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A DINNER WITH THE KAISER.
APPEAL FOR AMERICAN SYMPATHY,
ARMED
MERCHANTMEN.
RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENCE.
GERMAN TERRORISM IN ALSACE.
Little is known, or indeed can be own, of what is now taking place behind the German front in Alsace. This much is certain the situation of the 'nhabit ants of the annexed provinces is even worse than that which has been disclosed
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A solemn manifestation will shortly be has issued the following communication: A message" to the American people " Tas execution of Captain Fryatt by field at the Sorbonne in memory of the martyr baad of Alsatians and Lorrainers from the Kaiser, not this time in the part order of a German Court has sent a of stern War Lord, but as a sympathetic thrill of horror through the world. At the past two years have suffered Monarch bewailing, with a discreet eye such a moment it is difficult calmly to imprisonment and death for their loyalty to his audience, the sufferings of his conider the net in its legal bearings; but to France (says The Times Paris corto- people under the alleged brutalities of the universal practice of nations for the pondeut) the invading Russian troops in East past two centurica affords irrefutable evi Prussia, appears in a recent number of dance of the justification of the Brussels the New York Times. The message was in endeavouring to avoid capture or de- conveyed by the German-descended Judge struction by an enemy warship: Eren K. Nippen, of the Common Pleas the German Admiralty admit in their Court in Cincinnati, and vice president of the American Commission for the Re appendix to their Naval Prize Regula
tions, ciate June 22nd, 1914, and publish the Yellow Book of the civilian popa- lief of East Prussia.
Judge Nippert, who also brought anel on August 3rd, 1914, that the crew ation in the invaded districts of France. in precisely the same condition as when taken from the New Milk. informal message to President Wilson, of an armed enemy merchant vessel are Here, at least, it is no crime to be French, to be treated as prisoners of war if they whereas the Alsatian who is merely Bus- spen wer three months in Germany, at he was entertained by the Kaiser al resist capture. The reason given in the Pocted of leanings towards the mèrepatric dinner at Headquarters on June 24th, official version of the trial for the execus denounced as a traitor and receives The families of the 40,000 Before the meeting Judge Nippert had tion of Captain Fryatt is that he, not art shrift. visited the point nearest to Reims in Gerbeing a member of a combatant force, to 50,000 Alsatians who are fighting on man occupation, and he says that the made an attempt to ram the German sub-the aile of the French are exposed to the Cathedral is not destroyed, but, on the marine 39 on March 20th, 1915, near full fary of the Prussian oppressor.
It was a dire misfortune" for Alsaco contrary, one is able to count every tile the Mans Lightship. If his vessel had been
sal
give armament.
in the roof and to notice every Gothic armed, and he had fired at and sunk the when, in August, 1914, the French dashad ornament upon is beautiful turrets and submar ne, then, under their own regula-into Mulhouse, only to retire on the mor- steeples." He adds that there is not tions, the Germans would have been row, Merciless reprisals were at once a seraith on the thousands of ornaments estopped from treating him as other than exercised on those who had hailed them as berators, and deportations, were car- "that decorate the Hôtel de Ville ala prisoner of war.
Louvain The dimer party is thus A merchant vessel is none the less aried out on masse, especially in the Sand- described
merchant vessel because she is armed; her The Kaiser, says the Judge, had been officers and cry are not members of a A network of espionage is now spread! at Verdun that day. June 24th, visiting combatant force because the vessel carries Colmar have been formed into a brigade over de land. German Boy Scouts at with his son, who had achieved a notable guns for defence; the use of such arma-
Their task is to lurk success the day before at Fleury. [In fact,, the Gernians had been checked atment in self-defence is admittedly legiti-of cavesdroppers. Fleury Ho was in splendid spirits mate by the German Naval Prize Regula-about the public gardens and squares and when we met at the dinner table. The tions, and various neutral States, such listen to private conversations. Domestic We as the United States, Spain, and Chili, Servants can obtain a Government reward meau was shape and short. down o'clock. Including the Em since the commencement of the present of 20 marks (1) by denouncing the Fran- peror's staff and athers, the party was war, have admitted the legality of defen-cophil sentiments of their employers. A thoughtles wor', D. gesture, a duster composed of 12 to 5 persons.
shaken from the window may involve sentence for high treason. "Germano- phobia" is a crime dealt with by Court- ment in the aggregate have been rained many of whom are upon the rebels, women and children.
A letter written by an Alsatian lady at Strasburg last month, has
reached France. A passage in it runs thus:-
You can picture our sufferings and stress. We are under a Reign of Ter- tor. We only go out when we have to. We speak is an understone, casting far- tive glances around us. One is expelled, sentenced to imprisonment, often in the
space of 24 hours.
