Chapter IV Military Reprisals
International law on legitimate reprisals
The Brussels Conference on the subject
Illustrations of barbarous reprisals
Instances of non-retaliation
Savage reprisals in days of chivalry
Hanging the commonest reprisals for a brave defence
As illustrated by the warfare of the fifteenth century
Survival of the custom to our own times
The massacre of a conquered garrison still a law of war
The shelling of Strasburg by the Germans
Brutal warfare of Alexander the Great
The connection between bravery and cruelty
The abolition of slavery in its effects on war
The storming of Magdeburg, Brescia, and Rome
Cicero on Roman warfare
The reprisals of the Germans in France in 1870
Their revival of the custom of taking hostages
Their resort to robbery as a plea of reprisals
General Von Moltke on perpetual peace
The moral responsibility of the military profession
The Press as a potent cause of war
Plea for the abolition of demands for unconditional surrender
Such as led to the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882