Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-20
SIDNEY CONAN
TELLS Of WARS
HORROR ABROAD
Continued from page one,

was on This last visit to the war zone
that most Of his pictures were secured
There Is no doubt" said Cohan
that the Germans have actually com
mitted many or the atrocities charged
against them. / know because have
seen them with my own eyes, and be
cause have pictures to prove what
say. These were privately shown 70
Lord Kitchener and several heads OF
departments In London, and convinced
many OF the skeptical. will say in
fairness. however, that | believe, from
CONGREGATION with Other eye-witnesses,
that the Russians are Just as bad in
The east .=s- e
All cases of excuses which / saw
were the result of individual battle
madness, andJ do not believe that any
OF the acts COMMITTED had the con.
nivance1o of the German officers. ! saw
four young belgian boys, whose right
hands had, BEEN cut off by German
soldiers, so that they might never be
able to bear arms against the kaiser.
4 didn't actually see the. act done, but
i saw the boys SO soon otter that blood
was still dripping wHeH 4 took my pic.
ture. saw two old 2nreB who tried
to defend their home from German sol.
diers by throwing stones at the troops
they had no weapon ofsaRy kind-
stood up against their own front wal
and riddled witt bullets. F saw 4
woman, who few minutes before
arrived had been forced to. stand
against a brick wall with her hands
resting on the wall above her head,
while German soldiers practised
craftsmanship by shooting at her
hands. One bullet passed cIeanly
through the back Of the right hand,
but on striking the wall it was de-
Elected, splintering and tearing the
bricks so that the whole center OF
the hand was practically blown out,
like the hole in doughnut Death
it means nothing in the war zone.
They bury men half dozen at a time
in pits, and the stencil from dead ami
mails in the wake of the armies is
something which one can never quite
forget. H.. H..
Paris and London are crushed, !"
said Cohan. "Why, about every third
woman you meet on the streets is; in
deep mourning. In London the prin,
cipal buildings are all topped with
aeroplane guns and searchlights, and
the city goes, dark at O'Clock.
Il want to say word for the loyalty
of the Indian troops, many regiments
of which have been QUILTED by the
native princes at their own expense.
However, believe that they get out
of control of tneir white officers in
action, As whole they look on this
war as huge vacation. Many OF them
are Mohammedans. and the combined
pleasure OF legally killing Christian
and white man more than makes up
for any hardships they undergo.
The British war Office is taking
steps to check the crazy bravery OF
the officers, who are being killed off
like flies for needlessly exposing them.
selves to certain death by walking up.
right behind and in the trenches The
soldiers quite realize the need of dig.
gingi in, and in fact the example some
OF the officers have set by throwing
their lives away has just the opposite
effect to that desired"
Cohsn said that he was recalled
from Belgium to make the Philippine
trip, and also because the only stuff
that he could get was too gruesome ts
be publicly shown. He got a few,
skirmish pictures, but even movie.
man cant get much on the actual mr.
Ing line, and what lies behind is too
horrible to be reproduced.