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Edited by Dana C. I
versity; George C.
of Wisconsin, and
University o
Issued by the Committc
German Sources.
In this pamphlet throughout, as in
the preceding pages, the evidence is
, drawn mainly from German and
American sources. The German
sources include official proclamations
and other official utterances, letters
and diaries of German soldiers, and
quotations from German newspapers.
The diaries which are so frequently
quoted form a unique source. The
Rules for Field Service of the German
Army advises each soldier to
keep such a diary while on active
service. Very many German soldiers
who have been taken prisoners
had kept such diaries, and these have
been confiscated by the captors.
Many have been published, frequentM
ly with facsimile reproductions to
guarantee their authenticity. The
best known collection was made by
Bedier, whom Prof. Hollmann, of the
University of Berlin, properly deq
scribed as "the distinguished Prof.
Joseph Bedier of' the College de
France." y Of Bedfier's publication
Vvmn rif thp TTnivprsitv of
X I VI. X* J x V* W?.W
Copenhagen, says:
"He has translated the diaries and
commented upon them just as one
does with all old historical docuiifesc
ments, and, in order that everyone
may be in a position to check up his
& work, he has also accompanied the
t ' account with facsimile copies of the
: documents he used. Here, accordingly,
at the outset every proof of
the evidence which he has employed
- is provided. No falsification is possible.
The accounts are those of eye
witnesses, and these eyewitnesses are
Germans. They tell what they them|
" selves or their comrades have done,
marks with running comments which
V * show that not only have common
law and The Hague convention been
Mjj^^yiolated, but sins have also been
Wp^iteMamitted against the most elemenvlaws
of humanity. Both the
M - riater^al and the presentation are
K jjaiassaifoble. The details which are
m-' provided by the German soldiers in
si ^regard to their own violent acts are
I J horror-striking. '\
Prof. Hollmanu* attempted to prove
4 that Bedier had made mistakes in
translating and interpreting, but he
did not deny the genuineness of the
claries. "These ndtebooks," he
.. Jjfrys, "may well be authentic and I
, s" hccept this without further comment
i"? for all of which are provided with
the name of their authors and whose
- authenticity can in any case be established
after the war."
The American evidence is drawn
: mainly from material in the archives
? of the State department, in ad
?*4 dition, statements from our ambassadors
and ministers and other wellKSlV
known officials and authors are givP?5.'on.
Messrs. Hoover, .Kellogg, and
r>;V -Walcott hav? written statements espB
$ pecially for this pamphlet." All of
i this material is essentially the testii
v mony of neutrals, for it is based
-4' wholly on observation's made before
the United States entered the war.
; Occasionally official documents and
well authenticated facts from forgeign
sources are used.
The purpose of this pamphlet is
p' to show that the system of frightfulffc'
ness, which is itself the greiatest
%~Z<K atrocity, is the definite policy of the
; v; German Government, against which
v;:: more humane German soldiers them;
v selves revolted at times. For this
reason it has not seemed necessary
to set forth the individual acts of
cruelty; such acts are cited only
when necessary to illustrate the sys
*em* Anyone who wishes to read
chapters of horrors can find them in
^ the Report of the Committee on Alps
leged German Outrages, presided
over by the former British Ambassador
to this country and therefore
generally known as "the Bryce regfe
port;" in the official reports by the
Belgian Commission d'Enquete; in
J" the official French reports compiled
i under the auspices of the French
JjfcJ- minister for foreign affairs; in many
; . other publications, and especially in
the conclusive admissions of the
official German White Book cited
above. The last, published by the
German government, is the most
damning testimony concerning the
system of frightfulness.
TREATMENT OF CIVILIANS.
1. Massacres.
Protection of Non-combatants Agreed
To By Germany.
In the wars waged in ancient times
it was taken for granted that conquered
people might be either killed,
tortured, or held as slaves; that
their property would be taken and
that their lands would be devastated.
"Vae victis!?woe to the conquerv
.
ed!" For two centuries or more
: there has been a steady advance in
introducing ideas of humanity and
especially in confining the evils of
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j warfare to the combatants. Tne
t| ideal seemed to have become so thor-j
i oughly established as a part of in-j
international law that the powers at
1 The Hague thought it sufficient mere(j
ly to state the general principles in
;j Article XLVI of the regulations:
i "Family honors and rights, the lives j
! of persons and private property, as!
well as religious convictions and
J practice, must be respected. Pri.1
vate property can not be confiscated.'*
I
J Germany, in common with the other
j powers, solemnly pledged her faith
to keep this article, but her military
leaders had no intention of doing so.
They had been trained in the ideas
voiced by Gen. von Hartman 40
years ago: "Terroism is seen to be
| a relatively gentle procedure, useful
j to keep the masses of the people in
j a state of obedience." This had been
j Bismarck's policy, too. According
' to Moritz Busch, Bismarck's bio'
grapher, Bismarck, exasperated by
the French resistance, which was still
| continuing in January, 1871, said:
"If in the territory which we occupy,
we can not supply everything
for our troops, from time to time we
shall send a flying column into the
localities which are recalcitrant. We
shall shoot, hang, and burn. After
that has happened a few times, the
inhabitants will finally come to their
senses."
