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 (From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tuesday, November 5th, 1918.) 
 
 HUNS AT WAR UKE MAD DOGS, 
 WRITES W. HART UPON PEACE 
 
 Thinks Germany "Most Abominable Criminal in His- 
 tory" — Should Be Sentenced and Not Permitted 
 to Negotiate With the Allies. 
 
 To the Editor of The Times-Picayune : 
 
 Abraham Lincoln is reported to have once said, referring 
 to the fact that pohtical parties do not always carry out 
 their declarations of principles : "A platform is a g-ood thin^; 
 to get in on, but not a good thing to stand on," thus liken- 
 ing a political platform to a railroad car platform. 
 
 The "Fourteen Principles for World Peace" enunciated 
 before Congress on January 8 by President Wilson, repre- 
 sent a very good beginning of discussion when the Allies, 
 but not Germany or Austria, meet to consider peace terms, 
 but they do not represent the whole case, because since 
 that time "much water has gone under the bridge," espe- 
 cially as President Wilson, in his reply to Austria last 
 week, stated that a good many events have happened since 
 January 8 which have to be taken into consideration with 
 what he then said. 
 
 There is only one answer to the German and Austrian 
 requests for an armistice and eventual peace, and that is, as 
 so well said by ex-President Roosevelt and many others, 
 "unconditional surrender;" just as at the capitulation of 
 Fort Donelson, during the war between the States, when 
 General Buckner, the commander of the Confederate forces, 
 sent a messenger with a flag of truce to General Grant to 
 know what terms would be accorded him, the answer 
 
came back nothing but "unconditional surrender," and "un- 
 conditional surrender" it was. It is perfectly apparent 
 from the course of Germany in the past that if an armistice 
 is granted the terms thereof will not be observed by her 
 people, but that they will take advantage thereof to perpe- 
 trate greater outrages upon the unfortunate old men, women 
 and children over whom they have temporary control, and 
 during the time covered by the armistice they will work up 
 some scheme to defeat the Allies either on the field in future 
 warfare or at the Council Table if they are admitted, which 
 ought not to be the case, but which the granting of an 
 armistice I am afraid foreshadows. When unconditional 
 surrender takes place, then the Allies may tell Germany 
 upon what terms it will have permanent peace. 
 
 Germany, the most abominable criminal in history, must 
 be sentenced — not allowed to negotiate for peace. There 
 must be no conference, no peace table. There must be only 
 unconditional surrender, and after that, terms of punish- 
 ment dictated by the Allies. Germany protests against a 
 peace with a "sting" to it, but that is just what Germany is 
 going to get. 
 
 As a preliminary, Germany and Austria should be com- 
 pelled to evacuate all territory of the Allies — Belgium, 
 France, Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania, Russia, Italy and 
 Poland, and also Luxemburg — the Allies to take possession 
 of Alsace and Lorraine, Italy Irredente, Austrian and Ger- 
 man Poland ; the German soldiers should be compelled to 
 leave their arms, both large and small, and all ammunition 
 in the hands of the Allies and return to Germany entirely 
 unarmed (and disarmament must be permanent, except that 
 proper provision may be made for preserving domestic 
 order), and every submarine should be delivered, or ac- 
 counted for, to the Allies, who should take charge of the 
 submarine bases and the German and Austrian navies, no 
 matter where their ships may be ; and to guard against Ger- 
 man treachery therewith take possession of Heligoland, 
 Kiel and the Kiel canal and Pola ; the great Krupp works at 
 
 Gift 
 Autkor 
 
Esssen and similar manufactories in Germany and Austria 
 should be turned over to representatives of the Allies to be 
 worked or not as the Allies should determine; the Allies 
 should station troops wherever they think proper in Ger- 
 many and Austria in order to preserve order and to prevent 
 uprisings and treachery on the part of the German and 
 Austrian people, and to prevent anarchy when the Em- 
 perors of Germany and Austria are dethroned, and to assist 
 in the establishment of such new governments as the people 
 of these countries may select. All Allied prisoners must be 
 released and sent home, and German prisoners should be 
 put to work to clear and repair the roads, the fields and 
 cities, damaged and destroyed by German and Austrian 
 vandals; ample guarantee should be given by the surrender 
 of German forests, mines and manufacturing establishments 
 and other property, that the pecuniary damage to the de- 
 vastated countries should be provided for as far as possible. 
 
 The German merchant fleet, where not already taken pos- 
 session of by the Allies, should be delivered to representa- 
 tives thereof, and the principle "ship for ship" and "ton for 
 ton" should be vigorously enforced. Of course, no money 
 compensation and no physical reparation is possible for mur- 
 dered non-combatants, men, women and children, for 
 mutilated children, nor for ravished women- nor for 
 churches, libraries, museums, forests and works of art, 
 which can never be replaced, but indemnity to cover them 
 as far as possible as well as the expenses of the war should 
 be exacted from the German people, and they should know 
 that their labor for at least a generation will be needed, so 
 far as the profits thereof are concerned, to repair in a small 
 measure the wrongs they have inflicted upon the world. 
 
 The German, individually, is generally as good a citizen 
 as there is in the world, but collectively when v/ar is pre- 
 sented to them they become savages in the broadest sense of 
 the term; just hke mad dogs, nothing is sacred in their way; 
 ninety per cent, of the people of Germany believe the Kaiser 
 to be greater than God (but the German people, like all 
 
idolaters, will in time destroy their idol, and this may come 
 much sooner than we anticipate) ; the other ten per cent, 
 believe him to be the equal of God; perhaps ten per cent, 
 ought to be nine per cent., because there is a small minority, 
 almost insignificant, in Germany, which have no regard for 
 the Kaiser, but their influence unfortunately and the one or 
 two newspapers which they control has not been sufficient 
 to stop the tide of butchery and barbarism begun and en- 
 couraged by the Emperor and his ministers and his gen- 
 erals, endorsed by the press as a whole, by the people, and, 
 sad to say, by the clergy, as witness the recent pronounce- 
 ment of the bishop of Cologne, and carried out by the peo- 
 ple not only under the orders of the Emperor, but to support 
 their own ideas and designs brought about by their love of 
 war, their lust for power and their delight in destruction, 
 which was exemplified in the recently discovered destruc- 
 tion and mutilation of the records of St. Quentin, and the 
 continued looting of evacuated territory in Belgium, France 
 and Russia. 
 
 And not content with using the mines of Belgium for 
 their own profit, as the war seems about to end, the Ger- 
 man vandals are destroying them as far as possible so as to 
 make their use for the Belgian people, the owners thereof, 
 of no value to them for many years to come. 
 
 The talk about the "simple German people" is mere 
 twaddle. When a people are taught from the cradle up to 
 worship Kaiserism there c?n be no difference between their 
 character and that of their rulers. As Arthur Balfour 
 says: "Brutes they were when they entered the war and 
 brutes they remained." And as the New York Tribune well 
 adds : "It is time to have done with the fiction that the war 
 was created by a handful of marplots or junkers. It was 
 created by the wealth and intoxicating success of the Ger- 
 man nation (supported and backed up by the German people 
 as a whole), and for it they must pay, and the United States 
 will not mitigate the punishment." 
 
The Germans have brought nothing but the sterile doc- 
 trine of force to the regions they temporarily overran. They 
 have enslaved the people, wasted the fields, wrecked the 
 monuments. No consideration of humanity, of interna- 
 tional law, of what we once called Christian sympathy, has 
 tempered their violence or moderated their barbarity. In 
 all that they have done for four long years they have shown 
 only one spirit. We call them Huns, not in anger, not in 
 passion — neither anger nor passion has place with us — but 
 no other name expresses the ideals which they have dis- 
 closed. 
 
 In all cases justice should be tempered with mercy, but 
 in the case of Germany a remark once made by a celebrated 
 Judge, when he was asked to speak against capital punish- 
 ment, is directly pertinent: "I am opposed to the infliction 
 of capital punishment, but not until the murderers stop it 
 first." 
 
 When the time comes for the Peace meeting, Germany 
 and Austria should not be represented, except perhaps as 
 witnesses, for the pronouncement of their doom, and only 
 present for the purpose of accepting what the Allies say 
 they must do, just as the convicted criminal must be in 
 Court when the dread sentence of death is pronounced by 
 the Judge. 
 
 The character of the German people is shown by the tor- 
 pedoing of the passenger steamers Leinster and Hirano 
 Maru, with the loss of over one thousand defenseless lives, 
 men, women and children, and the bombing of a hospital, 
 providentially this time without the loss of life, and this 
 while in the same breath Germany was asking for an armis- 
 tice as a beginning of peace ; except in degree the crime of 
 sinking these vessels was equal to that of the Lusitania, the 
 knowledge of which will ever prevent Germany from being 
 recognized among the people of the world . as a civiUzed 
 nation, and which was celebrated by the German people by 
 the striking of a commemorative medal in honor ( ?) thereof. 
 As truly said by Samuel Gompers, the great labor leader 
 
of America: "Until Germany has had a Fourth of July or 
 a Fourteenth of July to celebrate it will never know the 
 meaning of freedom, civilization, decency and liberty," and 
 that time is a long way off. 
 
 What Germany is thought of is shown by an extract from 
 a Tokio newspaper, where that country is described as "a 
 common enemy who is a deliberate transgressor of the cause 
 of peace, justice and humanity." 
 
 The insincerity of Germany's peace offer is shown in a 
 statement just made that until an armistice has been 
 granted submarine warfare shall not cease; this is the same 
 old dictatorial style of Germany, "you must do as I tell you 
 first, before I will do anything that you want me to do" ; 
 but this country and the Allies will never submit to that 
 dictation; Germany will be told what it has to do, and the 
 German people, for there is no distinction between the peo- 
 ple and the Government, will have to do it. 
 
 The last German note is an effrontery to the President of 
 the United States and to all the American people, as well as 
 to the other nations associated with the United States in 
 the war. 
 
 Germany speaks of a general, partial disarmament pre- 
 liminary to an armistice, a proposition which, of course, will 
 not be considered for a moment. 
 
 The note still speaks of the honor of the German people 
 and nation, which if it ever existed has long since disap- 
 peared; as if a country could have any honor which loots 
 defenseless prisoners, attacks the Red Cross of its ad- 
 versaries and uses the Red Cross on its ammunition wagons, 
 knowing that with that sign they are free from attack; it 
 asks for a Peace of Justice, for Germany. Justice, while the 
 last thing which Germany wants, is exactly what will be 
 meted out to that country, its rulers, its army and navy and 
 its people. 
 
 "Forgive them not, for they know very well what they 
 do," as so well said by Sarah Bernhardt. 
 
 In this regard, Germany is like the criminal in jail, who. 
 
after telling his story to his lawyer, is told by the latter: 
 "I will see that you get Justice." "Justice — Justice : that is 
 just what I do not want. I want to get out of jail." As 
 laconically expressed by Senator Lodge: "No peace that 
 satisfies Germany in any degree can ever satisfy us." 
 
 The dethronement of the Kaiser will not bring Germany 
 to its senses ; if another government is formed it will be on 
 the same theory; perhaps not so ruthless or cruel, but dic- 
 tatorial and supercillious. To paraphrase a well-known 
 Biblical event: "The voice may be the voice of Jacob, but the 
 hand is the hand of Esau." 
 
 It would be humorous, if it were not pathetic to read that 
 Germany has appointed a Commission to ascertain the 
 physical damage it has done to Belgium, and that the head 
 of the Commission is the notorious German governor of 
 Belgium, the murderer of Edith Cavell. 
 
 The Socialists of Germany are no more to be trusted than 
 the Imperialists; their lust for power is just as great, and 
 their character is shown by their support of the War Party 
 in Germany (with few exceptions), all its brutahties, cruel- 
 ties and barbarities, and their so-called overnight reforming 
 is simply an evidence of their desire to gain power, no mat- 
 ter at whose cost. 
 
 In his mad adventure the Kaiser turned treaties into 
 scraps of paper, broke every law of honorable warfare, on 
 land and sea, murdered innocent women and children, 
 burned and pillaged the cities his armies invaded, ruthlessly 
 trampled on the rights of neutral peoples and made fright- 
 fulness his weapon to enslave the world. 
 
 The Kaiser will never surrender, and unless he is actually 
 captured in war, when the crash comes he will skip away 
 to some foreign country, there to live in oblivion and re- 
 morse; this is the best thing that could happen, for if he 
 were executed or exiled he would be made a martyr, and 
 the German people would continue to look up to him as they 
 have in the past. 
 
While, of course, he did not expect the crash to come, the 
 probability is that the Kaiser did not attack and overrun 
 Holland because he wanted to be sure of a place of refuge 
 in case the unexpected should happen, realizing full well that 
 if he conquered the rest of the world, the seizure and occu- 
 pation of Holland would be as easy of accomphshment as 
 "Taking candy from a child." 
 
 No one wants to destroy Germany or German cities or 
 German property, because reprisals after all mean nothing 
 in the long run ; if A burns down B's house, B gains nothing 
 by burning down A's house, but if he takes A's house to 
 make him pay for the burning of his own house then he has 
 accomplished some good for the world ; and so it must be in 
 this case; German property must be taken by the Allies in 
 order to pay in part at least for the wrongs done by Ger- 
 many, and Germany must know the price it must pay. 
 
 The women and children and old men of Germany have 
 nothing to fear from the Allies, but in fact they will be 
 better treated than they were by their own soldiers; but the 
 men of Germany who are able to do so must be compelled 
 to work, and work, and work to help repair the material 
 damage done by their vandalism, brutality and beastiality. 
 Recently some spokesman for Germany said that country 
 would never consent to a peace beneath its dignity, as if 
 such a country, with such a ruler, could know the meaning 
 of this word ; and particularly is this so when we recall the 
 extremely humiliating terms which less than six months 
 ago Germany proposed to exact from the Allies as a basis of 
 peace, on the theory that it had won the war. And note 
 what was said to the Rumanian Commissioners when the 
 so-called Treaty of Peace was presented to them : 
 
 "You think these terms are harsh. Wait. When we 
 dictate terms to the western powers, which we will have 
 conquered presently, then you will know what harsh terms 
 are." 
 
 T quote the following from the papers of last week: "Re- 
 ferring specifically to the proposed sale of the property in 
 
New Jersey of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg- 
 American steamship lines, the note (from Germany) says it 
 is an endeavor to 'shackle through the force the opportuni- 
 ties of German shipping interests to develop in the future.' " 
 This protest from Germany! Germany, which has devas- 
 tated and destroyed private property without reason, except 
 for the mere pleasure of destroying it, as has been done 
 repeatedly, the most recent cases being the cities of Douai, 
 Koubaix and Turcoing, just captured by the Allies, to protest 
 against the preservation of property, once belonging to it, 
 for the use of the world. This is on a par with German 
 arrogance from the beginnnig of the war up to the present- 
 
 The old English Law of Deodands should be applied to Ger- 
 man and Austrian submarines, and they must be totally de- 
 stroyed as submarines and their component parts put to 
 peaceful use, and after the war is over and peace has been 
 universally declared and observed the submarines of the 
 Allies must be similarly treated, and thereafter any nations 
 using submarines, except for mercantile or pleasure pur- 
 poses, should be outlawed, and the crews of such vessels con- 
 sidered as pirates and treated as such when captured. 
 
 All enemy forts and fortresses on the borders of other 
 countries should be dismantled and destroyed, and in time 
 those of the Allies should be likewise destroyed, as their con- 
 tinuance is a prolific source of distrust, and their removal 
 will bring the nations closer together in peace and confi- 
 dence, as has been the case with Canada and the United 
 States for over one hundred years. 
 
 German shipping must be a thing of the past for many, 
 many years to come, as whatever ships, it now owns should 
 become the property of the Allies, in part payment of the in- 
 demnity it will owe, and its shipbuilding plants must be 
 operated by the Allies for the benefit of the world, other 
 than Germany ; besides, while the seas are free, ports are 
 not, and no country in the world which has suffered from 
 Germany's acts in the war will for at least a generation 
 allow any German vessels to enter its ports ; and we all know 
 
that the ship laboring men of France and England and per- 
 haps other countries have announced that owing to German 
 cruelties upon the high seas they will refuse to handle goods 
 from and to German vessels, so even if German vessels 
 could enter the ports of the Allies they could not and should 
 not be allowed to transport merchandise either way, except 
 insofar as such ships may be used to transport products of 
 German factories, fields, forests and mines, the profits from 
 which shall be used by the Allies to repair part of the ma- 
 terial damage done by the German hordes who devastated 
 Belgium, France and other countries ; and for the same rea- 
 son the Allies must take possession of and administer the 
 railroads, canals, navigable rivers and lakes, and where 
 necessary the highways, and in general the public utilities 
 of Germany. 
 
 And probably the Allies may find it advisable to take pos- 
 session of all the ports of Germany and Austria and collect 
 the customs dues for the benefit of the devastated countries, 
 allowing such portion of the receipts as may be necessary to 
 carry on the internal affairs thereof, just as is being done 
 in the cases of Haiti and San Domingo, and has been done 
 in other countries by the United States, and for reasons 
 elsewhere stated herein all exports from Germany and Aus- 
 tria should be supervised so as to protect laborers in the 
 United States and the countries of the AUies and to see that 
 the profits thereon should be used as part of the indemnity 
 which the contract powers must pay. 
 
 Mr. Kahn, of New York, the great banker, either of Ger- 
 man birth or descent, thus sums up what Germany has done 
 to the world : 
 
 "The land to which we were linked by fond memories has 
 been made an outcast among the nations, convicted of high 
 treason against civilization and of unspeakable crimes 
 against humanity." As Germany has made itself an out- 
 cast, so an outcast it must be, and no civihzed nation will 
 receive its representatives whose hands will ever be drip- 
 ping with human blood. 
 
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The peace treaty should be signed not in Berhn or Ver- 
 sailles, but in Brussels, and the peace congress should be 
 presided over by King Albert, the most heroic figure in his- 
 tory, and before the proceedings begin the bless'ings of God 
 should be invoked on the labors of the Commissioners by 
 Cardinal Mercier, whom neither threats nor commands pre- 
 vented from doing his duty to his people oppressed, outraged 
 and ejislaved as they were by the German hordes. The 
 desperation of Germany is shown by its efforts of base flat- 
 tery to overcome the feelings of this great man to secure his 
 sympathy, but he knows them too well to be caught in any 
 such trap. 
 
