But even if it were found that there were two
or three thousand war-worthy men among them, can it be suggested that, with a German Army consisting of six or seven millions of fighting men, this tiny addition would turn the scale ? To put it in another way, if we must treat the matter on the balance-sheet method, can any one believe that the interned Germans would be worth their keep to Germany ? We prefer, however, to treat the subject not as one of calculation but as one of right. As we have said before, it is to us barbarous, and therefore odious in the extreme, to let a man's fate depend upon the fact whether on a certain day in August, 1914, he failed or succeeded in catching a particular train sr steamer. The only true and humane plan in war would be to transport, as soon as it was possible to do so, your alien enemies to some neutral country, and then leave them to find their own way back to their country of origin.
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