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New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

execution of Nurse Edith Cavclle; as the
man who has permitted the bombing of hos
pita ships?
"The trouble is that the Kaiser and the
people Of Germany are getting dose of
their own medicine 1t was all right for the
Germans to attempt to spread death and
CONSERVATION in French and English cities,
but when the Allies retaliate, the impossi
bic Kaiser, who has broken all Of the laws
that most men hold sacred, begins to rant
about the 'unlawfulness' of the business"
THE Baltimore Sun" thinks that
"But one Of two differences can'be drawn
from this telegram either that the EN-
peror is a fool or that he thinks the Ger
man people are fools. The Emperor is not
fool in the ordinary sense, and he knows
perfectly we'll that he has long ago cut the
throat Of international law, that he has
no more right to protest against its viola
ton than red-handcd and defiant murderer
'has against violent methods of subduing
him. But he seems to believe the German
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
In Arms Against This Wolf

professors and divines who have declared
their militarst proclivities. In another are
their opponents. And, last, there are hun
dreds Of prisoners of war reproductions of
photographs from the illustrated papers, to
which my friend, an expert in physog-
nomy, attaches high value.
"Ihc type which he processes to have
found more or less strongly marked in the
great majority of these faces is that of
the wolf To make this apparent, he has
executed we'll drawn VOLTS head on those
pages where the type stands out clcarest.
of the generals no one could overlook the
resemblance few of them, like the
Crown Prince, appear to be men of low
order of intelligence. and one would hardly
say OF these that they make convincing
wolves. But the great majority have the
marks of exceptional intellectual power.
and 1T is precisely in them that the lupine
traits are most pronounced and unmistak
able.
"Very remarkable, too, is the increasing
Among the common soldiers the wolf face
Is absent fully as often as it is present
Among the unior officers one misses if
only hero and there. The generals repro-
duce 1T almost without exception. while in
the Kaiser, of course, it comes out pur
sang.
ION the whole, the collection does justice
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
\ New System Was
"A Put in Operation

What these courses in Kultur consist
of is wildly DESCRIBED in a special cable
dispatch to "The New York World"
from Oldcnzaal, on the German-Dutch
frontier. The World" correspondent
there relates the following as told him
by Anton Schwartilegh, a sergeant at
tached to the Pomcrian Infantry Regi-
ment "a, who deserted to Holland:
"Our authorities, evidently acting on IN
structions from headquarters, dec ided to out
do their own record of cruelty toward Amer
lcan prisoners. A system newly devised was
carefully worked out under the watchword
The fewer Americans who return home the
better for US Now in operation, if it is
permitted to go on there is no telling how
many Americans taken prisoner viii ever
be allowed to America again. Surely,
very few.
"After seeing q good deal OF service in
France and Russia in France again, where
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
The Kaiser Sheds Some More Crocodile Tears

people are fools enough to swallow every
thing he tells them
"Perhaps they still are. But after a while
they may begin to realize that the respon-
sbility for their sufferings lies with their
pious ruler"
But while the Kaiser "squeals like a
pig under a gate over the recent bomb
droppings on German Cities" as "The
New York Globe" puts it, nevertheless
"On the All-Highest rests the blood guilt,
for he forced his advcrsaries to resort to
prisals as the only means of self defence.
For nearly four years the governments of
the Allies without retorting in kind permit
ted German barbarity to continue"
The same newspaper thinks such re-
taliatory raids should have been insti-
tuted four years ago, because
"The Kaiser would have squealed in 1914
as readily as he squeals in 1918. AS he now
is being brought to a state of mind wherein
he will offer to desist, SO he could have
been brought four years ago The senti-
mcntalists who shrank from doing that
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to the alternative title my friend has in
scrlbed on the cover-'The War Interpreted
at Glance You close the book with the
feeling that the question has been reduced
to It's ultimate terms. 'Mankind' YOU saw.
is IN arms against this wolf Nor is this
mere lmpressionism. We may use these
words with the assurance that we are an
uclpatng the verdict of history. These
German miltarists have justified their
faces. They have won for themselves a
reputation in cruelty by which they will be
remembered hereafter, even though every
thing else should be forgotten. They have
made cruelty the keyword to the human
meaning of the war--the word that explains
better than any other single word that
could be chosen what it is that binds the
Allied nations into unitary force, what
they are fighting to establish and what
they fighting to overthrow"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
for American Prisoners