 The greatest men of the world should represent the Allies 
 in this cong¥ess, and I hope that ex-President Theodore 
 Roosevelt may be the leader of the American delegation, for 
 no matter how much we may differ from him in politics or 
 in policy, everyone must admit his great Americanism, his 
 great ability and his determination to stand for the right 
 under all circumstances; and joined by Mr. House they 
 would present, so to speak, a "stone wall" against which 
 German craftiness would beat in vain. 
 
 It is rumored that when the time comes the principal Ger- 
 man representatives claiming to sit ut the Peace Table will 
 be General Winterfeldt, who, after being succored and cared 
 for in France while ill in 1913, the year befoie the war. 
 went into Spain, and used the information he had received 
 while accepting the hospitahties of F>ance, by sending spies 
 all over that country to get information for his Imperial 
 master, to be used in the world war which he was then plan- 
 ning; and Mathias Ersberger, the arch-plotter who tried in 
 every way, by bribes and otherwise, to divide the Allies and 
 corrupt their soldiers, and Von Bernsdorff, the hypocrite, 
 false friend and instigator of conspiracies against the United 
 States, its territory and the property of its people, who did 
 his best to embroil this country in trouble with its neighbors 
 and other friendly countries of the world, promising them 
 some of our States in return for their treachery if they had 
 
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attacked us, as he hoped, but they were too honest to listen 
 to his blandishments ; and under whose superintendence and 
 direction so many acts of sabotage were inflicted on Amer- 
 ican property and shipping while he was German Ambassa- 
 dor to the United States, from the beginning of the war in 
 1914 until he was unceremoniously "kicked out," something 
 that ought to have been done nearly three years before it 
 occurred. 
 
 And notwithstanding his great efforts and those of others 
 in the employ of the German Government in the United 
 States, it is to their great and eventual credit, patriotism 
 and sacredness of their oaths when they became citizens, 
 that the Germans in this country who had been naturalized, 
 almost to a man, stood by the country of their adoption, and 
 so did those of German descent ; the few exceptions, because 
 there are exceptions to every rule, and there are black sheep 
 in every flock, were almost insignificant compared with those 
 who remained true and showed their adherence to the coun- 
 try of their adoption. 
 
 The result of the peace congress must not only be the 
 restoration and rehabilitation of the small nations, which 
 have suffered so much during the war, but the peoples so 
 long under alien rule must be restored to freedom and recog- 
 nized as entitled to control their own affairs ; these embrace 
 the inhabitants of Armenia, Arabia, Bohemia, Finland, 
 which will soon awake from the German nightmare which 
 is now oppressing it; Mesopotamia, Palestine, Poland, 
 Siberia, Slavonia and Syria; and a great Yugo-Slav state 
 must be created ; and as "freedom shrieked when Kosciusko 
 fell," so will freedom cheer when the people of Poland have 
 restored to them their United Country ; and who knows but 
 that the spirit of Louis Kossuth may yet hover over a re- 
 generated and independent and truly-free Hungary. 
 
 The Balkan States must be arranged geographically and 
 ethnologically and the great nations support and encourage 
 them to work out their own future. 
 
 The suggestion recently made that the Balkan churches 
 
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should unite with the American Episcopal Church and adopt 
 the English service, if carried out, will do more to bring 
 fredom, liberty and intelligence to the people of those coun- 
 tries than anything that could possibly happen, and the 
 idea should be encouraged and fostered in every way possi- 
 ble; just as the teaching of English in Mexico will bring 
 regeneration to that troubled country. 
 
 Germany has always been in favor of what is called "a 
 strong German peace" ; that is, give Germany all that it asks 
 for and it will be the most satisfied nation in the world. 
 
 Another expression used by a German statesman is that 
 Germany is ready for "a peace with right," but not a "peace 
 by might" ; what it calls "a peace with right" would be a Ger- 
 man-made peace, which must never be agreed to under any 
 circumstances, and a "peace by might" is what German is 
 going to get. 
 
 Germany cries for mercy, but to her the world may well 
 say : "That mercy you have failed to show, cannot be shown 
 to you." 
 
 A provision which should be incorporated in the peace 
 treaties with the four powers that waged war against the 
 world is, that until the civilized world is satisfied that they 
 have returned to civilization, if such a thing be possible. Con- 
 sular Courts should be established by the other countries of 
 the world, just as they are and have been in heathen lands, so 
 that citizens and subjects of the Allies unfortunate enough 
 to be compelled to visit the enemy countries will have pro- 
 tection in their lives, liberty and property, which it would 
 not do to trust to the German courts any more than it would 
 do to trust them to the German Government. 
 
 The hypocritical "Holier than Thou" whine of Germany 
 that it has been guilty of no cruelties is on a par with the 
 cruelties themselves, which began almost at the birth of the 
 war and have been repeated and intensified from time to 
 time, and are forcibly presented in a recent statement by 
 Dr. Moore, the British chaplain of Lille, just relieved from 
 four years' submission to Germany; and what he says may 
 be partially quoted: 
 
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^'British prisoners were kept without food for three days 
 and nights after their capture, and this was done dehberate- 
 ly in order to break their spirit. I have watched dying men 
 go through the streets to tlieir tasks; at first the German 
 authorities would not even permit me to bury the British 
 dead; I have seen famished men raking through piles of 
 rubbish picking out bits of cabbage leaves and other refuse 
 and eating them eagerly. Eight thousand young women 
 were forcibly seized and sent away to work hundreds of 
 miles from their homes. For this conscription of girls Gernian 
 officers made an arbitrary choice, saying to one, 'You,' and to 
 another, 'You,' and then ordering the men to take them ; this 
 was to be a life of misery and horror to any girl of decent 
 instincts; twelve thousand men and boys were sent away 
 farther into Germany so that their labor should not be given 
 to their own people; the girls were intimately examined by 
 German doctors to see if they were in good health and un- 
 diseased, there being no detail omitted which could have 
 made the whole thing more vile and repellant to every civil- 
 ized instinct; the horrors were so great that two officers 
 of the German army refused to do their part in this terrible 
 work, and were severely punished by their superiors." 
 
 And, of course, Lille is not the only place where helpless 
 and defenseless prisoners have been cruelly and barbarously 
 treated, as is shown by the testimony of returned prisoners, 
 as well as that of neutral observers and investigators, and 
 the depth of depravity is shown by orders found on German 
 prisoners that wells in evacuated land should be poisoned. 
 
 Not content with robbing and looting the property of de- 
 fenseless persons and of being guilty of extreme cruelty to 
 prisoners, the Germans were not satisfied, but went on in 
 their nefarious work by stealing from prisoners, principally 
 Americans, the few comforts sent to them by their friends 
 in the United States and elsewhere. 
 
 And with peace on their lips, but with hate in their heart; 
 the Germans, as they retreat, throw gas bombs on the fleeing 
 and i-etuming inhabitants of Belgium, destroying whom they 
 can, and making invalids of as many of the remainder as 
 
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possible. 
 
 Even the Bolsheviki, the creature of Germany, in answer 
 to a German complaint of inhuman treatment of political 
 adversaries, replied as follows: "Germany, which violated 
 the neutrality of Belgium and holds populations of invaded 
 countries under a brutal yoke, is not qualified to intervene 
 in this question." 
 
 Turkey, whose babarities, cruelties and indignities, perpe- 
 trated upon the helpless Christian subjects of the Sultan, 
 have shocked the civilized world for years and years, and 
 which, during the present war, were encouraged if not 
 actually incited by the Kaiser, must be restricted to its 
 original territory in Asia, and Constantinople and the 
 Dardanelles taken from the grasp of the infidel and neutral- 
 ized for the benefit of the world. 
 
 The German colonies must never be returned for barbaric 
 and cruel exploitation which have been their lot in the past, 
 but should be given to England, and then under the benefi- 
 cent administration of that country they will in time 
 blossom as the rose, as has been the case of Egypt, and 
 other parts of the Dark Continent under English rule. 
 
 The Allies might demand more than the foregoing, but to 
 slightly paraphrase the great saying of Martin Luther: 
 "With God's help they can ask no less ;" for unless Ger- 
 many is forced to pecuniarily be punished as far as possible, 
 no other reparation being possible, then Germany will have 
 won the war in an economic sense, because its territory and 
 all its industries remain absolutely untouched. 
 
 In preference to an immediate peace, I believe the people 
 of France would prefer to drive the invading Huns out of 
 their beloved country by force of arms before the surrender 
 comes, and I do not doubt that the people of the world in 
 general hope they may do so. 
 
 I have always been in favor of a League of Nations, giving 
 expression to my views on the subject in 1911 in a paper 
 which I read at the Third Peace Congress in Baltimore that 
 year, entitled, "Universal Peace Impossible Without an In- 
 ternational Code." 
 
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THE SPIRIT OF 1918 
 
 
 
 Reproduced from the New Orleans Times=Picayune, Tuesday, November 19th, \S 
 
But the League must be composed of civilized Nations, and 
 not include barbarians who fire shrapnel at boats laden with 
 women and children, and are guilty of so many other 
 atrocities. 
 
 Universal disarmament must come with final Peace, for 
 otherwise the War would have been fought in vain and the 
 great sacrifices made for the cause of Democracy, Freedom 
 and Liberty will have been worse than useless. 
 
 And to prevent Germany from preparing for another War 
 it must not be allowed to manufacture and store up instru- 
 ments of warfare, but whatever arms and munitions its peo- 
 ple may need for domestic purposes, must be furnished to 
 them under proper safeguards and strict accountability by 
 and to the other countries of the world. 
 
 No matter what the other Allies may do, so far as the 
 United States is concerned, the Germans and Austrians in- 
 terned in this country must be returned to their own land; 
 and considering how anxious they were to serve their own 
 countries during the war by violating the hospitalities of the 
 country which gave them a home, and in many cases for- 
 tunes, they can hardly object when the war is over to being 
 sent back to Germany and Austria to work therefor and help 
 pay the bills which the Allies will present to them and which 
 must be settled to the uttermost farthing. 
 
 Immigration to this country from Germany and Austria 
 must in the future be greatly curtailed and circumscribed 
 and probably be placed upon the same footing as immigra- 
 tion from China, until after a long term of probation, the 
 residents of these countries, who desire to come to America, 
 have shown by their words and deeds that they are fit sub- 
 jects for residence in the great Pepublic; and in future no 
 foreigner, no matter from what country, should be natural- 
 ized in the United States unless he can read, write and speak 
 the English language ; if a foreigner who desires to become a 
 citizen cannot learn to do this in the five years required for 
 residence, he will ncv^er learn, and no man who cannot do this 
 can appreciate the spirit of American institutions. 
 
 W. 0. HART. 
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ADDENDA, 
 
 With the consent of Mr. J. Walker Ross, Editor of The 
 New Orleans Daily States, I add to what I have heretofore 
 written, an article published in that paper, on Sunday, Nov- 
 17, 1918, endorsing in a few words my sentiments as above 
 expressed. 
 
 The article just as it was pubHshed in The States is as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 GERMAN PEOPLE DESERVE NO MECY. 
 
 BY LIEUT. COL. REPINGTON. 
 
 Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Company. 
 (Cable to New York World and New Orleans States.) 
 
 LONDON, Nov. 16. — Since July 15 there has been no 
 break nor serious setback in the continuous triumph of the 
 Allied arms and the war ends with the greatest disaster 
 Germany has experienced for over a century. Every symbol 
 of the enemy's pride and power falls with the abdication of 
 Wilhehn IL 
 
 It was not fitting that he whose misuse of power brought 
 about the death of millions and whose name ever will be 
 execrated by countless numbers of bereaved people should 
 any longer possess a vestige of authority. Such has been the 
 verdict of Germans and it is also ours. 
 
 But that the sins of the whole German people can be 
 washed out by the sacrifice of the Emperor and the dynasty 
 is not a tenable thesis. The German people associated them- 
 selves with the initial and odious treachery of their Govern- 
 ment, and they supported and gloated over the ravages and 
 murders, the looting and arson, the poison gas and the in- 
 famous massacre of innocent civilians on land and on sea. 
 
 Their vile women spat upon our prisoners and every fresh 
 outrage found peers and peasants, professors and parsons 
 to defend it. 
 
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Only when it was proved by the weight of our anns 
 that barbarity did not pay, did this miserable people flee 
 from the wrath to come and as treacherously deserted their 
 Emperor as they treacherously had deserted civilization. Not 
 so easily can they escape from the consequences of their 
 shameful acts and from the scales of evenhanded justice in 
 which their offenses will be weighed. 
 
 I also quote other newspaper articles, as follows : 
 (From the New Orleans Daily States, November 21, 1918.) 
 
 GERMANY INTENDED, IF SHE 
 
 HAD ¥/0N, TO TAKE CONTINENT 
 
 London, Nov. 21. — (British Wireless Service.) — The late 
 Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg-American 
 Steamship Company, in discussing the indicated armistice 
 terms to be given to Germany, in a letter to the editor of the 
 National Zeitung, of Berlin, shortly before his death, ac- 
 cording to a telegram from Zurich, said: 
 
 "The indicated military, economic and political conditions 
 of the entente are much more moderate than might have 
 been expected from our situation- We need only think what 
 our terms would have been had we been the victors. 
 
 "We would have demanded the occupation of Paris and 
 London. We would have dictated peace at Buckingham Pal- 
 ace and annexed the entire continent from the Ural Moun- 
 tains to the Bay of Biscay." 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, November 22, 1918.) 
 
 Germans lynched Miss Cavell and Captain Fryatt, mur- 
 dered priests, speared babies, and ruthlessly executed other 
 unoffending persons. Some of her submarine crews were 
 
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guilty of crimes equally cold-blooded and atrocious. Not all 
 the tools who committed these horrors can, of course, be 
 brought to the bar of justice. But there is no reason why 
 the higher-ups who ordered them should not be arraigned, 
 tried and made to pay a penalty commensurate with the sav- 
 agery of their acts. 
 
 Liberalism is just as much on trial now as autocracy has 
 been. What it has gained by physical force may all iDe lost 
 by moral weakness and indecision. If the high aims which 
 nerved milhons of freemen in desperate battle are not to 
 govern their representatives at the council board the disil- 
 lusionment of democracy will be as tragic as that which de- 
 feat has brought upon the hosts of absolutism. — New York 
 World. 
 
 (From the New Orleans Item, November 23, 1918.) 
 
 RITISH, FREED BY GERMANS, 
 
 ARE GIVEN NO FOOD 
 
 Are Turned Adrift in Rags and Made to Walk 
 
 Home. 
 
 COMMITTEE REPORTS 
 
 INHUMAN FLOGGINGS 
 
 Inquisitors Say Disgrace Is Flagrant and Infers Ber- 
 lin Approves It. 
 
 London, Nov. 23. — Pitiable conditions among British pris- 
 oners liberated by the Germans since the signing of the ar- 
 mistice are described by Renter's correspondent at French 
 
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headquarters. Thousands of these men, mostly British, are 
 entering France daily. The correspondent writes : 
 
 "I have never seen human beings in such a state of rag- 
 gedness, hunger and misery. When the camps at Forbach, 
 thirty-eight miles east of Metz, as well as those elsewhere, 
 were broken up the prisoners, most of whom were captured 
 during the March offensive, were told to clear out and seek 
 help from their allies. They started to walk the fifty or six- 
 ty miles to the allied lines, but were given no food and had 
 no money. They were in shameful rags, the soles dropping 
 off their boots. Some v/ore clogs and no socks. 
 
 "They left the prison camps in droves of hundreds, in 
 charge of German officers and soldiers who had deserted. 
 The weather was very cold and many died by the roadside 
 v/ithin a few miles from friends. When the survivors en- 
 tered the French lines, French soldiers who were hardened 
 war heroes were horrified to see men in such a plight. It is 
 not doubted that this suffering was intentionally imposed 
 upon the British. Prisoners of other nationalities are agreed 
 that the British were treated worse than the others at all 
 German camps." 
 
 A further i^eport of Sir Robert Younger's committee, deal- 
 ing with the treatment of British prisoners in the coal and 
 salt mines of Germany, gives harrowing details of brutal 
 treatment by the Germans. This report says: 
 
 "From testimony scarcely a month old, it is evident that 
 there is no sign of improvement whatever in the treatment 
 of prisoners in Germany. This disgrace is open and flagrant 
 and the only possible inference is that Berlin deliberately 
 approves of it. There is no doubt that work in the mines 
 is inflicted as punishment. Here is an abstract from a letter 
 dated May 20 last from a British private soldier: 
 
 " 'We have had little to eat since we left Hameln. Two of 
 
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our number have gone to the hospital with broken arms and 
 the remainder are suffering- from cuts on their heads and 
 bruises as the result of floggings they received at the last 
 place. If you could only see the boys here ; they all look like 
 dead men. They are worked to death.' " 
 
 The record of daily promiscuous violence might be much 
 further illustrated. To scores of men who have given evi- 
 dence concerning the mining camps, kicks, blows and insults 
 became a part of the normal routine. 
 
 (From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, Nov. 24, 
 
 1918.) 
 
 FRENCH WOMEN BACK TERMS OF ARMISTICE. 
 
 Malte Finn Refusal to Plea for Mitigation of Proposals Laid 
 I>own to Huns. 
 
 (By United Press.) 
 
 Paris, Nov. 23. — (British Wireless Semce.) — The Na- 
 tional Council of French Women has declined to intercede 
 with the French government to mitigate the terms of the 
 German armistice. In reply to a message published in the 
 press from German women to Madame Jules Sigfried, presi- 
 dent of the council, the council unaimously adopted this 
 resolution : 
 
 "No, we will not intercede with our government to miti- 
 gate the conditions of the armistice which are only too jus- 
 tified by the manner in which Germany has waged war- 
 
 "In the course of these tragic years German women, hold- 
 ing victory was certain, remained silent at the crimes of! 
 their government, their army and navy. 
 
