Thienes.
GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM.
New York, Nov. 4, 1914.
THE LETTER.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 1914.
Mr. George Haven Putnam.
DEAR SIR: Now that you have shown your "true" spirit of neutrality
toward Germany, would you not be kind enough to give us a similar piece
of your wisdom and describe in detail the way the Russians acted in East
Prussia during their short stay there, and how they murdered, tortured,
and assaulted women and girls, and cut children and infants to pieces
without even the provocation of "sniping"?
This, your new article in THE TIMES, I anticipate with the greatest
interest.
RUDOLF F. THIENES.
THE REPLY.
Rudolf F. Thienes, Esq.
MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 28th inst., intended as a rejoinder to a
letter recently printed by me in THE TIMES, is written under a
misapprehension in regard to one important matter.
The Americans, who are in a position to judge impartially in regard to
the issues of the war, have criticised the official acts which have
attended the devastation of Belgium, not because these acts were
committed by Germans, but because they were in themselves abominable and
contrary to precedents and to civilized standards.
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