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es today are continuing their vio
lent attack between the Asiago pla
teau and the Brenta river, the war
office announces.
It the wind moderates the g3^
! bo- • Santa Rita is expected tn
I port tomorrow night at 6 o'clock.
Yesterday's issue of the Al
, askaa stated that Win. Bunting
! made a high bowling score last
i week of 219 points on the Elks' al
ley. Th.e score Bhould have been
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OUTSIDE PALE
OF HUMANITY
Frightfulftess Taught by German
Leaders Belongs to Age of
Barbarism.
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SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS
Kaiser's Statesmen Had No Intention
of Keeping Faith With Their
Agreement on International Law
—Horror* Told by Diaries.
In giving to the American people
the knowledge of German inhuman
ity in Belgium, says a pamphlet is
sued by the committee on public in
formation, the evidence is drawn
mainly from German and American
sources. The German sources in
clude official proclamations and
other official utterances, letters and
diaries of German soldiers, and quo
tations from German newspapers.
The "Rules for Field Service" of the
German army advises each soldier
to keep such a diary while on active
service.
In the wars waged In ancieut times
It was taken for granted that con
quered peoples might be either killed,
tortured, or held as slaves; that their
property would be taken and that their
lands would be devastated. "Vne vie
tls!—woe to the conquered !" For two
centuries or more there has been a
steady advance In introducing Ideas of
humanity and especially In confining
the evils of warfare to the combatants.
The ideal seemed to have become so
thoroughly established as a part of in
ternational law that the powers at The
Hague thought it sufficient merely to
state the general principles in Article
XLVI of the regulations: "Family hon
ors and rights, the lives of persons
and private property, as well as re
ligious convictions and practice, must
be respected. I'rivate property cannot
be confiscated." Germany, in common
with the other powers, solemnly
pledged her faith to keep this article,
but her military leaders had no inten
tion of doing so. They had been
trained in the ideas voiced by Gen. von
Hartmann 40 years ago: "Terrorism
is seen to be a relatively gentle pro
cedure, useful to keep the masses of
:he people i a state of obedience."
This had been Rlsmarek's policy, too.
According to Morltz Husch. P.ismark's
blographe \ Bismarck, exasperated by
the Frenc'tfcsistanee, which was still
continuing January, 1871. said:
"If in the l'CiVltory which we occupy,
we cannot supply everything ty>r our
troops, from time t > time we shall send
a living column i>.;^ the localities
which are recalcitrant. >Ve shall shoot,
hang and burn. After thut has hap
pened a few times, the inhabitants will
fiually come to their sense;."
Horrors Told in Soldiers' Varies.
The frlghtfulness taught b;.- tfc ■ Ger
man leaders held full «way in l!<t';;lum.
This Is best seen In the entries if: the
diaries of the Individual German sol
diers.
"During the night of August I.'-lO
Engineer Gr gave the alarm in tin
town of Vise. Every one was shot or
taken prisoner, and the houses were
burnt. The prisoners were made to
march and keep up with the troops."
(From the diary of noncommissioned
officer Heinhold Koehn i>f the Second
battalion of engineers, Third army
corps.)
"A horrible batli of blood. The whole
village burnt, the French thrown into
the blazing houses, civilians with the
rest." (From the diary of Private
Hassemer of the Eighth srniy corps.)
' "In the night of August 1S-1!) the vil
lage of Saint-Maurice was punished
for having tired on German soldiers by
being burnt to the ground by the Ger
man troops (two regiments, the
Twelfth landwehr and the Seven
teenth.) The village was surrounded,
men posted about a yard from one an
other. so that no one could get out.
Then the Uhlans set lire to it, house
by house. Neither man, woman, nor
child could escape; only the greater
part of the live stock we carried off,
as that could he used. Anyone who
ventured to come out was shot down.
All the inhabitants left In the village
were burnt with the houses." (From
the diary of Private Karl Scheufele of
the Third Bavarian regiment and land
wehr infantry.)
