The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-21

LONDON, July 21.-Among the Ger
man army and navy officers and civil
ians who must stand trial for crimes
committed during the late war are at
least a half dozen in addition to the
ex-kaiser who may be classed as lead
ers Of great influence and prominence
in the old Germany. Two princes,
an ex-cabinet member and several
famous generals are found on the long
list in the international rogues' gal
lery. Some may be tried in Paris,
others in Brussels, while still others
may face their doom in London and
be imprisoned in the famous old
Tower.
Before the peace treaty was sign
ed notice was given to Germany that
she would be required to surrender
some offenders for trial before tri-
bunal representing five chief allied
and associate powers, but no names
were mentioned. 1t seems to be as
sured that the defendants will in
clude the following men:
Crown Prince Rupprecht Of Ba-
varia. known to his admirers as "the
anvil of the west" who is reported
in official documents to have ordered
his men to take no Birtishers alive.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle compiled
and edited record of the evidence
on which Great Britain based her
charge that Rupprechet was RESPONSE
BILE also for deportations from Lille.
Roubaix, Turcoing and other towns.
Won CapeIle on List
Admiral Edward Charles Ernest
Won Capelle, the German minister Of
marine succeeding Won Tirpitz, Is the
cabinet member who faces arraign-
ment for restricted submarine war
fare. He is held responsible not
only for the policy of general u
boat activity, but for the atrocities
practiced by their commanders. He
Is of plebian birth, and achieved his
high post because con Tirpitz found
him an apt and industrious pupil. His
father was a manufacturer at Celle,
in Hanover, and claimed Huguenot de-
scent; and the son was not raised to
the nobility until 1912, after he had
demonstrated to the then Kaiser his
prospective usefulness.
The administration of Won Capelle
was promised on the success OF u
boat warfare, and its failure, with the
attempted revolt in 1917 Of crews at
With elmshaven, caused his downfall.
V
many boastful statements Of the sue
cess of the U-boats, and repeatedly
asserted that England was being
starved.
Field Marshal August van Macken-
sen Is charged with thefts, incendiar-
ism and executions in his spectacular
onslaught into Rumania in 1916. He
seized vast stocks Of grain, million
head of cattle, two million sheep and
goats, a third of a million pigs. and
50 100000 marks in gold. His men
set the torch to Rumanian villages
and are said to have shot down Ru-
manian prisoners solely for terroriza-
ton.
Most PitIIess German.
To his admirers, Won Mackensen was
known as THE Sphinx" He was re-
garded as the most pitiless Of the Ger
mans in high command. He had
served in the war Of 1870 against
France, and then had retired for
three years to practice law, but he
found that too tame and re-entered
the army He was practically un
known, even in Germany, until he
undertook to command the campaign
against the Russians. early in 1915;
but his spectacular victories over an
enemy almost unarmed made him an
idol at home. Then he was commits
stoned successfully to overrun the lit
tie nations of Serbia and Rumania
anad his successes there fixed him
the more firmly in favor at Berlin. II
is not recorded that he ever whipped
an enemy Of his size, but his cruelties
| his cynicism, and the practices Of
his troops against the homes and the
people Of Rumania in particular
gained for him an undesirable dis
| tinction abroad.
The capature of Mackensen was q
fitting conclusion to a career which
seems always to have been a grand
stand play. He had required 10000
men to keep the Rumanians in sub
lection, and when the Austro- Hungar
ian government made it's peace with
Italy he sought to withdraw thege
troops through Hungary. This wa:
contrary to the terms of the treaty;
Hungary could not permit the passage
of German troops. And so this leader
whom the Germans had praised as
master StrategeSt and cOncuaror