CHAPTER IV.
MILITARY REPRISALS.
International law on legitimate reprisals 93
The Brussels Conference on the subject 95
Illustrations of barbarous reprisals 97
Instances of non-retaliation 98
Savage reprisals in days of chivalry 100
Hanging the commonest reprisals for a brave defence 101
As illustrated by the warfare of the fifteenth century 102
Survival of the custom to our own times 104
The massacre of a conquered garrison still a law of war 105
The shelling of Strasburg by the Germans 106
Brutal warfare of Alexander the Great 107
The connection between bravery and cruelty 110
The abolition of slavery in its effects on war 112
The storming of Magdeburg, Brescia, and Rome 112
Cicero on Roman warfare 114
The reprisals of the Germans in France in 1870 115
Their revival of the custom of taking hostages 117
Their resort to robbery as a plea of reprisals 118
General Von Moltke on perpetual peace 119
The moral responsibility of the military profession 121
The Press as a potent cause of war 122
Plea for the abolition of demands for unconditional surrender 123
Such as led to the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 123