The Detroit times., 1914-08-31
! BERNSTORFF
|EFENDS ACTS
/ OF GERMANY
=
Churchill Statement is
bed on False Premise, and
Blames Him For War
CLANS ACCUSED
# REVOLVING CRUELTY
|ul-G General Declares Ger
in Wounded We're Stoned
Stabbed and Blinded

w YORK, Aug. 29.--Declaring
the statement OF Winston
hill, first lord of the British adj
~. was based on a wrong prem
ind calling itsmerely another Of.
10 deceive the American people.
Won Bernstorff, the German
ssador to the United States, to-
gave the United Press, the fol
8 reply to Churchill
:. Churchill, who Is largely re-
ible for the war and who Is
n to have proposed an attack
the German feet before the
had begun, Is certainly not q
authority In the case. Mr..
ehillps appeal to the American
e Is based on the entirely wrong
hption OF separation between
Emperor and the socalled mill
aristocracy IL Germany on the
band, and the German people on
bther.
his assumption Is entirely wrong.
proved so by the fact that the
Ian Socialist Democrats voted
kredits in parliament for war and
leader OF the German Socialist
bcrats arose In parliament and
We have always been against
but since our country has been
$ked by the worst autocrat the
y knows, we stand with one
with all the rest of the German
ae.'
\ striking contrast to this atti-
OF the German Socialists, the
pr Of the Liberal party In Eng
(Kier Hardie) arose In parlia.
! and said that the British gov
bent had not done all that It
u have done TO prevent war"
Herring to phrase in the
Fchill statement implying su-
pr democracy and civilization OF
land over Germany. the ambas-
|r added:
cannot understand how the
ltion which has been formed to
FIX Us can complain about the
nan methods Of warfare, after
have drawn oriental races into
European struggle. and after they
called colored and Indian troops
ght their European battles"
,plying to the charges OF inhu-
ity on the part Of Germans In the
toward Belgians. the German
nl-generals herestoday issued the
wing statement:
he behavior Of Belgian civilians.
len az well % men, toward Ger
soldiers and the German hos
corps, h best set forth In the
lnische Zeitung, one Of the lead
newspapers In Germany, which
Just reached here. II carries
Following from q noted German
surgeon:
Here In Belgium we experienced
sment by the Belgian civilians,
women and half-grown boys,
b We never experienced before,
while fighting the Negroes In
colonies. Civilians shot from
y house, from every bush. In
drst few days many OF cur men
wounded or killed by civilians
Ing from everywhere and the
EN- were AZ active as were the
Day before yesterday Belgians
q q German by cutting his throat
Q he was asleep In q house. Al
% used by Us as q hospital, was
8 the Red Cross flag. In the
Ing We put there Ave wounded
nan soldiers. The next morning
I've were found stabbed to death.
Yesterday morning while passing
ngh q small vilalge near Yer
J. we found one Of our soldiers
his hands tied behind his back
his eyes put out. In another
sc q member OF our automobile
, had stopped In front Of
.. Suddenly q young woman
ped up to the chauffeur, drew q
Il and shot him dead.
At 0emmenich, an hour from Ak
lapelle, where we arrived We'd
~. the townspeople fred upon
automobile hospital corps from
y window The Red Crosses on
sleeves Of the hospital corps and
,ur automobiles did not protect
Several times we found that
nded soldiers. who had been