Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-10
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The horrors deliberately and Sys-
temoticGly inflicted upon the people
of Belgium by The German soldiers,
under the orders Of their command
ing officers, are ShOwn in all their
hideousnesS by official documents
and The testimony Of eye-witnesSeS,
as well as by letters written By Ger
man soldiers in the field. The bra
zen effort of Emperor William to
cast the odium of the fearful deeds
on the BeIgians is also shown. Quo
tations giuea are from documents
already made public or in the pos
session of the government at Wash
ington.
This interview was reproduced IN
the Berliner Tageblatt of November
20. 1914.
Mr.. +. C. WalcOtt of the Belgian re-
lief commission tells in the Geograph'
ical Magazine for May, 1917, of meet
! ing Gen Won Bernhard:
"As | walked out Gen. won Bern'
hardi came into the room, an expert
artilleryman. professor in one oil
their war colleges. met nm Ihe
next morning, and he asked me IL
had read his book, Germany in the
Next War
81 said | had. He said: do y0t
know, my friends nearly ran me ou
of the country for thatT They SAID
You have let the cat out Of the bag
said. No. I have not, because nobod!
will believe it, What did you thinl
of IT.?
81 said. General, ] did not believe
word of it when | read it, but nov
feel that you did not tell the Who'll
truth and the old general looke
actually pleased
: Speaking on August 90, 1914, a
: Munster, of the extreme measure
which the Germans felt obliged TO tax
, against the civil population of be
GUM. Gen. Won Kissing said:
"The innocent must suffer with tn
guilty. In the repression 0
infamy, human lives cannot he spared
and if isolated houses, fl0urishing vi
lagos. and even entire towns are ann
t hilated. that is asSuredly regrettaDl
e but il must not excite ill-timed sent
T. mentality. All this must not in OF
C eyes weigh as much aS the life OF
single one of our brave soldiers-tl
rigorous accomplishment Of duty is II
u emanation of high kutur, and
{ that. the population Of the enen
v countries can learn lesson from OF
II army"
y officers Encouraged Atrocities.
" Gen. Won Kissing, after his appoin
ment rs governor general Of Belgiul
u reneatcd in substance the above OPT
ion to Dutch journalist The inte
view is published in the dusseldorf
= An2eger of December s. 1914.
Irwin s. Cobb states his conclusion
on the responsibility of the higher &c
man command for the atrocities:
"But was an eyewitness to Grim
which measured by the standards
humanity and civilization, Impress
me as worse than any individual G
cess, any individual outrage, cou
ever have been or can ever be; I
cause these crimes induhitably we
), ipstigated on a wholesale basis by
' der of officers of rank and must ha
been carried Out under their person
supervision. direction, and approv
IL Taking the physical evidence oft
j. ed before our own eyes, and buttre!
p ing it with the statements made to
m not only by natives, but German $
IN diers and German officers. we cot
hv reach hut one conclusion, which W
>, that here, in such and such n pla
those in command had said to
sU troops: Spare This town and the
nc pcople.' And there they had sal
"a Waste this town and shoot these p'
nd ple. And here the troops had discri
er inately spared, and there they had
lis discriminatory wasted, in exact
nj cordance with the word Of their SUI
: riors. Irwin Cobb. Speaking of Pr
' slams. New York. 1917, PIP. 1924.
Hoodwinked German People.
These ideas. then. were system
GU ically impressed upon the military q
al official classes. 1t was necessal
I'D however. 10 work upon the minds
IL the German people, so that they mi;
to lend themselves TO the inhuman p'
~ cies advocated by the military leade
To do this was difficult. for. as
=. been shown often. many of the cl
" ian leaders Of public opinion. time
main ayuresspd their horror of