Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
MIDDLErOwN, DEL, DEC. 2 1915
LUSITANIA HORROR NO. 2

inquiry VIII NC qulIO A"ii W
ders of women and children on land;
midnight bombs dropped on sleeping
cities; torpedoed passenger ships like
the Lusitania massacre; the awful bru,
talities done on the innocent Belgians;
hundreds of other outrages upon non
combatants whose recital should redden
the cheek of a savage-these unmatch-
ed deeds of barbarism are going on
and on seemingly without end
But why all this madness of blood
lust? Why, the Kaiser declares he is
divinely appointed to rule the world,
and illustrate the superior virtues OF
Germany's Kultur which shall remodel
quite after the heart of her mad atheis-
tic High Priest, Nietzsche, and Treit-
schke and Bernhard, his prophets, a
world spoiled by the foolish doctrines
of the absurdly pitiful Christ.
With the lying perfidy which has
marked Germany's whole course in this
awful war of her naughty Kaiser's
contriving, she has many times broken
her promises to abandon her indefensi-
BILE sea-slaughterings, and as for the
customs of civilized warfare that for
bid attacks on non-co nbatants, hos
pltals, etc., Germany has violated them
all.
Her latest exploit is the sinking Of
the Brittanic, a sister ship of the i'll
starred Titanic whose fate it was to
meet the only other thing as cold and
merciless as the German heart-an ice
berg. This huge vessel was used solely
as hospital ship and had on board 500
nurses, doctors, etc., fifty of whom
were drowned German Subme rine
has since this sunk another English
hospital ship, the Bremen, which like
the Brittanic was flying the Red Cross
flag!
But these new German brutalities
are not confined to the sea. 1t was not
enough that Germany in her first at
tack upon peaceful Belgium should
have committed ravages of unsurpass-
ed ferocity, but she must later fine
that devastated land $4,000, 900
month for the crime of defending her
self against these cruel invaders. But
now to crown the infamy Of her many
wrongs Germany has condemned 40, 000
Belgian men to be transported as white
slaves to the "dear Fathefand !" Sud
denly without notice or chance to pre-
pare food or clothing, from towns and
villages all males able to work of II
years and over are driven into cattle
cars and shipped away to Germany and
slavery while the weeping wives,
mothers and sisters are prevented by
the brutal soldiers from giving food or
clothing to the miserable exiles
The many avowed acts of fendish-
ness done by Germans warrant one in
believing the horror tale of wounded
American soldier, one of the 100 Ameri-
cans in a regiment of 900 who helped
block the German march to Calais
when only So We're left alive or unhult
after that terrible battle.
The soldiers name is William H Penn
berton, of Philadelphia, and Girarl in
the Ledger, of October 13, gives the
account of his interview with the young
man
"When l enlisted in that Cana
dian regiment, said Mr.. Pember-
ton, Il had no more animosity
against the German than against
anybody else, but after got into
France it was different.
In a straightforward way this
young man then described to me
some of the relics of Prussia's in
vasion which he had actually seen.
''Did you," l inquired, ''really see
children with their hands cut OFF,"
mot one, but many of them,"
he replied 81 saw others with
their eyes out. l saw others with
foot cut off-all little children"
Sixty per cent of the young
French and Belgian women in some
of the devastated and overrun
country were to become mothers as
result of savage Prussianism.
Il saw these women and / have
also seen hundreds of affidavits to
the truth of the allegations of cruel
ties," added this soldier.
l observed that Americans gen.
orally doubted these stories, mainly
for the raason that we could not
conceive a rational motive for mutt
lating women and children.
81 know every one doubts who
didn't see," was Mr.. Pemberton's
answer. "But you won't believe
that the Prussians also crucifed
Canadian soldiers. They did and
three hundred of our men made