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The Exeter Times, 1919-4-3, Page 3of H01�5' VVAAtES COMMISSION ON RESPONSIBIL- ITY FOR THE WAR Sub -Committee Careful to Point Out That This List Does Not Exhaust Record of Enemy's Crimes. Here is the list of the thirty-one varieties of crime committed by the enemy countries during the war, as classified by the sub -committee on fact appointed by the commission on i • responsibilities for the war: Massacre of civilians. Putting to death of hostages,, Torture of civilians. Starvation of civilians. , Violation of women. Abduction of girls and women for the purpose of enforced degradation. Deportation of civilians. Internment of civilians under bru- tal conditions. Forced labor of civilians in con- nection with military operations. Enemy usurpation of sovereignty during military occupation. Compulsory enlistment of soldiers among inhabitants of occupied terri- tory. Pillage, Confiscation of property. Exaction of illegitimate or exorbi- tant contributions and requisitions. Debasement of currency and issue of spurious currency. Imposition of collective penalties. Wanton devastation and destruc- tion of property. Bombardment of undefended places. Wanton destruction of religious, charitable, educational and historic buildings and monuments. Destruction of.. merchant ships and passenger vessels without %warning. Destruction of fishing boats. Destruction of, a relief ship. Bombardment of hospitals. Attack on and destruction of hos- pital ships. Breach of other rules relating to the Red Cross. Use of deleterS.aus and asphyxk f_ ing gases. Use of explosive and expanding bullets. Directions to give no quarter. Ill treatment of prisoners. Misuse of flags of truce. Poisoning of wells. Eyen this 'list, as the sub -commit- tee takes pains to point out, does riot exhaust the record of the enemy's crimes, and it recommends the ap- pJ pointment of some standing body for the purpose of collecting and system- atizing further information with the view of laying before a tribunal or tribunalsto be set up a comprehen- sive list of charges and accused per- sons. - Heavy Punishment Urged. In the commission of responsibili- ties as a whole, more perhaps than in any other commission, differences of tendency are apparent. While some energetic people take common sense as the guiding star, there are others who are unable to get away from legal precedent, unable to see that war may even have rendered. out of date all tihe ideas of their sacred • temple. It may be said that the first drafts of at least two of the sub -committees were not by any means satisfactory as to the punishment of those chiefly responsible for the war, whiich, it was suggested, would be satisfactor- ilymeted outif a parliament of the p r nt world were to pass a resolution de- claring theGerman Emperor was not a jolly good fellow. Those drafts are being recon.§idered, and the British, at Ieast, are doing their utmost to bring the ex -Kaiser to book, together with other chief offenders, Army Mascots. What is to happen to the amazing menagerie of regimental mascots that have accompanied our troops_ti reegh-• out the varying fortunes .of war? writes a British correspondent. There is a formidable list. The monkeys of the Signal Section, the hyena of the West Surreys, the goose of the W.A. A.C.'s, the tame rats, kittens, pigs, rats, ferrets and mongooses, parrots, foxes, rams, ibex and cage birds. A certain military policeman at Bou- logne, engaged in the usual examina- tion of the kits of five men for con- traband goods, had the time of his'1ife. He broke. open a carefully -wrap- ped parcel and out fell three snakes. They had been captured by the Royal Engineers in Mormal Forest a few clays before the Armistice. We live not by what we eat, but by what we digest, and what one man digests another would die in at- tempting. Rules on this subject are almost useless. Each man can soon learn the powers of 'his stomach, in health or disease; He has no more- business orebusiness to bring on, indigestion than he has to get intoxicated or fall into debt. He who offendson these "points deserves to forfeit stomach, head and his electoral franchise. Generally speaking! at and spices resist tihe digestive power, and too much nu- 4,ritious food is next evil to too little, Good cookery, by developing flavor, increases the nuteitiousn'ess of food which bad cookery would perhaps render indigestible. Hence a good cook rises to the dignity of "artist," And may rank with the chemist, if not with the physician, FLA5 IS. A GREW OUT OF THE RELIGIOUS ELEMEN`r iN THE MIND,. • .It Epitotraizes the Birth, the Growth ( and U'Itimate Supremacy of the Highest Conceptions of Man. Tho religion of the fiag! Who ever thinks that a flag is one of the most religious things he has seen? What is a flag anyway? How few know. Like most familiar things, a flag is taken. for granted. In the.first place, a flag is a sign, 'and as such is as old as human speech. But what interests us most is that the flag symbol grew out of the re- ligious element in the human mind. The more civilized nations of an- tiquity took their emblems of the state directly from the religion of the state. The standards under which the king marshaled his subjects and led then to battle were representations of the national deities or the symbols of their attributes. In the Oid Testament. In the wilderness the children of Israel were ordered to "pitch their tents, every pian by his own standard, with the ensign of his.father's house, round about the tabernacle of the con- gregation." 