Evening journal., 1914-11-03
SAY HEAD HUNTERS
ARE With French
TurcoS Also Said to Take
Ears as Trophies
of War
GERMANS DESTROY
A FRENCH CITY
nY MILLIAM q. sHEPHERD.

by WILLIAM q. SHEPHERD.
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
MUNICH Oct. 16.-(By Mail to
New York; There is no way of
proving that the black Turcos, who
are lighting with the French are
head-huaters, but | give the CONVEX
sation / had with a military man of
a neutral nation for what IL IS worth.
This man told me he had a friend
who is an officer in a Turco regi-
mcnt.
II was dining with him the other
evening" he told me, "when the Off
Ger said:
i told my boys as soon as we
landed on French soil that this was
civilized war and that they must
not cut off the heads Of the fallen
enemies. They answered by saying
that was no fun and declared No
head hunting, no war! I've per-
suaded them that they must not take
heads as trophies, but every now and
then catch one OF them with
head in his bread-bag. Some Of
them take ears as trophies"
This Is far more interesting as a
sample Of the bloody sort OF CONVEX
sation you meet in trains and hotels
in Europe these days than as proof
that the blacks are really the CHASTITY
reople they have been painted
The proprietor OF my hotel has
friend who Is a major I'm the German
army. The other day he received a
letter from this major who, it ap-
pears. had charge of the German
forces at Yalenciennes, France, after
the capture of that city. In this
letter was enclosed a red poster.
printed in black and worded in
French, which the hotel proprietor
hung in the hotel lobby for his
guests TO read. II was a poster
which the major had caused to be
placed on the buildings Of the French
city, and read
Il am sorry TO report that have
been forced TO use the severest
measures possible under military
law against the town of Orchies. In
this place. doctors, members Of the
medical staff and about twenty Ger
man soldiers have been wounded or
killed Their eyes were put out,
their ears cut off and other unspeak-
able mutilations Of this character
were committed. I have therefore
ordered that the town be destroyed.
Orchies, once a town Of 5000 in
habitants Is no more. Homes, the
city hall, the church have been obll-
terated, and of inhabitants, there are
no more"
(Signed)
"Commandant of the City,
Mayor Won Meyering.
September %. 1914"
Church steeples play queer parts
In war. -Four weeks ago in Antwerp
saw a man climb almost TO the
peak of the ancient cathedral there
and fasten the Belgian flag to a
stone gargoyle In the evening at
sunset, | saw Belgian choir boys,
standing in their white surplices
among the bells and heard their song
OF praise that ioated over the old
town like a enedictlon-because
Antwerp had been saved from a Yep
pelin. Tonight in Munich / saw an
other church steeple playing its part
in war. IL was raining and the peak
of the cathedral spire doomed dimly
above the lights Of the city hall
square But the tiny lights of can
dies carried by German choir boys
futtered in the belfry and, led by
an orchestra. the boys sang a song
Of praise-because Antwerp had fall
len.
The. newspapers tell of trick
which a German general played on
the Russians. In retreating from a
town IN Eastern Prussia, the Rus
slams We're forced to leave behind
them a large quantity of bread. They
poured gasolene on the bread and
when the Germans entered the town
they found the smelly mixture sur
mounted by a sign which read: 1--WE
hear that you need both bread and
gasolene. Here they are"
About the same time the Germans
captured a number of Russians. The
German general ordered that the
bread be given the prisoners and not
a Russian touched his prison fare
that night.
There are Sidewalk strategists"
here, too. Wen get to London
when the proper time comes" says
my waiter. you know how Ger
many fooled the world with her To-
inch guns and her new submarines.
Nobody knew she had such things.
Well. we've got another trick up our
sleeves. We've got guns that will
shoot SS miles and that's two miles
more than the width of the English
Channel between Calais and Dover.
"As soon as We take Calais, we
win mount these big guns on granite
foundations. shoot across the Chan
mel and demolish the forts at Dover
Then we will sink all the English
ships within range Of these guns and
we will keep a pathway clear across
the Channel to Dover That way VIC
can land all the German troops we
need on English soil. At the same
time we will take Ostend and from
there we will send Zeppelins clear Il
London 10 terrify the king"
Time alone will tell how closel,
the Kaiser's strategists will follow
my walters plans.
SHORTAGE OF POTATOES.
BERLIN, Oct 16.-(By Mail t
New York; Should the European
war continue indefinitely, Germany,
ability to keep up the fight will b,
largely a question of "spuds." Tn,
fatherland has not enough potatoe.
on hand to permit a protracted war