Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
lDDLErOwN, DEL. OCT. IA. 1919
GERMAN BUTCHERIES

''Seventy-four persons were killed
and 152 wounded in the Zeppelin raids
over England on Saturday and Mon
day nights, according TO revised
casualty list issued by the War Office
this afternoon. The damage was
slight About half the victims are
women and children. "-Er.
NEITHER the natural bloodthirstiness
of the wild Indian, nor the fanati-
cal ferocity of the barbarous Turk, is as
cruel, as merciless as this studied bru-
tality of the civilized (?) Germans.
Truly, an amazing spectacle this of
the land that was the devout cradle of
reformed Christianity, revertIng to bar
barism, rejecting God and His Christ for
the cruel atheism of a crazy Nietzsche |!
All Germany from the highest classes
to the lowest, from Kaiser to peasant,
is infected with this irreligious war
madness that glories in deeds of blood,
which would appal Turk or a savage.
The very priests and ministers at the
affairs of God are sanctioning and ap-
plaudlng barbarities which have made
all Christendom shudder with horror.
Hence the awful cruelties practiced
upon the innocent people of Belgium in
a scheme of calculated terrorism to
break their heroic spirit that dared do
the very thing Germany in her own cit
liens so glorifes- defend the father
land; hence the deliberate sacking of
beautiful Louvain and the needless
= destruction by these German madmen
of many works of Art like that match
less gem of architecture, the Cathe-
dral Of Rheims; hence that awful mas
sacre of 1850 passengers on the Lusi-
tania, and all the long list of want on
devilish cruelties done on land and sea
in these two years of war by these
devotees at the shrine of Germany's
new religion that was to displace the
religion of Sinai and Bethlehem-her
boasted Kultur.
To show that Germany is barbarous,
if this fearful war record of hers had
not abundantly proved it, when the
news of that cruel deed of eowardly |
murder of non-combatants, the Lusi-
tania massacre came, heather Berlin |
went wild with joy; the school children |
were given a special holiday in honor of |
the great achievement that among |
other 40 horrid incidents had drowned |
babes at their mothers breasts-the /
bloodiest deed ever done on the wild |
ocean since creations dawn; and the |
naughty Kaiser, the official ''divine
right" head of this whole dreadful busi-
ness, honored with medal and promo
ton, the wretch that did the wholesale
murder
So now, all Germany is applauding
these cowardly, senseless deeds of mid
night assassination that with Zeppelin
airship bombs slsy more mothers and
babes in their beds. True, these
savage deeds of mere murder yield no
military gain whatsoever, but they do
kill or mangle the wives and children of
Germany's enemies, and that feeds the
unspeakable blood-lust of her Moloch
worshipers.
But, thank God, the end of this long
war nightmare with it's unheard of
orgies of blood, is approaching. After
slaughtering 500, 900 of his soldiers in a
fruitless six months assault on Verdun,
the conceited Crown Prince has aban-
doned that attempt, and the whole Ger
man army, now weakened by heavy
losses. and hemmed in on four sides by
the ever increasing numbers of its
enemies, is practically no longer able
anywhere to attack effectively. As
Chancellor -Hollweg publicly
declared, Germany, with her back to
the wall, is fighting for her life"
The end, therefore, is no longer in
doubt. 1t only remains to be seen how
many months may be required to lay
helpless in the dust, the face of this
barbaric nation that has menaced the
worlds peace, and civilization as it has
not been menaced since that earlier
Frenchman, Charles Martel, at Tours
turned back the Saracen hordes and
saved all Europe from barbarism.
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