 "At the congress at The Hague, to which she refused to 
 go, the secretary of the National Council of German Women 
 was invited to protest against the violation of Belgium and 
 
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against the torpedoing- of the Lusitania. She wrote in 
 reply : 
 
 " 'We are as one with our people. The men who took the 
 responsibility for Germany are as dear to us as those who 
 are shedding their blood for us on the battle field.' 
 
 "To our indignant protest against the deportation of wom- 
 en and young girls and when we showed that history might 
 possibly bring a reversal of fortune, there was no response." 
 
 EXTRACT FROM BERNE CABLEGRAM BY JULIAN 
 
 GRANDE. 
 
 When German secret documents are published the world 
 will be appalled at the depths of degradation to which Ger- 
 mans, with high sounding names and titles, sunk. Thus, 
 after Italy's entrance into the war, Prince Von Buelow, in 
 conjunction with the German consul general at Zur, was en- 
 gaged in endeavoring to introduce poison bombs, cholera 
 bacilli and germs for infecting horses and poisoning wells 
 into Italy via Switzerland. This was proved by recent in- 
 quiries of the Swiss authority which resulted in the imme- 
 diate expulsion of the German consul general and vice consul 
 at Zur. Von Buelow escaped from Switzerland and is now 
 probably hiding somewhere in Germany. 
 
 (From the New Orleans Item, Sunday, Nov. 24, 1918.) 
 GERMANS PLAN UNITED FRONT AT PEACE TABLE. 
 
 (By J. W. T. Mason, United Press War Expert.) 
 New York, Nov. 23 — Germany is trying to postpone her 
 experiment in democracy and is endeavoring to hold fast 
 under a compromise regime for the purpose of presenting a 
 united front at the peace conference and taking advantage 
 of any differences German diplomacy may be able to create 
 among the alhes. The actual happenings within Germany 
 are being carefully concealed by the German censor. The 
 Germans themselves have confessed that they do not know 
 
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whether Hohenzollem has officially abdicated or not. Prince 
 Max has mysteriously dropped out of public life, and 
 whether he is still Germany's self-appointed regent is an- 
 other secret. 
 
 Two different ministries have been announced from Ber- 
 lin within a week, yet there has been no indication whether 
 the second list, containing conservative elements, has for- 
 mally replaced the first list made up exclusively of Socialist 
 leaders. It is apparent the German people have not got 
 their minds on their revolution. They are bent on saving 
 what they can at the peace conference by the same old 
 methods of "efficiency" that have brought disgrace and 
 travail upon their country. 
 
 The Germans are afraid to let themselves loose in their 
 new freedom. They want to safeguard themselves from 
 being too democratic, for they fear if that happens, they 
 will become weakened and the allies will exterminate them. 
 Chancellor Ebert has urged what in effect is this viewpoint 
 upon Germans in a special proclamation. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM EDITORIAL IN MEMPHIS COMMER- 
 CIAL APPEAL, SUNDAY, NOV. 24, 1918. 
 
 "Germany must pay for the wrong she has done either in 
 kind or in surrender of commercial advantages. 
 
 "The Germans may say that to restore Northern France 
 and Belgium would be to beggar them for a hundred years. 
 So be it. We have Germany's word, uttered by Hollweg, 
 the prime minister, at the beginning of the war, as follows : 
 'The law of necessity drove us through Belgium; we did a 
 wrong when we went through their country, and we will 
 have to pay for the damages we have done,' or words to 
 this effect. So Germany should be made to pay Belgium 
 for every brick and for every spool of thread wrongfully 
 taken. Every act of destruction done in Belgium must be 
 paid for, because, primarily, Germany was there not as an 
 invader under a law of war, but as a highwayman. 
 
 23 
 
"GeiTnany deliberately started out on this program. Ger- 
 many realized what she was doing; and Germany built up 
 a bill against herself. The account is due now. But Ger- 
 many miscalculated on the bill collector. The bill collector 
 is armed and Germany must pay unless some friend of the 
 bill collector begins to beg her off. 
 
 "Germany destroyed vast quantities of property in France 
 in violation of the law of war. This destruction must be 
 analyzed and that part of the wrong done unlawfully must 
 be repaired in kind. If the process results in reducing Ger- 
 many to a second-class power, so be it. 
 
 "Bernhardi in 'The Next War' stated that Germany would 
 never be safe until France was reduced to a second-class 
 power. The Kaiser evidently approved Bemhardi's book 
 because, during the war, Bernhardi was one of the crack 
 commanders and was in great favor until he lost several 
 fights. 
 
 "If Germany took a chance on reducing France to a sec- 
 ond-class power, by casting the dice of Mars, and loses, 
 Germany has no complaint if France says that *we can be 
 safe only when Germany is reduced to a second-class power-' 
 That is what it amounts to. 
 
 "Germany, by her conduct in beginning this war, and Ger- 
 many, by her conduct in prosecuting the war, demonstrates 
 her unfitness to be on equal terms with France and Italy, 
 England and the United States. These four powers are 
 willing to sit in conference, all equal, but Germany, in such 
 an arrangement, is out of place, because Germany in any 
 conference or arrangement holds herself to be first." 
 
 BAVARIA SHOWS GERMANY LAID TRAP FOR WAR. 
 
 London, Nov. ?6. — (By Associated Press.) — Publication 
 of official reports from the Bavarian minister at Berlin to 
 his home government confirm evidence already in the hands 
 of the entente that Germany and Austria conspired to bring 
 about the war. It was for this reason that the terms of 
 
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Austria's ultimatum to Serbia were made so drastic that 
 hostilities were bound to follow. 
 
 The revelations have been published in Munich after per- 
 mission had been asked by the Bavarian premier and for- 
 eign minister of the German federal government. They are 
 in the form of a report sent to Munich on July 18, 1914, by 
 Count von Lerchenfeld, the Bavarian minister at Berlin. 
 
 According to the report the delivery of the ultimatum to 
 Serbia was delayed until after President Poincare and Pre- 
 mier Viviani of France, had gone to St- Petersburg, which 
 would make it difficult for the entente nations to arrive at 
 an understanding and take counter measures. 
 
 Count von Lerchenfeld said that "Serbia obviously can- 
 not accept such conditions as will be laid down," and that as 
 a consequence "there must be war." He declared that 
 action on the part of Austria could not be long delayed, "for 
 that might give Serbia, under pressure from France and 
 Russia, an opporunity to offer satisfaction." 
 
 In a telegra-n to Municli frori' BerHn July 31, l^M 1, Count 
 von Lerchenfeld said that Sir Edward Grey's efforts to pre- 
 serve peace would "certainly not succeed in arresting the 
 course of events," Later the same day he wired informa- 
 tion as to ultimatums to Russia and France, florecast their 
 rejection by both nations, and told of plans to hurl Ger- 
 many's armies against France, which, he said, would be 
 "overwhelmed in four weeks." 
 
 He said that the morale of the French army was poor and 
 that it was poorly armed. 
 
 On August 4 the Bavarian minister outlined Germany's 
 intention to violate Belgian neutrality, saying: "The chief 
 general staff has declared that even British neutrality will 
 be paid for too dearly if the price is respect of Belgium. An 
 attack on France is possible only through Belgium." 
 
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(From the New Orleans States, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1918) 
 
 FORTY-NINE PRIESTS KILLED AFTER 
 
 TORTURE BY GERMAN INVADERS 
 
 Malines, Belgium, Nov. 27. — (Havas.) — Forty-nine Bel- 
 gian priests were tortured and put to death by the Germans 
 during the occupation, Cardinal Mercier, the Primate of Bel- 
 gium, declared in an intenaew today. He added that twelve 
 thousand men were removed from his diocese to Germany, 
 where they were forced to work. Other crimes committed 
 by the Germans, the Cardinal said, were too long and too 
 terrible to relate briefly. 
 
 The fact that the stories of starvation in Germany were 
 false shows that the Huns, true to foi-m, lied to the last. 
 
 Extracts from cable with London date line published in 
 the New Orleans Item, Wednesday, November 27, 1918: 
 
 As the Chronicle editorially points out, 'The peoples 
 which, a month ago, composed the central empires are debt- 
 ors of the associated powers. Restitution and reparation 
 must be bought from them on a colossal scale. It is out of 
 the question that Belgium and France should be left to 
 repair unaided the monstrous wrongs inflicted on them by 
 the German nation simply because the Hohenzollerns have 
 gone out of business. Nor can Great Britain forego the 
 satisfaction of her claims in regard to her illegally torpe- 
 doed merchantmen. 
 
 " To do so would be in effect to legalize sea crimes. Some 
 responsible government or governments will have to be set 
 up by the German people, otherwise we might have no al- 
 ternative but to occupy Germany ourselves for an indefinite 
 period until the difficulties are cleared up. This coui'se 
 would be taken with .the utmost reluctance." 
 
 "Germany has been challenged again and again to pro- 
 duce the whole correspondence between Berlin and Vienna 
 
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during July, 1914," says the Times. "She has never dared 
 produce it. Will the new government dare — just to show 
 the gulf between it and its predecessors? Bavaria has 
 proved she was an accomplice of Berlin and Vienna- She 
 supported them until they lost and now she shall not whiten 
 her character in the eyes of the allies by blackening the 
 record of her confederates." 
 
 "The Kaiser, after taking every possible step to throw 
 the allies off their guard, struck, expecting in a few weeks 
 to have the world at his feet," says the Mail. "The revela- 
 tions made by Bavaria will not surprise the allies nor dis- 
 passionate historians in neutral countries." 
 
 "Thus was the blood bath prepared. Is the Kaiser to 
 be allowed to go without trial?" is the comment of the Ex- 
 press. 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918.) 
 
 GERMANS KEEP 15,000 PRISONERS 
 
 IN MINES UNDER ARTILLERY PROTECTION. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 28. — (Havas.) — Details of the systematic 
 sequestration or destruction of machinery in the French 
 factories in the Briey valley region is given by the corre- 
 spondent at Briey of Le Journal. 
 
 All stocks of merchandise, iron ore, cast iron and steel 
 were first requisitioned by German inspectors and en- 
 gineers, the correspondent says, and then fifteen officers 
 and 100 men arrived to organize the destruction of the 
 plants. German manufacturers visited the region and 
 picked out certain pieces of machinery which they wished 
 placed in their own plants, and these were shipped imme- 
 diately to Germany. 
 
 After these selections had been made the demolition of 
 blast furnaces, steam engines, boilers, tools, gearings and 
 electric light fixtures not connected with the actual working 
 of the mines, was carried out, the employees of the plants 
 
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being compelled to aid the Germans in their devastation. 
 
 In the meantime the exploitation of the mines was kept 
 in full swing. Prisoners to the number of 15,000 were put 
 to work with hardly any rest and under terrible discipline. 
 The output of the mines was larger than in peace times, 
 and, the correspondent adds, this enabled the Central Powers 
 to hold out for four years. 
 
 Let us not forget that the German women who are ap- 
 pealing to America for food and a modification of the armis- 
 tice are probably the same women who spat in the faces of 
 wounded American and British prisoners. 
 
 London, Nov. 28. — "It will be a great mistake to suppose 
 the Kaiser is done with ; he has many adherents in Germany 
 who are quite resolved not to take the recent defeat lying 
 down," is the opinion given the Daily Mail's correspondent 
 at The Hague by a Dutch citizen who spent the whole period 
 of the revolution in Bremerhaven and has now returned by 
 Holland. 
 
 The returned Dutchman estimates the proportion of loy- 
 alists to revolutionists as one to two, and he says a large 
 number of soldiers are what might be called "true to the 
 Kaiser." 
 
 It must not be imagined, he insists, that the German 
 Army, although less than before, has ceased to exist. On 
 the contrary, he represents it as very much in existence, 
 and, moreover, commanded by generals devoted to the for- 
 mer Emperor's cause. 
 
 Despite the fact that the Hun has a thick hide it can be 
 rubbed into him. When the German admiral, Maurier, 
 asked Admiral Sir David Beatty to sign an agreement that 
 the German crews bringing the German warships to the port 
 of surrender would not be ill-treated, Beatty tore up the 
 document, saying: "Tell them they are coming to England. 
 That will be enough." 
 
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EXTRACT FROM SPEECH OF JOSEPHUS DANIELS, 
 
 Secretary of the Navy, at Buffalo, N. Y., on Thanksgiving 
 Day, Thursday, November 28, 1918. 
 
 "Germany must be dealt with firmly at the peace con- 
 ference," said Mr. Daniels, "because the sins of her rulers 
 and all who followed their spirits are black and bitter, and 
 crimes deserve such treatment and such punishment as will 
 protect the future. 
 
 "But no policy of hatred," he said, "no spirit of ven- 
 geance, should guide this world renewal. The protection of 
 women and children knows no friends and no enemies. The 
 rebirth of modem civilization should not go forward under 
 any spell of mere revenge or malice to millions of men. 
 Principle and justice, touched with mercy to the weak, 
 should guide this congress, not passion or emotion." 
 
 London, Nov. 28. — "German states, whatever their form, 
 must pay the bill. Germany, as a whole, must be held re- 
 sponsible for the consequences of the war," says the West- 
 minster Gazette in discussing the situation that has devel- 
 oped in Germany. 
 
 On the wall of the room in which the peace conference is 
 held should be placed a large placard reading: "Remember 
 the Lusitania." 
 
 (From the New Orleans Item, Thursday, Nov. 28, 1918.) 
 
 GERMANS HAMMER MEZIERES 
 
 UNTIL VERY LAST MINUTE. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 28. — Dr. Albert Farvre, under secretary of the 
 interior, who has just returned from a visit to the Ardennes 
 department, which was so long entirely occupied by the Ger- 
 mans, describes conditions there as having been greatly 
 ameliorated by the food supplies furnished by the Spanish- 
 American committee. 
 
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"On the other hand, the moral ill-treatment of the 200,- 
 000 residents surpassed imagination and reduced the in- 
 habitants to slavery. During the last hours of occupation 
 Von Arnim bombarded Mezieres from the mills surrounding, 
 beginning on Sunday, Nov. 10, and continuing until 10:30 
 Monday morning — the day the armistice was signed, and 
 one-half hour before it came into effect, reducing two-thirds 
 of the town to ruins. 
 
 NO HAIR-SPLITTING WANTED. 
 
 On this point the average Frenchman and Frenchwoman 
 will not tolerate any hair-splitting or shilly-shallying. As 
 every Frenchman argues the fact that Germany is now a 
 republic, or rather a series of republics, is no reason what- 
 ever why she should not pay a heavy indemnity to recoup 
 the loss she has caused. 
 
 CANTERBURY PRELATE REPLIES TO 
 
 BERLIN PROFESSOR'S APPEAL FOR MERCY 
 
 London, Nov. 28. — (By Associated Press.) — The Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, in replying to a message from Pro- 
 fessor Deissmann, of Berlin University, transmitted by 
 Archbishop Soderblom, of Upsala, imploring merciful treat- 
 ment at the peace conference "in the nam.e of Christianity," 
 says: 
 
 "Professor Deissmann's statement as to the present situ- 
 ation is not one which I cm accept as correct. He speaks 
 of the European situation as though all that is needed on 
 the part of Christian circles in the belligerent nations is 
 'mutual forgiveness and concihation in order to fight in uni- 
 son against the terrible consequences of the war and to serve 
 
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the moral improvements of the nations and of mankind!' " 
 
 The Archbishop calls attention to the fact that on Sep- 
 tember 22, 1915, he sent a letter to Professor Deissmann 
 pointing out these essential matters, but received no reply 
 except a verbal acknowledgment, and continues: 
 
 "We have fought without hatred, and so far as possible 
 without passion, and now that victory crowns the cause for 
 which we fought we desire to be equally free from hatred 
 and passion in the course we follow as victors. 
 
 "But we cannot forget the terrible crime wrought against 
 humanity and civilization when this stupendous war was let 
 loose in Europe, Nor can we possibly ignore the savagery 
 which the German high command displayed in carrying on 
 the war. Outrages in Belgium in the early months, and, 
 indeed ever since, the character of the devastation wrought 
 in France, including the inhuman deportation of innocent 
 civihans; the submarine warfare against passenger ships, 
 like the Lusitania, and the rejoicings which ensued in Ger- 
 many; the unspeakable cruelty exercised on defenseless 
 prisoners down to the very end, including even the last few 
 weeks, all these things compel the authorities of the allied 
 powers to take security against a repetition of such a crime. 
 
 "The position would be different had there been on the 
 part, of Christian circles in Germany any public protest 
 of these gross wrongs or any repudiation of their perpe- 
 trators. 
 
 "The peace we hope to achieve must be a peace not of 
 hate or revenge, the fruits of which might be further and 
 even more tei*rible strife- We wish by every means to avert 
 that possibility. But righteousness must be vindicated, 
 even though vindication involved sternness. There is, how- 
 ever, as I need hardly say, no wish on the part of the allied 
 nations to crush or destroy the peoples of Germany. Evi- 
 dence to the contrary is amply abundant." 
 
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(From the New Orleans Item. Friday, Nov. 29, 1918. 
 EX-KAISER PLANS TO RETURN TO 
 
 GERMANY AT EARLY DATE AND 
 
 RECLAIM THRONE, LONDON REPORTS. 
 
 (By The Associated Press.) 
 
 London, Nov. 29 — The former German Emperor contem- 
 plates an early return to Germany to reclaim his throne, ac- 
 cording to news received in London through a neutral source 
 of high standing, says The Daily Mail. 
 
 The newspaper says that the revolution in Germany is 
 being managed by officers of the German high command, 
 with a view of eventually causing its collapse and the 
 triumphant return of the former Emperor to Berlin. Some 
 of these officers in civilian clothes have been recognized in 
 the streets of Berlin. Many of them are reported to be 
 dressed as workmen. 
 
 These officers harangued the crowd as comrades and in 
 every way encouraged the revolutionary movements. It is 
 added, however, that if opportunity offers they will abandon 
 their disguise, contend that the revolution is a failure and 
 begin a counter-revolution. 
 
 Agents of these officers, it is declared, are furthering this 
 plot by spreading anti-British propaganda in Holland, with 
 the object of embittering the Dutch against the Allies. 
 
