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LEST WE FORGET!
Why America Is at War After
Making Every Effort to Keep
Out of Europe's Death Grip
By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART >
Author of "The Citculir Suircuc," "The Ma ia Lawn T««," "K," Mr.
HID BEHIND WOMEN.
"Rut If the townspeople fired on the
Germans?" I asked.
"All weajious had been deposited In
the hands of the town authorities. It
Is unlikely that any organized attack
by civilians could have been made.
However, If In individual cases shots
were fired at the German soldiers, this
may always be condoned In a country
suffering Invasion. During an occupa
tion it would be different, naturally.
No excuse can be offered for such an
action In occupied territory.
"Various Belgian officers have told
nie of seeing crowds of men, women
and children driven ahead of the Ger
man army to protect the troops. This
Is so Incredible that I must ask
whether It has any foundation of
truth?"
"It Is quite true. It Is a barbarous
and inhuman system of protecting the
German advance. When the Belgian
soldiers fired on the enemy they killed
their own people. Again and again
Innocent civilians of both sexes were .
sacrificed to protect the Invading army
during attacks. A terrible slaughter!"
There was much more to the Inter
view, but this part Is the part that
concerns us now.
There is no surmise In the king's
statement. It Is quiet, dignified, as
restrained as possible, a bare recital of
fact. On the right of Germany to In
vade Belgium there may be differing
opinions. On the right -of any army
pretending to civilization to so protect
Its advance there can be bi>t one ver
dict.
The king of the Belgians had
spoken as a ruler and a soldier. He
had himself fought with his army
those terrible rear-guard engagements
which could have but one end. Ho
himself hatl seen this thing, so shock
ing that It Is small wonder that
America heard It with Incredulous
ears.
A king's statement and a man's.
How about a woman who herself had
been among the last to leave Brussels,
and before whom. In the Intimacy of
thnt small villa at La Panne, came
soldiers and refugee nobles with their
stories of murder and debauch by the
Invaders?
I have never before broken the si
lence of my Interview with Elizabeth,
queen of the Belgians, that small,
frail and heroic woman who has lived
for three years under the roar of the
artillery at Plxmude and Nleuport. I
But the time has come to break that
silence. Not all can be told, but be- J
cause an Infamous report has been
spread broadcast that Elizabeth of
Belgium sympathizes with Germany, I
shall tell some of the things she said.
QUEEN TELLS OF HORRORS.
Again I quote from my notes of
that Interview:
"It ts the women and children!"
she said. "It la terrible. There must
he killing. That ts war. But not
this other thing."
She could not understand American
skepticism on this point. She had
but Just returned from England,
where In one convent 29 Belgian nuns
were enceinte by German soldiers. She
had visited them.
That to her was the most terrible
thing of war. That these quiet women,
living their devout and simple lives,
should have suffered so grossly bewil
dered and dazed her. Was there noth
ing, then, sacred to these Invaders, not
even the church?
"I am a Bavarian," she said. "I I
have always from my childhood heard i
this talk that Germany must grow,
must get to the sea. I thought It was
Just talk—a pleasantry. And the Ilea
they have told abont ns! The em
peror has always pretended to be so
friendly, and all the time—"
She held out her hands expressively.
1 "Anyone who knows the king knows
that he cannot do a wrong thing. It
is not possible for him. He cannot go
any way but straight."
Then she recurred to the Invasion
and the terrible cruelties of the Ger
man army.
"They were terrible," she said,
"especially what they have done to
women and children. But more than
any men In the world the Germans are
cruel to women. I have seen them my
self when they did not know who I
was—on trains sometimes—not since
the war. of course. But the very way
they stare at women Is odious."
She thought that this attitude of
the Germans explained many things.
And she told me In detail revolting
stories of the profanation of churches
under the pretext, totally unfounded,
that the Belgian churches were store
houses for arms. She told me, too, of
the especial cruelty they had shown to
priests and nuns; of locking the priests
in churches and, after Insulting the
altar, of killing them.
I said It was difficult to say what
any army would be In an occupied
country. But protested.
OWN DIARIES CONVICT.
"Do you think the Belgians would
have done such things? Never. Never.
Isolated Instances might be possible.
But the Germans have committed
thousands of crimes. I have sat In
this very room while the diaries of
German soldiers were read. Even If
we had had no other means of know
ing, .tilQSe diaries wcflld have told na
evorjtnmg, " iney relate unspeakaoie
crimes."
