Weekly Nome industrial worker., 1919-04-26

Some of them are Africans and h. dian tribesmen.
 Even among the white men there Ire backwocdsmen whb are not, to say the least, obsessed with 9 sense of the right of a surrendered prisoner of war to life and hulna treatment
 Even the highly civilized wSite men whose early lives Were never roughened by the backwoods, the camp or the battlefield, have we not had letters in the newspapers clamoH ing for retaliatory cruelty with ferocity that would have revolted Captain Kidd?
 How would such people come out of an impatial investigation of atro- cities? It is creditable that any commander, knowing what war is and what must happen on all sides in all wars, Will consent to such an orgy of recrimination and raking up of hor- TOTS as is demanded by the simpletons who imagine that 20,00O,000 English men, Frenchmen, Australians. Amer cans, Indians and Africans of all sorts compose an army of angels and that Germany is a hell of uniformly lnredeemable fiends?
 As to sentimentalities about women  and children, of which the English and Germans are so full, how, any countenance, can they put forward by the statement of the two powers who have openly set themselves to he task Of starving one another out?
 Starving Effects ChiIdren
 This starving out is the most di rect form of war on women and child dren; fer the soldier must be fed at all hazards; he is the last to starve, while the women and children are the first
 hope l am not an exceptionally ferocious person, but 1 had rather torpedo baby or drown it than starve it to death. Officially it has been claimed by Parliament that fol every bomb dropped by German aero planes on our towns, one hundred have been dropped by Allied aero planes From out own experience we can guess the result.
 The German raider aims, presum. ably, at WoolwIich arsenal and wrecks house in Maid-a-Vale. His best shots, aimed apparently at the House or Parliament, strike the Little Thea ter and clip Cleopatra s needle.
 Our airmen, l judge, have no bet. ter means of selecting the spots where 2Ir bombs drop. This means that il raining hundreds of bombs, as we have, on the Rhine towns, we mus have killed many more women an( children than the Germaps In the case of Bruges, several of the victim, must have been our own Allies.
 The truth is, this war has literally exploded the notion that civilians oi women and children can hope to es cape from the undiscriminatingn en zines of death and destruction whicl have come into use.
 The use Hf starvation as a mean of defeating the enemy inyilves war fare on ships as such without regart to their living freight Under it principles any vessel capable of car rying provia,ons to the enemy mus go down, no matter who is on board
 The Next Trip.
 > 1t is idle to plead that the ship car ries no food, no munitions, no sol diers, or that it is a hospital ship o 9 passenger ship. If it is spared, i may carry food on it's next trip, S, down it goes.
 The question whether the Leinste had troops on board, is, viewed in thi light of no importance. If she had all the better from the German poln of view, and all the worse from ours but the real reason for sinking he was that she'was capable of carrying food to England.
 And whilst we kept up the blockadt against Germany and, thru ever! means in our power, closed ever! channel by which Germany could ob tain food for her starving population V>a had no moral right to complail she used every means in hers.
 As a matter of fact, soldiers anC real statesmen do not complain; the! It least do not imagine that any i'm, :. partial tribunal could make a mora or legal distinction between blockade by submarine and blockade by tn, grand fleet.
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