 An interned German officer recently returning to Arn- 
 heim from Berlin stated that the war was not yet fought out 
 and that in Berlin the people were already preparing for a 
 war in fifteen or twenty years. 
 
 GERMANY MUST PAY TO HER LIMIT, 
 
 SAYS LLOYD GEORGE. 
 
 Submarine Pirates Must Be Punished, He Declares. 
 
 New Castle, England, Nov. 29. — Germany must pay the 
 cost of the war to the limit of her capacity, Premier Lloyd 
 
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George declared in a speech here to-day. 
 
 The submarine pirates must be punished, the premier 
 added, and whoever devastated the lands of another country 
 ought to be responsible for it. 
 
 Referring to the culpability of the authors of the war, Mr. 
 Lloyd George said the government intended that the inves- 
 tigation to be conducted should be a perfectly fair but a stern 
 one, and that it should go on to its final reckoning. 
 
 "I mean to see that the men who did not treat our prison- 
 ers humanely be made responsible," the premier declared. 
 He added that he did not wish to pursue a policy of ven- 
 geance, but declared: 
 
 "We have got so to act that men in the future who feel 
 tempted to follow the example of the rulers who plunged 
 the world into war, will know what is waiting for them at 
 the end. 
 
 "The submarine warfare did not mean only the sinking of 
 ships but it was a crime against humanity in that it sank 
 thousands of harmless merchantment. In the whole history 
 of warfare between nations that had never been sanctioned." 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Friday, Nov. 29, 1918.) 
 (By Permission.) 
 
 TERRORISM FAILING, THE HUN 
 
 IS NOW TRYING TEARS. 
 
 (By Rev. Newell Dwight Hilhs.) 
 The Huns are now trying sobs and tears. Only a month 
 has passed since Solf announced that the sword of Germany 
 was unbroken, that her people were well fed, that she had 
 food and to spare, and that the Kaiser would soon inflict 
 withering losses upon the Allies. A few days later, the 
 Huns begged for an armistice, and the minute that agree- 
 metn was signed the Hun started a dead run for the Rhine. 
 Now comes another statement from the sam.e expert in 
 
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camouflage, Solf. The burden of the new appeal to the 
 President is, "Germany is starving." Two weeks ago Solf 
 shouts, "Our granaries are overflowing; we can carry on this 
 war indefinitely;" now he sobs, "We have not a grain of 
 wheat in our granaries, and without food from the Allies we 
 will starve." With tears he insists that Germany is broken, 
 frail as a reed, and that unless we bind up her wounds of 
 hunger she must perish. The educated man says: "Solf 
 could not be telling the truth both times ; Germany cannot 
 be full and be hungry at the same moment." Solf must have 
 been lying, therefore, either in the first or the second state- 
 ment. As a matter of fact, however, Solf was lying both 
 times. 
 
 The old proverb is, "When you do not know on which side 
 of the street to walk, take the middle of the road." When 
 the Huns do not know which side will be victorious, and on 
 which side to tell the most hes, they He on both sides, and 
 thus play safe. Facts like these do not incline the Amer- 
 ican people to begin to save so that we can feed the Hun. So 
 far as is known, Germany has a better outlook for the win- 
 ter than France, and far and away better food prospects 
 than Belgium. We saw 1,900 prisoners on a late September 
 day near Cambria, and these Germans were plump, well 
 cared for. Having met a number of Germans in Switzer- 
 land during early September, I cannot recall one who did not 
 insist that the food conditions of the Fatherland were ex- 
 cellent, and that there was bread enough and to spare for 
 the coming winter. Plainly Solf is putting on the "sob" 
 stuff. Terrorism, flames, looting, mutilations and frightful- 
 ness have failed ; therefore why not try tears ? This is the 
 essence of his plea : "If you do not leave us our ships, how 
 can we obtain bread from Sweden? Think of our German 
 children crying at night for want of a wheaten loaf." Well, 
 the German stole the Red Cross supplies from the Belgians 
 and allowed the Belgian children to cry and starve. It was 
 not that the Hun left the Belgian and the French refugees 
 with little food ; the big Hun officers and men robbed them 
 
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of the little bread they had, and slew them with hunger. 
 
 It was not that the Hun left the people of the regions they 
 had ruined with little clothes ; the Hun stole from their cap- 
 tives such clothes as they had, and left them in rags. Few 
 things are stranger than this: a fortnight ago Solf 
 trumpeted from the house-tops at Berlin that Germany's 
 military power and food supplies were all that could be 
 asked, and within two weeks he pours out a flood of tears 
 and says that Germany is starving to death ; and therefore 
 Americans must begin to give up their meat, their butter, 
 and their wheat, for fear the Hun, self -convicted of lying, 
 will not receive food supplies. Our gullibility is most amaz- 
 ing. The neurethenic woman may be excused for sending 
 roses and wine jelly to a convicted murderer. Is any one 
 able to explain why it is that American men are now en- 
 gaged in asking our people to feed the Huns whose soldiers, 
 when captured, are on the average, fat, sleek, and as well 
 conditioned as our own men? During September, Mr. 
 Barron, Mr. Furber and myself met scores of Germans in 
 Switzerland, and we did not find the slightest evidence of 
 hunger in Germany. Terrorism failed — tears may succeed. 
 (Copyright, 1918, 21st Century Press.) 
 
 (From the New Orleas Item, Saturday, Nov. 30, 1918.) 
 
 INVADE GERMANY AND GET 
 
 ALLIED PRISONERS, URGED. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 30. — (By Associated Press.) — Deputy Fer- 
 nand Merlin, in the Chamber of Deputies during a live debate 
 in which he deplored German treatment of prisoners of war, 
 urged the government to proceed into Germany snd bring 
 back prisoners in automobiles. 
 
 In the face of German's systematic default, said the 
 deputy, "we must not abandon our unfortunate prisoners. 
 We must penetrate into Germany and not alone control the 
 girison camps but care for the prisoners and repatriate them, 
 bringing them back by the use of medical automobiles." 
 
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(From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 
 PACKAGES SENT TO AMERICAN 
 
 PRISONERS LOOTED BY ENEMY. 
 
 Limburg Known as Mystery Camp Because of Its Many 
 Strange Disappearances. 
 
 London, Nov, 30. — Eight American former prisoners of 
 war, the first men of this class to reach London, have arrived 
 here. All of the men are in good condition. They were 
 members of the One Hundred and Second Infantry and 
 were captured last April at Seicheprey. They were at- 
 tached to the Friedrichsfeld camp until their release Nov. 
 15. 
 
 All of them said they had been forced to work hard and 
 were given insufficient food. They would have starved had 
 it not been for the American Red Cross packages which were 
 received at long intervals, they stated. 
 
 The men said they were supposed to get an American Red 
 Cross package weekly, but they were lucky if the Germans 
 permitted this monthly. Even the packages received, espe- 
 cially of soap, v/ere looted, according to the prisoners. 
 
 Their treatment was varied in the different camps. In 
 Darmstadt they endured civilian insults. While working in 
 the roads they often were spat upon. After the armistice 
 was signed guards and civilians "got down on their knees 
 to us," they said. 
 
 Limburg was called the "mystery camp" owing to the 
 numerous disappearances of prisoners, the fate of whom 
 never was revealed. 
 
 He said : "The food was all but uneatable. Breakfast con- 
 sisted of miserable coffee and a piece of bread ; lunch, soup 
 containing bits of turnips, grass and potatoes, and always 
 full of dirt and sand. We used to take out the potatoes and 
 give the rest to the poor Russian prisoners. For weeks we 
 had to labor on that diet." 
 
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REPARATION ASKED BY FRENCH 
 
 PEOPLE OF HUN CRIMINALS. 
 
 Famous Paris Editor Tells America Net to Be Too Generous. 
 
 (By Stephane Lauzanne, Editor-in-Chief of "Le Matin.) 
 
 If at this hour, when the dreadful nightmare is passing 
 away, mutilated France could make another appeal to Amer- 
 ica, her sister and friend, she would say to her: "Don't be 
 too generous." 
 
 Everyone will admit that throughout her long and 
 troublous history France has always been the land of 
 chivalry, generosity and humanity. Even in this atrocious 
 war, when it came to hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches, 
 she still felt pity. 
 
 I shall never forget on the battle field of the Marne, at 
 the village of Eetrepilly, plundered, sacked and burned down 
 by the Huns, those Zouaves who were sitting beside some 
 German wounded on a small square. In their own glasses 
 they poured out a little cordial for their prisoners; they 
 gave them their last cigarettes. One of them had even 
 taken, as if he were his brother, the head of a wounded Ger- 
 man in his left hand to support it. With his right hand, 
 very carefully, he was giving him a drink. I pointed the 
 scene out to a German major and said to him: 
 
 "See ! That is war — at least it's war as we understand it." 
 
 At Rheims, while the Cathedral was on fire — the work of 
 German shells — French Sisters of Charity threw themselves 
 into the flames to save German wounded. That also was 
 war as we understand it. And" to-day, after four years of 
 a horrible struggle, we can face the entire world and say 
 that if there is blood on our hands there is none on our con- 
 science. And yet we call out to America: "Don't be too 
 generous." 
 
 Two imperious and inexorable duties are before us: 
 France must have guarantees. 
 
 France must have reparation, for several of her depart- 
 
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merits — equal in area and wealth to the State of New York — 
 have been laid waste, burned down and razed. Three hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand houses have been broken into, pulled 
 down and shattered into bits, and it has been computed that 
 merely to rebuild them it would require an army of 100,000 
 men, working for twenty years. Who is to furnish that 
 army? France? No, but the destroyers and incendiaries. 
 Of course, they will protest, and implore, and complain that 
 it is sentencing German youth to hard labor. They will try 
 to soften the hearts of neutral countries. In the name of 
 common fairness, should they be listened to? 
 
 There is one thing France cannot do, and that is to dis- 
 tinguish between the German government and the German 
 people. In 1914 it was undoubtedly the German government 
 that hurled itself at the throats of France and Belgium, and 
 humanity and democracy, but it was also the German peo- 
 ple. And when, on the 3d of August, 1914, speaking before 
 the Reichstag, that is, before the people of Germany, Beth- 
 mann Hollweg made his abominable statement: "Yes, we 
 have invaded Belgium, and this is against international law, 
 but we are in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no 
 law," not a shudder, not a tremor shook that people; not a 
 cry of indignation was raised. 
 
 There must be reparation, or it would be enough to make 
 one despair of justice on earth. There must be punishment, 
 or it will all begin over again. 
 
 France must have guarantees, and in all organized so- 
 cieties guarantee against the repetition of a crime is ob- 
 tained by punishing the culprit. The German people have 
 committed a series of crimes ; the German people must pay 
 the price. The highest punishment that can be inflicted is 
 to allow them to suffer some of the evils they have inflicted 
 on others. 
 
 And that is why, speaking to America, for whom we have 
 a deep and abiding affection; America, to whom we are 
 henceforth bound by ties of eternal friendship; America, 
 with whom we have twice fought side by side for the noblest 
 
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ideals, we say to her : "For God's sake, don't be too gener- 
 ous." 
 
 What America wants we want as badly as she does. We 
 want this horror to be the last ; we want free people to live 
 free under the flag of Liberty ; we want our children and the 
 children of our children to live proudly and happily and to 
 enjoy the fruits of this earth without fearing a return of 
 such abominations. But for this justice is needed, and there 
 is no justice when the guilty go unpunished. 
 
 TELLS OF ATROCITIES BY U-BOAT'S CREW. 
 
 Shot Men on Life Boats and Lashed Them to Submarine. 
 
 Cumulative testimony of the atrocities committed by the 
 Germans in their submarine attacks upon British craft 
 reached New Orleans Saturday, when W. E. Jones, a British 
 sailor, who arrived here Friday, told of the treatment of the 
 crew of the steamer Westminster, which he said was tor- 
 pedoed last April in the Mediterranean sea. 
 
 "The crew lowered the boats," Jones said, "and a sub- 
 marine came to the top and shelled the lifeboats and killed 
 the captain and fourteen men. One of the ships of the 
 Cameron line was torpedoed. The crew of the submarme 
 captured the crew of the British vessel, lashed them to the 
 deck of the U-boat, threw away their life belts, and then 
 submerged the submarine. Only one or two of the British 
 crew escaped." 
 
 FOCH WILL PROTEST TO BERLIN. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 28. — (Havas.) — The French government, 
 through Marshal Foch, will send a vigorous protest to Ber- 
 lin concerning the treatment of war prisoners. Edouard 
 
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Ignace, under secretary for military justice and pensions, 
 announced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day that the new 
 government in Germany treated the prisoners no better 
 than the old one. The brutality of the Germans could not 
 be surpassed, he added, and the representatives of the Span- 
 ish and Swiss missions which investigated the condition of 
 prisoners will clearly show how deep into barbarity Ger- 
 many has sunk. 
 
 HAS FOOD FOR MONTHS. 
 
 Germany Not Facing Starvation, Say Swiss Advices. 
 
 Zurich, Nov. 29. — Food conditions in Germany are by no 
 means so critical and urgent as Dr. Solf, the foreign min- 
 ister, would lead the world to believe, according to informa- 
 tion received here. Germany has food enough to last until 
 April if the army reserve stores are placed at the disposal 
 of the people. Those in reserve were drawn upon in Octo- 
 ber to feed certain parts of the country, but they have been 
 restored to their former condition from the last harvest. 
 Since October they have not been touched. 
 
 There should be no famine in Germany this winter, it is 
 said, if strict rationing is enforced and stocks are method- 
 ically and regularly distributed among the different states. 
 
 ADMITS PROVOCATIVE WORDS. 
 
 Bethmann-Hollweg Tells How Germany Had Chip on 
 Shoulder. 
 
 London, Nov. 30. — (British Wireless Service.) — Fuller 
 reports of the statement published by Dr. von Bethmann- 
 Hollweg, the former imperial German chancellor, in the 
 North German Gazette, show that although he attempts 
 
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various arguments in excuse for his share in German guilt 
 for the war he makes the following confession: 
 
 "But above all, we must confess that by our deficiencies 
 of national character and by the sins of our general be- 
 havior we have contributed to the warlike tension which 
 filled the air for the past few years. Words which might 
 be taken as provocation were uttered repeatedly. The Pan- 
 German activities at home and abroad have done us the 
 greatest harm, but above all, our naval policy brought us the 
 most fatal opposition." 
 
 The answer to von Bethmann-Hollweg's general apologies 
 may be found in the Berlin Tageblatt which, in taking the 
 former chancellor to task, says: 
 
 "Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg mentioned neither the Ger- 
 man-British negotiations, which were concluded in July, 
 1914, nor Sir Edward Grey's (then British foreign secre- 
 tary) very reasonable and acceptable proposal for media- 
 tion. Why did the German government reject this pro- 
 posal? The ex-chancellor states himself that the Austrian 
 ultimatum was too sharp, but in that case what objection 
 could the German government raise against Sir Edward 
 Grey's proposal ? If von Betiimann felt himself that wrong 
 was committed against Belgium he had no right to submit, 
 and if he was not able to carry his point he ought to have 
 resigned." 
 
 AUSTRIA FORCED TO STAY IN. 
 
 Copenhagen, Nov. 29. — People of prominence in Vierina, 
 who are in touch with the Foreign Department there, assert 
 that, in 1917, when Count Czernin, then Austro-Hungarian 
 foreign minister, sought by Emperor Charles' order to in- 
 duce Emperor William to conclude peace, he was referred to 
 supreme headquarters. When Count Czernin pointed out 
 that Austria was exhausted and might be compelled to make 
 a separate peace. General Ludendorff, striking the table, 
 exclaimed : 
 
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"The same day that Austria concludes a separate peace, 
 it will receive a declaration of war from Germany. That 
 will be our only answer to such a breach." 
 
 (From New Orleans Item, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 
 
 EX-KAISER'S ABDICATION SAYS 
 
 NOTHING OF CROWN PRINCE. 
 
 Washin^on, Nov. 30. — The signing by William Hohen- 
 zollern of a formal decree of abdication, as reported to-day 
 in news dispatches from London, means absolutely nothing. 
 
 This was indicated in a dispatch received by the French 
 High Command from Berlin by way of Berne to-night. 
 While the former Kaiser renounced his rights to the throne 
 of Germany, no mention of the Crown Prince nor of the 
 son of the Crown Prince was made, according to the dis- 
 patch. And the Crown Prince, being the heir apparent to 
 the throne, still can exercise a claim upon it, officials here 
 said to-night. It was pointed out if the Hohenzollerns were 
 to be eliminated entirely, it would be necessary to secure a 
 similar decree from the Crown Prince, and another from 
 him on behalf of his son. 
 
 In fact, the reported formal abdication of the Kaiser was 
 accepted here with the same suspicion that has marked pre- 
 vious announcements of the same character. 
 
 And with the Crown Prince still in line for the throne, 
 reports of the development of the counter revolutionary 
 movement in Germany, reaching here through semi-official 
 channels, were received with obvious interest. 
 
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PRISONERS SUFFER STILL IN GERMANY. 
 
 New Government as Cruel as Old, French Official Tells 
 
 Deputies. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 28. — (By Associated Press.) — The French 
 government, through Marshal Foch, will send a vigorous 
 protest to Berlin concerning the treatment of war prison- 
 ers. Edouard Ignace, under secretary for military justice 
 and pensions, announced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day 
 that the new government in Germany treated the prisoners 
 no better than the old one. 
 
 The brutality of the Germans could not be surpassed, he 
 added, and the representatives of the Spanish and Swiss 
 missions which investigated the condition of prisoners will 
 show clearly how deep into barbarity Germany has sunk. 
 Parcels sent to French prisoners were stolen and robbed, 
 and the sending of parcels was suspended after the signing 
 of the armistice for that reason. 
 
 A distinguished French economist, M. Andre Reclus, has 
 suggested that it would be a wise, practical measure to seize 
 the vast personal property and palaces of the late German 
 Kaiser to help restore devastated Belgium and France. 
 