. "At ten o'clock In the evening the
first battalion of the One hundred and
Seventy-eighth marched down the steep
Incline into the burning village to the
burning village to the north of Dinant.
A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty.
At the entrance to the village lay about
fifty dead civilians, shot for having
fired upon our troops from ambush. In
the course of the night many others
were also shot, so that we counted over
200. Women aud children, lamp in
hand, were forced to look on at the
horrible scene. We ate our rice later
In the midst of the corpses, for we had
had nothing since morning. When we
searched the houses we found plenty
of wine and spirit, but no eatables.
Captain Hamann was drunk." (This
last phrase in shorthand.) (From the
diary of Private Phllipp of the One
Hundred and Seventy-eighth regiment
of infantry. Twelfth army corps.)
Writing from Belgium in 1916 Irvln
S. Cobb said:
"Briefly what I saw was this: I saw
Wae areas t>f Belgium and France In
which not a penny's worth Of wanton
destruction had been permitted to oc
cur, In which the ripe pears hung un
touched upon the garden walls; and t
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one ston^ had been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were rav
aged; where the male villagers had
been shot In squads; where the mlsi^
able survivors had b!>en left to den li
holes, like wild beasts."
Even Soldiers Horrified.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see, showed Iheir horror at the foul
deeds committed In Belgium.
"The Inhabitants have fled in the vil
lage. It was horrible. There was clot
ted blood on all the beards, and what
faces one saw, terrible to behold! The
dead, 00 In all, were at once burled.
Among them were many old women,
some old men, and a half-delivered
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar and the vaults of the church
are shattered. They had a telephone
there to communicate with the enemy.
This morning, September 2, all the sur
vivors were expelled, and I saw four
little boys carrying a cradle, with a
baby five or six months old in it, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt! Everything Is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. I saw a mother, too, with her
two children; one had a great wound
on the head and had lost an eye."
(From the diary of Lance Corpora';
Paul Spielman of the Ersatz, first bri
gade of Infantry of the Guard.)
"... Iii the night the Inhabitants
of Liege ho«irr(' mutinous. Forty per
sons were shot and 1!i houses demol
ished, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry.
"On (lie 2.'Srd of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re
turning to I.lege.
"August 24. At noon with .16 men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1, no post
allocated to nie. Our occupation, apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium." (From
the diary of Joh. van dor Sehoot, re
servist <if the Tenth company, Thirty
ninth reserve infantry regiment. Sev
enth reserve army corps.)
"Behaved Like Vandals."
"August 17. In the afternoon I had
a look at the little chateau belonging
to one of the king's secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first, and then they had turned
their attention to the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over the place.
They had even made fruitless efforts
to smash the safe open. Everything
was topsy-turvy—magnificent furni
ture, silk, and even china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
requisition for themselves. I am sure
they must have taken away a heap of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure of
looting."
"August 0th crossed frontier. Inhab
itants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no dif
ference noticeable.
"August _.'!t'il Sunday (between Iilr
nal and Dinant. village of Disonge).
At 11 o'clock the order comes to ad
vance after the artillery has thorough
jp prepared the ground ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment 178
were marching in front of us. Near
a small village the latter were lired on
|>y the Inhabitants. About 220 Inliab
t ants were shot and the village was
burnt—artillery Is continuously shoot
ing—the village lies in a large ravine.
Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon,
the crossing of the Minis begins near
Dinant . . . All villages, chateaux,
and houses are burnt down during tills
night. It wasja beautiful sight to see
the fires all round us in the dlstunce.
"August 24.—In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins und many
dead." From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth company, Eleventh Jager bat
tulion, Marburg.)
All Male Inhabitants Shot.
"A shell burst near the Eleventh
company, und wounded seven men,
three very severely. At five o'clock we
were ordered by the olllcer in com
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Xumeny, because
the population was foolishly attempt
ing to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We hroke Into
the houses, and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed by the
French artillery and our own were set
on fire by us, so that uearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. It is a ter
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are herded
together and driven Into France."
