Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-09-27
The Kaiser as | knewHim
for Fourteen Years
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By ARTHUR N. DAVIS, D. D. S.
Copyright 1918 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,

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seizure amounted to- and my army
doctors were strutting around as IL
they owned the world" declared the
kaiser, when one of my officers was
approached by group of long haired,
greasy Jews, who claimed that these
supplies belonged to them. they are
our private property; we bought them
and we should be compensated if you
seize Them they commended. Did you
pay for themY my officer asked. NO,
we didn't pay for them, but we gave
our notes. they replied. Then said
my officers, when you take up those
notes Wen pay for these stores; in.
the meanwhile we'll just take them
We secured bandages, serums every,
thing, in fact, that we needed 80 very
badly, and we got them all for moth.
ing!"
did not know at that time that the
German army lacked medical supplies,
but later saw paper bandages in use,
have previously referred to the
kaiser's defense of the use of Zeppe.
Inns against Paris, London and other
nonmilitary cities. He claimed that /,
was proper to make war on civilians
because England was endeavoring to
starva Germany. On one occasion
pointed out to him that in 1870 the
Germans had besieged Paris and had
starved its population.
1.-THE cases are entirely different"
he answered hastily. "Then we were
besieging city and the civilian pop
ulation had plenty Of opportunity to
evacuate it before the siege began.
England is besieg,Gg whole nation
and trying to starve my women end
children, who have nothing to do with
war;"
l couldn't help thinking Of the
whole nations" which had been alb
solutely crushed under the kaiser's
heel-of Belgium, Servia and Poland.
The kaiser never admitted that ~fhe
destruction of the Lusitania was re-
suit of special instructions from him
to the U-boat commander, but in dis
cussing the general subject of subma-
rine warfare he asked:
what right have Americans to take
passage on these vessels, anyway? If
they came onto the battlefield they
would not expect us to stop firing
would they? Why should they expect
any greater protection when they en-
ter the war zone at sea?
Don't ever forget" he went on, "a
bullet from a pistol would be enough
to sink one of our U-boats. How car
we stop and board vessels we encoun
ter to ascertain wheth-s hey are neu
trail and not carrying cofrs-aN,,Aud? II
what appears to be neutral should
in fact prove to be belligerent, or II
belligerent should heave I'd in ~
Spouse to the command of one of OF.
submarines, how could we saftly sent
boarding party over when { riflt
send us to the bottom? OBVIOUSLY Il
America persists in sending munitions
to the allies, there is but one thing
for us to do-sink the vessels
When / suggested that while thu
vulnerability Of the submarine un
s doubtedly lessened its value in con
nection with the right of search which
belligerents have under internatiOna
law, still the law ought to be oh
served. the kaiser interrupted me has
tily with the remark:
i international law! There is n
such thing as international law on
more!"
In that assertion, of course, lies tn
answer to all the questions which hav
arisen In connection with the c0ndut
Of the war; If the Germans reco,
nized no International law Int wer
guided solely by their ideas OF exped
ency and the demands of 'kultur
then the whole course of the war b.
came perfectly clear. The use Of pc
: sonous gus, the destruction Of info
| titled towns. the dissertation I
! churches, the attacks on hospitals al
Red Cross units, the countless atroc
) ties committed against civilians nj
J prisoners of war require no other e
, PLANTATION.
: No such thing as international Ia
t any morel