WHO ARE THE HUNS?

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treacherous murder or mutilation, the slaughter of defenseless
enemies, the refusal of pardon, the abuse of military insignia,
uniforms, robbery, theft, etc.) have been ignored by this colored
riff-raff.
There is therefore only an apparent gap in the laws of the
nations as applicable to these instances. The employment of
savage subject nations as auxiliaries, whose customs make it
certain that they are bound to ignore and disregard the rules
of warfare as established between civilized peoples and the most
ancient customs thereof, is in reality a gross transgression of
the agreements of 1899 and 1907! But what regard is paid
today to international law by England, that land which proclaims
itself "the defender of treaties" or in France, the self-styled
"grande nation?" 1
It is to be hoped that these rascals will be put among the
Englishmen and Frenchmen as prisoners of war. When this
proposal was made in Germany, in order to cool the enthusiasm
of the French and British, there were renewed indignant yells
about the "barbarism" of the Germans. It is difficult to say
whether one ought to laugh—or, giving way to another
human function to which an appeal is here made—to weep
bitter tears!
These wild tribes are good enough to serve the English
purpose in being let loose upon honest German troops and in
committing the most horrible cruelties upon them, as was the
case in 1870. And yet these "comrades-in-arms" over whom the
French women gush, and whom the French and English press
flatter by describing them as "terrible," are, of course, not good
enough to be fellow-prisoners in the internment camps—that
is something that is just a trifle too "barbaric" for the pioneers
x That all these miserable tribes are fighting for England against their
will is easily understood, so far as Mohammedans are concerned since the
proclamation of the "Holy War." But that the Hindoos are of the same mind
is proved by the following announcement of the Hindoo Committee of San
Francisco in the American newspapers:
"England has compelled the Indian princes to contribute vast sums
to the costs of war. It has forced the native soldiers to take up arms against
Germany. It is a lie that India feels any enthusiasm for England's cause;
and only the barbaric measures of war prevent the Indian people from expressing
their real sympathy for the German nation."