 EX-KAISER TRICKY TO THE 
 
 LAST, SAY LONDON PAPERS 
 
 London, Nov. 30. — Grave charges are made against the 
 ex-Kaiser of Germany in the press comment to-day upon 
 his final abdication. Headlines were spread across the first 
 pages and leading editorials were devoted to the subject. 
 The text of the stories emphasized that the former Kaiser 
 was full of trickery until the last. 
 
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The Evening News says: "Until the official text was 
 printed there was not the slightest reliance to be put in the 
 previous reports that the ex-Kaiser had abdicated. The lies 
 were put out deliberately with the intent of deceiving the 
 Allies and to cloak the movements for a counter revolution 
 to restore the old regime, 
 
 "It is now revealed that the famine whines were purposely 
 exaggerated in order to arouse the pity of the Allies." 
 
 The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the imperialistic in- 
 triguers attempted to leave a loophole for themselves for a 
 subterranean movement to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF G. W. CHRISTIAN. 
 
 Favors Formation of Powerful World Army. 
 
 To the Editor of The Item : 
 
 I read daily some suggestion as to how the great peace 
 conference can arrange for compelling a general and lasting 
 peace all over the world. All seem to agree that ^ demo- 
 bilization of all large armies is necessary; in other words, 
 that no nation shall retain an army greater than is absolute- 
 ly necessary to control possible internal disturbances. 
 
 I sincerely hope our great peace council will not adopt such 
 a policy, for I see nothing but failure written in the result of 
 such a decree. Instead let all nations sign a solemn pact 
 pledging united strength, civil and military, to maintain 
 peace, justice and equal right to all nations, great and small. 
 Let all nations select from their present armies in pro rata 
 men sufficient to make an army and navy a little stronger 
 than any one nation could mobilize should she determine to 
 revolt; disband all other armies except this "world army," 
 and disaiTn all vessels except this "world navy"; transform 
 all war material into useful implements for peaceful pur- 
 suits. By this means peace can undoubtedly be established 
 and maintained. 
 
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GERMANY WILL BEGIN ERA AS 
 
 WORLD LACKEY INSTEAD OF MASTER, 
 
 (By International News Service.) 
 
 London, Nov. 20. — (By Mail.) — After the Allies' needs 
 are met, food will be allotted from the world's supply to 
 Germany. That is the opinion expressed in well-informed 
 political circles here. After Germany's war-fangs have 
 been drawn there will be no vindictive world or Allied effort 
 to prevent Germany's commercial rehabilitation, although 
 her former plan of commercial infiltration as an adjunct to 
 military schemes will be ruled out. 
 
 Thus, there is no intention to reduce Germany to poverty. 
 The plan, it is known, provides that Germany's commercial 
 enterprises shall be nourished so that Germany will be able 
 to pay fully for damage done in France, Belgium and other 
 border lands. In other words, the Allies intend that Ger- 
 many will not be allowed to avoid the payment on plea of 
 "no industry, no goods, no lands." In fact, occupation of 
 important Rhine valley towns by Allied forces is expected to 
 continue until Germany has expiated her many war crimes. 
 
 As proper punishment for unrestricted U-boat warfare, 
 Great Britain is expected to insist, with full Allied approval, 
 upon Germany relinquishing her entire mercantile fleet to 
 Great Britain, and putting the shipyards at Hamburg and 
 other German ports at work constructing new tonnage to 
 make up the world's loss. Germany would not be allowed 
 to control the new tonnage, but would be given the use of 
 necessary ships for essential supplies. It is estimated Ger- 
 many has about 2,500,000 tons of shipping lying at anchor, 
 sufficient to pay, ton for ton, for only a small part of the 
 Allied vessels her U-boats have destroyed. 
 
 In other words, Germany as a nation will be at work many 
 years after the war making good the material damage she 
 has caused, contrary to international law, in her unbridled 
 bid for world domination. Thus, instead of starting upon a 
 career of being the world's master, Germany will begin an 
 era of being the world's servant. 
 
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GERMANS PLAN TO ANNEX 
 
 MANY TEUTONS IN AUSTRIA. 
 
 Central Empire Would Gain 12,000,000 by Act. 
 
 (By Floyd MacGriff, International News Service Staff 
 Correspondent.) 
 
 Ix)ndon (by Mail), Nov. 30. — Political circles here view 
 with some apprehension the apparent German plan to in- 
 corporate the 12,000,000 Germans of Austria into the Ger- 
 man Empire, to offset the possible loss of 7,000,000 Poles, 
 Alsatians and Lorrainers. Germany could well contend at 
 the peace table that the 12,000,000 Germans in Austria 
 should, upon purely racial lines, be added, if they so wished, 
 to Germany. 
 
 Thus Germany would come out of the war with a larger 
 population than she had in 1914. There would be an added 
 number of people to help pay Germany's war bill. 
 
 Germany also plans, it is believed, to influence the future 
 operations of the Hungarian Government, the Maygars 
 being" first cousins of the Teutons. 
 
 Just how the Allies will deal with this new phase of the 
 situation, which undoubtedly will be an important question at 
 the peace table, has not been decided, so far as it can be 
 learned. Germany's plan to incorporate the Austrian-Ger- 
 mans must be given consideration, because based on Presi- 
 dent Wilson's principle of nationality along racial lines. 
 
 Should the Germans of Austria be joined up with their 
 kinsmen, Germany would remain the predominant race in 
 Europe after the war. 
 
 (From New Orleans States, Sunday, Dec. 1, 1918.) 
 MUST SETTLE TO LIMIT. 
 
 Loser Pays for Losses of Victor, Principle to Be Applied. 
 
 (By J. W. T. Mason, Written for the United Press.) 
 iNew York, Nov. 30. — Preliminary discussion of peace 
 
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terms that have already occurred among the European 
 Allies has resulted in an agreement to demand an indemnity 
 from Germany to the utmost limit of Germany's abihty to 
 pay. The principle that the loser settles for the losses of 
 the victor, which has been enforced at the end of previous 
 Wc^rs, will mark the conclusion of the present war. Premier 
 Lloyd George is the first to make known the acceptance of 
 this doctrine, which Germany herself would have imposed 
 upon her enemies had the German armies conquered the 
 world. 
 
 Having the German people securely bound, it is impossible 
 to believe public opinion in the democratic countries would 
 consent to any policy at the peace table freeing the followers 
 of the Hohenzollerns without imposing a financial penalty. 
 If the principle that Germany must restore Belgium, France 
 and Serbia be accepted, it is just as logical that Germans 
 should shoulder, as far as possible, the war burden they 
 ci'eated for other nations. 
 
 It is certain that Germany will not be prevented from con- 
 spiring anew against the world unless the penalty for her 
 recent murderous attack on the liberties of the democratic 
 nations be made memorable. Remembrance of the German 
 dead slaughtered by the vain offensives of the Hohenzollerns 
 will not be a sufficient determent, for other nations have 
 suffered in like measure. 
 
 The domestic financial burdens of Germany will be met 
 with no more difficulty than other countries, while the loss 
 of German territory may be more than compensated for by 
 the annexation of Austria to Germany. 
 
 If the German people, therefore, are not forced to pay 
 heavily for the losses they have caused the other powers, 
 there will be no sufficierxt guarantee against a future 
 gamble to win world dominion. 
 
 It is not probable that the peace conference will attempt 
 permanently to cripple Germany, but the present genera- 
 tion of Germans will have to contribute, nevertheless, for 
 the relief of taxation in the Allied countries. 
 
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This is the first great principle of the peace conference to 
 be settled. The exact amount Germany will pay has not 
 been determined. That is not a matter for the peace dele- 
 gates themselves, but for their economic experts to decide. 
 No previous indemnity has ever been imposed as this one 
 will be. The economists will take into consideration Ger- 
 many's present wealth and the productive capacity of her 
 people, and will then assess all that the traffic will bear. 
 
 The entire financial resources of Germany would not meet 
 a fraction of the debt piled upon the world by the Hohen- 
 zollerns' grab for power. It will not be possible in any case 
 to take all of Germany's money. Enough, however, will be 
 requisitioned to make a lasting remembrance. 
 
 COLONIES TO BRITISH EMPIRE. 
 
 Walter Long, secretary of state for the colonies, in a 
 speech at Bristol, declared that the German people "need 
 have no anxieties of any tenderness being shown toward 
 Germany." He said that he could see no other solution of 
 the German colonies question than their inclusion in the 
 British empire, and explained that wherever the natives 
 have been consulted they have been overwhelmingly in 
 favor of this. 
 
 BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. 
 
 (United Press Staff Correspondent.) 
 Paris, Nov. 30. — The peace conference will begin in Paris 
 on Dec. 16, according to the best information obtainable to- 
 night. Only the star chamber sessions will be held in Ver- 
 sailles. 
 
 It is practically certain that several peace treaties will be 
 signed. The first is expected to be a preliminary peace on 
 broad teims, which will terminate the armistice and permit 
 demobilization, ending the state of war. After that, the 
 real job will begin — that of reconciling the interests of a 
 score of allied nations. This will be done leisurely. 
 
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The final treaties will depend upon the central empire's 
 settlement of their own problems. 
 
 As the preliminary conferences will not begin before the 
 middle of the month, the armistice probably will be pro- 
 longed. When the Allies ultimately agree they will impose 
 the terms upon Germany with little discussion, according to 
 the feeling prevailing here. 
 
 Germany's whines are merely serving to crystallize the 
 Allies' grim determination to compel her to pay the fullest 
 penalty. I have talked to all the leading statesmen, and 
 they agree that this is the situation. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS. 
 
 A Healing Peace. 
 
 But if the condition, and the only condition, of a League 
 of Nations be to make a peace with Germany which will 
 make the victims of German aggression ?nd violence in the 
 past four years bear the eventual burdenf of that aggression 
 then it seems to me that the price is coo high. And the 
 danger is very real. Nor is there less danger that we may 
 be brought to the position of seeking to lessen the effective- 
 ness in Britain's hands of the one weapon on which our vic- 
 tory in this war depended, namely, the British navy, oper- 
 ating without regard to conventions, regulating the "free- 
 dom of the seas." 
 
 Even Utopia would be intolerable if in it only the red- 
 handed murderer were to have immunity from the conse- 
 quences of his recent crimes, merely because he had changed 
 his name or his employer. More than this, we hear much 
 to-day of a "healing peace," and certainly every one hopes 
 that we shall have this blessing. But even a healing peace 
 must be designed first to heal the wounds of the innocent 
 victims before it strives to cure the wounds of those who 
 were injured seeking to murder their neighbors. And if 
 
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any one is to bleed to death, to follow the figure of speech, 
 it certainly should not be the women and children of France 
 and Belgium. 
 
 Paris, Nov. 28. — (By the Associated Press.) — The clothing 
 and food situation in Rumania is causing gi-eat misery, 
 George Danielopol, the newly-appointed Rumanian minister 
 ot Washington, declared to-day. The German occupation of 
 Rumania brought poverty everywhere. 
 
 "The minions of von Mackensen were as cruel as those of 
 von Bissing," said the minister. "Bucharest, like Brussels, 
 has been stripped clean of everything." 
 
 BY J. C. ABY. 
 
 "For your to-morrow they gave their to-day" is engraved 
 on the tombs of British soldiers in France. Few words in- 
 deed, but they mean much. 
 
 Premier Lloyd George has announced his determination 
 to make the Huns pay for the crimes they committed, and 
 we hop? he will. 
 
 (From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.) 
 GERMANY'S "HONOR." 
 
 Germany asks the President to be careful of her honor. 
 Has she been careful of her own honor? Has she ever 
 moved to punish those blind leaders of hers that have 
 brought dishonor upon her? We read that Captain Persius 
 threatens to expose Admiral von Tirpitz, "after the war," 
 but this means only the admiral's blunders, not his crimes. 
 From what German voice of authority, from what public 
 body, from what group of citizens, has there yet come one 
 word in denunciation of those mad rulers who wickedly 
 brought on a needless war, and who have stained its conduct 
 by acts of lawless barbarity which have made the name Ger- 
 
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man anathema throughout the whole earth? It is hard to 
 talk of her honor with a nation that as yet gives no sign of 
 repentance for evil-doing or of a desire to make restitution. 
 We do not ask that all Germans be required to chant a 
 Miserere in unison, or march out to surrender with ropes 
 around their necks; but we do feel that it is impossible to 
 listen with patience to a people alleging its honor, while it 
 has not taken the first step to put itself in a truly honorable 
 light, or to show that its honor to-day is anything different 
 from what it was a year ago when it visibly "rooted in dis- 
 honor stood." — New York Evening Post. 
 
 WHINES LIKE A WHIPPED DOG. 
 
 — There is nothing like German humanity, whipped to its 
 beautiful work by the scorpions of necessity. In five min- 
 utes, as it were, an autocratic and cruel government tries to 
 efl^ace the marks of four years' misconduct. Belgians de- 
 ported in the most terrible circumstances, repatriated in 
 "luxes" trains ; Liebknecht liberated amidst officially manu- 
 factured rejoicings and scatterings of thornless roses; Bel- 
 gian and French works of art, which had never been re- 
 moved, according to earlier reports, now to be returned 
 promptly on the coming of peace, according to the itemized 
 schedules kept of them by the great staff — these are some of 
 the amusing attempts of the Teuton quickly to create an in- 
 ternational atmosphere of geniality. 
 
 "We were always an excellent and kindly lot of cut-throats 
 anyway." The absence of a sense of humor in these pro- 
 ceedings passes belief. Bill Sikes, suddenly turned fawning 
 sycophant, appeals less to clemency than Bill Sikes, unre- 
 pentent. — New York Post. 
 
 NOTHING OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. 
 
 The fact that Germany fails to grasp the main point in 
 the situation that confronts her is illustrated by the com- 
 
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fortable reflection of the Berliner Tageblatt, which says 
 that, after all, there can be no harm in discussing any "ques- 
 tions" at "conference tables." 
 
 Many of the German statesmen are probably beginning to 
 wonder how Germany is going to "get by" the committee on 
 membership of the proposed League of Nations. 
 
 Even if Wilhelm signs a formal abdication all the world 
 knows it will be another "scrap of paper" to tear up if it 
 suits his "all high" pleasure. The German is a law unto 
 itself when it comes to keeping a contract . 
 
 (From New Orleans Item, Monday, Dec. 2, 1918.) 
 DEPORT ALIENS INTERNED HERE 
 
 SAYS ROTARY CLUR 
 
 Resolution Demands Country Be Rid of Germans Now in 
 
 Enemy Camps — Democracy in Danger While Agitators 
 
 Stay — Copies Sent to All Clubs in United States 
 
 and Great Britain. 
 
 Immediate deportation of all interned Germans in the 
 United States is proposed by the Rotary Club of New Or- 
 leans. 
 
 "This is the time when the United States is cleaning 
 house, and it is time to sweep out all enemy aliens who have 
 shown by words or deeds that they are not in sympathy with 
 the United States!" declared Frank Bethune, one of the 
 Rotary Club directors and the man who drafted a resolu- 
 tion adopted by Rotary. 
 
 "I believe that every German interned in the United 
 States should be deported as soon as released from confine- 
 ment," Mr. Bethune continued. "They are out of sympathy 
 with the government ; they are not people with whom Amer- 
 icans care to associate. Keeping these enemies here is an 
 injustice to citizens and to prospective citizens of this coun- 
 try." 
 
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Mr. Bethune's resolution was brought before the Rotary 
 Club some three weeks ago, and was revised and accepted by 
 the club at its last meeting. Copies of the resolution were 
 sent to the International Rotary Club for distribution 
 among all the clubs of the United States, and to clubs in 
 England, Scotland, Cuba, Guatemala and Canada. The New 
 Orleans club has asked every other Rotary Club in the 
 United States to vote upon this resolution and to urge their 
 representatives and senators in Congress to give the matter 
 immediate attention. 
 
 The resolution follows: 
 
 "Whereas, the United States Government has found it 
 necessary to intern and otherwise punish certain persons 
 because of their treasonable utterances or violent acts di- 
 rected against the Government of the United States, or the 
 governments with which it is associated in the war against 
 Germany and her allies ; and, 
 
 "Whereas, the releasing of such persons after the war or 
 after their term of punishment has been completed, and al- 
 lowing them to live among us would be a continuous danger 
 to our Govermnent and to our citizens ; therefore, be it 
 
 "Resolved, That this body goes on record as desiring the 
 deportation of such persons when their term of punishment 
 shall have been fulfilled, and suggest that they be deported 
 to Germany and forever be forbidden entrance to the United 
 States or to any of her possessions." 
 
 Oliver H. Van Horn, president of the New Orleans Rotary 
 Club, was equally strong in his approval of such a step. 
 
 "These Germans and Austrians in times of peace were 
 antagonistic to the government of this country," said Mr. 
 Van Horn, "and when war was declared they used their in- 
 fluence to thwart the aims of the Government." 
 
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BAN ON GERMAN STILL GOES, SAYS PLEASANT. 
 
 Further Action By Assembly Is Necessary to Permit Use. 
 
 Governor Pleasant indicates that he is of the opinion that 
 the Simmons resolution against the German language is a 
 mandate of the General Assembly to the State Board of Edu- 
 cation, and that it will take another resolution to open the 
 way to the teaching of German in the schools and the print- 
 ing and distribution of reading matter in German. 
 
 The governor states, however, that he does not know what 
 the board will do about it. The governor will attend the 
 Southern Commercial Congress at Baltimore Dec, 7 and a 
 convention of Southern governors to be held in the same city 
 shortly thereafter. 
 
 "I am not prepared to say just what the board will do," 
 says the governor, "but I am under the impression that the 
 decision of this matter is entirely -taken away from the board 
 by the Simmons resolution, which passed both houses of the 
 General Assembly and was approved by me. I am not pre- 
 pared to say decisively whether this resolution carried with 
 it any discretionary provision relative to the teaching of the 
 German language, but, if my memory serves me right, 1 
 think that the matter will require another joint resolution 
 of the General Assembly if resumption of the classes in Ger- 
 man should be contemplated. 
 
 "The Simmons resolution prohibits the printing in the 
 German language of any newspaper, book, magazine, circular 
 or periodical, and prohibits the teaching of the language in 
 any public school of the State." 
 