The frightfulness taught by the
German leaders had held full sway
in Belgium. This is best seen in the
entries in the diaries of the individual
German soldiers.
Extracts From German War Diaries.
"During the night of August 1516
Engineer Gr gave the alarm
in the town of Vise. Everyone was
shot or taken prisoner, and the houses
were burnt. The prisoners were
made to march and keep up with the
troops." (From the diary of noncommissioned
officer Reinhold Koehn
of the Second Battalion of Engineers,
Third Army Corps.)
"A horrible bath of blood. The
whole village burnt, the French
thrown into the blazing houses, civilians
with the rest." (From the
diary of Private- Hassemer, of the
Eighth Army Corps.)
"In the night of August 18-19 the
village of Saint-Maurice was punished
for having fired on German soldiers
by being burnt to the ground by the
German troops (two regiments, the
12th Landwehr and the 17th). The
village was surrounded, men posted
about a yard from .one another, so
that no one could get out. Then the
Uhlans set fire to it, house by house.
Neither man, woman nor child could
escape; only the greater part of the
live stock we carried off, as th&t
could be used. Anyone who ventured
to come out was shot down. All the
inhabitants left in the village were
burnt with the houses." (From the
diary of Private Karl Scheufele, of
the Third Bavarian Regimeot of
| Landwehr Infantry.)
"At 10 o'clock in the evening the
first battalion of the 178th marched
down the steep incline into the burning
village to the north of Dinant.
A. terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty.
At the entrance to the village lay
about fifty dead civilians, shot for
having fired upon our troops from
ambush. In the course of the night
many others were also shot, so that
we counted over 200. Women and
children, lamp in hand, were forced
| to look on at the horrible scene. We
ate our rice later in the midst of the
corpses, for we had had nothing since
morning. When we searched the
houses we found plenty of wine and
spirit, but no eatables. Captain
Hamann was drunk." (This last
phrase in shorthand.) (From the
diary of Private Philipp, of th? One
Hundred and Seventy-Eighth regiment
of infantry, Twelfth Army
Corps.)
"Aug. 6th crossed frontier. Inhabitants
on border very good to us
and giv? us many things. There is
no difference noticeable.
"Aug. 23rd, Sunday (between Birnal
and Dinant, village of Disonge).
At 11 o'clock the order comes to advance
after the artillery has thor
oughly prepared the ground ahead.
Tho Pioneers and Infantry Regiment
178 were marching in front of us.
Near a small village the latter were
fired on by the inhabitants. About
220 inhabitants were shot and the
village was burnt?artillery is continuously
shooting?the village lies
in a large ravine. Just now, 6 o'clock
in the afternoon, the crossing of the
Maas begins near Dinant * * ? All
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but its general use is encouraged by
the Government. It has been patented
by private parties. The matter
of having an official service flag not
so controlled is under consideration
by Congress.
villages, chateaux, and houses are
burnt down during this night. It
was a beautiful sight to see the fin ^
all around us in the distance.
"Aug. 24th. In every village one
find's only heaps of ruins and many
dead. (From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth Company, Eleventh Jager
Battalion, Marburg.)
"A shell burst near the 11th Company,
and wounded seven men, three
very severely. At 5 o'clock we were
ordered by the officer in command of
the regiment to shoot all" the male
inhabitants of Nom'eny, because the
population was foolishly attempting
to stay the advance1 of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke
into the houses, and seized, all who
resisted, in order to execute them
according to martial law. The houses
which had not already been destroyed
by the French artillery and our
own were set on fire by us, so that
nearly the whole town was reduced
to ashes. It is a terrible sight when
helpless women and children, utterly
destitute, are herded together and
driven into France." (From the diary
of Private Fischer, Eighth Bavarian
Regiment of Infantry, Thirtythird
Reserve Division.)
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books of the Town of Bamberg will
be open until April 1st for the payment
of town taxes. After April 1st
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taxes will go into execution. Bear
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Bamberg, S. C., March 12, 1918.
CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina?
County of Bamberg?By J. J. Brabham,
Jr., Esq., Judge of Probate.
Whereas, J. H. Roberts, M. D., hath
made suit to me to grant him letters
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These are therefore to cite and
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the forenoon, to show cause, if any
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Given un ler mv hand and seal th.'s j
12th day of March, Anno Domini,!
1918.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.
Judge of Probate
ESTATE NOTICE
!
Notice is hereby given to all cred- j
itors of the estate of Romeo Govan,!
deceased, to file their claims at once
duly verified, with the undersigned
administratrix of said estate, and
those owing said estate will please
make payment likewise.
SILVIA JENNINGS,
Administratrix.
Bamberg, S. C., March 15, 1918?3t
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