JUSTICE FOR THE BELCIANS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 8

JUSTICE FOR THE BELCIANS.

Sir, —Your leading article, "The Uttermost Farthing," all right-thinking men and women will agree with, but does not justice demand that something more than a mere, monetary payment should be exacted from the German nation? I mean that in view of the un-heard-of atrocities and n.urders which have been, and are still being; committed in Belgium and .elsewhere by '. the German soldiers and sailors, the terms of peace should, insist that the Allies shall i-have the right to bring to trial' all those, no matter how exalted their rank, who are responsible for anything which has been done beyond the ordinary usages of civilised warfare, and in order to attain this end the personnel of one or more tribunals to be set up 'for the purpose might be decided on by the Allies as soon as possible, so that at tho close of the war the offenders may speedily be brought to justice. As. this; is no ordinary. war. spccial measures should be taken sc that the Kaiser and the military caste may not escape the punishments due to them. If the Imperial voice is to be heard, then possibly our Prime Minister, in conjunction with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, might take this matter up andi urge it on tho Imperial Government.—l am, etc.