The Detroit times., 1915-04-06
Young Girl Also Tells
Tale of Outrage By
Cars Troops
FINGERS CUT FROM
GERMAN YOUTHS
Horrible Stories Are
V0uched For By In
vestigation
ny HERsERT COREY

n &A0Yys Ags& ~ 1NFsEs NsNss
TnSSfT, Prussia. Feb. 24.-"Sn'
VIM tell her story II Il In only pub
lished In America said the German
stan oficer who has accompanied
us. mot n II is published in Ger
many.
Across the table In the Koelig
Iichsrhof sat Q girl who had beer
beautiful Her face was delicatel,
oval although now the cheeks ars
thin. Her eyes were wide and
brown and sad. Her voice was soft
and delicately shaded That she
was woman OF education and re
1nement was obvious. Her age Is
~. Today she looks S.
Il was made the victim Of Rus
sian soldiers on two occasions she
cid. without . quayer In her Low
vctcs. Il had rather died.
Ny apology for publishing this
story ID that there are some things
% ghastiy--so horribIe-that they
mnst be published II Martha Pack.
Mats experience were an isolated
, one--if only few OF the women
Who aid not leave their homes In
eastern Prussia when the Russians
came had been Violated would
not ten n.
But the world should know that
she u but one Of hundreds thou
sands That what happened to her
has happened 10 women In every
town held by the Russians. with the
poesible exception Of two or three
That The degradation Of womankind
vas asseated TO by Russian ofacers.
no1 by the mere closing Of eyes. but
" word That not merely the mon
! krel Cossacks -<iisease-eaten beasts
~ho are only formidable against IN
ASned civilians participated b
these infamies. but that Russiar
esgular troops are likewise guilty
That pillage and arson have been
oesentiai features OF the Russiar
<smpaigu In eastern Prussia Poor
Martha Packulat's case 10 merely
typical.
Ny father owned q large farm a
oalten.- she said. In her clear. ten
Der voice. He n dead. Ny brother
4 3 soldier. I lived there with my
pothsr during IL weeks OF the Rus
olan occupancy
Al frst Russian patrols drove on
he farm stock. Then came Christ
nas eve. The two women were
olons IN the house. Two Cossack.
csne. They knocked the women
1own with dubbed sabers. They
dragged the half-unconscious girl &c
I ~ outbuilding. One stood guard
q the door
Fox and | turned away our eyes
We could not look At this innocent
Dlri - she spoke--innocent and yir
GinAI IN spite OF her PROCLAMATION
Her voice became o low monotone
1evoid Of any infection. The gaps
q her narrative were pregnant with
.rasic mesning.
90 Jan. 3 was visiting a near
by fArm.- she continued. lifelessly
when three regular soldiers came
rhey knocked me down and carried
ne TO the barn. One remained al
ne door with his rife ready"
She did all that pure and fear
ess woman could do. She went 4
he Russisn headquarters and asket
ne staff ofhcers there 10 see thn
1er assailants were punished. Al
Jbe talked 10 an ofYicer-gray- head
-. masterfuI. with the badge OF
>oIoneI upon his shoulders o
,ef three violators passed by.
There" she cried. pointing. "tha
, one OF the men,"
Il don't know him." said the CO
mel. carelessly. Hes no man Q
nins.-
Lot me round out this CHASTITY tai
" The narrative OF q greater suffel
~. n may 90 to show that sue
hlngs happened everywhere--aI
noet- during the Russian domins
. }oa Of eastern Prussia.
Fox and I have made inquiries
~ W have yet TO hear Of any Rus
- sol6isr who was punished. The,
1@mnn snap~ c<ssv, unoo olar>s an ovor.