The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-03-14
Frightfulness Taught by German Leaders Belongs to Age of
 BarbariSm.
SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS
Kaisers Statesmen Had No intention of Keeping Faith With Thelr Agreement on international Law
 -horrors Told by Diaries-

tfy m Betg,uba, sdys q Wtft tS- sued by the e0mmiifce on public in- formation. the eridenre k drdwn mainly from German and Americdn sources. The German sources tn- clude ofirial proelamatiOns and otAer official nt1erances. letters aud diaries of German soldiers. and quo- tations from Germcn newspapers. The Rules for F'icid ;Sfrrice 0f Me German army adrises each soldier to keep suol diary nhile on dctice serrice.
 In tine wars waged in atcient times 1t was taken for granted that eon- qMered peoples might i,e eitt,er killed. tortured. or held As slaves; that their property would he taken nnd thnt their lands would ie devastated. "fae vic [ tis woe to tiic ts,nqnered" For two centuries or more there has been Il steady advance in introducing ideas of humanity and especially Ira confining the evils of warf.,..' ea tue coInl,atants. 1 1'he ideal seemed t" have become so thurnughiy estHi,ii.Aei as a part of in ternationni lnw tts, lhr powers at The state the genera. principles in Article XLVI of the regulations: Family hOli- OTIS and rights. ihp lives of persons nnd private property. as well hs re- iigiaus convictions and practice. must be respected. Private praperty cannot be confiscated." Germ,ny. in common with the other powrra. ss,leninly pledged her faith to keep tl,is article ! hut her military lc;!der~ had no inten- tion of doing so. They had been trained in the idrns voiced by Gen. von Hartmann 40 years ago: -TerrOrism Is seen to be q relatively gentle pro- retlure. useful to keep the masses of the people in q state of obedience" This had been Bismarck'~ policy. too. According to Moritz Busch. M<mark's ! biOgrnph' t Bismarck. cxnsperated by the Frrm t1.- :stunce. which was still continiin. ' January. 1871. snid: 1 of in the territory which We occupy. we cannot supply everything for our troops. from time l., time we xhnli send n flying column ia.a the localities which are recalcitrnnt, We si,ai, shoot. hang and burn. After that has hap pened few times. the inl .hitants will finally come to their scnsc."
 Horrors Told In Soldiers 0.arles.
 The frightfulness taught by c Ger man leaders held full sway in I'Ngium. This Is best seen in the entries II, the diaries of the individual German ssI. diefs.
 During the nigh, "f August 15-1c Engineer Gr- gave the alarm in the town of Wise. Every one was shot or taken prisoner. and thc houses Were burnt The prisoners were made tn march and keep up witi the troops (From the diary of nonconmissioned officer Reinhold kophn of the Second battalion of engineers. ThIrd army corps.)
 "A horrible bath of blood. The whole village burnt, the Frrnci, thrown into the blazing houses. civilians with the rest" (From tho diary of Private Hasse,ner of the Eighth army corps.)
 "In the night of August 1919 the VII lage of Saint-Mnurire was punished for having fired on German soldiers by heinz burnt to the ground by the Ger Inan troops (two regiments, the Twelfth lhndwehr and the Seven teenth.) The village was surrounded. men posted about a ynrd from one an other. so that no one could get out. Then the Uhlans set fire to it. house hy house Neither man, woman. nor child could escape; only tho greater part of the live stock we carried of, as that could be used. Anyone who ventured to come out WAS shot down. All the inhabitants left in the village were burnt with the houses" (From the diary of Private Karl SchenfeIe of the Third Bavarian regiment and land wehr infnntry.)
 "At ten o'clock in the evening the first battalion of the One hundred and Seventy-eighth marched down the steep incline into the burning village to the burning village 10 the north of Dinant. A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty. At the entrance to the village lay about fifty dead civilians, shot for having fired upon our troops from ambush. In the course of the night many others were also shot. so that We counted over POO. Women and children, lamp in hand. were forced to look on at the horrible scene. We ate our rice later in the midst of the corpses, for we had had nothing since morning. When we searched the houses We found plenty of wine and spirit. but no eatables. Captain Hamann was drunk" (This last phrase in sh0rthand) (From the diary of Private Philipp of the One Hundred and Seyenty-eighth regiment of infantry, Twelfth army corps.) Writing from Belgium in 1916 Irwin s. Cobb said:
 Briefly what I saw was this: saw