The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-03

the Dayonet according To orders.
"And Russians who have surrender
ed are often shot down in masses ac-
cording to orders. In spite OF their
heart-rending prayers.
'ln the hope that you. as the repre-
sentative of a Christian stn,e, will
protest ngainst this. ] sign myself,
"A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS
TIAN"
The third letter. from the western
front. shows the same horror of the
system of which tine writer was a wit
ness.
ITO the American Government
Washington. o. S. A.
'EngliShmen who have surrendered
are shot down in small groups. With
the French one Is lr.nre considt rate. |
ask whether men let themselves be
taken prisoner in order 10 be dis
armed and shot down afterwnrd? l.
that clhyalry in'bnttle? IT is no longer
u secret among the people; one hears
everywhere that few prisoners are
taken; they are shot down In small
groups. They say naively: We don't
want any unnecessary mouths to feed.
Where there Is no one 10 enter com
plaint. there is no judge e there
then no power in the world which can
put an end 10 these murders and res
cue the victimsl Where is Chris
tinnity? Where is rightr Might is
right.
"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 frirhtfuiness. The
vorwaerts, the leading sociaIist paper
which has very wide circle Of rend-
ers. has opposed the policy of fright
fulness. All honor to Its editors who
have so courageously opposed the DOW
erful military authority, Its editorial.
entitled "Our Foes" published August
%. 1914. reads MS follows:
"What should one say when even
such an organ as the Deutsches OIL
zier-Blatt expresses Its sympathy with
a demand that the beasts who are
taken ms francs-tireurs should not be
may then be left tn a fate which makes
any help impossibler Or what should
We say when the DeutSches Offizier-
Biatt states that a punitive destruc-
tion even af whole regions cannot .sf-
ford full recompense for the bones Of a
single murdered Pumernnian 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"
~earbsrisn.' Declares von~zerts-
On the following day. August 81
1914. the vorwnerts returned to the
attack in nm editorial Against Bar
hnrism"
~One might. In the first
place. possibly believe that such a de
mnnd for a bloody vengeance [arninst
alleged Belgian outrngesl emanates
from q single disense-racked brain:
hut II appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge In or
gies of harharism and to devise
whole system for the purpose OF or
-anizinG a war of revenge
''whnt Of law and custom, Such
thoughts do not stir great nation
Thus in leading article Of the Bcr-
liner Neues'e Nachrichten, the de
mand IS made that all the authorities
In BrusscIs-one the second burgomas-
ter. IS generously excepted-should be
immediately seized md subjected to
trfa' In order to expiate the wrongs
which. according to frngmentary and
highly uncertain reports. were said to
have been committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should Immediately pay a fine of 500.-
100000 marks: that all stores OF the
conquered territory be reQuisitioned
without paying the Inhabitants single
penny for them"
vor~aerts in Protest.
Three years later. August %, 1917.
the vorwaerts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszei-
tung:
ave hare ring Of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Macht-
noiitiker). who dcspise the forces of
the inner life aud believe that they
must eliminate ali ethical points OF
view from foreign and social
politics. For them. Germany Of the
present and of the future is the coun-
try Of the Krupps and Borsigs, Of the
Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea
of connection between politics and
morals Is rejected and any reference
to the right OF a mornl method of con-
sideratiou Is ridfculed as delusion and