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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-12-06, Page 12AND. . TO KEEP THESE Alic;tnded Soldiers Clubbed, Stabbed, Shot land Bombed to Death --Ambulances of '.:• Targets for Henn Shells --Ancient Deliberately D e s troy e d` Churches DJ of arced and Sacred Statues Vilified --Wholesale Butchery Amusement of Rank and File—Officers Set Men Ex- ample of Nameless Brutality and Hideous Degeneration—Trenches Full of Naked Murdered Women—Horrors of Hell Itself Outdone by Order of t h e Kaiser THE conduct of the German armies in the districts occu- pied by them in, Europe constitutes the most blistering. indictment df any nation recorded in history, Organized murder of hundreds of innocent women and children was far from being the worst of the German crimes. Full rein was given by the higher command to the degenerate impulses of men whom rigid discipline had long bereft of their finer feelings, and the consequent outrages were of so black a description that they can never be recorded for decent readers. Violation of women of all: ages was carried on both by in- dividuals and by..:.hordesnf.:brutal ,soldiers, resulting in the hor- rible death of numberless unfortunate females. Ladies of educa- tion and refinement in captured villages and towns were forced to wait upon the tables of German soldiers and officers after being stripped naked. 'Little children were impaled on the swords and bayonets of Huns and carried in triumph at the head of com- panies until the infants' hearts stopped beating, when they were pitched overhead. The looting of homes and the destruction of property sur- passed anything of this nature ever perpetrated before. Com- munities were laid:-baxe_g5•lif:by': a: cyclone, robber officers first seizing relics of art and other valuables for transportation to Germany. Throughout the reign of terror, the only chance of the in- habitants whose homes lay in the path of the German advance was in appealing to the humanity of some private soldier. Very occasionally, one of these would be found who retained same human sympathy for the wretched. OFFICERS SE's >"1Ol IBIIt .EXAMPLE. The German officers not only permitted their men un- checked license, but even by their example encouraged and abetted outrage, taking always the fairest women and girls for thernseives. Their guilt, including that of the higher command, is proved conclusively by the well-known fact that the German array is_nzore hikhly disciplined than any other in the world and could have gone through Belgium without harming a single wo- man ;or child, had, erne W Gel ian (3gye krclent's policy not called, for terrorism. It goes without saying that no rule, or international law gov- erning the conduct of war by civilized nations was respected by the Germans. • It is to keep this fiendish horde from over -running Europe and threatening our own shores that our soldiers overseas are fighting today. It is to back up our soldiers and keep the ranks full that Canadians are voting in this election. ,t501t4rE;': IIA9T8 `,;I ',1VIIaI.ES vtnoee the officer that the alleged - shooting if tt took place at all, took place in the Commune oe Cornesse and not tbat of Pepinster, whereupon the Burgomaster of Cornesse, who analysis of evidence, witnesses and was old and very deaf, was shot territory was undertaken. and much forthwlth. testimony was rejected as liable to - "In Matinee a witness saw -a Ger- be unfair or unwarranted by the man soldier cut a woman's .breast facts As a result, what remains is after ho had murdered her, and saw the more impressive many other doad bodies of women Extracts from thg•8ryxme eetert-7Yob_-� In the streets. tow? "Op.