“_You must leave the people through whom you march only their eyes
to weep with._”
It was also the Kaiser who said, addressing his soldiers, “You must only
have one will, and it is mine; there is only one law, and it is mine.”
And then again, I repeat, it was a Berlin wireless that flashed the
official message:--
“The only means of preventing surprise attacks from the civil
population has been to interfere with unrelenting severity and to
create examples which by their frightfulness would be a warning to
the whole country.”
Need we seek further to fix the responsibility?
War Rights.
What are the rights of nations in a state of war? There are first of all
the unwritten laws of nations and humanity which need, or should need,
no defining amongst civilized peoples. There are also the definite and
specific Acts laid down at The Hague Convention, which it was declared
by the signatories would not be legitimate in war between civilized
nations. Germany was a signatory to The Hague Convention. At this
Convention the Powers limited the rights of belligerents in the means to
be adopted of injuring the enemy. Here are some of them:--