Evening journal., 1915-12-11
PEOPLES COLUMN

ed for suspected completely in the
assassination OF President Lincoln
They said nothing whatsoever about
the OUTRAGEOUS treatment accorded
the wives OF missionaries in Africa,
when they were sent away into camps
under the watch Of colored soldiers.
They have said nothing about the
BOer monument at Bloemfontein, un-
veiled December 16. 1913. bearing the
inscription: This monument is erect
ed by the Beers of South Africa in
memory of 26,663 women and chill
dren, who died in the concentration
camps during the war 1900-1902"
Nothing is said by them or by you
either of an article in the Daily News,
London, November 9. 1901. stating:
In the month of October there died
in the Boer concentration camp 1854
children and 32S women. In the
concentration camps instituted by
Lord Kitchener there are 54,326 chill
dren and 3S.O22 women. The rate OF
mortality is greater than in a cholera
epidemic" No comments are made
on reports, such as appeared in the
New York Times. November 10, 1915.
coming from Capetown and relating
this: Yes; even underclothes OF
German women we're looted by the
soldiers and brought to their wives,
who again showed them to others
here in Capetown, priding themselves
on their beauty, and the initials of
owners still embroidered on them"
Nothing is now said OF the once fam
4 GUS line: They're hanging men and
women, too. for the wearing of the
green" How about this: OF the
Askaris. Mohammedans in British SER
vice, 112 refused to fight against their
fellow believers in German East
Africa. They were beaten and fog
ged and in November were taken to
Nairobi. A few kilometers below this
town are great fields OF high grass.
To give the colored troops of Eng
land target practice, ten Of the
prisoners were placed, bound hand
and foot, with a gag in their mouth
in various places, but a little of their
bodies visible. From 100000 PAGES
the colored troops were instructed to
fire with rifles and machine-gins
Two were killed and eight wounded
the latter then being finished This
was continued until the entire 112
had been killed. Talk about Armen-
ians: Good heavens, how does their
plight compare with such deeds under
the direction OF white, English Off
cers2 / could continue ad infinitum
Added 10 such facts comes a revela.
tiOn in the Irish World of a message
sent by Ambassador Page TO our State
Department, that not one single Incl.
dent mentioned in the reports oI
Bryce on German atrocities is true
Where is this report and why is II
not published?
You invite me to attack the verdic
rendered against the 'plotters" of th'
Hamburg-American line. l hold NJ
brief. however, for plotters. The,
should be punished, although there
> are numerous excuses for some acts
which you are wont to brand as
} crimes. I shall never forget tn,
manly words of Poppinghaus: Il an
e ready for my medicine. am re
1 sponsible for my acts. But ] wan
, you to remember that / had no in
3 tention of harming the United State
or violating its laws" We hear
!, great deal about pilots" in the pa
= pers. but as yet not one has beel
s proven in open court. In one cas-
). alone has as much as formal charg
a been made, in that concerning Rob
O. ert Fay. We are decidedly oppose
to the manner, which characterize
Y our papers to a great extent of brand
r ing acts as plots. which are non,
e man is innocent until he has bee
= proved guilty.
70 AS for the toast; Der Tag!" thi
a was not a toast ofiimpudence or vail
Z glory. as you make 1t appeac, but
. solemn dedication to the inevitabl
day. made imperative by British q
l, rogance and diplomacy.
AS to the latest message of our pre-
|, ident, hear what the Stats Zeitun
u u says: Were these words of gall an
. wormwood to have been uttered /
= some frenzied, desperate candidai
= . from a barrel top to a street mob Z
y the eve of an election, they wou