THE STATE OF GERMANY.

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1916, Page 1

THE STATE OF GERMANY.

A KKAi.McKABI.E INDICTMENT.

WRIT TEX BY A GERMAN.

A.!i astonishing uncens-ored pamphlet has just reached me frOm Germany ihh.vs .Mr F. W. Wile). It is j■■.::..-•.! •■;;o:;u;i!i People, Wake Up!" it; on -.si; tuduig revelation, among ,ii.:i;>, is liiai up to the end of last .-,rri;.j; ili-, ;aauy's total casualties in ■:ii;._.-i, wounded, aiid prisoners were :o. hj-0.-er iiian ."),000,000. In addi,.ii>:i, it is declared that the trenches •r.'.;:;i;.ed 1,r>00.000 men suffering \iir!ous forms of obnoxious 'i',w anchor of this sensational exposure i.s Dr. Hermann Rosemeier, until September 10] \, one of the editors of tlk' "lierliner Morgenpost ' ("Berlin Morning Post"). Tiit' sub-title of his preachment is Aii Open Letter to the Citizens and ,V •-. ::i!.p.iv.f-n of Germany." It begins ■y'<'.\ a chap'.,-r called "What is the ,'■.",:;■ :'.::■:■ t:■!'.;?" —significant indication :!);•' *';:.■ que-uion Germans are now ,i.-/-::!r. "is the game worth the can- ..-■:-■':' Kosemcier's disclosure of the •,)■.:.;- : ■.■;..',":. Ed fraud which the Gerii 1 .::!! fiiivernmr-nt is practising in tin. :le:--c;-iji)at;ng lohkob is crushing in rhi' fxwoiiie. Addressing the peo,)'.i.' he ask.-.: Do you know how colossal r- , ;li" i>! x:uy losses which the Ger->::-:i !';■;:.;n has had to suffer thus far ■.luring the war? They are carefully ,:o: =-.ja;e(l. Oire punishment awaits anyl.'ody who would dare to add up and publish the, totals of the 14,000 nil 1.".,!,()!> pa~es of casualty lists al•eai'y publ'slied. ']•')!• many months past the casualty lists jiave contained no dates or places ■lesr-rihing whcli nud where such and such losses occurred. The losses in various battles are distributed :hi\nighovit dozens of lists in order to deceive even those persons who have ■■me and inclination to poie through he gigantic pile to ivliich our awful ■leatli-i'oll hpii now swollen. While the milit.-ry anthorif'es swank about with :':mta-!k' figures of 'captured prisoners,' they are damnably careful to ■ (-.' that ;i;e number of our own men ako'i prisoners by the enemy is not illow.:d io assumo too large propor-io:-s in tire German official casualty : isls.

"i'/at all these tricks are unavailing. !n \veH-i:;for!).:cd circles the truth is •mown, and the German people should 'earn it. One and a-quarter million ■ol<lier;s, at least, have been . killed. Ye have lost about 750,000 in prison. ■;-.-■. ./esci'tcrs and 'missing' men. rile re are a ■■our 3,000,000 wounded, of vh->;n :iboiir, 1,000,000 are condemned r> and incurable incapacity. That is the bloody .balance of •.he w.nr to date. Of the sick we say Piov.h!ng. Their number is entirely "nr.';i]?ulable. But it is certainly •-normous. Serious people (medical !i>:n of r-?'.)".ir.e among them) estimate 'io unm'.ter of ?oldiers suffering from ■y:>i:il:t? :it ]~")00,000 alone. It may o :"iat r.hls terrible figure is exag..l'.u;:!. But th'it syphilis and other .■?:■ infectious maladies are ■anting awful havoc in the trenches .s bt'.vo'icl f,'! doubt. ■■V-'hil I'v.'.ccc.nbiible misery is con<.\v.\--.\ in tbose staggering figures! ■",;:■>• !:i:r "i-.-lls of thousands of wid v,v; :.v-l :u:.;]y millions of orphaned jhi'd'V'i, tii-iusands upon thousands- •<;' ,)':i! ]r.r:Lhers, broken men who have '.ost •<':,■■■ '.;o : :e of their old age and ' e : r £ir>;>o v tF, the'r towers of ;i !■»■::-Ji!i. (i-si'irired families, destroy. .] t, and what not! And ]> i> the r.niuuless cripples hobbling i , :-:)!-.:, i'.iin.'l. who will never again ".- i , '>■:':: i-uvs.-'iinp; r!eaf, whom shell ;• >•' ];■■>< r;>')bef! cf their hearing fo" - ---■■.-!■•: : •::• :;i'). i'r.?m whom the power of ■■•';v"h 'u-'r been the mad, who ;'.■■:<:::V- ; ;':nbU oir insane asylums '•y tie t'.io'.isHdd, an:l will continue to Vi f? in :!:er:iiess!y increasing de- ■ vee!