The Cordova daily times., 1918-01-31

ism" "The soldier who endures sui fering. privatiOn and fatigue, who courts dangers, cannot take only fin proportion 10 the resources of the country He must take all that is nee eSSary tG his existence One has no right to demand of him anything super hlInan.' "The great good in war is that it should be ended quickly. In view Of this every means. except those which are positively condemnable. must be permitted. I cannot in any way, agree with the declaration of St. Fetersburg when 1t pretends that the weakening of the military forces of the enemy constitutes the only legitimate method of procedure in war. No! One must attack all the resources of the enemy government, his finances. his railroads, his stock of provisions anG even his prestige. ."
 Many other examples might be citeG from the writings of German generals The very best illustration of this attI, tude, however, is to be found in the emperor'S variOus speeches, and espe. cialIy in his speech to his soldiers on the eve of their departure for China In l9oO. On July 27 the kaiser went to Rremerhaven to bid farewell to the German troops. As they were drawn up, ready 10 embark for China, he ad dressed to them last official message from the fatherand. The local news. paper reported his speech in full. In it appeared :hiS advice and admOnitiOD from the emperor, the commander in chief of the army the head of all Ger many:
 Soldiers Told to Be MerciIess.
 'AS soon as you come to blows with the enemy he will be beaten. No mercy will be shown! No prisoners will be taken As the Huns under King At hia, made a name for themselves, which is still mighty in traditions and legends today. may the name of Ger man be so fixed fin China by your deeds, that no Chinese shall ever again dare even to look at German askance. .. ! Open the way for KuItur once for all." Even the imperial councillors seem to | have been shocked at the emperOr's 1 Tp'N'ii' fhh Stloi AH "VIC pI OItlBlIS made to suppress the circulation of hIs exact words. The efforts were only partly successful A few weeks later, when the letters from the German sol diers in China were being published, in local German papers, the leading socialist newspaper, VOrwaerts, ex- cerpted from them reports of atroci- 1 tibg t.T oF Abo Huns.' Many of the leaders in the reichstag felt very keenly the brutality of the emperOr's speech. The ObnOx- iOus word Huns" had excited almost universal condemnation. When the reichstag met, in November, the speech was openly discussed. Herr Lieber of the center Catholic paTty), after quot ing the mo mercy" portion of the speech, added, ''There are, alas. in Ger many groups enough who have regard ed the atrocities told in the letters which have been published as the duti- ful response of soldiers so addressed land encouraged" The leader of the social democrats. Herr Rebel spoke Ieven more pOintedly. Toward the end of twO-hOur address on the atrocities committed by the German soldiers in lChina and on the speech of the em- IperOr, he said:
 ''if Germany wishes to be the bearer IOf civilization to the world, we will follow without contradiction. But the ways and means in which this world policy has been carried on thus far, in which 1t has been defined by the en- IperOr are not, in our opinion. the way to preserve the world position of Germany, to gain for Germany the respect of the world"
 The consequences of the emperor's lspeech Bebel aptly described:
 By 1t the signal was given, garbed lin the highest authority of the German empire, which must have most weighty Consequences, not only for the troops who went to China but also for those who stayed at home. An expedition of revenge so barbarous as this has never occurred in the last hundred years and not often in history; at least, nothing worse than this has hap Ipened In history. either done by the Huns, by the Vandals, by Genghis Khan. by Tamerlane, or even by lilly when he sacked Magdeburg."
 Atrocities in China.
 These atrocities in China or Letters of the Huns" continued to be published lin the VOrwaerts for several years and appeared internationally in the debates of the reichstag as late as 1906. At that time the socialist. Herr Kunert reviewing the procedure in trial of which he had been the victim in the previous summer, stated that he had offered to prove that German soldiers in China had engaged in wantOn and brutal ravaging; that plunder, pillaga. extortiOn, robbery, as we'll as rape and sexual abuses of the worst kind, had occurred on very large scale and that German soldiers had participated In 1 them" He had not been given an Op- pOrtunity to prove his allegations. but had been sentenced to prison for three