The Snowflake herald., 1918-02-22

oouI - uonselS' cannot take on,,
proportion to the resources OuS
country He must take All ~ Of
essary to his existence. Ono SNe
right to demand of him anytbinn ua'
human" "The great good IL Sqe
that it should be ended oria,,& - wa
view of this, every means. avoy INV
which are positively conda p' lq
must be permitted. cannot t'iiaaa
way, agree with the declaratioo. "a
Petersburg when it pretonds '0u !, q
weakening of the military forcos ,ual !. y
enemy constitutes the onIv Ioa,, ~ at
method of procedure in war N s,lar
must attack all the resources w.
enemy government, his fnon.U u
railroads, his stock of provicios
even his prestige. :" 'R
Many other examples might
from the writings of German oos.
The very best Illustration Of ~ sSuVa
tuue' however is to be found II
emperOr's various speeches ons y
cially in his speech to his sol@
the eve of their departure for Nv, y0
1900. On July q the kaisor sDip
Bremerhaven to bid farewan ~
German troops. AS they woro y y
up, ready to embark for Chino y y
dressed to them a last official na
from the fatherland. The looal
paper reported his speech in Am
it appeared this advice and adm.
from the emperor, the commo,a
chief of the army, the head Of OIL
many:
Soldiers Told to Be MercI..
Gas soon as you come to blow,
the enemy he will be beaten Nn
will be shown! No prisoners MIN,
taken! AS the Huns, under Rim,
tia, made a name for thqmss,
which is still mighty in tradition,
legends today, may the name n h
man be so fixed in China bv vonr3..
that no Chinese shall ever again h
even to look at a German ask9na
Open the way for Kultur once fmsr
Even the imperial councillors soon
have been shocked at the pmrn.
speech, and efforts were nroms
made to suppress the circulatimdl
exact words. The efforts Wprs h
partly successful. A few week, hi,
when the letters from the German
diers in China were being mbra
in local German papers, the lgA
socialist newspaper, Vorwaers
cerpted from them reports Of ahs
ties under the title Letters Of
Huns" Many of the leaders m
reichstag felt very keenly the buaH
of the emperor's speech. The d5
iouS word "Huns" had excited snJ
universal condemnation. When
reichstag met, in November, the ga
was openly discussed. Herr Lag
the center Catholic parity, aftgC
ing the "nO mercy" portion Of d
speech, added, "There are, alas ha
many groups enough who have eE.
ed the atrocities told in the l@
which have been published as h1
full response of soldiers 50 aiAs
and encouraged" The Leader Of d1
social democrats, Herr Beld spoke
even more pOintedly. ToWad @ Hd
/ of a twO-hOur address on the atrocities
committed by the German soldiers
China and on the speech Of aeG
peror, he said:
eff Germany wishes to be the D@
Of civilization to the world, VIEW
follow without contradiction Bu
ways and means in which this VC
policy has been carried on thus la
which it has been defined by tRa
peror are not, in our 0lA
the way to preserve the world ps'
of Germany, to gain for Germany
respect of the world"
The consequences of the enN
speech Bebel aptly described
"By it the signal was given
in the highest authority OF the V1
empire, which must have most W.
consequences, not only for Ine
who went to China but also lu !.
who stayed at home. An eAisls
of revenge so barbarOuS as u
never occurred in the last lD'
years and not often in nS9i =,
least. nothing worse than this T,J
pened in history, either doT ,,,J
Huns, by the Vandals' Oy IN Tr
Khan, by Tamerlane, or even =
when he sacked Magdeburg
Atrocities in China -.
These atrocities in China u .Tcn
of the Huns continued to FP~ HI
in the VOrwaerts for seyer'l 11I
appeared intermittently in ut ,oG g
of the reichstag as late as l'r r,e
that time the socialist HSI. M
reviewing the procedure H. ilsn h
which he had been the 'lCu n b
,previous summer stated 'ua, s .@
offered to prove "that Gerluor aotn
in China had engaged III w." W., Ir:
brutal ravaging; that PUN raa
extortion, robbery as wen a. tiri
sexual abuses of the worst p ont
occurred on a very large scal5 ,inoa NJ
German soldiers had pa[.lrlrn iran
them" He had not been ,tS,ofops SI,
portunity to prove his allssaIfr !Sao frt
had been sentenced to prison sonor t
months for assailing the ne, lOp nh y