- a side road at Hofstad° the "At Nerve some- 60 raen escaping Corpse of a civilian was seen on his from the burning houses were seized, doorstep with a bayonet wound in his taken outside the town, and abet. stomach, and by his side the dead '.At Melen 40 men were shot In body of a boy of five or six with his one household the father and mother hands nearly severed. were shot, the daughter died after Two young women were lying beans repeatedly outraged, and the in the back yard of the house. One son was wounded had her breast out off, the other had "Over 200 houses were burned at been stabbed. I'$es've. while mounted men shot into "A young firman who had been hook - doors' and windows --to Prevent the et-,with^the bayonet until his entrails escape of the inhabitants. protruded.. He also hadhis hands "Visawas completely destroyed. joined, in' the attitude of prayer. Officers directed the incendiaries. "In $ampst the corpse of a than Antiques and china were removed with ,his legs cut off, who was partly from the bouses, before their des- bound was seen; also a girl of seven- truonon, by ofi'icera,,who guarded the teen. She alleged that she and other plunder revolver in hand. girls had been dragged into a field, "German soldiers gave themselves stripped naked and violated! and that up to debauohery in the streets of some of them had been killed with Liege, and on the night of August 20 the bayonet. a massacre took place in the streets. "Two ohildren were bayoneted in Longbefore the shooting a citizen Weerde as they were standing in the was warned by a• friendly German road with their mother. They were soldier not to go out that night three or four years old. A small farm "At Pepinster, two witnesses were burning close by formed a convenient seized as hostages and were threaten- means of getting rid of the bodies.. ed, together with five others, that They were thrown Into the flames unless they could discover a civilian from the bayonets, who was alleged. to have shot a sot- "At Haeoht a ohlld of three with dier in the leg, they would be shot its stomach out open by a bayonet themselves. One of the hostages con- was lying near a house." The German atln1oities in 'Belgium were carefully investigated by a Brit- ish committee presided over by Vis- count Bryce, Exhaustive study and BESTIAL VIOLATION AND MURDER their entry by firing on a crowd of 160 unarmed unresisting civiliana, 10 alone of whom escaped, Certainly most pitiable, and per- haps most horrible, if there are any degrees in horror such as this, are the reiterated stories of the wanton slaughter. and mutilation of ohildren of tender years. Nothing in the re- port is more moving than the simple comment on the conditions in an ex- temporised prison at Lotivain: "One woman went mad, some children ilial, others were born." As for wanton murder and mutila- tion, a single group of villages round Aerechot provides a surfeit of ev1 donne' fwe ohlldren were killed in• a village, apparently Weerde, , quite vain that the woman cried out for wantonly as they were h - standing In mercy for their husbands, sons, and the road r wirh their mother.rThey :brothers, The odfieer ordered his were three of four years old and Were men to tiro. 'There 'had been no In. killed with the bayonet, At Boort uiry nor any pretends of a trial, Meorbeok a Gorman soldier wassean q to fire three times at little girl of About twenty Of the inbabitants five years old. Having failed to hit her he subsequently bayoneted her. A child of three with its stomach out open was lying near the house." On the destruction of Liege, the report says: "The Rue des Pitteurs and houses in the Place de 1'17nlversite and. the Qual des Pechours were systema- tically fired with benzine. and many in habitants were burned alive in their houses, their efforts to escape being prevented by rifle fire. Twenty people were shot white trying to escape, before the eyes of one of the witnesses. The Liege fire . brigade turned out, but was not allowed to extinguish the fire. Its carts, how- !'rever, were usefully employed in re- ! 'moving heaps of civilian corpses to the -Town TTa11.,'.The fire burned oe. throughout the night and the our- dere continuer) on the following day, '1 the 21st, Thirty-two dividiane were killed on that day In the. Place de 1'L'niversito alone, and a witness states that this was followed by the rape in open day of 15 or 20 women on 1 I,l1' In the square itself." r,Leo aeceent' adds that five (f y ilteman ohleers were among tits NI v ],:hers. At Namur the teoo es signalled R O S FAR F OM OUR QUIET $HORES WHERE KULTUR CAME 'k.et all who fall Into your hands be at your mercy. Just as the Huns a thousand years ago under Attila gain ®d a' n-eputation In virtue of which -t-hey-still -live in -historical tradition, so may the name of Germany become known (The Kaiser to his troops, 1900,) • extinguish the very spirit of self- defence." WHAT HAPPENED AT LOUVAIN. ures, The women and children were An official report by the Belgian without food, stationed throughout Government on the sacking of Lou- the whole of :iligust 26th on -the main: sawn.:- -Stat1oL6.S"quere,.'