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WHO IS A HUN: AND WHY?
Attila styled himself as the scourge which God had
chosen to chastise the human race. He was idolized by
his barbarian hordes. They believed in his supreme des
tiny. Their ambition was but the complement to his am
bition, namely, to wield without mercy the forces of cruel
tv, that he might dominate the world and they share in the
spoils of victory. More than 1500 years elapsed from the
downfall of the first Hun leader, who made that name a
synonym of terror, to the rise of the second Hun leader,
Frederick Wilhelm Hohenzollern, king of Prussia and
emporor of Germany.
In the course of that 1500 years a new civilization
was born. Slowly; painfully: in blood and tears; by hero
ism; by lofty inspiration; by unmeasured and immeasura
ble thought and toil: by devoted self-sacrifice; by exalted
idealism; by the best which the heart and brain of man
kind had to offer, that civilization was molded and develop
ed, until it l)egan to promise the millennial fruits of which
prophets dreamed and poets sang.
The world, basking, as it were, in the glory of this
promise, and the mind of man universally and steadfastly
bent on l>etterment of the race, the modern Hun enters
upon the scene, and with cold, calculating and scientific
savagery, essays either to master or destroy the civiliza
tion of his time, as Attila sought to master or destroy Ro
man civilization.
Except for the outline, history has been kind to the
Hun of the fifth century. Concerning him, it has left us
no bill of particulars. But through him destructiveness,
devastation, inhumanism were given an interpretation
and emphasis they never had liefore. These terms, as they
could be made applicable to national .policies and radical
characteristics, were all expressed in their highest power
under that single word of three letters—Hun.
Wilhelm, of the family of Hohenzollern, his Prussian
following and his deluded people have richly earned suc
cession to that name. They have written into history a
'•ecord of atrocity which, in the passing of generations
mankind probably will forgive, but will never forget.
They have not done this by wanton impulse, but by delib
erate choice and scientific plan.
Frightfulness was not an afterthought to the German
imperial declaration of war in August 1914. Years be
fore it had been calmly thought out and set down in the
manual of the German armv officer. Years before the
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seeds of it had been sown in the (Jerman universities cul
tivated in every German school—not the thing itself, not
the fruit when it began to develop to practical form; that
was left to the ripening process of military training.
It is the testimony of an investigator ot Belgian out
rages, from the Hague, that he never heard of an authen
ticated case of brutal assault upon Belgian women, but it
was committed bv a German officer. Doubtless there
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were drunken German officers; but drunkenness nor any
other vice transcends the discipline of the German army.
This hell-work, executed for the most part by those who
would be named, in common pharase, as the flower of Ger
man manhood, the highest product of Prussian civiliza
tion, was within the studied intent and purpose of that
discipline.
Why? Because this modern Hun, emphasizing his i
ferocity by the cold logic of materialism decided that j
frightfulness would deter the people of neutral Holland
and the neutral Scandinavians from following the course
that Belgium took. In his war philosophy there is no thot
of conscience. To his mind, to talk or think of pity is on
ly to indulge the drivelling sentimentality of fools and of
weaklings who deserve to perish—who are destined either
to serve the civilization of the Prussian superman, or be
crushed.
To the fullest particular, and amplified by the more j
diabolical cruelty which the human mind, guided by a sa
turnine devotion to science and untouched by conscience
can devise, the Hun credentials of Wilhelm, his Prussian
following and his deluded people are complete, even to the j
jurat which history already has placed upon them.
Yet one wonders that there is not sufficient German
conscience and German sanity effectually to put the ques- j
tion: Why the Hun?
It is the greatest historical anomaly 01 all time, tnat
the German mind, tracing is genesis to the well-springs ot
human freedom and trained to such exactitude—to the hah
it of straight thinking—should be so utterly deluded with
regard to this fact and its cause. To get entirely to the
core of the matter requires no long, polemical discussion.
In fact, the Prussian chamber of lords did that very thing
the other day in less than 250 words.
There was a resolution adopted by that body which
read: “The chamber of lords firmly hopes that when
peace is concluded the government will see that the rights
of the emperor of Germany are safeguarded.” Accom
panying that resolution was this commentary: “The
President of the United States has asked if the German
negotiations at Brest-Litovsk are in the name of the ma
jority of the reichstag, or in the name of the military
party. For our part, we affirm that it is the German em
peror who in the terms of the constitution has the exclus
ive right to make war and peace.”
Therein have we the Alpha and Omega of the situa
tion which accounts for the modern Hun.
