Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
eIDDLETOwN, DEL, SEPT. ls, 1915
MORE GERMAN "KULTUR"


pelin raid on England within six
days. On Tuesday night of last
week the raiders visited the east
coast, killing seventeen persons and
wounding forty-six, Most of the
dead and injured were women and
children. On Wednesday evening
Zepplins dropped bombs on London
apparently in the heart of the city,
killing twenty persons and wound
ing eighty-six. -Er.
-FOUR murderous airship raids in six
days on sleeping women and chill
dren! Tuesday nights raid killed II
and wounded 46-'most of the dead and
injured were women and children" To
find deeds of horror and savagery to
match these bloody assassinations of
innocent helpless women and babes by
German airships, one has to turn to the
frightful pages of barbaric wars many
centuries ago or to accounts of the mas
sacres by savage Indians of the early
settlers of America.
But Germany does not blush at these
awful acts, not indeed, she glories in
them as illustrations of the new re-
ligion it is her privilege to impose on
mankind-her "Kultur" By her long
course of perfdy and brutality Germany
has allenated the friendship and respect
of evey nation in the whole Christian
world today, saving only her half-civil-
lied, but scarcely so barbarous ally, the
Turk. Even Germany's other ally,
Austria, is opposed to and ashamed of
these brutal under-sea and over head
assassinations of innocent non-combat-
ants. And we'll she may be, for they
are at one inhuman and senseless since
they do not IN military sense affect
the issue unless, indeed, adversely, by
arousing the stupid English out of their
apathy.
This method Of sheer frightfulness, Of
killing indiscriminately men women anC
children, peaceful citizens in their
houses and in their beds, not soldiers in
field or fort, has never been used by
any civilized nation since the Christian
era. 1t is to the eternal disgrace OF
Germany that in her she has deli
berately adopted the cruel prac.
tees of naked savages. Why, even
the German warrior Hermann who witt
his barbaric hordes in the Teutoburg
Forest A. D. 9, overthrow the Roman
general Varus and his legions, woulC
have scorned to descend to such coward
ly tactics as killing defenceless womel
and babes! Again, we say, only tn,
sheer savage redman, with scalpinl
knife and tomahawk in hand ever com
mits bloody deeds like these.
1t is to the enduring honor of Franc
and England that her aviators, thoug
more numerous and far more skillfu
and daring than these sneaking nigh
assassins, the Zeppehns, have neve
made bloody reprsals, their attack
having been only made upon forts, gar
risons, arsenals, manufactures of wa
munitions etc. But if it be true, a
claimed, that huge sleepinglLondon i
powerless in the night to protect he
citizens from these deadly assaults, the
will the English aviators be justified j
in mere self-defence they give Germa
cities taste of the same barbaric medi
cine that German Zepplins have for
whole year been visiting upon French
English and Belgian towns and cities.
This is the only argument that wi
reach these ferocious Teutons who i
this unprecedented war have committe
every atrocity and cruelty. Whe
sleeping German mothers with babes {
their breasts are awakened and slain b
these horrible midnight bombs now S
familiar to English, French and Belgia
mothers and babes, from Zeppelin a
tacks it is barely possible the fearfl
brutality of it all may be appreciate
by the Germans themselves.