!Llioy, wore gresient "On their chief's order, the Ger- whilexrsbowfr t'eeletr et thedr,efeIlow man soldiers forced the doors of the Citizens • were: executed, amongst houses, and set the houses on fire them were several- priests and monks by means of fusee. They fired on the who, tied together in fours, were inhabitants who attempted to leave shot at the end of, square, on their devel11ngs. Numerous persons- the sidewalk skirting the property of who had_ taken refuge in their „eel- Mr. 'Ilan/aide: A pretence -was made lee's, were burned alive. Others were to -execute Monseigneur Coenraerts, -shot the: moment they .attemptadet0 vibe'' rector of the University, and leave the .furnace. Many inhahltants Father Smith, of- the order of the of Louvain who had success in, leav- Preaching Brothers. A salve of guns ing their houses, while escaping actually resounded and .those look- b;i+" the gardens, :;were condu9 d: me eccraadced..oC the...r iite of .te-••the.:Station Place,' where. Apnea this'll Mena, ----Went lis •M7•!e& to ap- ten 'corpses "of civilians' were plaud. -'These woinen anti children to such unhappy tindivleduats 'and. stretched out, The were brutally 00-" 'Welke sot free • onthenight of -the stopped their groans wi{h .a bayonet parated from their wives and chit- ,26th and 27th August, thrust. At night some who still dren, and despoiled of whatever thebRIVEN LIKE ANIMALS. survived succeeded in crawling away. were carrying, Our report of August Others put an end to their own• pain elies, Several of these were shot, on rested either on• the night of August the road. They' all suffered real tor - 21 or on the following morning. Pil- lage and burning continued all next day. On'the evening of the 22nd (Sat- urday) a group of' between_400,and' 450 mete was collected in front ot.the. Church; not far >la+otn!thwelif rtkeef the Sambre. A German detachment opened fire on them, but as the shooting was a slow business, the. officers ordered lip a machine gun, which soon swept off all the unhappy peasants still- left standing• Many of them were only wounded; and, hoping to save their lives, got with difficulty on their feet again. Many wounded still lay'among the corpses. Groans of pain and cries for help were heard in the bteoding'heap. On several occasions soldiers." jv 12e"c1 err 61st has eeposed to you Mr. Minister "On Thursday the 37th August,- at by rolling themselves into the neigh - ,g 'o-ooetrovers were given to boring river. -- the physical, and moral tortures, which were imposed upon a group of 75 amongst them. Of the others,- a great,nunlber were conducted to the railway :,station, heaped into. op.ttle true1es, and after a voyage of ievcn . :ty-sta.-hours without reeeivin$•a1iy' nourlabment, arrived at Cologne. "The day after their arrival in tills city, after a night passed In a for- eign barracks, where they received a little bread and water, many pf them were peeked fifteen to a compart- ment, into -third. class carriages and brought -back.. to Bruxelles, . where they arrived in a state of complete •exhaustion, Sunday, 90th Augusta .Pox the first time since their arrest,• they were able to get enough to eat. They -ware then brought to the'Ge'- man advance posts, before Mallnes,- and released. Many of them have not returned ,as yet. Others again, especially ,members' of the clergy, were sent in the direction of Brux- suPP d no ono can describe. ei�: ht ' Y 1 d all the inhabitante to leave Louvain, since the town was going to be born - herded. Old men,- women, children, }fie Mee..3unatics,:monlesennns;. were Lirul'ally.ohased :ontt..oeeto. roads like :a-'fiock of-'itii'[ntats. What'tiro"exodus of the inhabitants really