SUPPRESSED GERMAN PAPER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2281, 15 October 1914, Page 6

SUPPRESSED GERMAN PAPER

. WHAT IT SAID. In viow of the recent suppression of the' Gorman Socialist paper, "V° r ; waerts," it is interesting to read that in a leading article-headed "Our Ene- . tnies," on August 23, that paper pro-r tested against tho inhuman treatment; advocated hy certain military journals in Germany against tho civil population in Belgium and France, who aro attacking the invading army. „' ' • • It would seem that the German Press was circulating numerous harrowing , stories of alleged atrocities committed on Gorman troops by civilians in the two countries named, and that this supplied certain newspapers with a pretext for clamouring tor retaliation. Tho "Vorwaerts" first pointed out how littlo the stories could bo relied on. since they all came second or third hand, or wcro written under excitement. Then it says: "Nor mnst wo forget that in every peasant man and woman who is shooting at our troops from behind there lies tho sentiment that ho is defending his home and chattels. AVo refer to the law of April 21 1813, obviously still in force in connection with tho Prussian Landsturm. According to it, if tho Landsturm is ' called out it has to wago a struggle for tho national dofenco in which all means aro allowed. The missions of tha Landsturm,. says'the law, are to bur invasion and' the withdrawal of tha enemy; to keep him always on the run: to capture ammunition, food, and troops; to dostroy his Hospitals; \ to carry out nightly attacks upon him. And the law expressly prescribes that the Landsturm should wca- no uniform,. ns this would rondcr it more easily discernible." Tho Socialist paper warned the German pooplo. against "putting our struggle m a wrong light in the eyes of tho world," and called ' upon tho members of tho working class fighting : at.tho front to remember "their brethren on tho other side, and to behave toward .them in a chivalrous manner." . Suft'orers of indigestion, obesity, sprains, illnesses, and operations should.read an advertisement in this issue inserted by Mr. J. \V. M. Harrison, masseur, Cuba Street.