Some of the victims of this ill-treatment in giving their
evidence described the occasional kind treatment they received from doctors and officers, but these acts of kindness seem like pin-points of light in a black dungeon. There is nothing to say or to do now except to resolve that so far as possible the fiends who were responsible for all this ghastly callousness and cruelty shall be brought to book. It is useless to argue with such people in the language of international custom or law in the hope of persuading them to better ways. Only very personal and material arguments make any impression on them. That is to say, they must be thoroughly and finally beaten in the war in order that they may learn that wickedness and inhumanity do not pay ; and ultimately they must learn that crimes hill be sternly visited on the authors of them.
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