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y Help to Break Clausewitz. Who is Clausewitz? Pew Americans either know or care. The name has a strong Teutonic flavor, and for that reason alone it may be that the normal minded, liberty loving American prefers to keep this acquaintanceship as distant as possible. That is a mistake. Americans must know Clausewitz. For Clausewitz is more than a man's name. It is a philosophy?a terrible judgment which has been pronounced upon all mankind, and which will throttle civ _ 1.1 JI.nlnof. llizanon Willi it uivu uv iiauu uiiicoo rClausewitz, and all it stands for, is wiped off the earth. k "Children, Women, Shot by Gerf mans." That was the headline of a news story which smashed us between the eyes only yesterday. ' Another Belgian atrocity? * No. A Russian. The dispatch came from Moscow. Some villagers in Republican Russia, resisting a demand for money by German troops, had, in the struggle, killed an officer?A German Officer. They probably never had heard of what had happened to the Belgian * peasants who had deared to resist German troops. But they were soon to learn what happened when villagers of an invaded land, under any circumstances whatsoever, kill one of the Kaiser's officers. The whole villagex was promptly burned. Outside the circle of flaming homes and buildings had been drawn a circle of German machine gunners. i As the flames of the burning homes began to light the heavens, as the women and children, frightened and L terrorized, fled into the streets, the W machine guns began to spit. " Down they went, women and children, men?every Russian villager, the innocent with the guilty, if, ijf deed there were any left who had been guilty of any part in the killing of the Kaiser's officer. Remember what happened at Tamines on August 21, 1914? What followed at Dinant, at Aerschot, at Louvain, at scores and scores of Belgian cities and villages? On the evening of Saturday, August 22, a group of between 400 and 450 men was collected in front of the church, not far from the bank of the * Sambre. A German detachment opened fire on.them; but, as shooting was slow business, the officers ordered up a machine gun, which soon swept off all the unhappy peasants still left standing. ?* * Thus runs the official Belgian account of the massacre of Tamines, . where 650 of the inhabitants had been slaughtered in cold blood because of an attack, supposed to have been made by French soldiers and Civic Guards from Charleroi, upon some German Uhlans. A And as the Belgian government and the whole world in 1914 protested the Belgian atrocities and tried to make Berlin hear, so the Russian * government is now protesting the Russian atrocities and is trying to make Berlin hear. Will the Russian government succeed where the whole world failed? They will not. And the reason why they will not can be given in one word?Clausewitz. ' Clausewitz is the German military god. He is the supreme authority on "How to Make War." Clausewitz has taught the Germans that: "To introduce into the ^ phlosophy of war a principle of moderation would be an absurdity. War is an act of violence which in its application knows no bounds. Frightfulness is a military neccessity. The terrorization of the civil population of the enemy is the first principle of i successful warfare. The aim of an army of invasion must be to smash the total spiritual resources of a people, to humilate them, to stupefy them?in a word, to break their spirits." That is Clausewitz, put into bloody reality by the German general staff. *~Y That is why Belgium was slaugh/ tered. That is why Russia is being murdered. rThat is why German atrocities are a' concomitant of all German mili tary action. It makes no difference whether the nation is innocent, unresistant, pigmy Belgium, or giant Russia, that has laid down its, arms, has signed the German peace treaty and voluntarily submitted to the Kaiser's yoke. V Clausewitz marches wherever the German army marches. A nrl V? Tit ill n a+ n/NOf<A irv rvi it nuu w 1X1 JLL WL CCCLSC t\J LLlCLl ^11 UI1til the German army is broken upon the wheel of world wrath, which is even now beginning to make its inevitable, immutable cycle. Women and children?the German general staff knows that to slaughter them drives the steel through the heart of every man who hears of it. The German general staff hopes by such methods' to break, not ony the spirit of Belgium, of Russia, of all resisting nations, but of the entire world. Americans can not now save those unfortunate Russian women and children. They could not save the women and children of Aerschot, of Louvain, of Tamines. The Americans can help kill Clausewitz. They can do it by the Clausewitz method applied only to the killing of German soldiers. They can do it today by buying Liberty bonds.?Atlanta Georgian. Has Lost 2,000,000 Men. Amsterdam, April 26.?Germany's losses thus far in the war have been 2,000,000 men, according to a statement credited by the Frankfurter Zeitung, as having been made by Gen. Schulze before the main committee of the German Reichstag. Sick and wounded men to the number of 750,000 had been able to return to the front, according to Gen. Schulze, while 629,000 had been discharged as unfit for service, including 70,000 cripples. Up to date, the general added, Germany had to reckon with about 98,000 cripples. No furloughs whatsoever for agricultural^urposes will he granted anyone in the Thirtieth division at Camp Sevier, due to existing orders, whiclf have not been made public, Major Francis H. Hinkle, division adjutant, announced Wednesday. Hundreds of applications for agricultural furloughs have been received. ~ OVER THE TOP. (Continued from page 3, column 3.) man barbed wire ana see u uiey uau A Hidden Gun. cut Janes through it; if so, this presaged an early morning attack on our trenches. Of course I had to be one of the four selected for the job. It was just like sending a fellow to the undertaker's to order his own coffin. At ten o'clock we started out, armed with three bombs, a bayonet and revolver. After getting into No Man's Land we separated. Crawling four or five feet at a time, ducking star shells, with strays cracking overhead, I reached their wire. I scouted along this inch by inch, scarcely breathing. I could hear them talking in their trench, my heart was pounding against my ribs. One false move or the least noise from me meant discovery and almost certain death. After covering my sector I quietly crawled back. I had gotten about half way when I noticed that my revolver nrac! mlccincr Tfr YPOS nltoh dfll'k. I turned about to see if I could find it; it couldn't be far away, because about three or four minutes previously I had felt the butt in the holster. I crawled around in circles and at last found it, then started on my way back to our trenches, as I thought Pretty soon I reached barbed wire, and was just going to give the password when something told me not to. I put out my hand and touched one of the barbed wire stakes. It was iron. The British are of wood, while the German are iron. My heart stopped beating; by mistake I had crawled : back to the German lines. I turned slowly about and my tunic caught on the wire and made a loud ripping noise. A sharp challenge rang out I sprang to my feet, ducking low, and ran madlv back toward our lines. The Germans started firing. The bullets were biting all around me, when bang! I ran smash into our wire, and a sharp challenge, "'Alt, who comes there?" rang out. I gasped out the password, and, groping my way through the lane in the wire, tearing my hands and uniform, I tumbled into our trench and was safe, but I was a nervous wreck for an hour, until a drink of rum ; brought me round. (To be continued next week.) H PEACE TO YOUR FEET. DOX'T H | LET YOUR FEET BE COLD. H I WEAR SHOES I WEAR SHOES THAT WEAR H WHILE ALL OTHERS ARE WORN H GET STYLES THAT ARE STYL- fl ISH AND THAT LOOK AND FEEL H AND WEAR LIKE SHOES OUGHT TO. BUV I IfwSL&l I I WLsmiosffEyiM H IMBED mr THE m UNITED STATE8 S jWVtttlOUBNT B Bay Them And I Help Win The War I FOR SALE EVERYWHERE I I AND PATRONIZE 1 RENTZ & FELDER I BAMBERG, S. C. I WRfGLEYS Six reasons(JUHV SfSood W III friend: MB 1 ? Steadies nerves ^M 2 ? Allays thirst ^M 3 ? 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