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TURKS MASSACRE 700,000 
 
 GREEKS SINCE WAR'S START. 
 
 200,000 Others KiUed or Died of Suffering, Says Report. 
 
 London, Dec. 2. — (Associated Press.) — Renter's Limited 
 has received from a Greek source figures showing that in 
 the spring of 1914 the Turks deported 700,000 Greeks, of 
 whom 500,000 are now refugees in Greece. Since the war 
 began to the end of 1917 the Turks deported 2,140,000 
 Greeks and Armenians, of whom 900,000 Armenians and 
 700,000 Greeks have been massacred and 200,000 mobihzed 
 Greeks have been put to death or have died of their suffer- 
 ings. 
 
 KAISER OUT ONLY BECAUSE 
 
 HE FAILED, THINK GERMANS. 
 
 Paris, Dec. 2. — Discussing the situation in Germany 
 brought about by the former emperor's act of renunciation, 
 the National Zeitung, of Basle, according to a dispatch to 
 L'Information, says: 
 
 "The impression is made that the Hohenzollerns were dis- 
 missed only because they failed to conquer and not because 
 they violated all laws of humanity." 
 
 (From the New Orleans Daily States, Monday, Dec. 2, 1918.) 
 
 (Editorial.) 
 
 GERMAN PILLAGE. 
 
 In an address before the League for Pohtical Education 
 the other day, Stephen Lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin, 
 
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gave some interesting details of the systematic manner in 
 which Northern France was pillaged for the benefit of the 
 folks back home. 
 
 He furnished proof that the "dear good German people" 
 were fully in sympathy with the looting by reading: numer- 
 ous letters which had been captured when German officers 
 were taken prisoners. Here is a sample one : 
 
 "Mansbach, July 8. 
 "I have safely received the twenty-one parcels, and many 
 thanks for them. I wish you could have been there on Sat- 
 urday, at the unpacking of the five parcels, which I received 
 together, to hear the remarks made at the sight of the pret- 
 ty drawers, the petticoats, the shirt, the little bonnet and 
 the shirtwaist. One could see that they came from ihe well- 
 to-do. It would be best if you could go back to such places, 
 you might find more things. Everything is useful to us. 
 
 "YOUE MOTHER." 
 
 When one reads a letter like this it is not hard to under- 
 stand why the German peace delegation reported that there 
 was no friendliness, little courtesy, only an icy expression of 
 hatred for them in their meeting with the French officers 
 in the forest of Compeigne. 
 
 It was not the misfortune of the American people to suffer 
 what the French people suffered at the hands of the German 
 armies. If it had been perhaps the attitude of the Ameri- 
 can people today would not be different from that of the 
 French people, who are insistent that Germany shall pay 
 in full for her crimes. 
 
 BY J. C. ABY. 
 
 Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, says 
 the war revealed the fact that many of the drafted men did 
 
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not have sufficient knowledge of the EngUsh language to 
 perform their duties. As a matter of fact thousanas of per- 
 sons who come to this country never learn to speak English, 
 and have no desire to, hence a good deal of material in our 
 boasted "melting pot" does not melt and remains distinctly 
 foreign. 
 
 From all accounts, the cry of the Prussian junkers is : "The 
 Kaiser is dead. Long live Bill Hohenzollern !" 
 
 (From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tuesday, Decem- 
 ber 3, 1918.) 
 (Editorial.) 
 
 FAMILIAR DODGE. 
 
 One of the most difficult problems justice has to deal with 
 is to keep the crook from purchasing his way to freedom, 
 not through subornation of testimony or debauching the 
 court, but in making seductive ofl"ers to the victim himself. 
 How many thousands of embezzlers, thieves and misappro- 
 priators of trust funds have escaped punishment by this 
 argument: "Put me in jail and you lose all, leave me free 
 and I shall be able to repay a part of what I have stolen." 
 
 If the criminal is uncertain of the moral cahber of him 
 defrauded he will whisper the offer humbly and softly, with 
 protestations of contrition and good intent, but if he feels 
 confident in the victim's weakness and avarice he will talk 
 boldly with a take-it-or-leave-it manner of speech. 
 
 A Prussian, ever stupidly self-confident, might have 
 adopted the latter method, but the Austrian banker, quoted 
 in extenso in a recent Associated Press dispatch from Vi- 
 enna, speaks softly, though the argument is quite the same. 
 His suggestion is that the AUied world shall allow the ex- 
 Hapsburg empire to go free in order that it may be able to 
 pay back the stolen wealth. Civilization is to permit the 
 wrecked Dual Monarchy, in its new jig-saw-puzzle form, to 
 
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build up with our assistance a commercial and industrial or- 
 ganization which, as Banker Treichel assures us, will in ten 
 years be able to pay off its war indemnities. In their inter- 
 est all tariff walls would be dynamited and all natural advan- 
 tages held by us and other producers of raw materials would 
 be put aside in order that Austria, and doubtless Germany 
 as well, should be able to produce cheaply, overrun the 
 world's open markets with manufactures produced by hun- 
 ger-enslaved Huns. All this in order that we might recover 
 from their profits money to repay the damage done by in- 
 vasion and frightf ulness. 
 
 The law rightly looks with utter condemnation upon such 
 a procedure in private life and there is certainly no reason 
 why a difference should be made when the same method is 
 attempted wholesale. On the contrary there is a cogent rea- 
 son why such a compounding of crime would be a serious 
 economic error as well as a grave moral fault. Long before 
 the threat of German-Austrian collapse became acute the 
 French economists foresaw this very risk and it was set 
 forth clearly in an extensive article in the Review des Beaux 
 Mondes. It was then made plain that German after-the-v^ar 
 efforts at commercial penetration would be along those ex- 
 act lines and that it would be criminal carelessness or grav- 
 est mis judgment of the situation if the peace delegations 
 of the Allies should countenance any such suggestion. The 
 Frenchman foresaw that the appeal would be doubly strong 
 when thus addressed at the same time to the emotions and 
 to the pocketbook: "Spare us, and permit us to pay!" 
 
 Aside from the moral aspect of the case — which, however, 
 we beheve is such that it alone should prevent us giving 
 heed to the Teuton whisper — and even if the Austrian bank- 
 er's ten years' payment is correct, what would be the posi- 
 tions of the opposed nations at the end of that decade? Im- 
 agine the power of an industrial organization so favorably 
 placed that in ten years it could pay off obligations so colos- 
 sal! Once freed of such a debt, what could stop this indus- 
 trial "tank" from overwhelming competition and in placing 
 
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the Gei-man menace again in the front rank of civilization's 
 troubles ? 
 
 No, we must not palter with the criminal who promises 
 to return our purloined purse. Let us send him to jail, search 
 his premises and hiding- places for what is left of the loot, 
 and charge the rest to profit and loss, and to experience. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT WILSON. 
 
 "I have spoken of the control which must yet for a while, 
 perhaps for a long while, be exercised over shipping because 
 of the priority of service to which our forces overseas ai*e 
 entitled and which should also be accorded the shipments 
 which are to save recently liberated people from starvation 
 and many devastated regions from permanent ruin. May 
 I not say a special word about the needs of Belgium and 
 Northern France? No sum.s of money paid by way of in- 
 demnity will serve of themselves to save them from hope- 
 less disadvantage for years to come. Something more must 
 be done than merely find the money. If they had money 
 and raw materials in abundance tomorrow, they could not 
 resume their place in the industry of the world tomorrow — 
 the very important place they had before the flame of war 
 swept across them. Many of their factories are razed to the 
 ground. Much of their machinery is destroyed or has been 
 taken away. Their people are scattered and many of their 
 best workers are dead. Their markets will be taken by oth- 
 ers if they are not in some special way assisted to rebuild 
 their factories and replace their lost instruments of manu- 
 facture. They should not be left to the vicissitudes of the 
 shai-p competition for materials and for industrial facilities 
 which is now to set in. I hope, therefore, that the Congress 
 will not be unwilling, if it should become necessary, to grant 
 some such agency as the War Trade Board the right to es- 
 tablish priorities of export and supply for the benefit of 
 these people whom we have been so happy to assist in sav- 
 
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ing from the German terror, and whom we must not now 
 thoughtlessly leave to shift for themselves in a pitiless com- 
 petitive market." 
 
 BELGIAN LOSSES OVER BILLION. 
 
 Industrial Committee Reports Result of Investigation, 
 
 Brussels, Dec. 2. — The Central Industrial Committee of 
 Belgium, after an investigation, estimates Belgian damages 
 through German military occupation and seizure of machin- 
 ery and raw material at 6,000,560,000 francs ($1,200,112,- 
 000). 
 
 (From the New Orleans Item, Tuesday, December 3, 1918.) 
 ALLIES MUST OCCUPY TURKISH ARMENIA 
 
 TO SAVE THE PEOPLE, SAYS BRYCE 
 
 London, Nov. 23. — (Correspondence of the Associated 
 Press.) — In the opinion of Viscount James Bryce, former 
 ambassador to the United States, "it is extremely desirable 
 that every effort should be made to send in a sulficient al- 
 lied force to occupy what was Turkish Armenia and re- 
 establish some sort of order there." 
 
 This view is expressed in a communication to the Man- 
 chester Guardian, coupled with a regret that the conditions 
 of the Turkish armistice failed to provide for the immediate 
 occupation by the allies of the six Armenian vilayets and 
 also of Silicia (modern province of Adana, on the Mediter- 
 ranean). Lord Bryce says, however: 
 
 "1 cannot think that this omission was due to any doubt 
 as to the necessity and, indeed, the solemn duty ot deliver- 
 ing all of the Armenian districts utterly and forcv^er from 
 any vestige of Turkish rule. The British government," he 
 continues, "has pledged itself so frequently nnd clearly to 
 this deliverance, and, as we understand, both President Wil- 
 son and the French government have expressed themselves 
 so strongly in favor of such a policy that we cannot doubt 
 the honest purpose of the government. 
 
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"It need hardly be said," the statement goes on, "that to 
 leave the Eastern Christians of Armenia and Syria under 
 Turkish rule would excite the warmest indignation all over 
 the country and, if possible, still warmer indignation in the 
 United States, where the interest in Armenia has been ex- 
 tremely great and has been evinced by the enormous con- 
 tributions which have been made to the relief of the Ar- 
 menian refugees. 
 
 "Can anybody in this country be found who thinks that 
 after the three hideous massacres which the Turks have 
 perpetrated in Armenia since 1895, culminating in tiie worst 
 massacre of all in 1915, when 800,000 Christians perished 
 it would be possible for any Christian power, or indeed any 
 other power of human feelmg, to leave the Turk free to 
 begin oppression afresh, or to fail to show by turning the 
 Turk out of the country the anger and horror which his 
 cruelty have excited ? I need hardly add that the presence 
 of Turkish rule in these regions, with their great strategical 
 importance, would be material to Germany, if ever she 
 saw her chance, in realizing her scheme for pushing her in- 
 fluence towards Persia and central Asia. 
 
 "One fails to see any reason why the Turks, bemg abso- 
 lutely at the mercy of the Allies, and having committed, with 
 the tacit approval of Germany, the hugest single crime that 
 has been committed in the course of the war, should not 
 have been compelled to an absolutely unconditional surren- 
 der. Why should any favorable conditions have been grant- 
 ed to them who have shown that, whether under Aodul Ha- 
 mid or under ruffians like Enver and Talaat, they are capa- 
 ble of the most revolting crimes?" 
 
 GERMANS DENOUNCE OWN "TERRORIST" PLAN. 
 
 Explosives and Bacilli Ctiltures Provided Italian and French 
 
 Anarchists. 
 
 London, Dec. 23. — (By A. P.) — Condemnation ol the "ter- 
 rorist" service organized by the Germans in Switzerland is 
 
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voiced by the Frankfort Gazette, in its issue oi Nov. 23, 
 which gives the German public an idea of what was being 
 done in Germany's behalf in this neutral country at the be- 
 hest of the highest German authorities. 
 
 "The trials in connection with the discovery of bombs at 
 Zurich," says this German newspaper, "have led to the dis- 
 closure of a 'terrorist' service of the German general staff 
 in Switzerland. With the support of diplomatic and con- 
 sular couriers, explosives and bacilli cultures were supplied, 
 especially to Italian and French anarchists, in order that 
 they might practice sabotage in their countries and spread 
 disease among the army horses. 
 
 "Of course, the German employees in this service had 
 not the slightest guarantee against the employment of these 
 methods in Switzerland itself. In some of the Svviss news- 
 papers the opinion is expressed that the German authorities 
 would not have been displeased at the outbreak of disorders 
 in Switzerland itself, because they hoped for the consequent 
 infection of neighboring countries, of course witii the ex- 
 ception of Germany, which they held to be absolutely im- 
 mune. 
 
 "This terrorist service was not the mere work of subordi- 
 nates. Quite definite accusations are made against even the 
 former imperial chancellor, Prince Von Buelow. Hitherto, 
 in similar cases, the Geraian public has been peimitted to 
 learn only half the truth. Now, when the barriers have 
 fallen and speech is free, we can give Switzerland the as- 
 surance that this incendiary diplomacy is not countenanced 
 in Germany any more than it is in the countries which have 
 to bear the evil consequences." 
 
 GERMAN OFFICERS BURN INCRIMINATING PAPERS. 
 
 Paris, Dec. 3. — (Havas.) — ^The German Foreign Office de- 
 stroyed by fire all damaging documents in the archives of 
 the German general government at Brussels and destroyed 
 
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all documents in Berlin which might be useful in placing re- 
 sponsibility for the war on the German government, Herr 
 Melkenbuhr, a former socialist member of the Reichstag, 
 declared in a speech at Berlin, according to advices received 
 here. 
 
 The revelations of Melkenbuhr, the Paris newspaper de- 
 clares, throw a singular light on the proposal of Dr. Solf, 
 the German foreign secretary, to have a neutral commission 
 inquire into the origin of the war. 
 
 THE BILL AGAINST GERMANY. 
 
 The proposals which have actually been considered or are 
 being examined include the following: 
 
 1. That there should be cash payments over a term of 
 years for damage inflicted on France and Belgium. This is 
 estimated at from £2,000,000,000 to £2,500,000,000. 
 
 2. That ruined towns in these countries should be re- 
 built by German labor, that roads should be rebuilt and bat- 
 tlefields dug over and restored, and scattered metals col- 
 lected for the allies, also by German labor. 
 
 3. That there should be a shipping indemnity paid by 
 Germany, whether by a "two pool" arrangement between 
 the allied and central powers, whereby German ships should 
 serve world interests, or by building in German yards ships 
 for the British mercantile marine, or other means. 
 
 4. That a larger indemnity payment than the sum re- 
 quired to requite the damage done in France and Belgium 
 should be called for, spread over a term of years, to make 
 good other losses to the allies. 
 
 5. That the gold still available in Germany should be 
 made over to the allies. 
 
 6. That there should be a royalty on German coal mines, 
 paid to the allies for a term of years, and that there should 
 be allied control of German potash. 
 
 7. Restoration in Italy, Serbia and Rumania. 
 
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LONDON POST DEMANDS PROOF 
 
 OF KAISER'S ABDICATION 
 
 London, Dec. 3. — (British Wireless Service.) — (By A. P.) 
 — The Morning Post, commenting on the former German em- 
 peror's belated abdication, says: 
 
 "It is possible the document purporting to be the formal 
 abdication of the German emperor is genuine, and it is equal- 
 ly possible that it is nothing of the kind. In either case, the 
 instrument contains no word concerning the succession of 
 the dynasty, nor is it countersigned by any responsible of*- 
 ficial. 
 
 "If, however, by virtue of that paper William 11 has in 
 fact abdicated the throne of Prussia and the overiordship of 
 Germany, he has been staying in a neutral country under 
 false pretenses. His abdication was announced formally 
 by what was the German government when he fled into Hol- 
 land; so that his condition in that country was ostensibly 
 the condition of a private person. It now appears that he 
 was really king and German emperor until Friday last. In 
 that case the hospitality of Holland has been abused. 
 
 "It is also worth noting that the written abdication is 
 published at the moment when there is a demand for the 
 extradition of the visitor. What proof of his abdication, 
 it may be asked, did the German emperor preseni to the 
 Dutch government when he crossed the frontier? If no 
 such proof was offered, it seems that the royal fugitive 
 should have been promptly interned as a deserter." 
 
 Oosterland, Holland, Dec. 3.— (By A. P.)— "I have not re- 
 nounced anything and I have not signed any document what- 
 ever," the former German crown prince declared to the cor- 
 respondent today. 
 
 NORTH GERMAN-LLOYD AGENT CONFESSES PLOT. 
 
 San Francisco, Dec. 3. — Robert A. Capelle, former agent 
 of the North German-Lloyd Steamship Company, who was 
 
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sentenced to- fifteen months' imprisonment for his connec- 
 tion with a Hindu conspiracy to overturn British rule in 
 India, pleaded guilty yesterday to indictments charging him 
 with conspiracy in 1914 in connection with the alleged pro- 
 visioning of German warships at sea by the steamer Sacra- 
 mento. Capelle was one of the leading figures in the Hindu 
 cases, the evidence showing that he handled large sums of 
 money paid the Hindus by the German government. 
 
 GERj\!AN SPIES CONTINUE ACTIVITIES IN BELGIUM 
 
 Brussels, Dec. 3. — (By A. P.) — The German espionage 
 service in Belgium continues active, notwithstanding the ar- 
 mistice, according to the Gazette. In a village near Brussels 
 the police arrested two German soldiers disguised as women 
 who were taking photographs of passing French troops. 
 
 MANY STARVE TO DEATH. 
 
 The prisoners in Germany and Austria who have not been 
 supplied with food and clothing by their governments are 
 in a deplorable condition, and many thousands of them have 
 died of starvation. This is especially true of Italian pris- 
 oners. 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Tuesday^ Dec. 3, 1918.) 
 HOLDS BERLIN INCAPABLE. 
 
 Bavarian Piemier Says Revolutionary Government Has No 
 
 Voice. 
 