meant,. what atrocities were committed, we are only just beginning.to learn,; they. wore•drivento a distance, under the direction of• brutal soldiers, into tell, directions, forced to kneel and raise their hands .each. time- German off1-• °ers one soldiers , passed, . and were• left without food and during the aright withoolt shelter." Many died on flite road;, -others, -among whom were evomen land' clincleen `vlio'_'eoeld not' fellow,- as well'1a priests,. Were shot, Mere • than 10,006 inhabitants • were driven as far as Tirlemont, a town situated nlearly twenty kilometres from Louvain. What torments they arc WHOLlt SALE MURDER AT •]DINANT The following is'from aa Official the tread.- 'The soldiers, to make report of the sack of Dinant: sure, fired ta•new volley into the On Sunday morning next, the 23rd, heap of thein, Several, citizens es- at- 8:30 - In the: morning, stealers of caped this double dtschal.ge. They the 10312±'. Regiment of Infantry in- ahtlplmed::.dead'_.ftir mete two waded the Church of the Prernonatchorns,-rarnaining.,metionless•.among trensiam,_I'athers, drpve out the con- the corpses, and when night' fell sue gregation, separated the women freta seeded' hl ::saving- themselves In the the mels, and shot fifty of the latter, hills. Eighty-foul•r corpses were left Between7 and 9 the same 1110rn111g on the Square, 'end buried in a neigh- tho soldiers gave themselves up to boring garden. pillage and arson, going from house 'The day of August 23 was made to house to driving the inhabitante bloody by several more massaoros, Into the.. street. Those who tried to Soldiers' discovered some inhabitants escape were . shot. About 9 in the of the Faubourg. Se. Pierre in the morning the soldiery, driving. before cellars of a brewery there and shot them by blows from the butt ends of them, - rifles Alen, women, and children, "Since the previous evening a pushed thein all into the, parade Crowd of workmen belonging, to the square, where they were kept errs- factory 0f -M.- lehientee hid' -hidden oners +till 6 : o'clock in the evening, •thenlselves,.along- with• •their wives The guard took pleasure in repeat and_. children, in the -Cellons of the ing to them that they would soon be building, They had been joined shot, there by many neighbors and ser About 6 o'clock a Captain separat• eral members of the fatally of their ed the. me}l from the women and employer. About 0 o'clock in the children. The women were placed evening these unhappy people matte in front of a rank 0t infantry sol- up their minds to. come out of •their diers, the men were ranged along a refuge; and defiled all ti'embling' •wail. 'Phe front rank of then were from the cellara with the white, flag then told' to kneel, the others re- le front, They were immediately malning. standing behind them. ' :A seized -and violently attacked by the platoon of soldiers drew up_ i0 ,fade •soldiers,:...Every. man wee shot On of those unhappy men, 11 was In the epot. Almost, all.;t7,ie men of the Faubourg' 'do Leffe"Wore exeetit ed en masse, Ili another part of the town twelve civilians were killed In a cellar. In the Rue en Ile a par- alytic was shot in. his armchair. In the Rue Enfer the soldiers killed a were only wounded, but fell among young boy' of fourteen." CHILDREN ON BAYONETS . At' etalt:tes a party drunken ,2 aoldl.ere Was seen by a witness coo- L liig down the h151-3 street, . . Aa the German aoldlai's came 'Glai0ng the street, she states, I saw a small Child, whethor..b r,, or girl. o•!t could not see, come out e a hotise, rile child was about two Vier! 0f go, The child carne into tee'ratliddie the sti',2.t 80 ag_to be 111..thse lefty; child into the air on his bayonet and Carrying it away on his bayonet, he arid his comrades still einging. The child screamed when the soldier On Thursday, August 20, a German struck it with iris bayonet, but not patrol appeared in front of the sub.,afterwards. curb oE, Vilaines, :It wee greeted by The Bryce committee sums up He shots Eked b5; tiro i'reecii soldiers, reporf as foliorya? ,and by a party of civic W21' ds 'et - IC/lade oi.' Peverel trillatie-'weee WHOLEki„11- • VILLAGE PUT TO DEATH A massacre at Tamines