The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-17
PROF. DUESINC CHARGES FRENCH
AND ITALIANS WITH KILLING OF
INNOCENT, UNARMED CITIZENS
Priest Accused AS Spy Is Executed Without Trial
Hearing-German Prisoners Mistreated,
German Collegian Claims

! villages they have captured in Aus
tria is the charge made by Prof. Carl
Duesing of Magdeburg. Germany, in
! a letter written to his brother, DR..
| Herman D1esing of 1876 East Main
| street, this city Prof. Duesing ac-
cuSes the Italians of executing q priest
as spy without trial. He also ac-
cuses the French of shooting German
soldiers after they had surrendered
| The following is the second part of
a letter which Prof. Duesings mailed
from Germany to his brother here on
February 3 and which was received
on March s The first part of the
letter has been published in a previous
issue of The Farmer.
The governments comprising the
Entente Allies have announced from
time to time the loss of warship. If
you count these officially admitted
losses up to jan 1, 1916, you get the
! following result:
Great Britain's losses: Nine dread
naughts, 7 armored cruisers, 8 pro-
tected cruisers, 5 gunboats, torpedo
boat destroyers. 4 torpedo boats, Is
subm arines, IL auxiliary cruisers, z
mine sweepers and troop trans
ports.
'tFrance-One dreadnaught, 1 ar
mored cruiser, 1 gunboat, II torpedo
boats, submarines, 1 auxiliary cruis-
er, 2 troop transports.
ItaIy-One dreadnaught. armor-
ed cruisers, 1 torpedo boat destroyer,
2 torpedo boats. 4 submarines.
Russia-OneA arnored cruiser, 1
protected cruiser, gunboats, 2 torpe-
do boat destroyers, submarines,
transports.
Japan-one protected cruiser,
torpedo boat destroyer and / mine
sweeper.
Remember. that these figures are
| not guesswork, but officially admitted
by the respective governments. We
true figures are higher, because some
losses have been kept secret.
Let US look now at the losses of
merchantmen, which the Entente AL
lies have suffered. The Berlin war
office states officially, that the Allies
up to December 1, 1915, have lost 734
merchantmen with total tonnage of
1,447, 628 tons. The submarines of
the Central Powers have sunk 568
ships with a tonnage of 1,079, 402.
Mines destroyed SO ships with a ton
mage ! of 94,709. Seventy-three ships
were sunk by other war1ike acts. OF
these ships 624, with a tonnage of
1,231,944, belonged to Great Britain
This means that the latter has lost up
to December. 1, So per cent. of her
total tonnage of merchantmen.
You have heard SO much about
German atrocities IN your Anglo
American newspapers, that you might
be interested to learn also about Ital-
ian and French atrocities. Let US
see first about the Italian atrocities
which were committed in the first
weeks of the Austro-Italian war. The
Austrian government has published
lately an official report, which shall
herewith reproduce.
1.-The priest of Monfa1cone, ,Kren, an
Italo-Austrian, was suspected of hav
ing used a secret telephone in the cell
lar of the church and was shot as a
spy. Before the execution the priest
was seated astride a donkey bound to
it and chased around the churchyard,
until he tainted. Seven citizens of
ViIIesse were accused Of killing a
small detachmen of Italian soldiers
who were on patrol duty. Without
any trial, without a look at the
charges, an Italian captain ordered
the execution of the sewn men. One
unhappy woman who lost in this ex-
ecution her husband and son, was
forbidden to wear mourning. This
was only allowed when later the in
nocence of all seven executed men
was proven. The Stiffness of the ac-
cusation can be seen from the fact
that all residents at the time of the |
italian occupation, had to give up all
arms and sammunitions, even the
kitchen knives.
'Ten privates of the Austrian in
fantry one night last June were pa
trolling the lowland between Monfa1- !
cone and Lagrada at the italian front. |
Here they met a much stronger ItaI- |
ian patrol After a short fight the
Austrians were surrounded by the ItaI-
ians and forced to surrender. The
Austrian patrol was disarned and |
massacred by the Italians, who rip |
ped open the stoon1achs of the Aus
TRANS with knives
sHThe German war office reports the I
following French atrocities: Many
Germans were captured during the |
French offensive last September. A !
few of these prisoners escaped. some |
days later and returned to their reg
iment They stated under oath that
the French had left them without |
food from 3 p. M. until noon of the
next day. That they were forced to |
fortify the first line French trenches
against their comrades, and Some
were wounded by German bullets. The
French privates and army surgeons
treated the prisoners decent1y, but
some of the officers tried to insult |
tenn in every way. According to, their |
sworn statement one French officer
shouted: i
80 You shall work and starve until
two of you die daily!' The next day
the prisoners found soapsuds mixed
in the watery soup. On complaint
the following answer was made them:
&c That is Joffre's medicine for the |
boches'
.'CoaI is very dear at present in
Italy One ton of British coal cost
$36 at Genoa. American coal sells at
SAB. Before the war a ton of coal
could be bought for 81 in Genoa. The
freight charge for ton Of coal from
England to Genoa before the war was