Arizona republican., 1915-06-01
MEMORIAL RECORD
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the Russians, thousands of men,
 women and children were carried otf thousands were murdered, about -0.Gn0 buildings were demolished or
 burned down. and that during the second invasion alone, about SO,00O homes were plundered and destroyed.
 The last Russian expedition against
 Memel likewise was nothing more than a savage raid, accompanied by atrocities of every description. The
 dispositions contained in the supple ments give an eloquent but ghastly
 proof of the acts of violence and cruelty. which individual inhabitants suffered at the hands of the Rus sians.
 The moveable goods o= the poor as we'll as of the wealthy were stol- en footed, or wantonly destroyed by Inc Russian troops in every con ceIvable way. Cattle and provisions were taken without payment o- I,romissOry certificates. Men and
 women had to give the covetOus sol ciers their last ccppers. The dwell lngs were searched often by one division of troops after the other each soldier taking whatever took his fancy. Finally, homes, farm Buildings and provisions were, with out reason or purpose, destroyed by fire. The population. including women and children. were illtreated on empty preteXts or without any reason whatsoever, although they did everything to satisfy the desires of the Russian soldiers as to lodgings and food. This ill treatment was Iartiauy characterized by exquisite cruelty, for instance the male popu- iation of an entire community, the judge not excepted, were beaten with whips and threatened with death Fugltires were shot down without further ado.
 Above all, however. numerous citizens were murdered without any cause. often under terrible tortures or in presence of their relatives Young men were shot. not because they had committed something. but because they were liable to military service. \ transport of fugitiNes was suddenly attacked: the men were separated from the women and killed without procedure of any kind X chief forester, escorting troop of German convicts, was taken pris- oner by Russian troops, brought be- fore General Rennenkampf and probaSlv in accordance with that generals infamous order to kill all German foresters, deliberately shot
 The brutal lust of the Russian soldiers for murder did not stop even at old men, women and children The murder of little girl, about 1 two or three years old, is a particu- 1 larIy horrible instance. RevoltinS 1 also is the case of an entire family | which fell victim to the lust of mur- | der of Russian soldiers. The man | was spiked to the table, the child l to the door. the breasts of the wife 1 were cut off and her body eviscer- ated. In another instance a man | and his wife were nailed by the | tongue to table, in which position they perished of hunger and loss of blood.
 "Innumerable are the cases of IestiaI attacks upon women and 1 girls. Even women over l 70 years of age were not spared. Officers also gave themselves up to such misdeeds.
 "Other supplements disclose the ! atrocities perpetrated on German 1 prisoners of war by Russian troops. ! FranuentIv those German soldiers 1 taken prisoner were robbed, spat upon or otherwise mistreated. A | Russian officer threatened German soldiers, who refused to betray their comrades with death, and actually | ordered one of them shot. Russian troops placed German prisoners in narrow pits before their artillery positions with the evident intention of allowing them to be killed by | German fire. Cossacks m riding past German prisoners of war. cut off their heads or wounded them. or bv chopping off their limbs mutilat- ed them A German prisoner was cruelty bound to a sort of treadmill and left to starve. Three hussars were found hanged in a barn with their heads down and their noses and ears chopped off. so that they must have died in frightful agony
 Neither did the RCssfan hordes hesitate at the mutilation and mur- der of wounded German soldiers. Thus they tore the bandages off the wounded SO that they would bleed | to death: pierced out their eyes. cut off their tongues. ears. fingers and feet of others, or smashed in their skulls Tn many instances N atro- cities took on the very charat ter of fiendsh torture. Thus prisoner, slightly wounded who was pinned