is:desorib- :mans arrived iri force .at the Hamlet ed in .the same report as foliowe of A1louic, Tiley there burnt two "Tatninos was a rich and.populous houses, end Mae' all the' inhabitants vlllage . situate on the Sambre, 'be- prlsonors, An • artillery combat tween Charleroi and Namur. "It was broke out between the Gcrfean guns occupied by detachments oe French” posted at Vilaines-acid at•Allou,, and troops on August 17, 18 and 19 last. the French guns. placed in a battery at Arsimont, and at Itam-ser-ITOure.. "About 0 o'clock on August 2.t the Germans cerrl,d: the bridge of Ta- minos, tressed the"ricer Sambre, and began defiling it ititdse through the eteeet12 of" the Vileitere AHaut_:; 4r.11.4:htpie,Ctetlee: seibIns to liethat SA,. "All theta facts have been estab- lished by depositions made by wounded men who succeeded in es- caping. About 100 bodies were found in the river." y � CANADIANS WERE CRUCIFIED As -to the treatment of 'Canadian soldiers: a mas of evidence is avail- able,,of which this is a sample: "lanlliy, vis brclioy, whbeyBulspoattanta yearaPort Jar - on tits. .2''rench battlefields with the Ambu- lance Corps of the American- Red Grose, told of his experiences- at'a dinner in. his honor. Tiirthd Course 0. his address, he -eel& . ' "The German wounded are 'shownY the same 'treatment ibat is acorded to the injured • French and ,English soldiers. The Germans aro non -com- municative, but at times they will .talk,-.; They laugh at the number of 'Americans who can Le sena. to the front, and say they are only men and not real soldiers. Otany of the Ger- lean wounded are .very young men.." "Ile spoke of the murder of prig, oners-who fo11 into Gelman ha'hds. On one occasion, he saiyl•.,,,a 00101 01- of Canadians wore ventured by the' Germans and later' in the day the Cant/Wane .captured the German sal., lent and found three of their comra- des crucified to trees:" At Toronto, first hand reports of brutalities practised and. conditions in Gorman prison camps, particularly at Gottingen, Hanover, were given by Corporals Alexander Tatman and Allan McDonald, Toronto PTighlan- dore, who were captured at St. Julien in April, 1915. They weeeileelsoneee In Germany for nineteen. months,,htit when they became• • ill; became sof-- starvation, they were - sent' borne through. Switzerland, "Back from the grave, that's me," said Corporal Yetman: I was fifteen months. at Gottingen and thre months at MaiMielm, When I was 'waiting to be sent to.Seeitzerland: 2 weighed 66 pounds when T was captured„ and becauseof poor food, hack treatment,' and conditions of the, camp I wast down' to 98 pound's when I was sent to Switzerland to Auguat,.1,916, There I started' to pith up; and 1 noW•weigll 145. I came Immo i h'tiber t osia,. Th s The n and the peerfood g p o brought it, and 1t was a wonder I did not die, The food was not fit for pigs,' I doubt If they wmlld est it. I saw "Amba,saador Gerard of the TTnlied Stats at the Mani -Omen camp., 2Ir rIelter the piece and made, an in- apeglion, but tie Mens fixed thinq'e up when he came, .7 nm mire he Old geed, work in connection wilie cooking thinge better, "We wore often hit, punished, and. kicked and called 'nips ,and swine,' Now and Iheu we could walls to lawn, if we Hired, bet they made us' walk iii the middle of the road, for we could not walla on the eiriewelk.ho-ill the Gm'mnn, '1;141 nd that' us an' callad.usv1!8 nah20:10°•°,1:°-'4,ey ' d'�. Story of German Atrocities Reads Like Night- mare from Hades--Wonien and Girls of all Ages Violated—Bodies of Little Children Impaled on Bayonets and, Carried Before Troops Until Infant Hearts Stopped Beat. ing—Defenceless Nuns and Old Men Cruci- fied—Young Girls Buried Alive with Their Heads Above Ground and Left to Iii=. Story of German March one Unceasing List of Crimes Blacker Than Ever Stained Record of Nero or Attila--Satari Himself Would Stand Aghast COLD-BLOODED MASSACRES:: -AT .SEA An appalling story of cold-blooded massacres by Germans of Crews of British North Sea convoys in a recent battle is told by tho Norwegian news- papers. The Tidenstegen said the German cruisers were observed at 6 o'clock in the morning and were thought