El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-01

7 brought before Gen. Renenkampf and
probably in accordance with that gen
erals infamous order to kill all Ger
man foresters, deliberately shot.
Children Killed; Parents Nailed TO Table.
The brutal lust of the Russian SOL
diers for murder did not stop even at
old men, women and children. The
murder Of a little girl, about or 3
years old. is a particularly horrible in
stance. Revolving also is the case Of an
entire family. which fell victim to the
lust Of murder of Russian soldiers. The
man was spiked to the table. the child
to the door. the breasts of the wife
were cut off and her body eViscera ted.
In another instance a man and his wife
were nailed by the tongue TO a table. in
which position they persisted OF hunger
and loss Of blood
Attacks on Women and Girls.
"Innumerabie are the cases of bestiaI
attacks upon women and girls Very
often these pitiable victims were viO-
lated by several soldiers in succession,
who in cases l. fected them with
veneral diseases, women in advanced
stages Of pregnancy were also abused
by the bestial soldiers, even women
over 70 years Of age We're not spared
A little girl. years old, was violated
by two Russian soldiers in succession
Officers also gave themselves up to
such misdeeds-
Prisoners of War Brutality Treated.
atrocities perpetrated on German pris-
Oners Of war by Russian troops. FIRE.
quenly those German soldiers taken
prisoner were robbed, spat upon or
other wise mistreated. A Russian Of
ficer 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 in
tentiOn of allowing them to be killed by
German fire COssacks in riding past
German prisoners Of war, cut off their
heads. or wounded them. or-by chop
ping off their limbS-mutilated them. A
German prisoners was cruelty bound to
a sort Of treadmiu and left TO starve.
Three huSSars were found hanged in a
barn with their heads down and noses
and ears chopped off. so that they must
have died in frightful agony.
"Eiendish Torture Practiced.
Neither did the Russian hOrdeS hesi-
tate at the mutilatiOn and murder 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 In many in
stances the atrocities took on the very
character Of fiendish torture. Thus a
prisoner. slightly wounded, who was
pinned to the wooden floor Of a We
randa by a sword. which went through
his entire fOrearms from the elbows
down, while his fingers were cloven TO
the wrists; another, who had a fracture
of the skull was bound TO a calf in a
stable in such way that the
animal would have to touch the IN
covered brain with its mouth at every
least movement
Most Terrible Of AL"
The most terrible thing OF all,
though. is an order from the Russian
general staff. found on a Russian Of
ficer Of high rank which commanded
that all the male inhabitants able to
work from boys of 10 years upward. to
be driven before the stOrming columns;
this atrOcious order, whereby the Rus
sian commander in chief has placed his
name on the pillOry for all time, was
evidently made with the intention that
the German soldiers. in order TO meet
the attack Of the Russians. should have
TO shoot down their own cOmpatriOts.
The imperial German government
believes 1t should stigmatize before all
the world this barbarOus behavior Of
the Russian troops, defyinE as it does
every law Of warfare and humanity,
and il hereby most vigorously and SOL
EMMY issues protest against these
atrocities. which are indeed the dis
grace Of The 10th century"