We cannot Impeach that testimony.
But we can add to It At British head
quarters later on an officer high on the
staff of Lord French Wld me of follow
ing the German retreat at the battle
of the Marne and verifying with his
own eyes, tar hts own aatlifaction, the
brutalities at the Invaders In occupied
towns.
*'It 1h hard for us to understand," he
said. "I was Incredulous myself. But
I saw enough to convince me that the
worst I heard was true."
I have been careful to glTe only
such testimony as reached me direct.
The king and queen of the Belgians
each told of these German Inhumani
ties to me, myself. I wrote them down
at the time. They are un exaggerated,
uneinphaslzed, iat statements of wit
nesses In the case against Germany.
So we have seen how the Germana
conducted themselves In Belgium and
bow they treated one British officer,
which Is by no means an Isolated case.
For—this not to me, but In Colonel
Vandeleur's statement to the British
war office—he tells of a car ahead of
bis where, the men being threatened
with suffocation, they hammered so
madly on the walls of the car that at
last a carpenter was brought, who cut
u small round hole for air.
VIOLATED HAGUE CONVENTION.
Let us see for a motnent what the
Belgians had a right to expect from
the Invading army, considering Bel
glum not neutral but enemy terrttonr.
uernnmy nan subscribed- to * 'me
Hague convention, that gentleman's
agreement between nations which was
designed, since wars seemed inevi
table, to make for fairness and de
cency. By Article 40 of that conven
tion Belgium, as enemy territory, has
this claim:
"Family honor and rights, Individ
ual life, and private property, ns well
as religious convictions and worship,
must be respected.
"Private property may not be con
fiscated." /
Article 28:
"The giving over to pillage of n
town or place, even when taken by
assault, is forbidden.
"In sieges and bombardments all
necessary steps must be taken to
spare, as far as possible, buildings ded
icated to public worship, art, science,
or charitable purposes, historic monu
ments, hospitals, and places where
the sick and wounded are collected,
provided they are not being used at
the time for military purposes."
That Is what Belgium had a right
to expect" What she has had, in wan
ton destruction of historical monu
ments, we know. That Is what France,
too, had a right to expect, and what
she got, that also we know.
But The Hague convention did more
than order the protection of cities and
noncombatants: It ordered such hu
manity as was possible toward the op
posing array; it forbade the use of
poison or poisoned weapons, the say
ing that no quarter would ho given,
the ktlling of men who Jiad surren
dered, the use of arms, material or
projectiles calculated to cause unnec
essary suffering; It forbade the attack
or bombardment by any means what
ever of undefended towns, villages,
dwellings or buildings.
On every one of these counts Ger
many must plead guilty. Every viola
tion of them Is one reason why we are
at war.
WHY WE ARE AT WAR.
We are at war today not because
the crown prince of Austria was killed
In Serbia but because the German
army protected Its advancejvi Mi._nim
comFatants—men7womcnanJchII(Bfen.
We nre at war today not because
Gorman submarines rank battleships
but because they have rank and ar«
sinking peaceful vessels, little fishing
boats, when the fishermen were labor
ing to get a scant livelihood, end
great unarmed passenger chips ehr*
rylng noncombatants—men, woaien,
and children.
We are at war because of those citi
zens of conquered Belgium who died
protecting their women.
We are at war because of that Ger
man order of August 24, 1914, for
frightfulness.
We are at war against the convic
tion, In German minds, that might Is
right, that the end Justifies any means,
no matter how brutal.
We are a clean and a humane people.
We would not believe these things at
first. A million and a half Belgians
fled to England with the story. Wa
were still incredulous^ Noncombatants
were sunk at sea. We still felt there
must be some Justification. New and
ever new cruelties of death came from
the German trenches, and we have
said: "This Is modern war."
But the score Is mounting higher
day by day. The politics of this war
are lost In Its Inhumanities, fathered
by German skill. It was not enough
that men should die. They must die
horribly.
We have never understood. We
have been a people of Ideals, confront
ing a nation of crass materialists. It
Is time for us to understand. But It is
not time, and never will be time, for.
the American people to stoop to the
methods of an enemy which would
again today, If the necessity arose,
protect Its advance by the helpless
forms of old men, of women and of
chlldren{
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