The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916. UNSCRUPULOUS WARFARE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, 3 August 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916. UNSCRUPULOUS WARFARE.

For vile trickery and deception, and the utter disregard of all the laws oi' honour" and humanity, no race or nation in the world's history h& 3 ever approached the German as we know him to-day. When one as highly-plac-ed as Count Reventlow has the shameless effrontery to assort openly that Germany must now "wage unscrupulous war by every possible means," the depths have surely been reached. It does not, however, matter much what Reventlow or any other oi' his evil kind state, because Germany has already used every means of unscrupulous warfare that devildom ever thought of—and lias been defeated. Many times the wrong-doers' poor tools have been "hoist with their own petard," as in the case of the men with the liquid lire, whose end is described by a French officer. The pity of it was that the hellish stream did not consume the ones responsible for the fiendish act instead of the ignoble. brutes who merely carried out high commands. The deportation of the-. people of the lands the Huns havoj over-run is something the world ought never to forgive, and for this great wrong heavy punishment must be meted out. A great deal lias not been

made known regarding the tremendous suffering inflicted mi Poland, but a contemporary explains how by a trier: which amounted, in effect to deporta-J tion, the German authorities induced ( a number of Polish labourers to come | to Germany after the German conquest of Poland. To attract the labour of the Poles (perhaps less suspicious than the French and Belgians) Germany had recourse to a stratagem. She first starved Polish industries by seizing their raw material; then, Maying reduced the workers to want, offered them labour in Germany on what looked like fair terms. A Ger-man-edited paper in Poland urged Poles to .accept the offer, because otherwise' they would be starved in Poland; and it baited the hook with the statement that "the Polish workman in Germany enjoys the full protection of German laws on a par with his German colleague." The paper also quoted letters purporting to come from migrated Poles, including such ' statements as "in Germany agreements are sacred and must be kept." The result was a migration of indentured Polish labour into Germany, who, if is estimated, has received since the war 1*9,01)0 Poles. Hut, once in Germany, the employers departed from the agreements, and the • victims were either too illiterate and 100 cowed to resist, or else their resistance brought them trouble. Desertion of their employment makes them liable to punishment and appeals I to the Courts bring them no respite;. I | n laci, they :v-' plainly toll limy are Jii son ol (.ivilian prisoners of wnt\ I Retribution must surely be at hand. i