The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1915. CHECKING GERMAN BARBARITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 75, 31 March 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1915. CHECKING GERMAN BARBARITIES.

In a recent issue, that well-known British journal “The Nation,” appealed to the United States of America, and all other neutral nations to take joint action in regard to the charges made against Germany in relation to the conduct of the war. As the London Daily News says, Germany could not,i.resent such an inquiry without putting herself out of court,, and the mere fact that she was called upon to reply might put a check upon action in tlie future, and would do something to rehabilitate international law. It is the clear duty of the neutrals not to remain dumb in the presence of the overwhelming evidence that in this war one of the bc i lliger- j cuts has reverted to methods of har-j barism as frightful as anything done by Alva in the sixteenth century. “If these things are allowed to pass unchallenged by the neutrals they will have given their tacit sanction to the worst excesses of war and to the breach of every solemn obligation by a belligerent. Future conventions will not be worth the paper they are written on.” That is certainly a sound view of the case.