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I--" — gE Bi > I £35 8 B <=! 3 .5 Ki 0 II & \1 Ip- gl • s o kgE &S £<£ B ' &V fe & | I A i' < f qSJ Page 14 WHY WE ARE AT WAR Trench and Camp is glad to be permitted to present to its readers what we consider the most con vincing indictment against the Germans we have ever read. It was prepared by the Training Section of the General Staff Corps and is known officially as Train ing Memorandum No. 6. Major Stephen O. Fuqua, Assistant Chief of Staff, is the author of the mem orandum. It sets forth in a won derfully concise manner an array of evidence against the German nation that should be memorized h>' every man in the Twenty ir 4-^p r p t-ppn Camp Hancock soldiers as to why we are preparing to fight Ger bring sure conviction as to the many, the following simple and concise, statement of facts will "bring sure conviction as to the justice of our cause. —Editor. Headquarters Twenty-Eighth Division Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. December 13ih, 1317. TRAINING 'MEMORANDUM No. 6. To be read by all organization com manders to the enlisted personnel of their units, and later posted on all or ganization bulletin boards. WHY WE AREAT WAR. You are now undergoing the train ing essential to prepare you for the final test of arms—to strengthen you as individuals, and to develop you in “team work” so that you may go for ward to‘ the supreme test with the same spirit that has always actuated the American soldier in his battles for freedom. As an army not crushed un der the heel of a cruel despot, nor guided by the imperial whip of a mas ter, you are made mindful of some of these many causes rendering your sac rifices needed. It is well to remember that this great Republic did not declare war upon the Hohenzollern government, but by'solemn act of its peoples' rep resentatives, recognized that the Ger man emperor and his war party, in' violation of our treaty rights, had made war upon us. Before this sol emn situation was met and sacred duty performed, our legislative and executive representatives gave thought to the offenses committed by the German government against the laws of nations and against our na tional sovereignty. An enumeration of these acts of this war-mad party of Germany is given below and is a full reply to “why we are at war.” (a.) It violated the principles of neutrality as applied to land warfare, to which it had pledged its national honor by coin ns 3 and 5 of The Hague of 1907, invasion of Bel gium, and repudiated it? solemn un dertakings respecting the neutrality of that nation. (b) It levied huge monetary penal ties upon occupied cities for its own war purposes, in violation of the laws of nations. (c) It wantonly destroyed works of art and arcitecture -which it could not steal; and razed historical monu ments and edifices of worship, mercy, and charity for which no military ne cessity existed. (d) It deliberately, and as a fixed and settled policy, practiced rapine, arson, and murder, against helpless and non-combatant populace. (e) It wantonly bombarded from the land, sea, and sky, non-fortified and unprotected cities and towns, in dulging in indiscriminate slaughter of women and < hildren. (f) It tore young girls from theii homes to labor in the fields of Ger many, and drove many to suicide to escape the white slavery denounced by the laws of nations. (gj It destroyed convents and rav ished nuns, and violated the principles of the Christian religion. (h> It violated international law by the murder of a nurse and sea captain' who had committed ho capital offense under the laws of war. (i> It violated the rules o< morf. time warfare by murder of o citi zens, the citizens of other neutrals, and the non-combatant citizens of our allies, while engaged in peaceful trav el cn the high seas; and more than this, it authorized the firing on life boat? rescuing non-combatants from the perils of the sea. (i) It openlv practiceed piracy on the high seas by' its methods of sub marine warfare. (k) It violated our neutrality by en deaver’na to incite strikes and indus trial disturbances within our bor der-. (l) It -"iolated the laws of nations by using its con-ular and diplomatic agents accredited to us in ways de nounced by its own treaties. (m) It endeavored to incite nations with which we were at peace to make war against us. (n> “it violated the principle of constitutional law and affronted oir national sovereignty by its treatment of our accredited diplomatic and con sular representatives. (o) It violated international law and the accepted comity of nations when it used its diplomatic and consular services in a gigantic propaganda backed by German gold to combine neutral nations against America, to propagate an army of spies in our midst, and by dread of bomb and torch, attempted to spread fear in our neutral and peace loving country. AENCH AND CAMP I (p) It engaged in a long and pre- I meditated course of action intended to i secure domination over the peoples of [ the earth, the destruction of the bal ance of power, and the violation of the Monroe Doctrine. (q) It adopted a policy of crime in carrying out its unlawful purposes in and by which it contemptuously vio lated all the laws of nations, and the rights of the individual, sacrificing all to its ruthless ends. In the words of our president, we know that for us this is a war of high principle, debased by no selfish am bition of conquest or spoliation; be cause we know, and all the world knows that we have been forced into it to save the very institutions we live under from corruption and destruc tion. The purposes of the central powers strike straight at the very heart of everything we believe in; their methods of warfare outrage ev ery principle of humanity and of knightly honor; their sinister and ■ecret diplomacy has sought to take our very territory away from us and disrupt the union of the states. Our safety would be at an end, our honor forever sullied and brought into con tempt were-, we to permit their triumph. They are striking at the very existence of democracy and' lib erty. No such indictment has ever yet been brought against any government, aheient or modern, savage or civilized; and in the aggregate constitutes it an outlaw among nations. THERE’S A SPOT IN LUZERNE CO. 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