The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-09-22
TELLS now PRorEorIoE WAS erv-
EN- TOWNS WHOSE CIVIL
IANB BEHAVED
Tells Of wan.on Attacks on Army That
Led 20 Acts Of HeprtsAl-Sorns
0houlish Deeds
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nation has been called forth throughoSt
.ne Morld writes W. Scheuermann, a
correspondent OF several German news
Papers who accompanies the German
general stan. by the so-cailed cruelty
with which the Germans are carrying
IN tnAs war. In all countries that ger
their news through English ana French
souIces stories OF German barbarism are
raepeated. IL Is therefore doubIy the
uuty Tor war correspondent who can
speak OF what his own eyes have seen.
20 report what he saw and what he can
answer .,i Tor before the forum OF histori-
Il have spent days in the worst Franc
ll,reurs hghting OF Belgium and France
VAT were obtained at Battice. ON the
ins h a.on A4Shen 10 Liege where Tight
tets between Franc Tireurs and our sold
s LIE went on for days. Instead OF a
nourishiug village. with clean houses
thd neat villas, one sees there to-day
~av s SG runs stretching along the high
-. Pathetic sights.
saw things there that I shall re-
through village that was quit. ss srSi
49, Mnee5s only few German land
N wehr soldiers we're standing guard-no
but when ] came TO the doorway of a
mouse that had fallen I'm / saw In what
, nSd probably been the living room a
knife, raking in the debris Her face
Wa IKE gray stone. and her eyes nxed
s sS IN death. She dug as II she was
ialien bricks. In a front garden, winch
had been scorched by the flames n
woman In a black dress was crouching
and weeping / have stood AZ manS
An open grave In the church yard
put have never heard anybody weep
enameled child's bedstead peers out OF
the smoking debris. still hiied with It's
scorched mattress and pillows. Who
ever has child at home in its snow
Cannot Atone.
But curse and thrice a curse upon
them there is no punishment in this
world sufficient 20 atone for their evil
deed And when they now denounce our
olation. this latter Islander. shameful a.
IL Il does not weigh much IN compart-
son with what they actually did our
marched into the country OF the enemy
with the same order and discipline that
they maintain ON the drin ground and
in army maneuvers. Wherever we came
we guaranteed 20 the inhabitants se-.
curity for life and property. We are
waging war with the armies Of the
the German proclamation promising the
Belgians peace and the integrity OF their
territory was still seen on the walls OF
Now what happened IN Battice Cler-
mont. Herve F1eron and other Belgian
places was. with singular similarity as
Psu ON Them at night
The inhabitants let the Germans
march In. received them with crinsing
friendliness offered them win In SUPER
nuous quantities. and Their feli upon
them az night. n goes without saying
for mere self preservation demanded AZ
that every murdered German was
avenged. Where the murdercrs could
be caught they were brought before a
court martial. and ~ their guilt was evil
dent they were shot or hanged.
"Ali this was done In perfect order.
, How FAR the self-controi- OF our troops
extends was proved 20 me By an exam
pie only DAY before yesterday. A. the
entrance to the French fortress az
Longwy. Just captured. I saw German
soldiers bringing In a troop Of frarc-
them a few common thieves scarcely be-
yOnd school boy age. all Of them with
criminal faces Of the hardest type. Pity
that We did not photograph them 20
that the world might see what hidcoua
scamps are killing our men.
What did the men do demanded
an officer.
-They put on Red Cros scarfs and
our wounded. We caught them In the
act was the reply. Why didn't sou
beat the scoundreis 70 death al oncer
We dare not do that Thcy must be
brought before a court martial
Most Cruel Torture.
The reader should know what waa
the character of this mutilaiion. The
eyes OF our wounded men. lying helpless
On their pain upon the battlefield. were
cut out with knives. But this was not
by far the most cruel thing these beasts
invented. old and young men and
women we're cauEhf a. hycnas ~ the
battlefield. and they received their re-
Towns whose inhabitants did NOT
rice AGAINST us are enjoying the fullest
security"