to be British vessels, but at 7 o'clock, when there was more light, -they suddenly began shooting, and the convoy was terrified to see the Brit- ish destroyer at the stern of '.the convoy begin to sink, although. it fought to the end. The Germans cruisers, after signaling the vessels to stop, advanced on each side 01 the convoy, which they swept all their guns at a range oe les than 200 yards, The German destroyers came up and helped to spread and destruc- tion on the defenceless ships,- shells falling thick and fast. The Germans were not content to sink the ships, hut shelled the lifeboats and every living thing coming their way was mercilessly slaughtered,. The survivors owed their lives to the high sea which was running, making the HUNS ADMIT Confirmation now has been given by the German Government itself to the often denied reports current for the past year that young girls, of Alsace-Lorraine have been carried away from their homes and -forced labor for the German army:- •1 -ice From Switzerland today Clera=caro= a, •tabic, report of the reply made by the German Under-Secretary for War to a complaint: of an Alsatian deputy in the Reichstag against mistreat- ment of these young girls. The Gov- ernment's reply took the form of an official communique which in sub- stance ub stance stated that the army admin- istration had taken measures to as- sure the girls requisitioned in Alsace- Lorraine and actively employed in ,,Tort at the front the benefits of amoral and religious 'supervlslom Only eight and a half per cent eif the girls are less than seventeen years of age. the deputy was assured, and scarcely one-half of them have been subjected by force to work at the front. •. The German Government, the reply sets forth, wishing to meet the de- sires of the Alsatian population, had. issued an order that young girls less than seventeen years of age, who Clave been enrolled by force, should tae liberated at onto. This admission in reality ol,ademhrs the German Government for traffic in white slavery.) From the Western front comes the following official report: "Belgian women and girls are be- ing compelled to build concrete dug- outs under artillery fire. The state- ment that this form of slavery has actually been practiced is recorded in the diary of a German soldier 7110 was recently captured:,- He be- longed to a landwehr dtv1 9pn,.eend• was personally in charge..of a large number of these unfortunate' Bel- gians, who were daily herded to- gether and taken to a zone near the boats a difficult mark. In the midst of the rnasanre ane•+ they British destroyer came up: and immediately attacked, batt was soon sunk in the unequal struggle. The German flotilla then Cruised back- ward and forward among the sinking steamers, pouring a fresh and terrible rain of shells at a range of 100 yards. One shell went through the Swedish ship Wirndar, exploding In a lifeboat on the other side and killing 'a1lets:occupants, fourteen men. and three. women. - The other lifeboat rowedback to rescue the Captain and two waitres- ses from the wreck. A shell struck the boat and killed five of her oc- cupants, only the mate escaping by swimming. The Wirndar was a mass of flames and the two girls jumped into the sea, The Captain was saved by clinging to wreckage. As the two young women were sinking, an Eng- lish ship hoisted the white flag. The answer of the Germans was a -shot which killed• both girls. Twelve mere of another ship had 'just got into the lifeboat when a shell killed then all. . WHITE SLAVERY German lines to perform manual la- bor of the hardest kind, in constant danger of death, The soldier's diary tells the story as follows: "'I am going to give another in- stance of•the inefficiency of the Ger- :Mere eutherittets."'Since the 16th in- staalt-'fifty women and young girls have been working In concrete dug- outs at Leke. As Leke is in the zone of fire and was shelled no later than yesterday, this Is another case In which we cannot understand the no- tion of the authorities. If this isn't taken by way of reprisal, then It is a shameful deed on the part of Ger- many, which cannot be surpassed even in imagination. The civilian population