Williams news., 1918-01-10
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| in sympathy with them have done all | in their power to stimulate a hatred of | other peoples in the minds of the Ger ] mans. A campaign of education be- l fore the war was carried on with the 1 object of impressing upon the minds 1 of the Germans the treacherous nature of the peoples against whom the mili- 1 tary leaders were anxious to wage | war. Not only were the Germans grad ually led to believe that it was neces- | sary to fight defensive war against | interruptions foes, but also that these foes would violate every precept of hu-
 manity, and consequently must be crushed without mercy as a measure l of Self-defenSe. The fruits of this | campaign of suspicion and hatred be- | came evident when almost at the out l break of the war many Germans be- | came possessed with the belief that l the whole population of Belgium, the | first country to be invaded, had vio- l lated every rule of honorable warfare,
 that the francs-tireurs (guerrillas) | were everywhere present doing their deadly work in secrecy or under the cover of darkness; that women and even children were mutilating and kill HE lIIc NOuuucu uOlplcSS pTISOH0IS
 The effect of the fables upon the popular mind may be seen in the fol lowing extracts from German letters:
 Extract from a letter written by German soldier to his brother. (This letter, now in the possession of the United States government, was obtain ed for this pamphlet from MT. J. c. Grew, formerly secretary to the United States embassy at Berlin.)
 November 4, 1914.
 ''The battles are everywhere ex- tremely tenacious and bloody. The EnglfShmen we hate most and we want to get even with them for once. While one now and then sees French prison CTS, one hardly ever beholds French black troops or Englishmen. These good people are not overlooked by our infantrymen; that sort of people is moved down without mercy. The losses of the Englishmen must be enor- nous. There is a desire to wipe them out. root and all."
 The emperor gave his sanction to the reports of the brutal acts of the Belgians in a telegram to President Wilson.
 'Berlin, via Copenhagen, Sept. z. 1914. Secretary of State, Washington.
 Number 53. September 7. I am re- quested to forward the following tele- gram from the emperor to the presi- dent:
 "1 feel it my duty MT. President, to inform you as the most prominent representative of principles of human ity, that after taking the French fort ress of Longwy, my troops discovered there thousands of dumdum cartridges made by special government machin- cry. The same kind of ammunition was found on killed and wounded troops and prisoners, also on the Brit iSh troops. You know what terrible wounds and suffering these bullets in- f1ict and that their use is strictly for bidden by the established rules of in- ternatiOnal law. I therefore address a solemn protest to you against this kind of warfare. which, owing to the methods of our adversaries, has be- come one of the most barbarOus known in history. Not only have they em- ployed these atrociouS weapons, but the Belgian government has openly en- couraged and long since carefully pre- pared the participation of the Belgian civil population in the fighting. The atrocities committed even by women and priests in this guerrilla warfare, also on wounded soldiers, medical staff and nurses, doctors killed, hospitals attacked by rifle fire, were such that my generals finally were compelled to take the most drastic measures in or der to punish the guilty and to fright en the bloodthirsty population from continuing their work of vile murder and horror Some villages and even the old town of Loewen (Louvain), excepting the fine hotel de vile, had to be destroyed in self-defense, and for the protection of my troops. My heart bleeds when I see that such measures have become unavoidable and when I think of the numerous in- nocent people who lose their home and property as consequence of the bar barous behavior of those criminals. | Signed. William, Emperor and King
 GERARD, Berlin"
 Lorenz Muller in the German Cath solic Review, Der Feis, February, 1915, | made the following statement in re- gard to the emperor's telegram:
 officially no instance has been | proven or persons having nred With | the help of priests from the towers of churches. All that has been made known up to the present, and that has | been made the object of inquiry con- corning alleged atrocities attributed to | Catholic priests during this war, has | been shown to be false and altogether imaginary, without any exception. Our emperor telegraphed to the president | oE even women and priests had commit