New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
Nine. lie ROux Says Joffre
Is Planning Great Drive
Toward Berlin.
DIARIES OF ENEMY
TELL OF ATROCITIES
France and England Stirred by
Publication of Foes own
Tale of BrutalitieS.

A two weeks general offensive viii
drive the Germans to the Rhine.
Such is the opinion Of the French
General staff. and, more particularly, OF
JofFrc himself according to Nine
Hugues lie Roux, wife of the French
tor about to lecture in tnis country
Nine. Le Roux says this belief IS held
implicitly throughout France.
When asked about afro titles, she sad
that the Germans thems Ives had in
their diaries produced the most damn
ing and incontrovertible evidence.
Some of these diaries, she said, had
been edited by Joseph BeIier and other
noted Frenchmen, including Bergson'
Bourtroux and Seignobos, in volume
entitled German Crimes, According 10
Their Own Testimony"
This book, which has not been pup
lished in this country, has been Drought
out in England and translated lnto
English al the behest of Lord North
clifTe. It contains, among other rec
ords. the following:
page from diary Of Paul Splelman'
I Kompagnie, Ersatz- Battalion, GarGe
lnfantcrie- Brigade. recounting nlght
alarm, the first of September, IN VII
lage near Blamont.
".The inhabitants fed through the
village. II was horrible. Blood was
plastered against all the houses; the
faces of the dead were hideous. lhey
were all buried at once sixty OF them
among them many old women, Old
men, and one woman who was preg-
rant. all Of them frightful to see, and
three children who had hudtled TO-
ge,her and died in that position. The
altar and the roof of the church were
smashed. The reason for it all was
n telephone communicating with the
enemy.
Child's Eye Put Out.
"'And this morning, September =, all
the survivors were driven out, and !
saw four little boys carry on two STICKS
n cradle. where lay baby OF 1--WE or
six months. All that is frighttul 10
look on. A blow for blow! Every
tbiro is sacked. And saw also
mother with her two little ones-one
had a gaping wound in his head and
has eye put out
'Diary OF the soldier Hassemer, Of
the 9Th Corps:
September 3, at Sommepy lMarne).
Horrible carnage; the village burnt TO
the ground; the Frenchmen thrown into
the burning houses, civilians and every
thing burnt together.
"Diary of a Saxon officer OF the
178th Regiment, 18th Corps, lst Saxon
Corps:
"'26 August. The admirable village
Of Gue-dHossus (Ardennes) has been
nut to the torch, although innocent, as
il seems 10 me. They tell me that a
cyclist fell from his machine and tnat
his GUN went or as he fell. Thereupon,
the male inhabitants were simply
pitched into the flames. One must hope
that such atrocities aren't repeated.
"Diary of Sergeant Hermann Levlth.
Of the lCOth Regiment, infantry, 8th
Corps: .,
Bievrc and the edge Of the wood be-
hind il. The first company advanced
first. We carried the village and pll-
LACED and burnt almost all the
houses 49,,
"Diary of Moritz Crosse, Of the l77th
Infantry. who. after relating the sack
Of Saint-Vjeth. August -, and Of Di-
liant the ODD, writes:
"'Throwing OF incerdiary bombs INTO
houses. In the evening. military cnoiuSi
"Now let US praise the Lord.
Brain and Stab Wounded.
DIARY Of Paul Glode, 9th Battalion
OF Engineers, 9th Corps:
"l2th August. 1914: The mutilation
of tho wounded is a daily practice
Sergeant Klemt relates, IN the
"Jaucrsches Taceblatt," OF October Is,
1914, how his regiment. the 154th In
fantrv. butchered French wounded:
''Wo arrive at a little vale; the red
brecches lie there, crowds Of them,
dead or wounded We brain or bay
onet the wounded There lies
a Freedman. face TO the wall, felgn-
ing death. The kick OF burly infan-
tryman tells him we're there. Turn
ing about he asks for quarter, but we
tell him. That's the way you work, you
- and nail him to the ground. Be
side me | hear d singular cracking; it's
the blows of a musket butt which a
soldier Of the ljlth brings vigorously
on the head of a Frenchman.
"'The more merciful of Us kill the
wounded Frenchmen with a bullet, but
The others do the business with blows.
At the edge of their cover OF
branches they lie groaning and asking
for quarter. But. let them be wounded
lightly or severely, the brave fus.liers
save the fatherland the cost OF caring
for so many enemies.
The rest OF the book is composed Of
similar atrocities. some OF them we'll
., oh I'm nVi~fu blp