the officers to shoot them down in s..,.
defence n-
American negroes are really wors. s
than the white prisoners. The Ca-r.-
sentries authorize and infiict fogeines ~.
them for the least reason, or witbou. ~
son. Two negroes, absolutely innocent NJ
thrashed almost to death in the nreso..-
of their comrades, when the proceed;ns
were interrupted by another negro W.
boxed the scntry's ears He is now a. ~
court mart;alled.
Those Americans who are not bu,,;..
or who are spared on account of Cermau
ancestry are used in the German nror.
ganda service in Russia. 1t has often ban
pened that your soldiers or under offcar.
have been taken to Russia either bo,.
cuffed like murderers or in cages like u,;,s
animals-this is the absolute truth-fo,
lowing a German officer lecturing for ~
benefit of the Russians on 'Germanr,s
Victory Over America AS proof of thoy
victory an American soldier chained on
platform was exhibited"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

which the situation plainly demanded have
at their door blame for large part of the
atrocities. Germany, deaf to other appeals,
is nhuenceable by fear"
To compare the Kaiser with Attila is
a defamation of Attila's character, de-
cares "The New York Times" which
further observes:
at is not international law that the Kai-
ser is concerned about in his whine to the
Burgomaster Of Frankfort. The destroyer
Of cathedras, works of art, monuments and
ancient relics, who thanked God in inter
views dictated to Karl 'Rosner that the fair
Fathcrland has been spared the horrors of
war is fearful for the treasures Of Frank
fort the R0merberg market place, the Gu
tenberg monument, the Kaiserplatz, the
Goethe and Schiller statues, the Cathedral
of St. Bartholomew the Nikolaikrche. built
in the thirteenth century; the Kasersaal,
the house in which Goethe was born, the
picture gallery of the Stadel Institute, and
many other treasures not to be touched by
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

vandal hands. The Kaiser can regard devas-
tated Belgium and despoled France with
equanimty, but let bombs be dropped upon
historic Frankfort and he stands aghast at
the enemy's wanton disregard of interna-
tonal law
Not even the generally misinformed
people of Germany will be convinced by
their Emperor's "disgusting plaint," in
the opinion of "The New York Evening
Post" which adds:
"Civilized people hoped that the Allies
might be able to refrain from meeting
frightfulness with frightfulness But it has
become evident that Germans will under
stand no language but German"
Distasteful though such retaliation
may be, "The Charlotte Observer" is
convinced the Germans have it coming
to them:
"The war is now being brought home to
Germany in earnest, and we could want no
better news than that of raids still further
into German territory, to the converting of
these treasured German towns into the same
sort of ruins that have dotted France The
Germans have courted a dose of frightful-
ness-and they are getting it,
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

was wounded, I was sent to camp at Wit
tenberg to guard prisoners. Later I was
moved to -Soltau, thence to Holzminden,
where I managed to escape What I saw in
the camps worse than what saw at the
front, ever since we BEGAN taking American
prisoners.
Especial instructions were given to the
guards III charge of the Americans to apply
so-called sharp regime meaning to
treat them worse than Russians, Belgians
and Italians, all Of whom enjoy the sinister
privilege of being bulled in d manner worse
than either the French ar English.
Traditional camps were erected at Wit
tenbcrg Soltau and Holzmnden. Near the
former ones is the reprisal camp, kuestrin,
which was supposed to have been suppressed,
but which is going as strong as ever and
was considerably enlarged, the reason being
that it was intended to send Americans to
reprisal camp straight from the battle
field before they had a chance of committing
the least offence. This the Germans call
preventive punishment and is supposed to
be what Americans need One Of my su-
pcriors told me explicitly: we must teach
these Americans something'
an Kuestrin, where | often went on duty
because | speak English, having lived five
years in Norfolk Va, prisoners were sub
mitted to helish treatment, seventy having
to sleep in huts hardly fit for ten, dirty
boards. without mattresses or covers, except
in the case of those who could bribe the
sentries.
CHE food consisted chiefly of dirty
plate of hottish soup, which the men had to
fetch from the canteen at noon. The bread
ration was small and missing three
times weekly.
'"Compaining on the part of Americans
was met by requiring them to remain mo-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

