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"HUNS" SCORNED
LAW OF NATIONS
Use of Civilians as Hostages and
for Screens Part of
Devilish System.
FIRST MADE USE OF IN 1870
At That Time It Was Condemned by
the Civilized World, but the Ger
man Military Leaders Have
Never Abandoned It.
Ample proof that the march of the
German armies through Belgium
was marked by massacres and cru
elties almost beyond belief is given
in a document made public by the
committee on public information,
from which the following is taken:
The massacres In Belgium and
northern France were n part of the
German system of frightfulness. An
other feature of this system was the
use of civilians as hostages ami for
screens.
In discussing the use of hostages the
German War Book (Krlegsbrauch lm
Lnndkrlege) says:
"By hostages are understood those
persons who. as security or ball for
the fulfillment of treaties, promises, or
other claims, are taken or detained by
the opposing state or Its army. Their
provision has been less usual In re
cent wars, as a result of which some
professors of the law of nations have
wrongly decided that the taking of
hostages lias disappeared from the
practice of civilized nations. . . .
"A new application of 'hostage right'
was practiced by the German staff in
the war of 1S70. when it compelled
leading citizens from French towns
and villages to accompany trains and
locomotives In order to protect the
railway communications which were
threatened by the people. Since the
lives of peaceable Inhabitants were,
without any fault on their part, there
by exposed to grave danger, every
writer outside' Germany has stigma
tized this measure as contrary to the
law of nations and as unjustified to
wards the Inhabitants of the country."
Clung 10 r-rigniiuincss.
Although thoir deeds In the Franco
Prusstan war hiul been universally
condemned, as thc.v themselves admit
ted. the leaders did not intend to
abandon such a useful measure of
fright fulness. In L'Interprete Mlll
taire the forms were provided for such
acts in the nest war. Both in Belgium
and In France the Germans have con
stantly used hostages. The evidence
Is contained In the proclamations of
the governing authorities and also In
the diaries of the German soldiers. A
few examples from these will illus
trate the system which was Aiployed.
A specimen of the arbitrariness and
cruelty Is furnished by the proclama
tion of Major Pleckmann. from which
the following sections are presented:
"After 9 a. in. <>n the 7th Septem
ber, I will permit the houses iu Beyne
Fleusay, Grivegnee. and Bois-de-Breux
to be Inhabited by# the persons who
lived in them formerly, as long as
these persons are not forbidden to fre
quent these localities by official pro
hibition.
Prominent People Hostages.
"In order to be sure that the above
mentioned permit will not be abused,
the burgomasters of Beyne-Heusay and
of Grivegnee must immediately pre
pare lists of prominent persons who
will be held as hostages for 24 hours
each at Fort Fleron. September 6.
1914. for the first time (the period of
detention shall be) from C p. m. until
September 7 at midday.
"The life of these hostages depends
on the population of the above-men
tioned communes remaining quiet un
der all circumstances.
•"During the night it is severely for
bidden to show any luminous signals.
Bicycles are permitted only between 7
a. m. and 5 p. m. (German time).
"From the list which Is submitted to
me I shall designate prominent per
sons who shall be hostages from noon
of one day until the following midday.
If the substitute is not there in due
time, the hostage must remain anoth
er 24 hours at the fort. After these
24 hours the hostage will incur the
penalty of death, it' the substitute fails
to a nnear.
"Priests, burgomasters, and the oth
er members of the council are to be
taken first as hostages.
"I Insist that all civilians who move
about In my district . . . show
their respect to the Herman officers by
taking off thfir hats, or lifting their
hands to their heads in military salute.
In case of doubt, every German sol
dier must be saluted. Anyone who
does not do this must expect the Ger
man military to make themselves re
spected by every means."
Mold Small Nations Have No Rights.
"The fate that Belgium has called
Jown upon herself is hard for the In
dividual, but not too hard for this po
litical structure (Staatsgebilde), fcr
'he destinies of the Immortal great na
tions stand so high that they cannot
but have the right, in case of need, to
stride over existence that cannot de
fend themselves, but live, as parasites,
upon the rivalries of the great."—Prof.
II. Oncken, in Suddeutsehe Monatsheft. I
(South German Monthly.)
Would they have dared to defend )
such a policy if they could have seen
the announcement sent out by the par
ish of St. Hadelln with its silent elo-,
quenceT
This Is nn Invitation to a service in
nemory of 60 men and women from
Jne parish, of whom all but two were
killed by the Germans in the massacre
of August 5 and C, 1014. The closing
sentences are:
"Gentle Heart of Mary, be my
refuge.
"Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
"St. Joseph, patron of Belgian, pray
for us.
"St. Hardelin, patron of the parish,
pray for us.
"Sainte Barbe, patroness of kindly
death, pray for us."
After reading such ghastly accounts,
many of them written by German eye
witnesses, and knowing that similar
tales were published widely In the
German newspapers. It is difficult to
rpad with patience such words as
these:
"The German army (in which I of
course Include the navy) is today the
greatest Institute for moral education
In the world."
"The German soldiers alone are
thoroughly disciplined, and have never
so much as hurt a hair of a single in
nocent human' being."—Houston Stew
art Chamberlain, In Kriegsaufsdtze,
"War Essays," 1914.
"We see everywhere how our sol
diers respect the sacred defenseless
ness of woman and chyd."—Prof. G.
