August 3, 1916 
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 3rd, 1916. 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
The Awakening. By Louis Raemaekers 
Crimes of Germany. , (Leading Article.) 3 
The Crisis on the Eastern Front. By Hilaire Belloc 4 
The Fate of Captain Fryatt. By Arthur Pollen 
Treasury Notes. By Arthur Kitson n 
Berceuse de Guerre. (Poem.) By Emile Cammaerts 12 
Effects of the Blockade 13 
Letters to a Lonely Civilian 14 
Germany's Trade Weapon. By Lewis R. Freeman 15 
A Palace of Hope. By Mary MacLeod Moore 17 
Greenmantle. By John Buchan iq 
The U.J.C. Extension 22 
The West End 24 
Choosing Kit 
XI 
THE CRIMES OF GERMANY. 
THE details of the cold-blooded murder of Captain 
Fryatt are too notorious to require recapitulation. 
He has suffered, as so many others have suffered, 
at the hands of barbarians ; it is part of the price 
civilisation has to pay for permitting a treacherous and 
bestial people to attain to strength in her midst. Short of 
cannibalism, there is not an offence against humanity 
which the Teutons have not committed in the last two 
years. This crime stands out from the rest in that, like 
the murder of Edith Cavell, it has been surrounded by a 
mockery of justice. We think of the scene in the judg- 
ment hall of Caiaphas, for let us make no mistake, Ger- 
many wages war on Christianity ; she destroys merci- 
lessly the man or woman who dares to protect the lives 
of the weak and defenceless. Such was the act for which 
Captain Fryatt was condemned to death. But all 
history tells us, and in our inmost heart we know it to be 
eternally true, that this cruelty so far from attaining 
its object, only quickens and multiplies that nobility 
of character which it seeks to destroy. 
The Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons 
on Tuesday that Great Britain is resolved that such 
crimes shall not, if it can be helped, go unpunished. 
When the time arrives we are determined to bring to 
justice the criminals, whoever they may be or whatever 
their station. Meantime, the question is under the 
consideration of the Government what immediate action 
shall be taken to check if possible their recurrence. 
That the need for resolute action , is most urgent was 
made clear by Mr. Asquith, who remarked that this 
murder, following closely on the lawless cruelties to the 
civil population of Lille and other occupied districts of 
F'rance, points to a renewal on the part of the German 
High Command of their former policy of terrorism. This 
implies that there are now no methods too foul or dis- 
graceful to which our enemies will not stoop in order to 
obtain that decision which they are impotent to gain on 
the field of battle. 
It is an axiom of German warfare that the only check 
on the actions of an army on service is the fear of reprisals. 
Therefore there must be reprisals of an effective kind, 
but in saying this we would make it quite plain that we 
are not going to turn Huns ; we will not sink to barbarity : 
we refuse to defile our nature with the slaughter or torture 
of German men, women and children who happen to be 
in our power. But subject to these restrictions it is our 
duty — a duty which we owe not only to our fellow- 
countryn»sn in captivity, but to every citizen of an 
Allied nation who is in the power of the enemy — to take 
instantly such strong measures that Germany can no 
longer deceive herself that in the revulsion of feeling 
which will follow on the declaration of peace, we shall 
forget or lose sight of these martyrs and victims of the 
Teuton fur}'. 
An attempt must be made to comprehend clearly 
German mentality. It does credit to an Englishman's 
sense of humanity to refuse to believe that the whole 
German nation is responsible for these barbarities ; 
unfortunately, there is abounding evidence that with a 
few, a very few, exceptions this is the reverse of true. 
The German mind at this stage is of one texture ; it 
has for a full generation been worked on by Princes 
and Professors alike, to regard itself as above and beyond 
the ordinary laws of society in so far as other peoples 
are concerned, until now the national mind is of a single 
pattern, and that pattern an entirely material one. 
Germany to win the world has sold her soul. One sees 
the truth of it in almost every word and action. The 
things that belong to the spirit do not interest her, and' 
have not for years. She only seeks bodily pleasures, 
earthly delights, and in her selfish desire for them is 
willing to inflict physical pain and torture, being con- 
vinced that with others as with herself it is the body 
alone that counts. For the last ten years it has been 
the curious boast of educated Germans that they had 
converted BerHn into the wickedest city in the world 
after nightfall — they did not put it exactly in this way 
but that is what it amounted to. And they gloried 
in it. The atrocities, treacheries, indignities great and 
small, which have marked every stage of the campaigns 
with the full knowledge and consent of the Kaiser and 
the General Staff, and with the complete approval of 
the people, are the logical outcome of the German system 
of training and education. 
The difficultj', therefore, which confronts the Allied 
Governments is- to devise a scheme that shall break down 
this mental state, or at least hold it in some check for 
the rest of the war. It is with this object that Sir 
Edward Carson proposes that an Act should at once be 
passed placing the German people at the end of the war 
outside the comity of nations until these crimes have 
been expiated. Such a measure is calculated to have 
the required effect, though it is open to question whether 
Germany would really believe that we should adhere 
to it. They attribute not to our humanity, but to our 
stupidity the kindness shown to the Germans in our 
midst. Whether we ought not to harden our hearts and 
to expel from this country every German now at large 
at the very next breach of the rules andj usages of war 
is an open question. They would be scattered through- 
out the Germanic states, and the reason for their depor- 
tation to their own country would be made plain. To allow 
Germans to settle in our midst in the future as in the past 
is entirely out of the question, and the sooner that fact 
is announced pubUcly the better 
An ominous feature of these international crimes is 
that not only have they called forth no protest, with 
one or two honourable exceptions, from the Germanic 
peoples, but that no protest has been raised against 
them by the considerable German communities living in 
neutral countries. One would have expected that the latter 
would have taken steps to have stopped them, merely 
for the sake of the fair fame of the fatherland, knowing 
how such wanton cruelties have besmirched it in 
the eyes of the whole world. Especially would one 
have looked for this from the very large Jewish section 
of these German communities. But not a voice has been 
raised. We can only conclude that the German mind, 
wherever it exists condones these crimes, regarding them 
as means to an end which justifies any abomination. 