 Amsterdam, Dec. 3. — The old governmental machine in 
 Berlin is still operating, according to Kurt Eisner, the Ba- 
 varian premier as quoted in the Telegraaf of this city. Eis- 
 ner, in speaking at today's meeting of the Soldiers' and 
 Workmen's Council for Bavaria at Munich, the Telegraaf 
 states, announced: 
 
 "Last week I went to Berlin, where the entire machinery 
 
 (55 
 
of the old g-overnment is still working." 
 
 Referring to the revelations made public at Munich in the 
 form of documentary evidence of Germany's responsibility 
 for the war, Eisner is quoted as saying: 
 
 ''From the secret documents of the Bavarian legation 1 
 published those which will prove to the silliest to whom we 
 owe the war." 
 
 EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS. 
 
 Position of America. 
 
 Looking to the future, one thing is clear. The mass of 
 the American people have been completely united in the 
 prosecution of this war to a victorious conclusion. They 
 have agreed in every step taken to aid our allies and increase 
 our contribution to the common cause. It was only when 
 Mr. Wilson began to exchange notes with Germany that 
 there was the first break in public opinion and the break was 
 an ultimate proof that the nation was determined to defeat 
 Germany, to compel unconditional surrender, to do no talk- 
 ing until the German was incapable of further fighting. 
 
 Not less clear was the indication that the country v/as 
 united in the determination to compel Germany to pay the 
 costs of her crimes, to restore what she had stolen, to sur- 
 render what she had annexed. Every German manoeuver 
 and trick calculated to save Germany from the just conse- 
 quences of her crimes has been greeted with universal in- 
 dignation in America. 
 
 Finally, again and again we, as a people, have proven our 
 ever-growing appreciation of what our associates have done 
 in this great war, and particularly of what Great Britain 
 and France have done in a cause we only tardily recognized 
 was our own. Today the mere suggestion that either for 
 Utopian or personal considerations we should be brought 
 into conflict v,ith our allies is received with prompt and im- 
 pressive disapproval. 
 
 GG 
 
(From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 
 
 1918.) 
 COMMANDER OF BRITISH FLEET SAYS 
 
 HUMILIATING END WAS PROPER 
 
 London, Dec. 3. — (British Wireless Service.) — A scathing 
 denunciation of the personnel of the German navy was made 
 by Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander-in-chief of the 
 British grand fleet, in a speech addressed to a gathering of 
 representatives of the first battle cruiser squadron on board 
 the battle cruiser Lion prior to the ship's departure for 
 Scapa Flow, as an escort to the surrendered ships of the 
 German high seas fleet. 
 
 "We had expected them," said Admiral Beatty, "to have 
 the courage that we looked for from those whose work lies 
 upon the great waters, and I am sure that the sides of this 
 gallant old ship, which have been well hamm.ered in the past, 
 must have ached as I ached ,and as you ached, to give them 
 another taste of what we had intended for them.. 
 
 "Tlieir humiliating end was the proper end for an enemy 
 who has proved himself so lacking in chivalry. At sea his 
 strategy, his tactics and his behavior have beerx beneath 
 contempt and worthy of a nation which has waged war in 
 the manner in which the enemy has waged war. 
 
 "We know that the British sailor has a large heart and 
 a short memory. Try to harden the heart and lengthen the 
 memory, and remember that the enemy which yoii are look- 
 ing after is a despicable beast, neither more nor lebs. He is 
 not worthy the sacrifice of the life of one bluejacket in the 
 grand fleet, and that is the one bright spot in the lact that 
 he did not come out." 
 
 CITIZENS LODGE FORMAL COMPLAINTS 
 
 AGAINST FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR 
 
 Paris, Dec. 3. — (Havas.) — French citizens are lodging 
 complaints with Attorney General Lescouve regarding 
 
crimes committed by the German armies under William Ho- 
 henzollern, the former emperor. Several persons who lost 
 relatives in the bombardment of Paris by the German long- 
 range guns have filed their complaints. 
 
 In the case of Madame Prieur, whose husband was killed 
 on the torpedoed mail steamer Sussex, the attorney general 
 declares that the steamer was an extension of French soil 
 and consequently the French authorities are competent to 
 make an investigation. 
 
 ALLIES MAY CONTROL RAILROADS 
 
 AND COAL AND POTASH INDUSTRIES 
 
 London, Dec. 3. — (By the Associated Press.) — Downing 
 Street, where the reresentatives of the allies began discus- 
 sions yesterday in connection with the approachmg neace 
 conference, again assumed a busy aspect today. Early this 
 morning there was a meeting of the war cabinet with rep- 
 resentatives of the dominions in attendance. Then the con- 
 ferees were joined by M. Clemenceau, the French premier, 
 and Signor Orlando, the Italian prime minister, and other 
 representatives of France and Italy, 
 
 It is understood that in addition to the fate of tne former 
 GeiTnan emperor the discussion turned largely upon Ger- 
 many's ability to pay reparations and that in this connection 
 the suggestion was made for the allied control of the Ger- 
 man railways and its coal and potash industries. 
 
 BY J. C. ABY. 
 
 . The Detroit Free Press says that in time Germany will 
 be as ashamed of the Hohenzollerns as the rest of the world. 
 Maybe so, but we wouldn't like to bet any money on it. 
 
 It is true that Germany has surrendered her navy, but 
 she will never be able to get rid of its infamous record. 
 
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(From the New Orleans Item, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1918.) 
 ENGLISH RULER'S OPINION CAN 
 
 "HARDLY BE REPRODUCED VERBATIM" 
 
 London, Nov. 28. — (Corresopndence of the Associated 
 Press.) — What does King George really think of his cousin, 
 William Hohenzollem, former German emperor? 
 
 That is a question that has often been asked but has never 
 received anything approaghing an authoritative answer. Ac- 
 cording to a writer in the Daily News, which is usually very 
 careful as to the trustworthiness of what it prints. King 
 George regards him as "the greatest criminal in the world." 
 
 The writer says that he was talking a few days ago with 
 a well-known statesman who has had many opportunities 
 during the war, and especially lately, "of hearing the King 
 express his views of the Kaiser." And he thus summarizes 
 what the "well-known statesman" told him : 
 
 "My informant says that the King's feelings and expres- 
 sions are so strong that they could hardly be reproduced 
 verbatim, but that the substance of them is that the Kaiser 
 is the greatest criminal in the world today; that he is di- 
 rectly responsible for the outrages on the Belgian and 
 French civil populations; for the bombing and air raids on 
 the innocent inhabitants of unfortified towns; for the tor- 
 pedoing of passenger and hospital ships and the sinking of 
 survivors in their boats; for the first use of poison gas; 
 the poisoning of wells; the destruction of works of art, of 
 historic buildings, of beautiful towns and the machinery of 
 industrial life and potential reconstruction ; that he has not 
 only permitted those things to proceed, but was in many 
 cases a personal assenter to and director of them." 
 
 AMERICAN RELIEF WORK IS AIDED 
 
 BY ALLY WHEN MOST NEEDED 
 
 With the British Army of Occupation, Sunday, Dec. 1. — 
 (By A. P.) — The British army is rendering great assistance 
 
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to devastated and impoverished Northern FYance and Flan- 
 ders. During November the army furnished to the Ameri- 
 can Commission for Rehef in Belgium 20,000,000 rations 
 which were badly needed for quick distribution imong the 
 hungi-y people. 
 
 This aid came at a time when the commission was unable 
 to get provisions through speedily enough from Holland. 
 British officers and soldiers are also giving largely from 
 their own stores, and the British army is providing great 
 quantities of kerosene and candles for the homes and shops ; 
 otherwise darkness would prevail in most of the towns. 
 
 FOOD PLENTIFUL IN GEEMAN CITIES; 
 
 STARVATION STORIES CAMOUFLAGE 
 
 (By Edwin L. James. Item-New York Times-Chicago Tri- 
 bune Service.) 
 
 Treves, Germany, Dec. 2. — (Delayed.) — Because Germany 
 is asking America to feed her, I paid strict attention to the 
 food situation when the American army of occupation en- 
 tered this city yesterday. In the twenty-four hours we 
 have been here, one thing that has impressed the Americans 
 is the comparatively plentiful food supply. This city of 
 75,000, an industrial center, appears sleek and prosperous 
 and the persons of its inhabitants show no ravages of hun- 
 ger. The bread is poor, and of coffee there is none. Other- 
 wise food can be had of many kinds. 
 
 It seems that at the time when America is ready to stint 
 herself and her friends, to feed unrepentant Germany, a 
 statement should be made that the food conditions here to- 
 day are better than in that part of France occupied by the 
 Germans. And the German army has just passed through. 
 
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* 
 
 EXTRACT FROM EDITORIAL. 
 
 People who cry for sudden death or isolation for William 
 and his offspring have poor imaginations. The glory of 
 being a tragic figure in history or of being deemed danger- 
 ous enough to the peace of the world to be held fxs a pris- 
 oner of state would make them as happy as a morbid mur- 
 derer who is permitted to speak from the window of the 
 jail just before the sheriff pulls the lever. Nothing more 
 dreadful could be devised for them than to leave the aged 
 offender to listen to interminable sermons in Dutch and 
 Frederick William to hang around a dreary fishing town, 
 trying to play billiards on a dilapidated table and keep warm 
 by an odorous oil stove. 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1918.) 
 NO MITIGATION OF NAVAL 
 
 TERMS FOR THE ARMISTICE 
 
 Copenhagen, Dec. 4. — The reply of Admiral Beatty, com- 
 mander of the British grand fleet, to a request by Germany 
 for mitigation of naval terms for the armistice, refuses any 
 concession regarding merchant shipping or fishing in the 
 North Sea, the Berlin Wolff Bureau states. 
 
 New York, Dec. 4. — Asserting that the United States had 
 not done nearly as much as the British navy and the Brit- 
 ish, Fi-ench and Italian armies to bring about the downfall 
 of Germany, Theodore Roosevelt declared in a statement 
 here last night that it is "our business to stand oy our al- 
 lies at the peace conference." 
 
 He declared it "sheer nonsense" to say the American army 
 was fighting for President Wilson's famous "fourteen 
 points." He made the assertion that "there was not one 
 American soldier in every thousand who ever heard of 
 them." 
 
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SWISS WANTS NEUTRALS TO ASK PEACE SEATS. 
 
 Berne, Dec. 3. — (By the Associated Press.) — Dr. Widmer, 
 of Wolfingen, introduced a resolution in Parliament today 
 inviting the Swiss government to immediately approach 
 other neutrals for the purpose of estabhshing jomtly the 
 claims and rights of neutral nations at the peace confer- 
 ence, particularly relative to a future league of nations. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM CABLE FROM ROTGEN, DEC. 1. 
 
 Well Dressed and Fed. 
 
 The German people encountered today appeared to be well 
 fed. They were dressed very well and their farms looked 
 prosperous. Large numbers of cattle and cows were to be 
 seen. Outwardly the villages showed no signs of distress. 
 It was impossible that the Germans along at lease this sec- 
 tion of the border could have felt the hand of war exces- 
 sively heavily. 
 
 BY J. C. ABY. 
 
 A few years ago Bill Hohenzollern, then a monarch and 
 a tyrant, said to the German people: 'Only one is master 
 in this country. That one is L Who opposes me I will crush 
 td pieces. All of you have only one will, and that is my 
 will ; there is only one law, and tiiat is my law." When his 
 mihtary machine was smashed the same Bill Hohenzollern 
 fled to Holland for fear he would suffer the fate of Actcon, 
 who was destroyed by his own dogs. 
 
 The statements the former Kaiser is now makmg in an 
 effort to evade responsibility for the war merely show that 
 he, like other Prussians, is a clumsy liar. 
 
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EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF FRANK H. SIMONDS 
 
 Collapse of German Idea. 
 
 The Invasion of Germany is the final demonstration of 
 the German idea. The fleet has crawled to a British port 
 and hoisted the white flag. The army has surrendeied with- 
 out condition, leaving its artillery and its machinery behind 
 it, and is slinking back home. 
 
 And now the enemy is coming — he cannot be checked or 
 resisted. His will is law west of the Rhine. He may be 
 rude or considerate, heavy-handed or gentle, civilized or 
 German, but he can be what he will. 
 
 And to me the accounts of correspondents, who describe 
 the stupefied silence of the populations of German cities as 
 the army of occupation marches in, are of supreme inter- 
 est. They are the last sign and evidence that a great fact 
 has been established — the Gennan dream of world power 
 is over — the long task of reparation and restoration has be- 
 gun — ^militarism is kaput — Germanism has failed. 
 
 (From New Orleans Times-Picayune, Thursday, Dec. 5, 
 
 1918.) 
 
 GERMAN BRAGABOCIO. 
 
 Hindenburg Makes Appeal^ — Asks His "Unbeaten" Soldiers 
 
 to Be Patient. 
 
 Washington, Dec. 4. — The Berlin Tages Zeitung of Mon- 
 day says that Field Marshal von Hindenburg addressed the 
 following proclamation to his troops : 
 
 "The preliminary work for a land settlement on a big 
 scale is in progress and will be pushed forward as rapidly 
 as the shortage of coal and of building materials will permit. 
 The returning warriors will first receive the thanks of the 
 country for more than four years' work in a thousand 
 battles in which they were unbeaten." 
 
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'UNVANQUISHED BY ARMS." 
 
 Conquered by Hunger and Need, Says Ex-Crown Prince. 
 
 Copenhagen, Dec. 4. — (By Associated Press.) — The 
 former German crown prince's last proclamation announc- 
 ing that his resignation from his command was necessi- 
 tated by the emperor's resignation and thanking the troops 
 for l;heir heroism and self-sacrifice, is published to-day by 
 the Taglische Rundschau of Berlin. In this proclamation, 
 Frederick William, who is now interned on the Island of 
 Wierington, having fled to Holland, says : 
 
 "My army group is unvanquished by arms. Hunger and 
 bitter need conquered us. We can quit the soil of France 
 proud and with heads erect. Your shield, your honor as 
 soldiers, are unspotted. -* * *" 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM LONDON CABLES. 
 
 Herr Hardin bitterly denounces the sudden conversion of 
 all the junker elements to democracy and support of the 
 new government. 
 
 "Yesterday," he declares, "they were bloodthirsty, with 
 the will to victory. To-day they are knights of the spirit, 
 raising *a disgraced civilization' up to pure glory." 
 
 "The German militarism conspiracy is defeated, but the 
 victory for which the President appealed is not won. His 
 coming to Europe will help win it., but until it is achieved 
 America must take precautions against its failure." 
 
 EXTRACT FROM ROTGEN CABLE, DEC. 2. 
 
 It was necessary repeatedly for the correspondent to halt 
 his car and ask his way, for all the signboards had been de- 
 faced in order to give the Allied troops as much trouble as 
 possible. A courteous response invariably was given to 
 questions, but evidently through fear and not friendship. 
 
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EX-KAISER'S ABDICATION MAKES 
 
 CROWN PRINCE KING. 
 
 London, Dec. 4. — (British Wireless Service.) — The 
 Times, in discussing the former German emperor's act of 
 renunciation, points out that there is still room for doubt 
 whether his abdication is legal, and adds: 
 
 "Moreover, the only effect of the emperor's abdication 
 under the Prussian constitution is to make the crown prince 
 king of Prussia, and, therefore, until the German Empire 
 is formally dissolved, the German emperor. Last Thurs- 
 day's document, therefore, does not abolish the Prussian 
 monarchy and still less does it set up the republic of Prus- 
 sia. It can only be done by a formal revision of the Prus- 
 sian constitution, and until that is carried out the Prussian 
 monarchy still exists according to law, if not according to 
 fact, and all the emperor's abdication amounts to is a decla- 
 ration of his present intention not to exercise certain legal 
 rights. 
 
 "But these rights would be still suspended, not abolished, 
 whatever the emperor may do or say, and should a mon- 
 archial counter-revolution break out he could, presumably, 
 change his mind and be brought back. These are points of 
 great practical importance, and if the Germans have made 
 up their minds to get rid of the monarchy it is highly desir- 
 able that they should lose no time in clothing the deposition 
 of the Hohenzollerns in legal form." 
 
 The abdication of the German crown prince was expected 
 to be published to-day, says the North German Gazette, the 
 
former semi-official organ, according to advices received 
 here. The abdication will not concern his successor, it is 
 added. 
 
 The correspondent at Amsterdam of the Daily Express 
 calls attention to the fact that former Emperor William's 
 act of renunciation was dated at Amerongen, Nov. 28, and 
 was published in Berlin Nov. 29, and adds : 
 
 "It is obvious that telegraphic communication between 
 Amerongen and Berlin is neither cut — as might be expected 
 in the case of communication between an exiled monarch 
 and revolutionists — nor is it subject to the delay that all 
 messages sent by ordinary mortals meet with. 
 
 "Many persons consider that both the document and the 
 manner of its publication more than ever justify the Allies 
 in keeping a watchful eye on William, even if he pretends 
 to be slumbering." 
 
 (From New Orleans Item, Thursday, Dec. 5, 1918.) 
 BARBAROUS TREATMENT CHARGED AGAINST 
 
 GERMANS BY MEN REACHING HOLLAND. 
 
 (Item-N. Y. Times-Chicago Tribune Service.) 
 The Hague, Dec. 5. — One hundred and twenty American 
 prisoners arrived at Nymegen, Holland, where they will re- 
 main until there is available transport accommodation from 
 Rotterdam to England. These men are from the One Hun- 
 dred and Sixth and One Hundred and Seventh Regiments, 
 mostly from New York and North Carolina. 
 
 They said their one idea was to celebrate Christmas at 
 home. The prisoners were captured between Sept. 25 and 
 30, but were kept in a detention camp behind the lines until 
 a week before the armistice was signed. They said their 
 treatment was barbarous in the detention camp, many 
 slightly wounded dying owing to gross neglect because the 
 German doctors refused to give adequate attention to slight 
 wounds, which they said could wait. They said this was in- 
 excusable, as there were plenty of doctors standing around 
 
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idle. But they appeared only interested in the frightfully 
 mutilated cases. The wounded were often obliged to walk 
 miles without their wounds being dressed. 
 