We have de-
The dinner party broke up ne o'clock. We had been served with. first.
·OERMAŃ LAWYER'S ADMISSIONS. The right of self-defence has also been a plats of clabber-the best clabber I ever tasted in my life. The next thing admitted by Dr. Hana Wehberg, a Ger-martial, Thousands of years' imprison- was pike, then came a plate of veal roast, man international lawyer, in a work with pets, beans, and potatoes: then a which he has published since the outbreak side dish of cauliflower, with gravy.of the present war (Das Seekriegsrecht, There was ice cream, and the company 1915). He says:
,!
view.
No wonder the prisons of Alsace are so
had its chore of three kinds of wine. The resistance of enemy merchant claret, Rhine wine, and a strawberry ships to capture would be then only not bowl.
permissible if a rule against this bad The tactful representative of the Newfound common secognition. But in truth Fork Tunes drew from the Judge the re mark that the Kaiser had arranged for no single example can be produced from international precedents in which the his to be seated immediately upon his States have celd résistance as not permis right. After dinner the Kaber, having sible. Much rather in the celebrated de lit one of his favourite Turkish cigarcision of Lord Sowell in the case of the ettes," invited Judge Nippert to walk with
hn, and they spent two hours in Catharina Elisabeth resistance was devoted friends, but we see them only after "most interesting and many-sided conclared permissible, and Article 10 of the upper, when the blinds are drawn and versation. which impressed the enth American Naval War Code takes up the servants, whom we cannot trust, aro siastic Judge with the opinion that the same standpoint, Also by far the greater in bed. see in one of the fer Monarchs whe number of authors and the Institute of are real servants of their people. I be International Law share this lieve it to be truly his motto that the first Article 12, parigraph 3, of the Oxford uty of the Hornzollerns is to be the Rules says that it is permissible to public first servant of their people.". The and also private enemy ships to defend visitor also became conscious of his themselves against the attack of an enemy
of ship.) absolute optimism and assurance ultimate and complete victory of the Ger Also telege ferenda the prevailing an arns, Thal optimism is, perhaps view is to defend. Should great merchant this distinguishing feature of this remarkshire worth a million allow themselves to able personality.
be taken by smaller ships only because During the walk the Kaiser, forgetful, the latter comply with the requirements of the crimes of bis troops in Belgium of a so-called warship? This considera and the new Lilly horrors, spoke of the ion also led the Committee of the Inst- sufferings of East Prussia, and these are tute of International Law to recommend duly exploited Jg. Judge Nippert, who ARROW COLLARS "ds his appeal for Ameriem sympathy to that body that resistance should be de-
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More tragic still is the fate of those Alations who were unable to place the frontier between themselves and the Ger man, and were forced to fight against the France they love. One of these, the son of a wealthy Colmar merchant, was at Dresden when war was declared. No escape was posible for him. He wrote to his father:
My soul is heavy unto death. I am filled with dark forebodings. We start with most optimistic remarks about theclared permissible (Page 284.) German harvest prospects and the econs- The enemy merchant ship has then to-morrow for the frontier. You know mie condition of the Empire,
the right of defence against an enemy at y sentiments, and will understand my But have no fear; -1 tack, and this rigt he can exercise Erief and shame. against visit, for this is indeed the first Wear to you that I shall not fire on the act of capture. The attacked merchant French trooph. I would rather die than ship can, indeed, itself seize the over-expose myself to eternal remorse." powered warship as a prize. (Page 285.) the Battle of the Marne, where he was in This young hero's martyrdom came at The German Regulations, however,
FRANCIS JOSEPH'S
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THE HIPENING FUTURE.".
On July 1st the Emperor Francis Joseph addressed identical letters to the Austrian and Hungarian Premiers. Un ke the Emperor William, he deals almost exclusively with the sacrifices and privations of the people. The letters
run.
We have reached the second anniversary
draw a distinction between attacks and the first line.
