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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25
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able. We nony of outsiders. We need German soldiers proclamations and the photographs of the dead and the They have destroyed private property and desolated the country that they have occupied—even while prating about the knows r program doubts for a moment with official plans for the very ing it impossible for a desolated land to be their competitors in the future. "Anybody who knows the present state of things in Belgian industry will agree with me," says Deputy Beumer of the Prussian Diet, "that it must take at least some yean assuming that Belgium is independent at all—before Belgium And can even think of competing witn us in tne world market, anybody who has traveled, as I have done, through the pied districts of France, will agree with me that so mucr. age has been done to industrial property that no one n < a prophet in order to say that it will take more than ten before we need think of France as a competitor or of t industry." Here Germans wrought in the occupied territory Again, contrary to international law and the custom of war, they have resorted to the practices of the Middle Ages by imposing fines on conquered and occupied cities. They have violated the treaties of generations, the conduct of honorable soldiers, the law of nations, and the tenets of modern civilization by seizing hostages, making them responsible for the acts of other people, and murdering them to suit their pleasure. They have violated military law by killing unofficial civilians. They have violated military law, international law, their own specific pledges, and the law of humanity, by using civilians, including even women and children, as screens before their advancing soldiers in battle. They have outraged the conscience of the world, violated international agreement and set civilization back, by restoring slavery through the deporta24 ll
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