Roetlie, in Deutsche Rolen In Schwerer
Zeit, "German Speeches in Difficult
Dn vs "
Hostages' Lives Hung by Thread.
"Iu order to Insure sufficiently the
safety of our troops and the trauquil
ity of the population of Reims, the
persons mentioned Imve been seized
as hostages by the commander of the
German army. These hostages will
be shot If there is the least disorder.
On the other hand, if the town re
mains perfectly calm and quiet these
hostages and inhabitants will be
placed under the protection of the
German army.
"THE GENERAL COMMANDING.
"Reims, 12th September, 1914."
Beneath this proclamation there
were posted the names of 81 hostages
and a statement that others had also,
been seized as hostages. The lives of
all these men depended in reality
upon the interpretation which the Ger
man military authorities might give to
the elastic phrase, "(he least disorder,"
In the proclamation.
Hugh Gibson, in a Journal from our
Legation in Belgium, page 184, explains
what was likely to happen:
"Another thing is. that on entering
a town, they hold the burgomaster, the
procureur du roi, and other authorities
as hostages to insure good behavior by
the population. Of course, the hood
lum class would like nothing better
than to see their natural enemies, the
defenders of law and order, ignomlnl j
ously shot, and they do not restrain
themselves a bit on account of the
hostages."
Diary or Bomoardier wetzei.
"Aug. 8th. First fight an«l set fire
to several villages.
"Aug. 9th. Returned to old quar
ters ; there we searched all the houses
and shot the mn.vor nnd shot one man
down from the chimney pot, nnd then
we again set fire to the village.
"On the 18th August Letalle (?) cap
tured 10 men with three priests be
cause they have shot down from the
church tower. They were brought Into
the village of Ste. Marie.
"Oct. 5th. We were in quarters in
the evening at Willekamm. Lieutenant
Radfels was quartered in the mayor's
house and there had two prisoners
(tied together) on n short whip, and in
case anything happened they were to
be killed.
"Oct. 11th. We had no fight, but we
caught about 20 men and shot them.
(From the dairy of Bombardier Wetzel.
Second Mounted Battery, First Kur
hesstan Field Artillery, Regiment No
11.)"
The Germans also found it con- J
venient on many occasions to secure
civilians, both men and women, who
could be forced to march or stand in
£-'r±t of the troops, so that the country
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itien of (Tip cPV'iTTTis "wouI'T tip com
pelled first to kill their own people If
they resisted the Germans. This
usage Is Illustrated in the following:
Letter of Lieutenant Eberlein.
"October 7. 1914.
"But we arrested three other civil
ians, and then I had a brilliant idea.
We gave them chairs, aud we then or-,
dered them to go and sit out In the:
middle of the street. On their part, j
pitiful entreaties: on ours, a few blows !
from the butt end of the rifle. Little;
by little one becomes terribly callous
at this business. At last they were
all seated outside In the street. I do
not know what anguished prayers they
may have said but I noticed that their
hands were convulsively clasped the
whole time. I pitied these fellows, but
the method was Immediately effective.
"The flank Are from the houses
qnlckly diminished, so that we were
able to occupy the opposite house and
thus to dominate the principal street. |
Every living being who showed himself
In the street was shot. The artillery !
on Its side had done good work all this 1
time, and when, toward seven o'clock |
in the evening, the brigade advanced ,
to the assault to relieve us I was in
a position to report that Saint Die
had been cleared of the enemy.
"Later ou I learned that the regi- J
•nent of reserve which entered Saint .
Die further to the north had tried the
samp experiment. The four civilians
whom they had compelled In the same
way to sit out in the street were I
(titled by French bullets. I myself saw
them lying in the middle of the street ,
near the hospital.
"A. EBERLEIN,
"First Lieutenant." I
Letter published on the 7th Octobt r, |
1014. in the Vorabendblatt of the i
Munchner Neuoste Nachrichten.
Golden Pots and Pans.
Should the shah of Persia desire to
pledge his kitchen requisites be might
realize £500,000. Every saucepan of
this monarch is gilded iaside, and the
dishes which appear on the table are
of solid gold, as well as the spoons,
knives and forks. The bandies of the
latter, moreover, are ornamented with
costly stones, aud some are worth aB
much as £100 each.
In preparing lunch for the shah none
but silver spoi ns can be used, and any
covering used for keeping cold meats
must also be of silver.
His majesty has a staff of over thirty
chefs, and altogether those employed
in his kitchen number nearly 120.
Their wages amount to £500 a week.—
Londou (Jlolie.
Protects the Deer.
A kindly act on the part of a rail
way was the order of the Southern
Pacific to its enginemen that when a
deer is seen on the track at night the
headlight shall be extinguished for a
moment. More than a dozen deer were
killed by trains iu California in Jan
uary. It has been discovered that when
the headlight is extinguished, if only
for a second, the animals are able to
jump to safety. Otherwise the glare
of the headlight dazes them so that
they are run down before tlicy can es
cape.—Outlook.
Two Cousins; Two Thrones.
"Nicholas Romanoff" of Russia and
King George of England are cousins,
look much alike aud are probably not
greatly different in intellectual ability.
One is off the throne and the other Is on
because one throne was an anomalous
survival of medievalism, while the
other is an adaptation to modern dem
ocratic progress.—Springfield Repub
lican. .
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