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The COMFORT
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j Route of safety
To Yukoa Territory, Atlln District, Isterlo* Alssks.
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way ajid "Whltehorse, trains learUf both terminals on Tuesdays
and Fridays. '
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Whits Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
Every Tuesday and Friday
Xo J, X. Bound No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Cla«s . 1st Class
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11:05 a. m. " WHITE PASS I.ravea 2:20 p. m.
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12:40 p. m. n BEXXETI » 12:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m. " CARCR068 » 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. m. Arrives WHJTEHOB8E ** 8:00 a. nr.
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GERMANS EXCUSE
ATROCIOUS ACTS
Murder, Pillage and Arson Part
of Deliberate Scheme of
Warfare.
HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD
No Possible Evasion of Responsibility
for Bestial Acts Which for Centu
ries Have Had No Parallel
Officially Indorsed.
The people of the United States
are beginning to learn the truth con
cerning the conduct of the war by
Germany. Proof is offered that Ger
man officials deliberately lied in
their statements concerning atroci
ties committed by the Belgians and
allies. That their own soldiers were
disgusted by the cruelties practiced
at the order of high officers of the
kaiser is shown. Extracts taken
from pamphlets issued follow:
The Vorwaerta of Iierlin, October 22,
1914. Raid:
"We have already been able to es
tablish the falseness of a great number
of assertions which have been made
with great precision and published
everywhere in the press, concerning al
leged cruelties committed, by the popu
lations of the countries with which
Germany Is at war, upon German sol
diers and civilians. We are now in po
sition to silence two others of these
funtastic stories.
"The war correspondent of the Ber
liner Tngebiatt spoke a few weeks
ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with
powder alleged to have been given out
or sold to our soldiers with diabolical
intent. lie even pretended that he had
seen with his own eyes hundreds of
this kind of cigarettes. We learn from
an authentic source that this story of
cigars and cigarettes is nothing but a
brazen invention. Stories of soldiers
whose eyes are alleged to have been
torn out by francs-tireurs are circulat
ed throughout Germany. Not a single
case of this kind has been officially es
tablished.
"It mutters little that reports or tills
nature hear an appearand' of positive;
certitude, or are even vouched for by
eye-witnesses. The desire for notoriety,
the absence of criticism, and personal
error play an unfortunate part in the
days in which we are living. Every
nose shot off or simply hound up,
every eye removed. Is immediately
transformed into a nose or eye torn
away by the francs Mreurs. Already the
Volkszeltunu of Cologne has been able,
contrary to the very categorical asser
tions from Aix-la-Chapelle, to prove
that there was no soldier with his eyes
torn out in the field ambulance of this
town. It was said, also, that people
wounded in tills way were under treat
ment In the neighborhood of Berlin,
but whenever inquiries have been made
In regard to these reports, their abso
lute falsity has been demonstrated. At
length these reports were concentrated
at Gross Liehterfelde. A newspaper
published at noon and widely circu
lated In Berlin printed a few days ago
In large type the news that at the
Lazaretto of I.lchterfclde alone there
were 'ten German soldiers, only slight
ly wounded, whose eyes had been wick
edly torn out.' But to a request for
information by Comrade I-lebknecht
the following written reply was sent
by the chief medical officer of the
above-mentioned field hospital, dated
the eighteenth of the month:
"'Sir:. Happily there is no truth
whatever in these stories.
'Yours obediently,
•PROFESSOR RAI'TES'BERG,' "
German Soldiers Protested.
Thus the teachings of the Herman
War Book and of the German apostles
of frlghtfulness. suspicion and hatred,
had now begun to bear their natural
fruit. But the voiee of protest was
not entirely silent. A considerable
number of letters by German soldiers
who were shocked by the German
atrocities were sent to Ambassador
Gerard, because lie was the representa
tive of the United Slates, the leading
neutral nation. The three letters
which follow, in translation, were re
ceived by the American ambassador
from German soldiers. J
Here Is the protest of a German sol
dier, an eye-witness of the slaughter of
Russian soldiers In the Masurian lakes
and swamps:
"It was frightful, heart-rending, as
these masses of human beings were
driven to destruction. Above the ter
rible thunder of the cannon could be
heard the heart-rending cries of the
Russians: 'O Prussians! O Prussians!'
—but there was no mercy. Our captain
had ordered: 'The whole lot must die;
so rapid fire.1 As I have heard, five
men and one officer on our side went
mad from these heart-rending cries.
Rut most of my comrades and the offi
cers joked as the unarmed and helpless
Russians shrieked for mercy while
they were being suffocated in the
swamps and shot down. The order
was: 'Close up and at It harder!' For
days afterwards those heart-rending
yells followed me and I dare not think
of them or I shall go mad. There is no
God, there Is no morality and no ethics
any mol-e. There are no human beings
my more, but only beasts. Down with
militarism.
"If you are a truth-loving man,
please receive these lines from a com
mon Prussian soldier."
Following is the testimony i»f another
German soldier on the eastern fronrj
"Russian Poland, December 18, '14.
"In the name of Christianity I senfl
you these words.
"Wounded Russians are killed with
the bayonet according to orders.
