TWO WAYS OF WAGING WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4899, 19 June 1918, Page 7

TWO WAYS OF WAGING WAR.

THE AMERICAN WAY IN 1863. v

1 "The commanding general considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of barbarons outrages upon the innocent and defenceless, and the wanton destruction of private property. The commanding general, therefore, earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain with most scrupulous care from_ unnecessary or wanton injury to private properties, and he enjoins upon all officers to arrest anti! bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on this ject.”Geperai Robert E. 'Lee, in general order to the army, issued on the ©vo of his invasion of Pennsylvania, 27th June, 1863. N .GERMAN lOJLTUR IN 1914.

"Prince Eitel brought in great waggons and moved to the freight oars afc the station absolutely every object that'was in the splendid chateau. And having promised to leave the

building uninjured, he stopped his car at the entrance and exit gates of the grounds ran back to the historic buildwith a can of oil that he hiad secreted. fired the asbestos in a ball of perforated! iron ; ran through the balls and waited until the flames were.well in'progress, and then ordered his men to light the fuse of a dynamite,bomb.’ The one—plain American citizen. The other—Prussian aristocrat, son of the All Highest. Noblesse Oblige.’ ' J