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FURTHER LIGHT ON GERMAN Gred on by civilians, whom the column

ATROCITIES.

INVESTIGATIONS OF PROFESSOR,

MORGAN,

A DREADFUL TALE OF BARBARISM;

THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY.

A CHARACTER SKETCH.

was accordingly ordered to round up.

***While this was being tone. I noticed that girls of eight to ten years old, arm- ed with sharp instruments, busied them- wlies with the German wounded.. Later I asrlained that the ear lobes and upper parts of the ears had been cut off."

In the Cornhill Magazine for May the That it to say (acys Prof. Morgan) Hon. Lady Wilson has an outspoken a whole column of German troops is article on the Crown Prince of Germany. the marchi in skise formation, they round She saw a good deal of him when he my the civilians and while they are doing visited India, and travelled home on the this some little girls continue, in presame P. and O. steamer. The portrait sance of this overwhelming force toho draws is not flattering, and his

busy themselves by cutting up their comrades with the contents of their mothers' work-box!!!

* WHOLESALE MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS...

We lave received from Hout, says the VAL, Dolly Nets, a copy of Professor J. H. Morgan's “German Attaeities, an Official Investigation, published by Fisher Unwin at 1/5 Exactly when it was issued we do not know except that it was some time this year and before April was out it had run through four editions. Should it run through forty, there will be no surprise. Not even the

In respect of justification alleged for famous Bryce's report can quite compare the wholesale massacre of civilians the with it. In respect of atrocifics, there evidence is even more suspicious. In little to choose. But Professor Mororder to prove the Belgians unspeakable gan writes with a heat of indignation Kunys, the German Government have to which the Bryce's report studiously present them as incredible fools. For repressed. He has in him something of example at Andenne, a town of some the fire that we find in Raemackers' ar 6,000 According in the German about 200 inhabitanis lost toons and as there is no earthly doubt their lives." of his facts, the effect on the reader's dement two infantry reghuents and a

mind of his vivid presentation is almost its poignant as in the case of those ter rible pictures.

bad

One word for the author. Profess Morgan is Professor of Constitutions. Law at University College, London, and a recognized authority on international law November, 1914, he was commis sioned by the Secretary of State for Home Affairs to Divestigate in France the alleged breaches by Germany of the laws of wer. The results were handed to Lord Bryce's Commission, but as that boly considered that its duty lay first with Belgium, a good deal of Professor Morgan's report was excluded, and here appears for the first time, as well as other matter which he obtained too late for the Commissioned 100 late It should be mentioned that Professor Morgan was, throughout his inquiry, in the closest touch with the French autho rities--for whore method of sifting evi- dence he expresses the strongest admira tion--its well as with the British that he examined some hundreds of witnesses and that he confined himself entirely to first-hand evidence, recording only what those whom he examined had themselves seen or had learnt from those to whom, it happened. That the report might have been made much worse, is obvious that the reality was infinitely worse than the report shows is strongly to be in ferred.

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Jager battalion (at least 7,000 men) were set upon by the popalace on the march through, alth

We are

are asked to believe that this mail unprotected community (one of the German witnesses expressly says, I did not see one single French or Belgian soldier in the entire town, or the environs) made an unprovoked tack on this overwhelining force and that the wonten assisted with pots of scalding water. Two hundred of the civilians were by the German admission

ho The Clermian losses were, it added signlarly small. So singularly small were they that the German report onits even to enumerate them

These are but one or two examples of the incredibility of German evidence chosen at random from numbers given by Professor Morgan. The stories of the massacres of Dinant and Aerschot and of the burning of Louvain are too long to que but the nature of the German White Book's justification is even more extraordinary Contradictions abound, and are inuently ignored; the wildest mir babilities, are offered as solid fact, and that, moreover on niere hearsay Wout any evidence from other sources. sug staff would not doucive a child. And as Professor Morgan way