tionless in the sun for three hours. Each
movement meant fifteen minutes more of
this torture. Any remarks about the food
were met with such retorts as: You want
our German bread, Ell? Ask Wilson for
some; he ought to help you
"The conditions of labor at Kuestrin were
territic-eghteen to twenty hours daily. The
men were forced to repair roads under the
scorching sun, under guard Of sentries in
structed to shoot any one on sight if only
suspected of wishing to run away or to sit
down TO rest When soldiers collapsed
owing to weakness guards would threaten
to crush their skulls with rife butt or to
shoot them. Three colored soldiers died at
kuestrn in June of weakness.
"The kuestrin commander found two
devices to make the Americans miserable.
He forbade the men to speak to each other
except on camp duty Furnishing infractions
by twenty days confinement in cell. He
prohibited the men taking baths in a small
brook inside the camp grounds, and bathing
was allowed only as a special favor. Any
soldier bathing without written per
mission liable to be shot.
I"O OF tHIee younger OHlcerS seem TO
have made it a business to drive Ameri-
can soldiers crazy. Not only do they in
suit them Wiley whenever addressing them
but they infict extravagant punishments,
such as forcing them to fill dried pond
within two hours, using only a water glass
The man thus punished has to run from
a faucet to the pond, back and forth con-
tnually for hours on his impossible errand
In where the pond is not filled the
gets one months solitary confinement
This is only one punishment out of hun
dreds devised either to kill Americans
'spurlos or to drive them to despair or
to some sort of revolt which would allow
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
\ Small Matter-Just
~ a Little Liquid Fire

Through an Associated Press dispatch
from London word has come of the
spraying of British prisoners last March
with liquid fire. Scotch soldiers have
made affidavit to the following atroc.
tiles:
private of the Royal - Highlanders
tells how he and a number of comrades
consisting of one officer and fifteen men. ten
OF whom We're wounded, were compelled 70
surrender near Monchy on March %. They
were lined up in the original front line
trench, and after some time German officer
and two men appeared. One of the men.
under orders of the officer, turned stream
of liquid fire straight down the trench in
which the Britishers were standing. and
notwithstanding the fact that they were un-
armed, continued to spray them for six or
seven minutes. The private testified that he
and few of his companions who were able
to move scrambled down communication
trench and got over the top and back into
the British lines.
Another private testified that he and other
prisoners were marched down a trench to
an emplacement about feet deep, feet
wide and from to IL feet long, and, while
tightly packed in the inclosure, two Ger
mans, one of whom carried revolver and
seemed to be officer, appeared. The other
man had cylinder on his back, and at
tached to it was a flexible pipe.
Just as he reached the entrance to the
inclosure," said the soldier referring to the
man with the cylinder on his back, "a fame
spurted out in a stream from the pipe, and
caught the men who were nearest to the
entrance. The other men lay in heaps around
and partly on me. l heard a kissing sound
for short time. Then it stopped. but
started again. During this time the men
were shrieking and writhing. The fame
reached right back to where l was. My over
coat and tunic caught fire. By this time
all the men were on the ground
Add to this the report that Czecho-
Slovak prisoners are to be treated as
traitors and shot because their right to
nationality is not recognized, and the
picture seems fairly complete
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Over the Bar gain

face hopeless starvation, for cruel dynasty,
and still endure beggary, individual and
national in the vain chase of another phan.
tom honor?
forgotten nothing. Metternich's pupils are
as devoid of political sense as they are o.
compassion for the common herd. Let them
set up their King of Folly. Motley be his
royal robes-but dyed in crimson,'
The New York Tribune remembers
that at "Brest-Litovsk Czernin and Won
kuhlmann swore adherence to the prin
clple of 'self-determination' by the peo-
Piles detached from the former Russian
Empire. This is the self determination
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