 One boy who had a slight bullet wound was i-efused at- 
 tention and made to walk miles in bad condition until blood 
 poisoning set in. He died. The prisoners bore this treat- 
 ment philosophically. They said the universal question put 
 them in Germany was: "Why did America declare war?" 
 
 BRITISH TO PERMIT NO LIMITATION ON NAVY. 
 
 London, Dec. 4. — Winston Spencer Churchill, the min- 
 ister of munitions, announced in a speech at Dundee to- 
 night : 
 
 "We enter the peace conference with the absolute deter- 
 mination that no limitation shall be imposed on our right 
 to maintain our naval defense. We do not intend, no mat- 
 ter what arguments and appeals are addressed to us, to lend 
 ourselves in any way to any fettering restrictions which will 
 prevent the British navy maintaining its well tried and 
 well deserved supremacy." 
 
 •*WE ARE DONE FO'R; FATHER IS BROKEN MAN.' 
 
 Crown Prince Thinks That Is Enough Punishment. 
 
 London, Dec. 5. — (By A. P.) — "You English clamor to 
 get father and me away from Holland. We are down and 
 out, and my father is a broken man. Isn't that enough 
 punishment?" the former crown prince of Germany said in 
 an interview on the Island of Wieringen, where he is in- 
 terned, with a correspondent of the Daily Mirror. 
 
 Frederick William added that he always favored an agree- 
 ment between Germany and Great Britain and wished them 
 to work together. . A number of his best friends were in 
 England and he only wished he could live there as a private 
 citizen. 
 
 *T quarreled with my father in regard to Great Britain," 
 
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he continued. "I told him the British would be against us. 
 He never believed this and would not take into account that 
 possibility." 
 
 RETURNS ARMY OF GENTLEMEN. 
 
 (New York World.) 
 
 An army coming home victorious from war is not always 
 counted on to exercise a high moral influence. Camps are 
 not Sunday schools, and behind the plaudits for the return- 
 ing troops there are sometimes mental reservations as to 
 the effect on social conditions of a soldiery fresh from a suc- 
 cessful campaign. Yet here is Secretary Baker asserting 
 that the greatest inheritance the country will derive from 
 the world-war will be the reflection upon its future govern- 
 ment of the simple virtues the men of its armies have ab- 
 sorbed in the training camps and at the front. 
 
 That is a tribute probably never before paid to an army, 
 and certainly never so well deserved as by the American 
 army. Its soldiers, as the secretary says, have not only 
 fought like heroes but lived like gentlemen. They have 
 gone singing into action and helped the aged and infirm 
 women of France ga,ther their crops and cheered up the sad 
 little war orphans, and all the while their private life has 
 been clean and honorable. . And with this is the testimony 
 of Colonel Whittlesey, that "the enlisted man is a wonder." 
 
 Obviously this development of moral character in mass 
 by our 2,000,000 men overseas will be a potent social force 
 at home. It has justified the temporary militarization of 
 the nation in an unforeseen manner. An army drafted 
 from American firesides was expected to be different, but 
 the event has surpassed the highest hopes. What would 
 an old-time army, what would Csesar's legions or Marl- 
 borough's troopers, have thought of the suggestion that 
 their return home would tend to improve moral ideals? 
 Cromwell's veterans might have envied these citizen sol- 
 diers of the American Republic. They have won a distinc- 
 tion unique in the history of warfare. 
 
(From New Orleans States, Thursday, Dec. 5, 1918.) 
 EXTRACT FROM LETTER OF J. W. M. 
 
 Wilhelm worked to perfect his machine while Europe 
 slept and dreamed of peace for many long years to come. 
 England worked only to keep ahead in the naval race, but 
 left her land forces to take care of themselves. And it has 
 cost her dear to learn of her error in that respect. Now 
 the Kaiser that was, endeavors to hoodwink all peoples by 
 claiming that he was always in favor of peace. We will 
 admit the plea ; to a certain extent, and to that extent only — 
 until he was ready to strike. No doubt he was in favor of 
 maintaining the peace a while longer, but the murder of 
 the arch duke hurried matters, and found him not yet fully 
 prepared. We can, however, judge by the events of the 
 four years past how near to completion his preparations 
 were. 
 
 His endeavor to shift the blame for the war, first on one, 
 and then on the other of the entente must fall flat, as have 
 so many other German protestations of innocence in view of 
 the mass of evidence accumulated and in the hands of the 
 Allies. "Out of their own mouths" and by their own acts 
 and writings his own people condemn him and declare him 
 guilty. 
 
 BY J. C. ABY. 
 
 As things look now it will not be long before the former 
 Kaiser realizes he is "in Dutch" with the Dutch. 
 
 ■ Germany brought on the great war, but the prospect of 
 having to pay the cost until it hurts is not pleasing to the 
 German people. 
 
 "England has never had a deadlier enemy than the new 
 Germany," says a Berlin newspaper. Which means, of 
 course, that the new Germany is the same old Germany. 
 
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The Crown Prince says he will return to the German 
 Empire. But by the time he returns there won't be any 
 empire. 
 
 In holding- them to the terms of the armistice the Huns 
 have discovered that they can't fool with Ferdinand Foch. 
 
 The German crown prince presents a sorry figure trying 
 to explain his numerous defeats by passing the buck to 
 Ludendorff and the general staff. 
 
 The Prussian autocracy which a few months ago was ab- 
 solute is now obsolete. Let us thank God it is so. 
 
 Bill Hohenzollern is the greatest coward of history. When 
 his autocracy collapsed he fled to Holland for his own safety 
 and abandoned his wife and family to whatever fate might 
 befall them. 
 
 AUSTRIAN LEADERS TRY 
 
 BOLSHEVISM IN ALSACE-LORRAINE. 
 
 Paris, Dec. 5. — (Havas.) — A number of formerly prom- 
 inent leaders in Austria-Hungary have arrived in Switzer- 
 land with large sums of money to further a campaign of 
 Bolshevism elsewhere than in Switzerland, the Zurich cor- 
 respondent to the Journal says he learns from a reliable 
 source. 
 
 Among the men are the former grand admiral of the im- 
 perial fleet, a former Austro-Hungarian foreign minister 
 and a former member of the Hungarian cabinet. The cor- 
 respondent adds that other men are to be sent to Alsace- 
 Lorraine to spread Bolshevism. 
 
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STANDS BY HIS BROTHER. 
 
 Prince Henry Will Do Everything to Preserve William From 
 
 Harm. 
 
 Amsterdam, Dec. 4. — Prince Henry, of Prussia, brother 
 of the ex-Kaiser, has addressed an announcement to all the 
 members of the Prussian royal house, according to the 
 Kreuz Zeitung, of Berlin, in which he says : 
 
 "I am forced to recognize the king's abdication and will 
 assist in the policy for order and the constitutional govern- 
 ment. But on the other hand, I consider myself personally 
 attached to my king to the end of my life, and shall do 
 everything to preserve him from harm and shall recognize 
 him absolutely as the sole family head." 
 
 Vienna, Nov. 3. — (By The Associated Press.) — Dr. Franz 
 Kleine, former minister of justice, who will represent Aus- 
 tria at the peace conference, said to the correspondent to- 
 day: 
 
 "If we are permitted to attend the conference I presume 
 it will be merely to receive its mandates, though we trust 
 we will be heard. However, so far we have no information 
 as to when we shall attend or the conditions attached to our 
 attendance." 
 
 (From the Washington Post.) 
 
 Christo Vasilakaki, member of the Greek Parliament, who 
 has been on a special mission in the United States, at Wash- 
 ington, says: 
 
 "We shall have to watch with closest scrutiny the political 
 autocracy of the world. The program of the dominant -na- 
 tions cannot be carried out easily. I do not believe, in fact, 
 that the world will ever have a lasting peace for ever and 
 ever; but if we shall try to improve conditions, notwith- 
 standing we may be sure we cannot succeed in establishing 
 the millenium, we shall do much for the world." 
 
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TOO SHORT. 
 
 At a time when it was thought Germany wanted to get a 
 foothold in Holland, Bismarck and the Dutch Ambassador 
 stood watching a review of the German army. As a well- 
 set-up body of men marched past, the Ambassador said: 
 *Tine soldiers, but too short." Then came the Grenadiers, 
 between six and seven feet tall; nevertheless, the Ambas- 
 sador's comment was the same as before: "Fine soldiers, 
 but too short." 
 
 "What does Your Excellency mean?" asked Bismarck. 
 
 "I mean that we can flood Holland eight feet deep," replied 
 the Ambassador. — Boston Transcript. 
 
 (From the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sunday, 
 Dec. 15, 1918.) 
 
 AT THE PEACE TABLE. 
 
 BY EDGAR A. GUEST. 
 
 Who shall sit at the table, when the teiTns of peace are 
 
 made — 
 The wisest men of the troubled lands in their silver and gold 
 
 brocade ? 
 Yes, they shall gather in solemn state to speak for each 
 
 living race. 
 But who shall speak for the unseen dead that shall come to 
 
 the council place? 
 Though you see them not, and you hear them not, they shall 
 
 sit at the table, too ; 
 They shall throng the room where the peace is made and 
 
 know what it is you do ; 
 The innocent dead from the sea shall rise to stand at the 
 
 wise man's side, 
 And over his shoulder a boy shall look— a boy they crucified. 
 
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You may guard the doors of that council hall with barriers 
 
 strong" and stout, 
 But the dead unbidden shall enter there, and never you'll 
 
 shut them out. 
 And the man that died in the open boat, and the babes that 
 
 suffered worse, 
 Shall sit at the table when peace is made by the side of a 
 
 martyred nurse. 
 
 You may see them not, but they'll all be there; when they 
 
 speak you may fail to hear; 
 You may think that you're making your pacts alone, but 
 
 their spirits will hover near. 
 And whatever the terms of peace you make with the tyrant 
 
 whose hands are red, 
 You must please not only the living there, but must satisfy 
 
 the dead. . 
 
 PLEDGE OF THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER 
 CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 As a member of the Unconditional Surrender Club, believ- 
 ing that Universal Safety can be brought about only through 
 adequate punishment of the nation responsible for the World 
 War, 
 
 I pledge myself to have no dealings, socially, commercially, 
 or otherwise, with Germany or Germans, or to use in any 
 manner anything that issues from Germany or Germans, 
 until the members of this organization, collectively, deter- 
 mine that the Germans responsible for the war, and the 
 Germans who carried on the atrocious warfare, have paid 
 the penalties as far as possible commensurate with their 
 crimes against humanity. 
 
 In signing this pledge, I define a German as any person, 
 no matter where bom, who has absorbed Prussian kultur to 
 the point where he can reconcile Germany's policy in the 
 war. 
 
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From tlie Xew Orleans Times-Picayuue, Thursday, December 19th, 1918. 
 Eeproduced from the ^e\v Yorlc' Herald. 
 
 OUTWEIGHED. 
 
IN FLANDERS FIELDS. -_ 
 
 (From the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, "Barome- 
 ter," December, 1918.) 
 
 In Flanders fields the poppies grow 
 Between the crosses, row on row, 
 
 That mark our place; and in the sky 
 The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 
 Scarce heard amid the guns below. 
 
 We are the dead. Short days ago 
 We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
 Loved and were loved; and now we lie 
 In Flanders fields. 
 
 Take up your quarrel with the foe ! 
 To you, from ^failing hands, we throw 
 The torch. Be yours to hold it high ! 
 If ye break faith with us who die 
 We shall not sleep, though poppies blow 
 In Flanders fields. 
 
 —JOHN McCRAE, Lieut. Col., 
 Canadian Expeditionary Force in France. 
 
 HOW CAN THE ALLIES AND THE HUNS GET TO- 
 GETHER WHEN THE SAME WORD, JUSTICE, 
 MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS? 
 
 BY REV. NEWELL D. HILLIS. 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Tuesday, Dec. 18th, 1913.) 
 Commerce between two nations begins with a common 
 medium of exchange through money. Trade between Anier- 
 icans and Mexicans is diff"icult, because a dollar means cne 
 hundred cents worth of gold to the American and a dollar 
 means fifty cents worth of silver to the Mexican, and end- 
 
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less disputes, and raids result. Illustrations of this kind 
 make clear the difficulties of admitting the Huns into the 
 League of Nations, or finding a common ground upon which 
 a permanent peace can be established. How can you trade 
 with the German if the Allies have a dollar of one hundred 
 cents, and the German uses a pewter counterfeit coin? It 
 is perfectly evident that the word justice means one thing 
 to the American and another to the German. 
 
 The recent armistice does not mean to Berlin what it 
 means to Washington. To Washington and Paris and Lon- 
 don the armistice meant not only the surrender of the Ger- 
 man ships and submarines, the withdrawal from France and 
 Belgium and Alsace and Lorraine — it means a defeat, crush- 
 ing and overwhelming. 
 
 To Germany that armistice means the very opposite of 
 defeat. Witness these words in the Vorwaerts — "The valo- 
 rous army of the Fatherland remains undefeated. Not one 
 foot of Germany's sacred soil has been polluted by an Allied 
 soldier." 
 
 The armistice does not mean to German ambassadors in 
 foreign countries what it means to the Allied ambassadors 
 in those lands. Von Eckhardt, ambassador to Mexico, has 
 just put out the following statement, for the people of 
 Mexico: *T wish that you would make it known that the 
 German colony have decorated their buildings with German 
 flags to show their satisfaction that their country has given 
 peace to the world." 
 
 Already the Huns are claiming that their native generosity 
 led them to withdraw their troops from France and Belgium, 
 not because they were defeated, but because they were un- 
 willing to kill any more French, Belgians and Americans ! 
 
 More and more it becomes evident that this armistice may 
 have been a mistake. We now know that every other Ger- 
 man shell that was fired during the first week of November 
 failed to explode. One more week would have seen the Ger- 
 man army without munitions. Another week would have 
 seen them fleeing across the Rhine. A third week would 
 
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have seen our troops well on their way to Berlin. It is 
 doubtful whether the Hun was ever more cynic.-il, cunning- cr 
 hypocritical than at the present moment. During the mili- 
 tary phase of this war, the Alhes did not deal with men — 
 they dealt with denatured beings, mere military machines, 
 human bodies, pursuing ends of lust, pleasure, power and 
 conquest, but without souls. Take the intellect out of a man, 
 and you have a gibbering idiot. Take conscience and hu- 
 manity out of the German and you have a Hun. Civilization 
 does not mean to the Hun what the word means to the Allies. 
 When the treaty is signed, it will mean a scrap of paper to 
 the Hun, but it will mean a solemn obligation to cur repre- 
 sentatives. 
 
 Money is a mechanism of exchange between an Allied 
 merchant and a German manufacturer. Words are the in- 
 tellectual mediums of treaty exchange. But how are we 
 going to make a treaty with the Huns when the Allies use 
 a gold dollar and the Huns a pewter and a counterfeit coin? 
 Let us be firm at the peace table ! We may lose at this con- 
 ference what we won on the battlefield. 
 
 WAR AP^D PEACE. 
 
 (From the New Orleans States, Sunday, Dec. 15, 1918.) 
 
 December 10, 1918. 
 Editor of New Orleans States. 
 
 Dear Sir : It is rather surprising that so eminent a lawyer 
 as Mr. Charles E. Hughes should use an expression in the 
 President's address of November 11th, as an argument that 
 the Great World War was at an end. 
 
 And here is what the President said : 
 
 "The war thus came to an end, for having accepted these 
 terms of Armistice, it will be impossible for the German 
 commands to renew it." 
 
 This may be all very well, but wars do not end in the man- 
 ner stated by the President. 
 
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Under the Constitution of the United States the pov;er 
 to declare war rests with Congress, but the power to nego- 
 tiate Peace is in the hands of the President provided any 
 treaty receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the 
 Senate ; the negotiation and the signing of a treaty of peace 
 by Commissioners appointed by the President of the United 
 States is no treaty until ratified by the necessary vote of 
 the Senate. 
 
 The President very appropriately called the other nations 
 at war with the Central Powers the Associates of the United 
 States at war and not its Allies, as an alliance presupposes 
 a treaty and there was no treaty of any kind with any other 
 Nation regarding the war. 
 
 Therefore notwithstanding the signing of the Armistice, 
 a state of war still exists between the United States and 
 Germany, just as it did from the time the war was declared 
 in April 1917. 
 
 This matter has, moreover, been placed beyond the pale 
 of discussion or doubt by an Act of Congress approved Sep- 
 tember 24, 1917, Chapter 56, Section 13, reading in part 
 as follows: 
 
 "The date of terminating the war between the United 
 States and the Imperial German Government shall be fixed 
 by proclamation of the President of the United States." 
 Therefore the war does not end until a Treaty has been 
 negotiated, approved by the President and ratified by two- 
 thirds of the Senate and then a proclamation accordingly 
 issued by the President. 
 
 It is generally said that the war of 1812, ended December 
 24, 1814, because on that day there was signed in the City of 
 Ghent, Belgium, a treaty of Peace between the Commission- 
 ers appointed by the United States and by England ; but this 
 is incorrect ; it is true that such a Treaty was signed and 
 was subsequently approved by the President but was not 
 ratified by the Senate of the United States until February 
 18, 1815, and only on that date did the war end; therefore 
 the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815, was not fought 
 
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as some historians say after Peace had been declared but 
 while a state of war still existed ; and we all know that if the 
 English had been successful in that battle the war would 
 have started all over again. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 W. 0. HART. 
 
 There is no "Hymn of Hate" for Germany, or ite people, 
 in ihe hearts of the American people, but there is a deter- 
 mmation that they shall suffer to the extent necessary to 
 make reparation for the wrongs they committed during the 
 terrible World War brought on by them. 
 
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This is my Father's World 
 
 let me ne'er forget 
 
 That tho' the wrong- seems oft so strong, 
 
 God is the ruler yet. 
 
 This is my Father's World 
 The Battle is not done. 
 Jesus who died shall be satisfied, 
 And earth and heaven be one. 
 
 This is my Father's World, 
 
 Should my heart be ever sad ? 
 
 The Lord is King-let the heavens ring, 
 
 God reigns — let the earth be glad. 
 
 —REV. M. D. BABCOCK. 
 
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