Imperial Highness was a source of much trouble to his staff, especially to the one -member of it whose duty it was to look after him." The Crown Prince," Lady

Wilson writes, is desperately anxions about his health, and sucks at a thermo- meter as habitually as most people smoke a cigarette," pa

Ho affected a great love of sport, and big game shooting, he assured me, was his seventh heaven. When I think of the from the Crown Prince's rifte, I could poor tiger, leavily drugged, and elaborately carted to the correct distance not help wondering which was the more artificial- the Crown Prince's love of big game shooting or the con ditions under which the shooting was conducted. Fig sticking had not been so easy to engineer for him whilst he was in the Punjab. Two or three days had been arranged, and he had gone out with the officers of a crack cavalry regiment quar- tered at, but the subalterns had fold me that they had to ride the pig- until it was stone cold, to enable the Crown Prince to come up and get first spear." Even then the happy consummation could hardly be effected, as the Prince did not appear to relish going faster than a brisk trot. Those of us who have

galloped over pig-sticking country will easily appreciate his scruples.

A softer side to his character is dis closed in a story of his tenderness to wards a sick child on the voyage home. Though nurtured in the great school of militarism, he is, saya Lady Wilson, a tin soldier, almost a chocolate one! He is entirely devoid of magnetism, and lacks that talent for décor which his father possesses in such a superlative degree. In a nature that seems incap- able of any fine impulse, as of any small ncrifice there is not much to admire. He seemed to me quite as giddy and **Quite apart from this inductive cvi- heedless as a child, maddening to deal dence there is the fact that the German with in the give and take of life, yet Gordrement is so tainted with the in- behind so much alloy there run a vein fapy of indisputable mendacity that no of gold his unaffected kindness and sober and impartial man can believe a great eimplicity. He enjoyed giving Not the least interesting part is Pro single word of what it says It has deli- pleasure, yet he seemed unable to under- fessor Morgan's analysis of the German berately forged Belgian documents which stand when he was giving disappoint- White Book, which was published to have come into its possession; it has re- ment and pain. He was never open to- jintedly broken faith with the Briargument, in fact, he was inaccessible justify German conduct in Belgium.

fish Government and the Vatican, it to reasoning of any kind once he had The case which the German Govern

I could somB- ment had avowedly to meet was the abused the Geneva Convention in decided upon a course wholesale slaughter of Belgian civilians order to make use of hospital ship as times see Despair writ large on the faces and the fact of such sughter having ane factors of fes, and its official Press taken place they make no attempt to deny, They enter a plea of justifien

to got the words of our Ambas tion and, in a word, they attempt to a vast system of international that the levée mothe people aliould be deepied too | Wackmail - As is the Government, so are People's War of the Belgian nation was not conducted in accordalice with

argue

THE

THE GERMAN WHITE BOOK.

an instrument of wer Berlin itself is

terms of The Hague regulations the 1st the above

ek sweeping, Professor Morgan

verse for every statement

ed in English and the German Gover

This document has never been publis that all this bloodguiltines

of his staff, and I know that they had

been defeated on soine point and obliged reluctantly to give way. He was never able to subjugate them by his charm, or blind them to his folly,

chap indiscriminately at the innocent specta

tors of their march To be seen

is the fondest of delusions to was often dangerous, to attempt to

young girls were shot like rabbits. The slightest failure to comply with the per emptory demands of the invader has been punished with instant death.'*- tai tee

rent appears recently to have had some enfined to the German Government and escape being soen was invariably fatal. doubts as to the wisdom of its having the General Staff. The whole people in Old men and boys and even weinen and appeared at all. Those doubts were well founded. Professor Morgan examines ned with it. The innumerable it, not by comparison of other reports, diaries of common soldiers in the ranks nt in the light of its own incredibility which I have read betray a cominen senti and self-contradictions and an

incat of hate, rapins and ferocious cruelty." The progress of French, Britiah The Hague Convention enacts that in the case of an invasion, where there has and Bussian prisoners, civil as well as been no time to organize defence, distine military, through Germany, has been Live badges and responsible commanders veritable Calvary. may be dispensed with Civil guards and even women and children may be called

who in such case would be entitled to the right of lawful belligerents

The only condition required is that open tions must be conducted in accordance with the laws sad customs of war,

ORFEDEN OP WOENDED AND PRISONERS.