For our unfortunate soldiers who have
fallen into the hands of fends there viii be
in this country the most heartfelt sympathy
But there viii also be a realization OF the
fact that the only way to bring about their
release is through the defeat of the Ger
man armies. Here surely is motive for
the speedest possible pressing Of every ad-
vantage. Those who thinking of a peace
that does not bring with it the severest
punishment for all who have been guilty OF
mistreating prisoners, and the destruction
Of the government and system responsible
for it, the enemies of their country and
the foes of civilizations"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

iph of the Faithful. Let Karl carr home
the Polish crown and give it to kinsman.
When the ends it will be only one more
crown for one more king in exile"
''The New York Herald does not
want the United States to forget Kos
ciusko and Pulaski and describes the
measure Of debt that America owes to
the Polish cause:
Since the days of these two Polish he
rocs many thousands of Poles have helped
to build up the prosperity and fame of the
United States, and there arc no more highly
regarded American citizens than those of
Polish origin.
The Poles enthusiastically loyal to
their adopted land. OF that there has never
been, and never will be, any doubt Theirs
has been no hyphenated patriotism or half
and-half allegiance. Nevertheless, thew love
with deep and undying affection the country
for which their fathers died or suffered
and which Is now suffering as terribly as
any part of ravaged Europe Led bv that
great patriot and gentleman Paderewski.
who has abandoned his beloved art to serve
his country, they have formed a Polish
Legion in America, for which there have
been thousands Of volunteers. manv Of whom
are already fighting in France 1t has been
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

offered Poland--to be traded to the Aus
trian crown in exchange for ten or ff-
teen divisions. The Tribune adds:
"Poland viii never be Austrian. She will
never be German. The uNconQucrable race
instinct of the Polish people has dehcd AL
attempts at assimilation, whether by Aus
trian, German or Russian conquerors. The
garment of the Polish nation cannot be gam
blcd away al German Grand headquarters.
Poland will arise out of this war re-
united and regenerated state, cured of tho
follics of her glorious past by long dis
ciplinc of servitude
"Wihclm has sold Karl nothing for some
thing, Just he sold nothing for some
thing to Ferdinand the Bulgar and the Ca
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

Kaiser shedding crocodile tears over {he
bombing of Frankfort by Allied air-
men. Referring to the sympathetic tel
egram sent by the Emperor to the Bur
gomaster of Frankfort, that newspaper
points out:
"And yet, even while the contents OF this
hypocritical dispatch were being conveyed
to the credulous peop$ the German bomb
ing squadrons were dropping shells upon
non-combatants in French cities.
"A fine creature this. to pirate about 'in-
ternational law! Is there any other man in
the civilized world to- day who has done so
much to destroy and discredit international
law as the ruler who agreed that the treaty
with Belgium was mere scrap Of paper; as
the man who ordered the sinking. Of the Lu-
stanfa and the murder Of innocent women
and children; as the man who tolerated the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
ME eyes of the world are on the

NeIlildll III Is hard TOY him to
hide from the pitiless light.
what he has been and what he is and
expects to be cannot escape revelation.
Students of every kind-scientists and
historians and humanists - scrutinize
nm to discover some key to his mon
strous variation from the norm of civ
lllzatlon. l.. P. Jacks, principal Of Man
chester College, Oxford, and editor of
The HILBERT Journal writing in
Land and Water" declares that the
fight with Germany is not fight be-
tween ideas, but fight between tvpes Of
character And the character of the
German, he declares, is that of the wolf
Further:
"A friend Of mine. who is a student of
history, makes point of collecting all tbc
contemporary German portraits he can law
his hands on. He has them pasted in .
book handsomely bounG, on the cover Of
which he has printed these words: .rhe
Wolf, or the War interpreted at n Glance,
inside Is vast collection of fnces-ou
thentlc photographs of the Kaiser. his min
listers, his generals, Hindenburg. Luden
dorff, Won kuhmann, Won Tirpitz and the rest
all the representatives of the military
party In another group are the various
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
the Hun
Has Still to
Learn