Borgeant," said his liutenant, "your defonsive acts undertaken by armed mer. chant vessels. Attacks are considered astm is defective. All your bullets hit the acts of piracy. There is a good deal of ground a hundred yards away. Be care
falt" authority for the proposition that it is not legitimute for a merchant vessel to attack enemy merchant chips, or to visit, and search neutral merchant vessels, and all traitors. it is certain that a merchant vessel tak-example."
ng such a course would act at her peril,
A moment later the lieutenant cried: I see what it is. You Alsatian dogs are It is time to make an
And drawing his revolver he shot the But where is the line to be drawn between ergcant through the head. Then, turn attack and defence under the system ofing to his men, he said: "That's how the of the days in which the unconciliatory submarine warfare which has been car-friends of the French die!** temper of our enemies forced.us into war.ried on by the Germans for more than Although regret with pain the long eighteen months? The German Govern duration of this severe trial imposed ment has officially notified fant all British A CONTRAST TO RUHLEBEN upon mankind, I am filled with high merchant ships will be torpedoed at sight, satisfaction as I look back upon the grier and the Admiralty has published a list. ous traggle which is constantly justify not only of British and Allied ships, but ing afresh my confidence in the invincible also of neutral vessels, which have been power of the Monarchy.
sunk without worning.-
#YSTEM OF TERRORISM,
The following letter, dated Berlin, June 28th, has been received by the Camp Commandant of Knockaloe from the parent of a young German who was re- ! leased from that camp because the medical authorities considered his deten tion might have a permanent ill-effect upon his health:--
Worthy of their brave gons who, in cor- dial association with the armies of our glorious allies, heroically resist the con- stantly renewed attacks of superior It would appear that from the German forces my beloved peoples at home alse point of view the position of British splay that high measure of enthusiastic merchant' captain is this: If he resists fulfilment of daty which is appropriate by attempting to run a submarine he is to this great and serious time. United to be shot as a franc-tireur; if he does ia a nighty will for victory, they make not resist, his, ship is sunk without any with manly determination every sacrifice time being given for the escape of passen- required to secure a future honourable gers and crew. It is tho Teutonic system and permanent pence. With proper ap of terrorism. The British mercantile preciation of the measures necessary for marine is to be terrorised into remaining the welfare of the fatherland they bearin port. Defence," said the famous safety at Flushing; here we ourselves had the restrictions of economic life rendered French judge, M. Portalis, "is a natural the pleasure of taking further charge; nyessary as a result of the war, and they right, and means of defence are lawful in of him,
It is just a fortnight to-day that we had the extreme joy of meeting our ill Thanks to the good son in Flushing, Protection of Mr., who accompanied him, and who, as we learned later on, you had so kindly instructed to take special care of him, in order to prevent anything further happening, to him on the long journey, he arrived in perfect
pri-
bring to nought the cunning intentions voyages at sea, as in all other dangerous From our son's report, as well as from of our enemies which seek to imperil sys-occupations of life." The mere offer of letters received from prisoners interned tematically the existence of the peaceful attack is a subcient justification for the at Douglas, I was extremely pleased to population.
threatened person to strike in self-de-infer that a most kind and considerate In fatherly anxiety my heart shares fenec.
treatment is accorded all prisoners under with every one of my loyal subjects the
Every German submarine in the war your charge. I am most desirous, there- care which weighs upon them and which area may be assumed by British mer-fore, of letting you know how highly we ty bear so stedfastly, the pain for the chant captain to be engaged in carrying over here appreciate your kind sympathy fallen, the anxiety about the dear ones in out the orders of the German "Higher with the feelings of the interned the field, the disturbance of the fruitful Command." The presence of such a sub- soners. I have not failed to inform our labours of peste and the serious de marne in the neighbourhood of a British authorities of the treatment accorded to terioration of all conditions of life. But merchant ship is un. uffer to strike, your prisoners at Douglas, with a view leaning upon the edifying experiences of coupled with the capacity to fulful the of making your camp exemplary to all.
Closing with the wish that all camo- two years of war, I look with perfect con- threat; it is, in other words, an offensive fidence to a future which is now gradually act, for visit is, as Wehberg says, the first commandants may be as broad-minded, as you are, I ripening, in the happy conviction that act of capture. The captain of a merchant 5enerous, and unbiased my brave peoples truly deserve victory ship, therefore, has a right to take what- and in the confident belief that the mercy ever means le may think most suitable and justice of Providence will not with- under the circumstances to defend his b Id victory from them.
ship.
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In these grave but hopeful days of re- ! The ommanders of the German sub- membrance I am impelled to let the popu- raarines have, with a few exceptions, act lation know one more that their untiring ed in defiance of all the laws of war and patriotism and courage in sacrifice A humanity. International law and intar me with proud joy. and that I recognize,, national morality have both been violated with a grateful heart their valiant be systematically by the Germans on sea cod [haviour, which is an assurance of fins! land during the prezent war. Visit and
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search of enemy and fressently of neutral ships have been replaced by attacks with out previous warning. The duty of plac ing persons on board a merchant vessel in a place of safety before the ship is sunk has been constantly disregarded and even when time has been given to take to the boats they have been cast adrift miles from the nearest land.
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