ARTILLERY OF
FRENCH GIVEN
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PRAISE BY HUN
FRENCH FRONT, Feb. V. — Gen
eral Ludendorff regarded by the En
tente Allies as the master-mind of the
German army, pays an unintentional
compliment to the accuracy of French
artillerymen in a memorandum issued
to the troops, which has just been
made available to the correspondent
of the Associated Press.
In this document he admits that the
French gunners by their counter-bat
tery lire destroyed in one German
army alone in the course of a month
eighty-three German field guns and
’seventy-two heavy cannon, while they
seriously damaged and put out of ac
tion also 282 field guns and 213 heavy
cannon, as well as ninety-one field
guns and fifty-nine heavy cannon
slightly injured but capable of being
repaired and used again in a short
time.
To these imposing figures of artil
lery losses caused by the French gun
ners, the same Gentian army in the
same period of time had the mortifi
cation of adding an almost equally
large number of losses brought about
by the wearing out or bursting of
guns. In this way seventy-three field
guns and twenty one heavy cannon
were destroyed; 1G4 field guns and 12!)
heavy guns seriously damaged and
177 field-guns and ninety-one heavy
guns slightly disabled.
The memorandum was issued to the
Geiman army by General LudendorlT
because his artillery officers had ar
gued repeatedly in favor of making
counter-battery work secondary to at
tacks on infantry and communica
tions. They asserted the French ar
tillery directed their guns more gen
erally against the German infantry
than against the artillery batteries.
The figures collated by the German
general demonstrate the falsity of
this argument and show the French
determination to prevent the Geiman
guns, as far as possible, from being
used against the French infantry and
lines of communication and supply,
and that they do this successfully.
General LudendorlT in concluding
his memorandum points out that by
counter-battery work not only is the
enemy’s artillery destroyed or put out
of action, but the opponent is forced
to a considerable extent to turn his
attention away from the doings of the
enemy’s infantry which is thus able
to maneuvre with greater ease.
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NAVAL TRAINING CAMP|
CHICAGO, Feb. 8. — Cap William]
A. Moffett, commandant at the Groat,
Lakes Naval Training Station. n*cciv-|
od orders yesterday to cuC down the
population of the station to 18.000
men to safeguard health condition*.
The station ha* a present population
of between 25,00f and 30,000.
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Meet m« at the Branch. tf.
SURPRISE GEORGE COLWELL
George Colwell was agreeably sur
prised last night at the home of the
Leslies, bf a score of the young peo
ple of Seward. Today Mr. Colwell
passes another milestone in his life
i and the surprise last night was a re
i minder of this fact. A delightful
evening was passed by the surprisers
and the sui prised.
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TURN OVER $117.
The Girl's Hiking club chared .ill?
at the dance last Saturday l.ivht for
the benefit of the iocal chapter of the
Red Cross and this amount Ins been
turned over to the trea.su. ?i of the
chapter.
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO
OWNERS
To GEORGE R. KING and DAVE
BAUMAN, and to their, and each!
of their heirs and assigns:
1 You, and each of you, are hereby
j notified that during the years ending
! December 31, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912,;
\ 1913, 1914, 1915, 191b, and 1917, the
undersigned has expended more than
I One Hundred Dollars in each of said.
; years, or a total of $900.00, in labor
and improvements upon the Social
Group sulphur placer mining claim,,
I situate on Makuskan Mountain, Una
laska mining district, district of Alas
ka, in which mining location you, the
said George R. King claim an undiv
ided one-eighth (1-8) interest, and
you, the said Dave Bauman claim an
undivided one sixteenth (1-10) inter
est, as shown by notice of location
thereof and deeds of conveyance of
said interest of record in the record
ing office of the aforesaid mining dis
trict. The said labor was performed
as and for the representation of said
claim for the years as aforesaid, as
required by the laws of the United
States and district of Alaska concern
I ing annual labor upon mining claims
and the same was the amount requir
ed to hold said claim for said years.
' The amount required for each of said
years being the sum of One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00).
i You are further notified that un
1 less within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
contribute your proportionate share
of said expenditures, as such co-own
ers, to wit: You, the said George R.
King, the sum of $112.50, being your
, proportionate share of said represen-1
tation for the years ending as afore- j
; said; and you, the said Dave Bau
: man, the sum of $56.25, being youi
proportionate share of said lepreseo
tation for the years ending as afore- j
said, your interest in said claim will
be forfeited to the undersigned co
owner, who lias made such expendi
tures and will become his property in
the manner provided by law.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this
fifteenth dav of December, 1917.
FRANK MEERWAL.PT
Co-Owner.
Date of publication Dec. 24th, 1917 to
March 25, 1918.
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