7 FEBRUARY 1920, Page 1
A trial is also important from the military point of
view. Every war begins where the last left off. A judicial condem- nation of the criminals would rehabilitate much more surely and more promptly than any other method that is now open to us the laws and customs of war which were so flagrantly violated by the Germans. We fear that if there be no trial, poisonous gas, for instance, will be used in tha next war on no better ground than that there is a precedent because it was used in the last war.