'Presumably the Hebrew ensigns resembled the Egyptian; wooden or metal tablets set upon lances, for the Hebrew word for stand- ard means a thing which shines from afar. Have you ever wondered why red is in nearly all flags?. It is there to tell the pathetic story of man's noble ef- fort to bring his life into harmony with the moral order of the universe. It speaks of his persistent sense of the need of superhuman power and of his heroic willingness in his unequal con- flict with hostile elements and over- whelming foes to pay any price to en- list the intervention of the deity. It is asserted that the waving flag was first used in the East, and that it was red. Do you know the old Per- sian legend pf Shah Dahak, who reigned nearly' 4,000 years ago? He was a monster of disease and cruelty. Each day of his wretched life he had slaughtered two men in order to apply their warm brains.. to his .suffering body. This fate at length fell to the two sons of a smith named Kaoh. At the sight of his mangled boys he tore off his leather apron, dipped it in their blood and, making a standard of it, rallied the people and defeated Dahak. In this way the smith's crimsoned apron became the national flag of Per- sia. Banners of the Crusaders. - Even the rectangular shape, now so universally given to flags, was reli- gious in its origin. The oriflamnie, the ancient royal standard of France —a red flag borne on a gilded lance— was no doubt suggested to the Cru- saders by the waving banners of t 'e Saracens: But here is the interest- ing thing: The banners of the soldier in the Bayeux tapestry and elsewhere depicted are three -pointed streamers. In the-Agnus Dei (a figure of a lamb bearing a cross or a flag), as in all early representations of the descent of Christ into Sheol and the resurrec- tion, the Saviour holds a three -pointed banner surmounted by a cross . Hence it is inferred that the banner of the Crusaders had a religious origin and an allusive religious symbolism. Here it is. The peace of the Church was during the first six centuries dis- turbed by nearly 100 heresies, most of them impugning the doctrine of the Trinity. These, ,doubtless, assisted the rapid progress of the Moslem faith, of which a belief in the "unity of God" Cad -�C a' \4 t elicious Mixture of Wheat C Barley l�lr hedlthvaI.ue, sound nourish - men+, and a sweet nu€ like flavor xrnpos - sible in atpro— duc t made of wheat lane, eat irajpe:Nu rND ueZMSZ t,0.2-026 formed the carnerstone. and" the suc- cess of the Arab arcus, whiGb, between 9. the seventh and tenth .centur es, near- ly swept Christianity $rent;Aafa and Africa, threatening also its safety in. Europe, Symbols of the Church. To oppose the doctrine of Mohaln- med, the Christian Church adopted numerous symbols and emblems, U1 bearing allusion to the Trinity. The cross was, indeed, the acknowledged einblern of Christianity. But in this conflict the cross was .not distinctive enough, The reason for this was that the Moslems held our Saviour in high re- verence as the greatest of the inspired prophets before the time of Moham- med. They incorporated many of His benign precepts into the Koran. They were well acquainted with the events of His life and the manner of His death. For these reasons the cross, the instrument of His matyrdom, would be a symbol much less obnox- ious and less defiant than other Chris- tian symbols, Those, like the three - pointed pennant, while asserting the doctrine of the Trinity. struck direct- ly at the very foundation of the Mos- lem faith, and this was exactly what the Church intended, So .it is quite clear that the triple -pointed. pennon was adopted by the western wa raiors as a practical declaration of theiik-rce- ligious creed. We have not yet the rectangular flag, but it is a. short step to it. Out of the Crusades grew chivalry, which wa the last stage in the evolution of th full-fledged flag of modern times When for'any valiant exploit a knig was advanced to the more honorabl rank of banneret or baronet, the kin or his general, on the field of battle caused the pointed ends to be cu from the knight's pennon, which thu became a square or rectangular flag He was then called a knight of th square flag. After his advancemen he did not throw away the thre pointed ends, but cherished them a honorable badges proving his shar in the danger and glory of a crusade Though removed from the banner un der which he had led his vassals i the field, he sewed them on the breas or sleeve of his tunic, or depicts them on his shield, making them on of the earliest "honorable ordinaries' of true heraldry. What the Flag Stands For. Hence when a flag is unfurled we behold more than a flimsy, fickle in strumex t, more than "a bit of re rag." It epitomizes in the most si ple and at the same time the mos beautiful symbol the primitive birt and race -long growth and ultimate su promacy of the highest and most per- sistent conceptions of man. It re- minds us of a humanity, in the ever- increasing complexity of its relations and reactions, endeavoring to make articulate and practical its' inchoate religious and social consciousness. It pays eloquent tribute to that great crimson stream of suffering and sacri- fice which has flowed from the always struggling and oft -bleeding heart of mankind, 'upon whose broad and ir- restible tide there is borne to the farthest shores and the last genera- tion the total of vicarious good and cumulative racial ideals. A flag re- asserts the basic fact of the insoluble religious instinct. BRITISH WAR HELMET One of the Successes of' the War Was •Made Front Japanese Design. s e ht e g t s e t e s e n t d e e d m t h The steel helmet which was served out to the British soldier in 1916 is certain to find, an aiding. place in the kit and equipment of Tommy Atkins. The War Office is said to contemplate decorating and adorning it so that it will be worthy of a soldier's full- dress review order uniform in times of peace when presumably he shall be back again to the scarlet tunic and the pipe-clayed belt. The British steel helmet is one of the successes of the war. Although we were late in the field with it, our "tin hat" is better than that of the French or German. It owes itssuc- cess largely to its shape, and around that hfngs an interesting tale. When the Ministry of Munitions was considering the question of de- signing an armored headdress for the British soldier, it consulted a gentle- man who was a well known authority on mediaeval armor. He pointed out that the success of the noted makers of mailed armor in the past was in the design as much as in the sub- stance of the armor which they made. He pointed out that the art of making mailed armor was prac- ticed in Japan up to a generation ago, and that it was not improbable that in the kingdom of the Mikado • there might still survive some mas- ter of this 'ancient craft who could give a useful hint or two for the making of a shrapnel -proof helmet for the British soldier. The suggestion was immediately adopted. The British. Embassy in Tokio was communicated with by cable. 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