER.
NEW YORK. September IS