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We ask our readers to reflect how much, after all,

has been accomplished. Though the sentences are light, Germany has indeed travelled a long way from her old militarism when the presiding judge of a German court can use such language as was used at Leipzig, and when a German general can throw over the cause of his clients at many points and speak as though the affair of Zabern had never happened. The real object of the trials from the Allies' point of view is not so much that the guilty individuals should suffer the penalty they richly deserve as that military crime, which outrages all the codes and con- ventions of war, should be dragged into the full light of publicity and be reprobated by the whole world.

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