Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-19
WARNS AMERICANS
AGAINST GERMANS
Gen. McGIachIin, in Army
Order, Expresses Dis
trust of Huns.

NEW YORK. July 19.-The New
York Times today says:
Maj Gen. E. F. McGlachlin, jr., COM
handing the 1st Division of Regulars
in Germany, is a division commander
who puts very little trust in German
protestations, and he believes that the
German is still busy trying to find
way to impose German ideas on the
world. Recently Gen. McGlachlin is
sued this official warning to his divi-
sion. 1t is in the form of division
order, and reads as follows:
To the Division:
German eyes look and see, boche
ears listen and hear, Hun lips tell all
the halftruths and lies and only those
truths calculated to accomplish their
particular selfish objects.
Our enemy still attempts always to
impose his ideas on the world.
Given every opportunity to avoid
the war, he insists that he was not
Beaten by allied arms under Ameri-
can impetus, he denies that he was
defeated. but claims that he was de-
ceived.
promise, he AYERS, untruthfully, that
a hostile nation did SO first.
Determined at the beginning to
force his will upon all peoples not
only for the power and grandeur and
enrichment of Germany, but for the
fatal impoverishment of other nations,
at the height of bis successes he an
nounced a pitiless policy of punish
ment of those who were fighting
against him. Far beyond the require
ments of military necessity, he killed
American women and children through
his underseas piracy, killed and
MANNED English women and children
through bombardment Of undefended
places. destroyed French mines be-
yond repair for fifteen years, and
for no purpose except to delay re-
sumption of industry that his own
might more greatly prosper.
/ Having through greed inflicted in
he now whines and weeps and wrings
his hands that he is called upon for
reparation in kind, though not in
measure. for his misdeeds. He cries
out against the diminution of war
power imposed upon him to remove
his serious menace to peace, not to
punish him.
AS during the war by bribery. cor
ruption. spying. stealth. secret de-
struction, lies. theft, violence, murder,
to children and old men and women
he made himself the horror of the
world, now by his insolence. bluff.
lies. appeals for sympathy he makes
himself contemplate. Contemplate,
high might is no longer to be feared.
gerous because without conscience he
conducts an organized, INSCRIPTIONS
campaign to deny his unmeasured
crimes, to create mutual distrust be-
cious of each other, to plant in our
minds seeds of doubt of our princi-
pies. our Institutions. and our Presi-
dent. to gain sympathy for his future
Imaginary distress.
In that organized campaign the peo-
pie among whom, through necessity,
we live play their parts. By little
welcome favors. by insistence. by rep
etition. by making friend here and
| another there they attempt to force
pleading suspicion and distrust to
break our conviction in the righteous
ness OF our cause, the unworthiness
| of theirs.
There is nothing consistent between
German public motive and American
spirit and ideals. There is nothing in
| our soldierly duty requiring or
| authorizing us to convert our enemy
| to our beliefs. There is everything in
our soldierly duty requiring us to
loyal to our allies. and to sustain our
American traditions and morale
Let us see everything, hear every.
thing, of value to our cause, say moth
ing to our enemy. Let us present and
maintain our honor perform exactly
our duty, devote receives loyalty to
our country.
E. F. McGLACHLIN, jr.,
Major General U. :. Army. Command
ing.
The lst Division OF Regulars was
the first American battle unit to get
into action after this country entered
the war, and as orders now stand it
will be the last to leave France for
home. Until his assumption of the
division command Gen. McGlachlin