Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1918 — WHAT BAKER THINKS OF GERMAN TACTICS [ARTICLE]

WHAT BAKER THINKS OF GERMAN TACTICS

Paris, March 12.—Secretary Baker today made the following statement concerning Monday night’s air raid on Paris: “It was my first experience of the actualities of war and a revelation of the methods inaugurated by an enemy who wages the same war against women and children as against soldiers. “If his objects are to damage property the results are trifling when compared with his efforts. If his objects are to weaken the peoples’ morale, the reply is given by the superb conduct of the people -of Paris. “Moreover, aerial raids on towns, which are counterpart of the pitiless submarine warfare and the attacks against American rights, are the very explanation of the reason why America entered the war. We are sending our soldiers to Europe to fight until the world is delivered from there horrors.”