Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-06-02
with death. Fugitlves were shot
down without further ado.
Many Citizens Murdered.


Many Citizens Murdered.
Above all. however, numerous cit
liens 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 10 military service. A
transport of fugitives was suddenly
attacked. the men were separated
from the women and killed without
procedure Of any kind. A chief for
ester excorting a troop OF German
convicts, was taken prisoner by lsus-
sian troops. brought before General
Rennenkampf and-probably in ac-
cordance with that generals infamous
order to kill all German foresters, de-
liberately shot. The brutal lust OF
the Russian soldiers for murder did
not stop even at old men, women ano
children. The murder of a little girl
about or years old, is a partiehiar-
ly horrible instance. Rcvohing nlso
is the case OF an entire family, whien
fell victims to the lust of murder OF
Russian soldiers The man was spiK-
cd to the table, the child to the door
the breasts of the wife were cut OH
and her body eviscerated. In anoth-
er instance man and his wife were
nailed by the tongue to "A table, IN
which position they perished of hun
ger and loss OF blood
"lnnumerable are the cases OF
bestial attacks upon women and girls.
Very often these pitlable victims were
violated by several soldiers In sue
cession, who in casts infected them
with veneral diseases. women In the
advanced stages of pregnancy were
also abused by the bestial soldiers,
even women over 40 years of age
were not spared. A little girl.
years old, was violated by two Rus
sian soldiers in succession. Officers
also gave themselves up to such mis-
deeds.
Prisoners of War Mistreated.
Other supplements disclose the
atrocities perpetrated on German
prisoners of war by Russian troops.
Frequently those German soldiers
taken prisoner were robbed. spat upon
or otherwise mistreated. \ Russian
officer threatened German soldiers
who refused to hetray their comrades,
with death, and actually ordered one
OF them shot. Russian troops placed
German prisoners in narrow pits be-
fore their artillery positions with the
evident intention of allowing them 10
be killed by German fire. Cossacks
in riding past German prisoners OF
war. cut off their heads, or wounded
them. or-by chopping off their limbs
---mutiliated them A German pris-
oner was cruelty bound to a sort OF
treadmill and left TO starve. Three
hussars were found hanged in barn
with their heads down and their noses
and ears chopped off. so that theY
must have died in frightful agony.
Neither did the Russian hordes
hesitate at the mutilation and murder
Of wounded German soldiers. Thus
they tore the bandages off the wound
ed so that they would bleed to death
pierced out their eyes, cut off the
tongues. ears, fingers and feet or oth-
ers. or smashed in their skulls. In
many instances the atrocities took on
the very character of fiendish torture
Thus prisoner, slightly wounded
who was pinned to the wooden floor
of a verandah by sword, which went
through his mouth, had the flesh
stripped off 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 stable in such
way that the animal would have TO
touch the uncovered brain with It's
mouth at every least movement.
Infamous order Issued.
"The most terrible thing OF all,
though. is an order from the Russian
general staff, found on a Russian Of
Ulcer of high rank, which commanded
that all the male inhabitants able TO
work from boys of ten years upward,
TO be driven before the storming col
Iumns; this atrociOus order, whereby
the Russian commander-in-ehie has
placed his name on the pillory for all
time. was evidently made with the
intention that the German soldiers,
lin 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 behaviour
Of the Russian troops, defying as 1T
does every law of warfare and hu-
manity, and 1t hereby most vigorously
and solemnly issues protest against
these atrocities, which are indeed the
disgrace Of the Goth century