The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
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How France protects her churches.

now returned frightfully MANNED, ltv-
ing documents, too, OF those who have
persisted in southern France and Bel
GUM under the most atrocious tortures.
Nor did the British act much better.
These occurrences are now being care
fully investigated by the German Gov
eminent and some day you will receive
report that will stagger you.
Have you heard OF the Red Cross
doctors and nurses shot at from am
bush by Belgian and French civilians,
men and women; of the attacks from
ambush on German troops by civilians.
who, IL they had worn some visible in
sigma and fought under a responsible
leader, would according to internA-
tional law have been acknowledged as
regular troop? These barbarous acts
the German Government had TO sup
, press by the shooting OF such civilians
and by the burning down OF the houses
from which they were so attacked.
These necessary measures of protection.
which are actually now bearing fruit.
| have given the foreign press and the
| foreign Governments the excuse TO
speak of German atrocities.
II wish you could see the scrupu-
lousy clean Red Cross trains of the en-
pire with their white roofs, whole big
| stations full OF them; ] wish you could
| see the hospitals and the personal EN-
Client care every individual WOUNDED
soldier gets, whether he Ia a German
| or an enemy.
do you know that II has been ON
cially established that, against all inter-
national law, the British and French
troops In the north use hindum bull
let's? Do you know that against all In
| ternational law the British have sunk
the German auxiliary cruiser Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse in neutral Spanish
waters?
Even in tho actual fighting ono Ger
mans prove that they are the nation
most advanced in science. II is not
mainly the brutal force thst ie winning
their fight against the world. You
ought 70 see also tho smiling. almost
kindly. courage, but mainly their SCI
ence. For not only their organization
IL superior, their tactics. their strategy
their small arms, their field artillery
their heavy guns and their supplies are
likewise more efficiently handled with
other words. their engineering 10 super
Tor. II usually requires not more than
three-actually three-hits to destroy
any one fort and usually there were
not many more shots than hits. This
explains the amazingly quick capture Of
I.lege and Namur. and other cities ant
forts that have since followed. Science
art, devotion and courage, and not onl,
OF those on the field but OF those a
home of the women who so courage
ously let their men 60
"Are the Germans uncivilized II the,
, are the only ones whose credit system
did not break down, who had no run OF
, the banks. whose foodstuffs did no
, rise In price?
Have you forgotten the close ties
many interests between us and Ger
many, forgotten the ties that bind GU
, commerce with theirs, our industries
ipven- ottF- pleasures You know hoy
. overwhelmingly the figures are agalns
, them how two, three, tenfold they ar
? outnumbered In numbers OF soldiers
, number OF battleshps, more so In popu
lations, square miles and resources, an
! still believe they will win, Just becaus
D they are a nation OF men and women o
the highest individual moral strength
I II Is the duty of every one to do every
= thing In his power to spread the trut
z about these events that shake the worl
: and to act accordingly"