"And Russians who have surrender
ed are often shot down In masses ac
cording to orders, In spite of their
heart-rending prayers.
"In the hope that you, as the repre
sentative of a Christian state, wlTI
protest against this, I sign myself,
"A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS
TIAN."
The third letter, from the western
front, shows the same horror of ttw
system of which the writer was a wit
ness.
"To the American Government,
Washington, U* S. A.
"Englishmen who have surrendered
are shot down in small groups. With
the French one Is more considerate. I
ask whether men let themselves be
taken prisoner In order to be dis
armed and shot down afterward? Is
that chivalry in battle? It Is no longer
a secret among the people; one hears
everywhere that few prisoners are
taken; they are shot down In small
groups. They say naively: 'We don't
want any unnecessary mouths to feed.
Where there Is no one to enter com
plaint, there Is no Judge.' Is there
then no power in the world which cnn
put an end to these murders and res
cue the victims? Where Is Chris
tianity? Where Is right? Might 19
right.
"A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS
NO BARBARIAN."
Socialists Oppose System
Many of the Germans, as has been
already Indicated, do not believe the
reports of the utrocltles committed by
the Belgian civilians and refuse to ac
cept the system of frlghtfulness. The
Vorwaerts, the leading socialist paper,
which has a very wide circle of read
ers. has opposed the policy of frlght
fulness. All honor to Its editors who
have so courageously opposed the pow
erful military authority! Its editorial,
entitled "Our Foes," published August
23, 1914, reads as follows:
"What should one say when even
such an organ as the Deutsches Offl
zier-Biatt expresses Its sympathy with
a demand that 'the beasts' who arc
taken as francs-tlreurs should not be
killed, but only wounded so that they
may then be left to a fate 'which makes
any help Impossible?' Or what should
we say when the Deutsches Offlzler
Blatt states that 'a punitive destruc
tion even of whole regions' cannot 'af
ford full recompense for the bones of a
single murdered Pomeranian grena
dier?' Those are the desires of blood
thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly
ashamed of ourselves because It If
possible that there are people among
us who urge «ueh things."
"Barbarism," Declares Vorwaerts.
On the following day, August 24
1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the
attack In an editorial "Against Bar
barlsra."
. . . "One might. In the flrsl
place, possibly believe that such a de
mand for a bloody vengeance [against
alleged Belgian outrages] emanates
from a single disease-racked brain;
but It appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge In or
gies of barbarism and to devise a
whole system for the purpose of or
ganizing 'a war of revenge.'
"What of law and custom! Such
thoughts do not stir a 'great nation.'
Thus In a leading article of the Ber
liner Neueste N'achrichten, the de>
niand Is made that all the authorities
In Brussels—one, the second burgomas.
tar. Is generously excepted—should be
Immediately seized and subjected to
trial In order to expiate the wrongs
which, according to fragmentary and
highly uncertain reports, were said to
have been committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should Immediately pny a fine of 500,
000.000 marks; that nil stores of the
conquered territory be requisitioned
without paying the inhabitants a single
Deiuiy for them."
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Vorwaerts In Protest.
Three years later. August 20, 1917
the Vorwaerts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszel
tnng:
"We hare a ring of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Macht
polltlker), who despise the forces of
the inner life and believe that they
must eliminate all ethical points of
view . . . from foreign and social
politics. For them. Germany of the
present and of the future is the coun
try of the Krupps and Borslgs, of the
Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea
of a connection between politics and
morals Is rejected and any reference
to the right of a moral method of con
sideration Is ridiculed as delusion and
sentimentality."
The German officers were provided
with the forms to be used in terror
izing the conquered people. The com
mon soldiers were provided with
phrase books which would enable tlieiu
to Impose their will upon the terrified
people. Minister Brnnd Whitloek in
his report to the state department on
September 12, 1917, writes:
Ilie ueriuuu 3UIUHT13 ncii:
ed with phrase books giving alternate
translation In German and French of
such sentences as:
•• 'Hands up.' (It is the very first
sentence In the book.)
j "'Carry out all the furniture,
i " 'I am thirsty. Bring me some beer,
gin. rum.
" 'You have to supply a barrel o!
wine and a keg of beer.
" 'Lead me to the wealthiest inhabi
tants of this village. I have orders to
requisition several barrels of wine.
" 'Show us the way to . If you
| lead us ttstruy, you will be shot'"
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J O A l'ACIFIST
By Virginia Fraaer Boyle
"Le». us have peace," j^eace,
but not until
TU beast of greed Js parted from
its prey.
"Lot us have peace," but not fill
victory's Lost
Proclaims the dawn of an unfetter
ed day. (
Aa" traitorous be the lipa to
oreatho it now—
Accursed be the tongues that ldljr
speak,
While demons in the twilight of the
gods,
Rapine and death upon the na
tions wreak., i
"l et us have peace," ah, God, the
mockery creeps
Al'jug the ways of life like petty
thieves,
To snatch, the manhood that out
fathers gave— , (
To taunt a freeborn people as it
grieves., • , :
"Lft us have peace," stand out
there In the light,
That truth may damn you as you
say your part;
I Then mouth it there, before the
blasting guns—
j There is no blood to trickle from
your heart..
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