(From the diary of Private Fischer,
Kighth Bavarian regiment of Infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
Too Many Servants in Britain.
Duncan Miller asked the minister of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called to the number of advertisements
for servants in households of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num
ber of Indoor servants employed in
each household. The minister of na
tional service replied that he had al
ready pointed out how essential it Is,
in the national Interest, that no per
son should employ more servants than
are absolutely necessary. The min
ister trusts that the awakened con
sciences of those who have in this
respect failed to appreciate their duty
will provide 'an immediate and suffi
cient remedy. If not, he will tell his
plan In the general statement on tnan ^
power.
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8:30 p-m. Sharp Admission 25c. 10c
The government gent out the fol
lowing article oa "Tag Your Shov
el Day."'
Ae "Tag Your Shovel Day" ap
proaches a country-wide Interest
in Its observance is Bhowa by; the |
voluminous correspondence that is
flowing into the Fuel Admlnistr-'i-- i
t'on headquarters. Letters re
celvp f from the fuel administrators I
in the various States show that j
extensive plans are being laid to
snread the idea of conservation of
fuel throughout every nook and cor-j
ner of the country. i
The "Tag-Day," designated to
invoice conservation of coal, is ex
actly opposite in character to the
idea as worked in behalf of other
your,
shovel
;day *
lias yourCoalsKov^f
been* tagged yet?
vmta rr<TT» run. aohikistutum
enterprises. Generally the acquisi
tion of a tag involves an. outlay of
money, whereas the present under
taking is designed to save money to
all coal users, i
The enlisting of the school chil
dren in this work was a happy idea.
To s*t the children at work in popu
larizing an, enterprise for the public
welfare means i&at the task is
woll-nigh accomplished at the start
ing point.
The drWte will be made on Janu
ary 3Q, when more than twenty mil
lion school children will visit the
millions of coal users and attach, a
tag 'o the coaj shovel, reminding the
user to save whenever possible. The
least economy practice^ steadily
amounts to a gigantic total when
100,000,000 people resort to it.
In Florida an, elaborate and nov
el program has bseo, designed. Thos.
A. Edison, Henry "Watterson, and
Wm. Jennings Bryan, all of whom
har.« winter homes in that State,
have been asked to send their
"home" shovel to Florida, to be
tagged with appropriate ceremonies.
Likewise they have been asked to
write letters encouraging economy in
the use of coal, the reading of
which letters will become a part of
the exercises o£ the day.
While the general plans for the
observance of the day are being di
recfpd from Fuel Administration
headquarters, each State and each
community is perfecting its celebra
tion in itg own way.
RUMS LEAVE
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Petrograd, Jan. 29—.Rumanian
representatives are ,being sent out
of the country by the shortest pos
sible routes, following the an
nouncement of severance of di
plomatic relations wiht Russia.
Lieut. General Dmitri Grigori
vitck, and St. Cherbatcheff, com
mander of the Russian force in Ru
many, has been outlawed as an
enemy of the people.
Piles Cured in 6 to l i Days
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OINTMENT falls to euro Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
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COURT FOR THE TERRITORY
OF ALASKA, DIV. NO. 1, SKAG
WAY PERCINCT.
IN PROBATE
Tn the Matter of the Estate ot
8. IL Yeomans, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Tart the undersigned has been, by
Edward A. Rasmuson, U. S. Com
missioner and Probate Judge of
the above entitled Court, by order
duly made and entered, appointed
executrix of the estate of S. H. Yeo
mans, deceased. All persons hav
ing claims against said estate are
hereby notified to present taem
wUh proper vouchers in legal form
within six months from the date of
this notice to the undersigned at
her Dlace of residence in Skagway,
Alaska.
Dated this 8tlx day of Jan. 118.
ELLA MARY YEOMANS,
Executrix.
First publication Jan. 8, 1918.
Final publication Feb. 5, 1918. (