The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-03
GERMANY GUILTY
OF BARBkR|T|ES
IN WAR CONDUCT
Atrocious Treatment OF the Help
less Part Of Campaign Plans
Of Military Leaders.
POLICY OF FRlGHTFULNESS
Terrorism Declared a Necessary prin.
ciple in National Warfarc-Bru.
talities May Be Said to De 81.
rcetly Attributable 10 the
Emperor Himself.


Emperor Himself.
A pamphle. Just issued by the Com.
mittec ON Public Information tells OF
the horrors deliberately and eystomat.
iealIy inflicted upon the people Of Bel.
GUM by the German sold ers, under
the orders OF their commanding Off.
GERS. Quotations given are from doeu.
ments already made public or in the
possession OF the government at Wash.
ingtor.
For many wears lenders IN every civ.
ilIzcd milton have been trying 10 mike
warfare less brutal. The great land
marks IN this movement are the &c.
ncva and Hague conventions. The for
mcr mad" rules ms To- ~" cnrr of ;h,
sick and wounded and established the
Red Cross. st the first meeting NJ Go.
neva In 1864. II was agreed. nul until
the present war II has been taken Tor
granted that IA" wounded. AMI m" doe
tors and nurses who cared for them.
would hc SAT" from Hll attacks by NE
enemy. The Hague conventions.
drawn mp In 1880 and 1907. made add
iionnl rules to soften III" usag"s Of war
and especially To- protect nCucomhot
ants and conquered lands. Germnny
tool u prominent part In those meet.
ings, and with the other nations sol.
EMMY pledged her faith to keep MI the
rules except one article In the Hague
regulations. This wnS article 81.
which forbade the COnQucrur tu force
any 81 the conquered to Civ" in'nrma.
ton. All the other rules and rgula.
tlons she accepted In the most binding
manner.
But Gormnny's military Leaders had
no intention "f keeping these Solcmn
promises. They had been 'ulined
along different lines. Their leading
generals for many years had beer rrr'
Ing II policy Of frightfuln"ss. !, the
middle Of the nineteenth century 'or
Clauscwltz was looked upon rs he
greatest military authority, and h.
methods which he advocated were ned
by the Prussinn army In its successor
hy the prussinn army In It's suCccs;ll
cause these wars had been surrcsSil
the wisdom Of Won clausewitZ' MD.
DDS seemed to the prusSian army tO'e
FULLY proved.
Policy Of Friohtfulness.
Now. the essence of Won clausewk
teachings was that successful wal /,
wolves the ruthless application of f"r'
In the opening chapter If his mast
work, "Vom Kricgr" CON War;,
says:
evidence arms itself with th" inv"
lions Of art and science. :"
imposed restrictions, almost imp"rc"
tihlo and hardly worth m"ntionlr
termed usngcs Of international Ia
accompany Il without essentially i
pnirlng its power. Now, philo
thropic souls might easily imagine" III
there is u sklllful method Of disnr
ing or suhduing nm enemy wi'ho
causing too much hloodShcd. ana III
this Is the tru" tendency Of III" nrt
war. However plnusihl" this may {
near, still II is nm error which must
DESTROYED; for In such dnngcro
things ne war. 'h" errors Whi'h "
coed from n spirit Of 'gooh-natnr'
ness are precisely the worst. As
use Of physical fore" 10 III" utm"St
tent by no means excludes th"
operation ~ the intelligence, II folio
TINT he who uses force ruthlcssly. wi
out regard In hloodshed, must ohti
a superiority, II his enemy does
80 use H."
In ISTT.7s. In the curse ~ II ser
OF articles upon military Neccss
- tI...n,I,,. - Iannrnt Won IIn ri mn
wrote, In the same spirit ms o u
sewltz:
"Thc enemy state must not be spa
the want and Indebtedness or ~
these are particularly useful In ST
tcrIng It's energy and suhdning lis vi
"Individunl pcrsons mny ho hnrS
dealt with when nm cHnmrl" Is mi
Of them. intended To s"rr" Ms n wa
ing. Whenever u national
brrnks out. terrorism becomes n
cssnry military principle III Is
rratultous Illusion 10 supnnS" '
modern war does not demand fnr IN
LrutnlIty, fnr more violence, ANA
action far more general than was
mcrly the cnan." when inforuatio
war has burst upun rs, terrorism
comes II rrlnrlple mad" necessary
military considerations"
"Nar %Ectablished by God"
In 1881 Won M"ltke, VIII" had Il
commander in chief of the PruS'
army in the Franco russian war
clarcd:
"Pcrpctunl peace is n dream n
even n beautiful dream. War Is nm
ment In the order of the world as
Iished by God. by II the most n
y virtues ~ mnn are developed, couI
and remuneration, fidelity to duty
the spirit of sncrIice-ihe soldier Z
his NE. without war, the world w
degenerate and lose itself In mate
ism" 'The soldier who endures
ferIng. privation and fatigue
courts dangers, cannot take only
proportion 20 the or
oo,,,.y' lilo must TAKE all that is