of Leke was evacuated three or four weeks ago, and now wolnoa,land• ohildren are compelled td work at'the minaret° dugouts of the village, "It is a shame that such steps should have been taken, whether there is reason for tt or not. I am sure of the facts which I state, for it is my duty to take a gang of forty-seven ,women to Lake every morning and bring them back in the evening.' "An illuetration of the German dis- regard - foe- the -laws of war and hu- m�a.nety,calnebs;found in an incident 'w'hich ocouirdd fee other eight near B'outholet forest. The British heard cries of 'stretcher-bearers' from No Man's Land, It naturally was aa- sumod that a wounded man was call- ing for help, and Red Cross bearers rushed out through the darkness to render assistance. They were shot -down by German snipers, who used this ruse to entice them into the peen. Thete.breye bees man other oases recently, In which German eniper0 have Sltbt'down Red Cross workers deliberately, despite the fact that German Red Cross workers bare .been permitted to work unmolested,' CANADIAN ?RISO eet New York recently Capt. David Fallon, a young Irish -Australian, veteran of Gallipoli and Belgium, thrilled 200 artists at the Society of Illustrators' dinner in the -Notal des ..Artistes with the story eat 'German atrocities he had seen. - - -• "In Belgium," said the, youree Cap- tain, "1 saw a Mother. Superior Cru- cified to the door of her convent, and within, the bodies of noble women who had consecrated their lives to theteaching of the young and ministering to the poor, cut to pieces and mutilated. "In Belgium I saw an aged black- smith, his folded hands pinned to his anvil, and a note on his breast proclaiming in German He will. shoe no more of the horses of our enemies." "When it came our turn bur boys went into the trenches to do their bit. And, as has happened to your boys, the trenches were naided, and when the Clashwas over some .of our boyo were missing. The next day we' saw their heads. Cutting them from their bodies, the Roches had stuck them on bayonets above the trenches, soarce fifty yards. away. That time, when the word came, our boys „•, needed, , no spurs to send them over to and' into the enemy's trenches There 'we found our oomrades crucified and. disembowled and otherwise mutilat- ed. And then and there, gentlemen,. We vowed that never again would we spare a Gorman fife. "Once, in ,the trenches, I welted a German 'captain for a truce in which to bury the dead and aid the wound- ed, Ile •agreed, and we approached NERS BEHEADED each others' line under white Beget' As we neared, the Germans suddenly dropped to the ground, and over them poured a hail of machine gun bullets, _"Again, When. lire had some trap. used in a corner of a dugout said 5 Wills about to'.bomb them, they t'bree up their hands, orytng•'Mercl, kora.erall' - I lowered my alm, and, es did, a eoldier pried, 'They aro et-, tacking you flora behind, ale I save them the bomb and we cut our way out as best we could. The only time a German Dries 'karnerad' le when he .has no more bombs, no more cart- ridges, no more chance to use knife or bayonet, 'But we•don!t fool with bombe any more. , 'WhenAhoyCry out from is dugout • for %leroe kameradl' we ask how many there are down there. If the answer cornea back, 'Ste; we Chuck in a bomb and tell them to divide it between them. "What has happened to our bore Will happen to your boys. The world won't know of it until some of them begin to come trlakling back. Then you'll know how their heads were. out off; bow they were ernal- fled, how they: were mutilated, just .to, show how brave Germany 1s and `how great ie kultur. have 'just come from Atlanta,. While in the South I vlelted the German detention Camp, Thera were 840 of the Germane there ilvingg on the fat of the land, In magnificent huts, with every oomfort—•every thing, even to the tennis Courts, that go to make life worth •while. Ill . Germany our prisoners are 'being: These are not sensaitaoxaa1 soldier yarns, hut official facts. THIS IS KULTUR. THIS IS THE THING OUR MEN ARE EIGHT" INC: OVERSEAS. • • IF THEY ARE TO 'DEFEAT WE T HOME {E 11t q VY JCt A l I[ E�dYA1t:A MUST HELP. it