THE laundering German psychology,
which misjudged the temper of the
Belgians, the British and the Americans
is now going astray on how best to com
bat an economic boycott, in the opinion
of "The Hartford Times" which com
ments:
did not understand the psychology Of the
rest of the world and that we did not under
stand their psychology This is only a
scientific way of saying that neither could
foresee how the other would act under GER
tain circumstances, and may be freely ad-
mitted true. Had the Germans known
that their conduct would bring them into
their present position and rouse a world
wide armed resistance they would have hes
itated before invading Belgium. AS for u.s.
we would never believe that men calling
themselves civilized could be guilty OF the
causeless aggression and acts of cruelty ana
brutality that mark the acts of German SOL
diers since August, 1914. Now we under
stand what German human nature is capable
of, though tend to ascribe the blame 10
the system the military class alone. bu'
the Germans do not seem to have Learned
anything about free people. They are
much worried over the prospect OF an eco
nomic boycott or refusal by the Allies 10
trade with them on equal terms. This migh'
not be good policy on the part of the Aihes
since the advantages of commerce al.
reciprocal; but the German suggestion u
the establishment OF chambers OF commerce
abroad for the reestablishment OF 1eF"i"
world trade with the assistance OF 1erm"
consular authorities,' made by seml-onic'AA
Leipsic newspaper. shows that they arc 50
far from comprehending the human ha'a''
of the Allies as they were when tneS u"
hberately acted in such way as 10 o'"s
the rest of the world in a union ssa'"''
them"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
.NWO elements Of opinion appear
over the editorial horizon for
u expression at the bartering for

over the editorial horizon for
u expression at the bartering for
Poland. One is a laughter at
kings and the anachronism of the spec
tacle of trading a land and people
away. The other is concerned with
Poland itself, its history and tradition
and the saving of its valuable authentic
qualities to world civilization by auton-
omv Poland is an integral part Of the
European civilization, with deep rooted
atmosphere and tradition 1t is recog-
nized that without satisfaction for Polish
warnings and aspirations to achieve a
permanent quality of life and continual
ton in history there can be no guaran-
tee of peace in Europe.
The laughter is vented thus by "The
Detroit Journal:
THE Kaiser and Emperor Charles have
done a little trading For the loan of fif-
teen divisions of Austrians and Hungarans
the Kaiser relinqushes claims upon com
grand duke instead of German prince will
direct the Poles how they shall fetch and
carry.
"Marvellous the way of kings! BY few
hours Of haggling and pickering, Bruiser
Bill obtains a number of thousands Of lives
TO pour into that hell in France. By hold
ing back and appearing to be unnterested
the house Of Hapsburg gets throne for one
of its brood of parasites. A happy lot, that
Of kings. Happy, too. must be the Germans
who peace postponed a season, and the
Austrians, seeing their sons 90 TO fertilize
the fields Of distant lands.
God speed the day when kings, their
pomp and circumstance a memory, shall do
their barterng over the edges of push
cart"
The New York World" in much the
same mood, observes:
because Germany never fails TO exact
her price for seeming concession, it is
guessed that she has bargained for Austro-
Hungarian help on the Western front in re-
turn for the empty honor OF an Austrian
King Of Poland That the Austrian solu-
ton Of the Polish problem has been con
ceded is stated by the Berlin Lokal-Anzei-
ger often used for official statements. Arch
duke Karl Stephan is named az the probable
monarch.
"Creat armies Of Austro- -Hungarians in
France might seem present help to Berlin
in time Of trouble. The concession TO the
stupid autocracy Of Vienna in return costs
nothing, and IL worth nothing. But what
viii the people of the Dual Monarchy say
70 this proposai that they shall stjl shed
taeiT blood On the helde Of France, stil