. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . icans honor those farmers aspatriots, and the Belgians who de-fended their homes as best theycould, without waiting for red-tapeformalities, seem to us worthy of thesame honor.* ?Emphasized in bold type by thepublisher of War Echoes in orderto call the readers attention to TheChicago Tribunes editorial: Cruel-ty and Inhumanity, reprinted in fullon this page. The Tribune takesthe opposite view from the ChicagoHerald. Unbiased Americans willknow how to judge for themselvesas to which of the two powerfuldailies is right.—Editor. It may be al
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . icans honor those farmers aspatriots, and the Belgians who de-fended their homes as best theycould, without waiting for red-tapeformalities, seem to us worthy of thesame honor.* ?Emphasized in bold type by thepublisher of War Echoes in orderto call the readers attention to TheChicago Tribunes editorial: Cruel-ty and Inhumanity, reprinted in fullon this page. The Tribune takesthe opposite view from the ChicagoHerald. Unbiased Americans willknow how to judge for themselvesas to which of the two powerfuldailies is right.—Editor. It may be all right for TheWorlds Greatest Newspapers towrite sanctimonious editorials andthen print without comment cable-grams such as the one printed onSeptember 14. We are told in thatthat a British officer had caught aGerman Uhlan officer in the act ofcutting off both breasts of a poorBelgian girl. The cablegram is re-printed in full on another page underthe heading. In the words of TheTribune, we presume that if GreatBritain has gone to war cold, it can. ©eneialinfpelteut bei VII. HERMANN VON EICHHORNGeneral Inspector of the Seventh Army(By Courtesy of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung) be aroused to what is regarded as afighting spirit by tales of cruelties in-flicted upon its innocent countrymen,in the present war, its allies. But in-asmuch as the United States is atpeace with Germany, and its citizensdo not have to be aroused to whatis regarded as a fighting spirit bytales. of cruelties in order to helptake the chestnuts out of the fire forGreat Britain, we believe, it is notout of place to call The Tribunesattention to part of a letter it re-ceived from one of its readers andwhich it printed in its Voice of thePeople column on August 24. Theletter, which we reprint in full in thisbook, says in part: * ?* * But I am convincedthat every true American, regardlessof the land of his birth, would con-demn any sneaky reports or lieswhich are submitted from unscrupu-lous s
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