Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

enabled to stir up international re-
bellion and even to make secret of
fensive preparations within the ter
ritory of their neighbors, whereby
they might, when the moment came,
strike them down with greater GER
! tainty and ease. They kept Europe
in ferment by threats of violence.
and when they found that their
neighbors were resolved to resist
their arrogant will. they determined
to assert their predominance in
Europe by force
AS soon as their preparations
We're complete they encouraged a
supservient ally to declare war on
serbia on 4S hours notice, a war in
Noivlng the control of the Balkans,
which they knew could not be local
ized and which was bound to un-
chain a general war.
Plotted World War
IN order to make doubly sure,
uiey refused every attempt at con-
ellIalon and conference, until it was
700 Iate and the world war was in
eslsaoIe' Tor which they had plated
tons they were adequately eouipped
ana prepared.
Germany's responsibility, how
ever Is not confined to having plan
,.oSi meu ana started the war. She is no less
i1nponslole Tor the savage and in
Iun4 manner in which it was con-
sois Ihough Germany was her
seIl the guaranty of Belgium Ger
violated the rules after a SOL
;tu tn promise to respect the neutral
'S ol TINS unoffendin: people
uL Not content with this. thew de-
noerately carried out a series of
piithsliSchous p,ith . shootings and burninrs
inbn, en me sole object of terrifying the
ver,, Ts. into submission by the
Tbe,, ISL ulness of their action.
gas we're the first to use poisonous
ff en- t"i.hstandtng the appalling
ing 1t entailed. Tbev hagan -
me bombing and long distance sbeII
tnS OF towns, for no militarv ohiect
ut soIely for the purpose of reSuc'
the morale of their opnonents h,.
"' In, ing at their women and cbiIdren
ney commenced the submarina q
,Tdilp palgn, with its piraticaI obi
tehse 10 international law ana its
uestructlon of great Numbers ~ IN
Iocent passengers and sailors -,
rnlu-ocean. far from succor ~ -.
aie1cy or the winds and the waves
anu anu the yet more ruthless subn, ri,, .
crews. They drove thousands of n,er,
nnu women and children with brntai
1IaNaeery into slavery in foreipn
.aIus' tney allowed barbarities to he
p.i.'iseu against their prisoners of
"a @ @tloih Whlch the most unciviliz-
would nave recoiled.
, Seven Million Dead
The conduct of GERMANY q -,
most unexampled in human bistor,
me terrible responsibility which Iis.
az ner doors can be seen nv tho foc+
,haI not less than seven million dead
ne our1ed in Europe, while more
.nan twenty million others carry
upon them the evidence of wounds
anu suHerlng, because GERMANY Ga nv
III 70 crafty her lust for tyranny nv
resort to war. oS
Inc Allied and associated powers
nelleve that they will he faIee -
those who have given their all 70
save the freedom of the world if
they consent to treat war IN on,,
other basis than as a crime against
humanity and right.
rms attitude of the Allied and
associated powers was made ner-
rectly clear to Germany during tbo
war by their principal statesmen II
was uenned by President Wilson ir
4S SPOSNh VI April b, 1918, and aV-
phcitly and categorically accepted bv
the German pebple as a princinIe
covering the peace"
Quotes George and Orlando
M. Clemenceau in the letter also
quotes from speeches delivered by
Premier Lloyd George, of Great
Britain, himself as premier of
France. and Premier Orlando of
Italy, in which it was specifically de-
clared that when victory was won.
compromise as to peace terms was
impossible and just punishment
should be meted out, and continues:
Justice, therefore. is the only
possible basis for the settlement of
the accounts of this terrible war.
Justice is what the German delega-
ton asks for and says that Germany
has been promised. But it must be
justice for all. There must be justice
for the dead and wounded and for
those who have been made orphans
and bereaved that Europe might be
free from Prussian despotism. There
must be justice for the peoples who
now stagger under war debts, which
exceed thirty billion. that liberty
might be saved. There must be JUS
tice for those millions whose homes
and lands. ships and property, Ger
man savagery has spoliated and de-
stroyed.
That is why the Allied and asso-
Ciated powers have inSiSted as n