BOOK ON WAR HORRORS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 12

BOOK ON WAR HORRORS

SUPPRESSED BY THE KAISER. "So vividly are the horrors of modern warfare depicted in 'The Human Slaughterhouse,' by Wilhelm Lamgzuß, that the Kaiser, fearful lest Germany's spirit of militarism should be undermined, has prohibited the Bale of the book within the Empire," says the Clarion, "and the Crown Prince himself has written and published an antidote in the form of a handsome volume, setting forth in eloquent phrases and glowing pictures the charms of a soldier^ life. "Although Mr. Lamszus's book was suppressed within three months of its date of publication, it has already circulated to the extent of a hundred thousand copies, and is still continuing its career beyond ;the v German boundaries. The, author was further reproved by removal from his post as a master in one of the great German public schools, but he has since been reinstated. Modern conditions, argues Hr. Lamszus, have reduced war to an inhuman conflict between _ man and machinery, thereby stripping it of its glory, and terribly increasing its horror. As a foreword to the English edition puts it, 'the romance and glamour of warfare in the past are grinning lies when transferred to latterday warfare, where long-drawn fronts of flesh and blood are opposed to machines of precision and the triumphs of the chemical laboratory.' The book takes a soldier through a campaign."