The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-26
OUTSIDE PALE
| OF HUMANITY
FFtghtfulness Taught by German
Leaders Belongs to Age Of
Barbarism.
e0LEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS
Healser's Statesmen Had No Intention
u Keeping Faith With Their
Agreement on international Law
Horrors Told by Diaries.

IN giving to the american people
We knowledge of German inhuman-
h IN Belgium, says pamphlet IS
esd by the committee on public in-
Formation, the evidence Is drawn
Iaoinsy from German and American
ources. The German sources IN
Wade official procIamations and
Bier official utterdnces, letters and
Dsories of German soldiers, and quo
ettons from German newspapers.
The "RuIes for Field Service" of the
gsrman army advises each soldier
DO keep such diary while on actiue
ssrvice.
In the wars waged in ancient times
1t was taken for granted that con-
Nuered peoples might be either killed,
tortured, or held as slaves; that their
property would be taken and that their
bands would be devastated. "vae vic
has woe to the conqueredp For two
centuries or more there has been a
eteady advance in introducing ideas of
humanity and especially In combining
Me evils Of warfare to the combatants.
Hhe ideal seemed to have become so
Thoroughly established as part of in
lternational law that the powers at The
hague thought 1t sufficient merely to
htate the general principles in Article
XIV of the regulations: Family hon.
L.
and private property, as well as re-
Mgfous convictions and practice, must
be respected. Private property cannot
be confiscated." Germany, In common
with the other powers, solemnfy
pledged her faith to keep this article,
bot her military leaders had no inten-
Etfon of doing so. They had been
trained in the ideas voiced by Gen. Won
Hartmann 40 years ago: Terrorism
e4fure, useful to keep the masses Of
Islie people In a state Of obedience"
This had been Bismarck's policy, too.
M6cordfng to Moritz Busch, Bismark's
M1ographer, Bismarck, exasperated by
Nae French resistance, which was still
leontinuing In January. 1871, said:
"h m the territory which we occupy,
lwe cannot supply everything for our
TROOPS, from time to time we shall send
la flying column into the localities
(which are recalc!trant. We shall shoot,
n1ang and burn. After that has hap
hened few times, the inhabitants will
finally come to their senses"
Horrors Told In Soldiers Diaries.
The frightfulness taught by the Ger
man leaders held full sway In Belgium.
This Ii best seen in the entries In the
diaries Of the individual German SOL
diers.
During the night of August 1919
Engineer CIR gave the alarm In the
town Of Wise. Every one was shot or
taken prisoner, and the houses were
burnt. The prisoners were made to
march and keep up with the troops"
(From the diary of noncommissioned
officer Reinhold Koehn of the Second
battalion Of engineers, Third army
Eorps.)
"A horrible bath of blood. The whole
Village burnt. the French thrown into
the blazing houses, civilians with the
rest" (Brom the diary of Private
Hassemer of the Eighth army corps.)
'In the night of August 1919 the vii
hage of Saint-Maurice was punished
FOR having fired on German soldiers by
being burnt to the ground by the Ger
man troops 1.-TWO regiments, the
Twelfth landwehr and the Seven
Seenfh.) The village was surrounded
men posted about a yard from one an
6ther. SO that no one could get out.
Then the Uhlans set fire to 1t, house
by house. Neither man, woman, nor
ehild could escape; only the greater
part of the live stock we carried OF
rs that could be used. Anyone who
Nentured to come out was shot down.
AL the Inhabitants left in the village
were burnt with the houses" (From
the diary Of Private Karl Scheufele of
The Third Bavarian regiment and land
@ehr infantry.)
Eat ten o'clock In the evening the
6rst battalion of the One hundred and
Seventy-eighth marched down the steep
Incline into the burning village to the
burning village to the north of Dinant.
a terrific spectacle of CHASTITY beauty.
At the entrance to the village lay about
nifty dead civilians, shot for having
nred upon our troops from ambush. In
The course Of the night many others
were also shot, so that we counted over
100. Women and children, lamp In
hand, were forced to look on at the
horrible scene. We ate our rice later
u the midst of the corpses, for we had
hAd nothing since morning. When we
hsarched the houses we found plenty
Of wine and spirit, but no eatables
Captain HAmann was drunk" (This
hast phrase In shorthand.) (From the
hilary OF Private Philip Of the One
Hnndred ana Seventy-eighth regiment
bf infantry Twelfth army corps.)
Writing from Belgium In 1915 irwin