The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-02-14

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 and consisfing of tue secretary of state, secretary of war, secretary of He nary aud George Creel. official censor. has made public c mass ot eridence deoling wih German war practtces Which Shoms He kaiser's leaders in the field and in command of copfured points 10 De directly re- sponsible for he beaStliness which has characterized the operations Of he "Huns, m the present c0nfict. Quotations from tue pamphlet fol- low:
 For many years leaders in every civ ilized nation have been trying to make warfare less brutal. The great land, marks in this movement are the Ge- neva and Hague conventions. The for mer made rules as to the care of the sick and wounded and established the Red Cross. At the first meeting at Ge novh. in 1864. if was agreed. and until the present war it has been taken for granted that the wounded. and the doc tors and nurses who cared for them. would be safe from all attacks by the enemy. The Hague conventions, drawn up in 1899 and 1907, made addi- tional rules to soften the uSages of war and especially to protect noncombat- ants and conquered lands. Germany took q prominent part in these meet ings. and with the other nations sol emnly pledged her faith to keep all the rules except one article in the Hague regulations. This was article A which forbade the conqueror to force any of the conquered to give informa- ton. All the other rules and reguln lions she accepted in the most binding manner.
 But Germany's military leaders had no intention of keeping these solemn promises. They had been trained along diffefent lines. Their leading generals for many years had been urg- ing policy of frightfulness. In the middle of the nineteenth century Von Clausewitz was looked upon as the greatest military authority. and the methods which he advocated were used by the Prussan army in its successful wars of 1S6G-1S71. Consequently be- cause these wars had been successful the wisdom of Von ClausewitZ' meth Ods seemed to the Prussian army to be fully proved.
 Policy of FrightfuIness. l Now. the essence of Von ClauSewitz' teachings was that successful war in wolves the ruthless application of force In the opening chapter of his master work. "Vom Kriege" con Vary. he says:
 "Violence arms itself with the inven- tionS of art and science. Self imposed restrictions. almost impercep tible and hardly worth mentioning. termed usages of international law. accompany it without essentially i'm pairing its power. Now, phlan- thropic souls might easily imagine tEa: there is q skillful method of disarm- ing or subduing an enemy without causing too much bloodshed. and that this is the true tendency of the art of war. However plausible this may ap- pear, still it is an error which must be destroyed; for in such dangerous things as war, the errors which pro- cecd from spirit of 'good-natured- ness are precisely the worst. As the use of physical force to the utmost eX- tent by no means excludes the CO., operation of the intelligence, 1t follows that he who uses force ruthlessly, with out regard to bloodshed. must obtain superiority, if his enemy does not so use it."
 In 1S77-7S, in the course of a series of articles upon Military Necessity and Humanity" General von Hartmann wrote, in the same spirit as Von Clau- sewltz:
 "rhe enemy state must not be spared the want and wretchedness of war these are particularly useful in shat tering its energy and subduing its will "Individual persons may be harslly dealt with when an example is made of them intended 10 serve as warn, ing. Whenever national war breaks out, terrorism becomes nee essnry military principle" 'It Is a gratuitOus illusion to suppose thu, modern war does not demand far more brutality, far more violence, and ar action far more general than was for merly the case."
 In 1881 Von Moltke, who had beei commander in chief of the Prussiar army in the FrancO-Prussan war, de . clared:
 "Perpetual peace Is dream and no
 even a beautiful dream. War is an ele ment in the order of the world estab
 Hshed by God. By it the most noble virtues of man are developed, courag,
 and remuneration, fidelity to duty ant
 the spirit of sacrifice-the soldier gives
 his life. Without war, the world would
 degenerate and lose itself ip material