Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-21

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that are pouring int america Via Lon
don. $3.50
SO were the officers with whom we
talked when we were following the
columns. But they hid their distress
under sneers at once stoical and bitter.
One OF them said.
We must bear IT, In two months
the world viii know the truth. We
can watt
II was In the name not alone of JUS
tIce but OF common dccency that the
five OF us signed that "round robin"
this afternoon.
We five trained newspaper men, ac-
customed 20 observing, To dedueing
from our observations. and to putting
our deductions into reasonably lucid
language.
Five IN Party.
We are John r. Mccutchcon and
James O'Donnell Bennett Of the Chi
cago Tribune ana The Minneapolis
journal; Irwin $. Cobb OF the Saturday
Evening Post: Roger Lewis. Of the AS
ISOLATED Press lnd Harry Hansen OF
the Chicago Daily News.
The most terrific outrage any of us
has seen was seen By Cobb With his
own appreciative eyes he saw a laugh
Ing German soldier who was crossing
a street in Louvain. lean forward and
imprint kiss onathe cheek of Bel
CLAN girl who was bantering him.
The girl promptly slapped his face.
The soldier laughed the louder. The
girl began TO laugh. too. The incident
was closed.
Cobb said 1t was as quaint and merry
a scene In homely life as ever he saw.
That was week before last
Lousain loses Its Head.
A few DAYS later Louvaln lost its
head. IL went mad. Its civilians fired !
from ambuseade upon German sol
dlers
The deed was the supreme outrage
against laws OF civilized warfare.
The punishment was terrible. and II |
has put the fear of the Prusslan God
into every Belgian city and hamlet /
from Antwerp to Beaumont. from Ost-
End to Llege.
Today the ancient and renowned
city of northern Europe lies
N ashes
The halls In which SO many Ameri-
IAN priests Of the Roman Catholic
,hurch are proud to tell you they have
studied are level with the ground. 1t
was awful, but X was war.
stories Can't be Verified.
Always on our inarnh, the facts rela-
i've 60 German atrocities evaded U.S.
Always II was IN "the next village"
hat 4 woman had been maltreated. n
hid butchered, or an Innocent old
nan tortured. Arriving at that next
'illage," we could get no confirma- /,
ion from the inhabitants. NO" they
would say. I'll did not happen here; .
ut we heard that 1t was in the next
illage. Messieurs.
Why Towns Are Destroyed.
Let no man suppose, however, that
here has not been bitter business The ,,
urning cottages of the peasants prove
hat. 4,
But almost every time we asked the
ause of that destruction we learned
hat the houses had been fired by the
xplosion of shells hurled into them by
Germans TO clear them Of soldiers of
ne allies or by the allies to clear
lem Of Germans
Less frequently~-far less Frequently !,
-the story was that from the windows Z
the attic In yonder unroofed and J,
noking ruin i party Of brave but mis-
nided civilians OF the countrywide had
red upon the German advance guard.
Reprisal was then instant and Sc
ire. We had been unable to learn,
owever, that in this melting out of =
any woman or child was y
armed. y
Inclined 10 Favor British. =
think there is not a man In our =
lrty who did not come 10 the con- :"
nent from London in a pro-Brtish
ATE of mind. II not in an antI-Ger-
an state of mind.
An American magazine writer nam Z
Arno Dosch. who il OF German ex- z
action, also shared our views. r'
Find Opinions Changing. A
Slowly, not impetuously nor senti- a
enteiiy, we found those views mode- al
ting, For four days We observed the A
good nature. tact and sci
rict discipline OF the hundreds of IN
ousands Of German soldiers who p
re passing Through BRUSSELS. sh
The fact Is that within -four hours. ma
Ter the first detachment of German ha
oops had come swinging down the i
'ep Boulevard Du ,Iardin Hotanique, ev
hrnssclliansl were not precisely
'ternising with the Germans, but wv,