When life is held so cheap, adds Pro- fessor Morgan, it is not surprising that honour and property are not held more dear Take Bailleul, for example, of winch the author made particularly close study. During the whole eight days that; this town was occupied by Germane it was delivered over to the excesses of licentious soldiers, and was left in a state of indescribable filth. The officers hunted in couples.

" The circumstances were often of a

We now come to the evidence of Ger- an atrocities in ground recovered since the battles of the Marne and the Aisne the British army, and against that atlay itself. The instances given of the What then is the German justifices white flug deliberately used in order to tion for the massacre of the Belgian slay the British by treachery are so num- peculiarly revolting character daugh civilians 1 Its main contention is that Cros that it has become impossible ters were outraged in the presence of the Belgias Government had exferent days to acept the white dag for their mothers, and mothers in the pre- time for an organization of the People's The Germans, moreover, habitually fire ren. In one case, the facts of which are what it has hitherto universally meant. sence of the hearing of their little child- War as required by international Inve

The affrontery of this content stretcher bearers, for whoir to wear proved by evidence which would antisfy tions is truly amazing, The Belgian Gov. * Red Cross is merely to invite attack, any court of law, a young girl of nine- teen was violated by one officer while the ernment had, at the most, two days--two cases of wounded men murdered in days-two days in which to organize old slood are too numerous to cunint other buld her mother by the throat and whole nation for defence The German barbarity which proves great delibera officers

Some of these cases reveal a leisurely painted a revolver, after which the two wltimatum to Belgium was issued on August 2nd the violation of Belgianions, cases such as the discovery of bodiesofficers exchanged their respective rules." territory took place on August 4th.” of despatch-riders burnt with petrol or

However, having argued that Belgium had time, and did not use it, the German White Book quite forgets this line of ren soning, when it hits arcoliveniently with another case,

In their exase for the massacre at Dinant they say that the organization of civilian resistance was remarkable for its careful preparation and wide extent. In other words, in one part of the While Book they insist that the resistance was ruthlessly punished because it was not organized; in another that because it was organized it had to be ruthlessly sup pressed

GLARING BELY-CONTRADICTION

"pegged out" with Tanees, or of soldiers. with their faces stamped upon by the heel of a boot, or of a guardsman found with unerous bayonet wounds evidently in ficted as he was in the act of applying a field dressing to a bullet wound.

VAS GERMAN BESTIALITY?

Even more appalling is the evidence of an utterly bestial and perverted sense as being quite common auong Gerinaus.

*11 one thing is more clearly estab lished than another by my inquiries among the officers of our Staff and divi- It became unperative to find out how stonal commands, it that châteaux or far these outrages were attributable to private houses used as the headquarters policy and superior orders. A consid- of German officers were frequently found le amount of evidence pointing to to have been left in a state of beatial this was found, but, under the rigorous collation, which can only be explained stem of exclusion practised by the by gross drunkenness or filthy malice. French and British authorities, it was Whichever be the explanation, the fact the original was discovered of an order the upholstery of private houses as a hot considered conclusive, until, at last, remains that while to use the beds and Issued by a German Brigadier-General latrine is not an atrocity, it indicates a named Stenger. Commanding the 5th state of mind sufficiently depraved to Brigade. It is as follows (we omit

commit one Cases of sodomy and Army Order of August 28th, 1814 doubtedly occur on a very large scale. about 4 pm such as was given to his Some of the worst things have never been poups as a Brigade or Army Order by published." the leader of the 7th Company of the 112th Regiment of Infantry at Thionville at the entrance of the wood of Baint Barbe

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