Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-12-04

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 At a subsequent interview we re- ferred to Belgium again, and the kali ser alleged that Japan had violated the neutrality of China when she sent troops through Chinese territory to seize Kiao-Chau.
 Tt is all right for the allies to do these things" he commented sarcas- tically, but when Germany does them England rises up in righteous indig- nation. The hypocrites Why, we found papers in Brussels which showed exclusively that England and Belgium had secret agreement by which in the event of war with Ger many England was to be permitted to occupy Belgium We've got those pa | pers in Berlin. We could have no more positive proof against them. The Belgians were simply England's tools l" Some of the arguments the kaiser | raised in his discussions with me re- | garding the war were so weak and untenable that one might well doubt his sincerity in urging them, but shall give them for what they are worth.
 "They refer to us as the Huns!" the kaiser observed bitterly. If your people could see what the Russians have done in the Bukowina and east ern Prussia they would know then who are the real Huns! They de- stroyed everything they could lay their hands on. In one of my shoot ing lodges which the Cossacks entered they even knocked out the teeth of the boars' heads which hung on the walls 1! | With knives they cut out the covers of my chairs. They had special fire bombs which they threw on peaceful villages. These bombs had been con. structed in peace times and were de- signed solely for pillage and destruc- 1 tion.
 Instead of treating their soldiers as prisoners of war we should have strung them up by the neck-every one of them!"
 | Several prominent Poles, who were patients of mine and whose fine es- tates in Poland were footed and de- molished, told me positively that the destruction and depredations were committed entirely by German troops. The Russians had occupied the houses when they were in possession of that section of the country, but 1t was not until they were driven out by the Ger mans that the acts of vandalism were committed and they had convincing evidence that in every case the Ger man soldiers and not the Russians were responsible.
 The outrages committed by the Ger mans in their treatment of prisoners of war will probably never be known in their entirety. We do know that they executed Captain Fryatt, the commander of a British merchant yes 4rsel, VI was captured after be- bad ra1ih} z 6efIhdn U-boat. l don't know to what extent the kaiser was directly responsible for that dastardly crime, but from what he said regard ing the capture of another British cap tain, the commander of the Baralong, ic was quite evident that he was in entire sympathy with acts of that character.
 A German U-boat had sunk Brit ish vessel upon which were some of the relatives of the crew of the Bara- long. The crew of this U-boat was subsequently captured by the Bara- long, and according to reports in Ger many they were harshly treated. Then 1t was reported that the BaralOng had been captured and that her captain and the crew would be summarily dealt with.
 q hear we have captured the cap- tain of the Baralong," the kaiser de clared to me at that time. "If we can prove that he's the man we'll fix him !"
 The manner in which the kaiser spoke left no doubt in my mind that the direst punishment would be meted out to the unfortunate British captain.
 Booty is undoubtedly legitimate incident of war, but it is legitimate only as an incident. Otherwise booty becomes loot. In any event, when in- vading troops seize private property it is customary to pay for it. That the Germans were good takers but poor payers is revealed by two incidents which the kaiser narrated to me. and the keen enjoyment he derived from them can be fully understood only by those who know how much the kaiser appreciates getting something fol nothing.
 "Roumania wanted our gold for food products" he told me. "They demand ed pure gold and they set enormous prices on their wares; but we needed what they had to sell and we were ready to pay even the outrageous