The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-19
DIR. BUTLER ASSAILS
TEUTON SCIENTISTS
Asks What They Did to Pro-
test Against 81 Types OF
German War Crimes.

Thirty-on separate types OF crimes
committed by the German army and
nation in Belgium and France and which
were outlined in dispatches to THE SUN
for the first time in this country are
cited by Nicholas Murray Butler, preei-
dent OF Columbia University. as matters
which the University Of Leipzig might
well become excited over instead Of the
alleged order OF the French high COM
mand to German scholars and scientists
to leave the University Of Strasbourg on
twenty -four hours notice.
The Leipzig University, with the APP
prevail Of Heidelberg. recently sent
through the rector OF the University
OF Upsala, Sweden, to the universities
OF Switzerland, Holland and the Scandi-
navian countries protests against the
order to leave the Strasbourg as an
| Outrageous action and the ne plus
ultra of atrocious cruelty. The letter
was for the purpose Of bringing the
alleged action to the notice of the univer-
stiles Of the allied countries. 1t Is APP
parently the belief OF the German uni
verslty that these allied universities will
forget Immediately the massacre. torture
and starvation OF civilians, poisoning OF
wells, general destruction and commits
sion Of certain unmentlonable crimes
&c, in their indignation over the order
for German scholars to withdraw from
the repatriated French university.
| Before the rector and senate of the
University of Leipzig can expect the
court Of public opinion to sympathizt
with their allegations" DR.. Butler says
1.-The people Of France. England and the
United States will certainly wish &c
know what measure Of protest, II any
the rector and senate OF the University
of Leipzig recorded against the cruel and
inhuman treatment in 1914 by the Ger
! man high command of the scholars as
ISOLATED with the University Of Louvair
and against the wanton and barbarou,
destruction of the library of that uni
| versty"
Dr. Butler also inquiries what protest
was made by the Leipzig savants agains
the thirty-one types of offenses proved
by international tribunals to have beer
inflicted upon the people of the occupied
territories and upon passengers on thu
high seas-the offenses which won thu
name OF Hun for the Germans.
The rector and senate OF the ancient
University of Upsala might render grea
service not only to science and scholar
ship but to the cause Of civilization itsel
II they would bring to the attention o
the University OF Leipzig, as we'll as t.
that OF the proper authorities of thu
| university VI anu tho 1ic'uSi
berg Academy of Sciences. the fact tina
Acknowledgement of wrongdoing on tn
part of the German Government, tn
German armies and the German people
and contrition for that wrongdoing. ar
the first and necessary steps in the re
Mobilization before the world OF German
scholarship and German science.
'It is probably within the truth t
say that the universities Of France. Eng
land and the United States are awaitin
with deep interest and no small measur
OF anxiety some sign that Germa
scholars and men of science realize tn
| enormity of the offenses. public and pri
waite, that have been committed by Ger
| mans and in the name OF Germany dur
ing the war now ending, and some EVIL
dence that these scholars and men Q
science feel sincere regret for them.
! I'VE have not forgotten the amazin
prostitution OF scholarship and scienc
to national lust marked by the forms
appeal to the civilized world made b
German professors in September. 1911
: That appeal was an unmixed mass @
untruths, and the stain which 1t place
upon the intellectual and moral integrit
: Of German scholars and men of scienc
will forever remain one of the most de
plorable and discouraging events OF tn
war which German militarism and Pru'
. sian autocracy forced upon the peacef,
and liberty loving nations of the world