66 railway station. Neither statement was true, and the Nuremberg story was later repudiated by the German who it was claimed had made the charge. Somewhat later, Germany's charge of responsibility for beginning the war was transferred to Russia, and eventually, after the initial reverses, when efforts to obtain separate peace with France and Russia were being undertaken, to the shoulders of England. Germans then were asked to pray, God punish England," and for composing the " Hymn of Hate" Lissauer was awarded the Iron Cross. us listen to a stanza of this hymn as it is being publicly rendered by a chorus of male voices to a great audience assembled in the Alberthalle in Leipsic, the composer accompanying his verses upon the piano to music written by the Director of Church Music at Chemnitz. "French and Russian, they matter not, Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand, Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown, Hate of seventy millions choking down. We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone. Let After all these years of frightful war, at first distraught by the new conditions, the world has at length acquired such a clear perspective that Germany's statements are no longer taken at their face value. Her credit for veracity has fallen even lower than her currency. In morals, she is to-day a bankrupt. The "inveterate confidence in her, which for so long tied our hands in this country while the German embassy at Washington was working overtime to direct the plots against our Government, has now given place to a clarity of vision and to a determination to make every resource available against the common enemy of mankind that must bring satisfaction to every loyal citizen. Perjured Germany Adapted from an article in The Outlook of October 31st, 1917, by Stéphane Lauzanne, Member of the French Mission in the United States. By permission of The Outlook Company. ON June 15, 1907-let us not go further back forty-four civilized states of the earth, including Germany, assembled at the Hague, forming the largest society of nations which history had ever witnessed. After many discussions a social act was drawn up, and at the bottom of the act the plenipotentiaries of forty-four powers affixed with a certain solemnity their signatures. The society had for its object, according to the title of the act, to fix the laws and customs of war on land." And these laws were with great precision enacted into fifty-seven articles. Let us refer to certain of these articles, and let us see how the belligerents, and especially Germany, have observed them. 66 In this solemn compact made at the Hague, which was signed by the duly accredited representatives of Germany, it was provided, among other things, that prisoners of war must be humanely treated; that the State may employ as workmen prisoners of war, but that the work must not be excessive and must have nothing whatever to do with operations of war. It was also specifically provided that poison or poisoned weapons should not be used in warfare; that a belligerent must not compel the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country; that undefended towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings should never be attacked or bombarded in any manner; that in cases of bombardment otherwise all necessary steps must be taken to spare as far as possible buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected; and that the pillage of a town or place, even when taken by assault, is prohibited. It seems that the men of the Hague, when they wrote those articles, had a sort of prescience of the future cruelties of war and that they wanted to avoid them. Let us see how far they have succeeded. When the Germans vacated certain parts of the north of France, instructions emanating from the German general headquarters were found in the pocket of many German prisoners or on the dead, and those instructions indicated how the water of the wells was to be poisoned: Such and such a 60 soldier," ran the instructions, "will be in charge of the wells, will throw in each one a sufficient quantity of poison or creosote, or, lacking these, all available filth." Here is the order of the day issued on August 25, 1914, by General Stenger, commanding the Fifty-eighth German Brigade, to his troops: After to-day no more prisoners will be taken. All prisoners are to be killed. Wounded with or without arms are to be killed. Even prisoners already grouped in convoys are to be killed. Let not a single living enemy live behind us." 66 And what about the destruction of works of art and historic monuments? Four names, which will be eternally remembered, are here sufficient to answer: there is Rheims and its Cathedral, Louvain and its library, Arras and its Town Hall, Ypres and its bell-tower. Germany, therefore, has in this war more than a hundred times disavowed her signature and perjured her own word. It is not only towards the belligerents, but it is towards the forty-four nations which signed the treaty of The Hague, that Germany has shown herself treacherous. But nevertheless we have never heard a single protest of one of these nations. The social act has been torn to pieces and none of the adherents has made the slightest observation. Is the next society of nations to be modeled on the same principles? Is the next society of nations going to draw up articles of the same kind as the Hague society? Is the future society of nations going to accept among its members that same Em pire of Germany which in 1914 declared bankruptcy? Will the future act of the future society of nations be a simple scrap of paper, as the last act of 1907? All these questions must be answered. "The most wise man," Colonel Roosevelt recently wrote, may be deceived once; only fools are deceived twice." 66 It will be interesting to note how many wise and how many fools there will be among the nearly sixty nations forming what is generally called the civilized world. Indictment of Germany Extract from "A Letter to a German Professor," by Douglas W. Johnson, of Columbia University. AMERICANS believe that the German people are a great people, capable of great and good things. They honor and admire the Germany which finds her best expression in the literature, music, and science which has justly made you famous. But they distrust and abhor the German Government which has made the name of German infamous. The heroic bravery of the German soldiers dying for their Fatherland, and the heroic fortitude of the German women who bear and suffer-all fail to evoke any enthusiasm in other countries, because of the stain which the German military government has put upon their sacrifices. Your greatest victories bring no world honor to your armies because of the cloud of dishonor which hangs over every |