New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-14
GERMAN ATROCITIES
Judge Nipperfs Attempt to Excuse Them
Unconvincing.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to Judge Nippert's many
misstatements re German atrocities, "ouio
refer your readers to the able and truthtul
report of Viscount Bryce, former British Am
bassador TO the United States, who, with q
committee. went to Belgium to investigate the
horrible atrocities committed on those nelp'
less neople. | wish you had the space to
snare to mention some more OF the horrioie
butcheries, the brutal violation Of young ahc
old women which are mentioned in that re-
mort. copies Of which can be procured IN TINS
c;tv will merely mention one case as an
example OF many others.
The rector of the Louvain University 'he
yice-Rector Bishop DR.. Becker, whom
know personally, president Of the American
Seminary (part Of the university, VINO was
formerly Bishop Wilmington, Del; Mon
seieneur williamson, an American priest TO-
eether with 40 priests and ecclesiastlcS'
were sent to Brussels in old, dirty CARTS
ssated on bags of potatoes, etc. On reach-
ing Turvirin, suburb of Brussels, they
searched the priests, and in the pocket 0.
Father Dupieraux they found on nyIea'
private note giving description Oh Inc
destruction OF the university with its price,
less library, st. Peters Church and great
MANY buildings. When the paper had been
read and translated, there was silence LOT
minute. Father Dupieraux asked to be al
lowed to receive absolution. "Absolution!
What is that?" was the brutal reply. he
answered. "To see a priest" They assented.
A priest advanced. Father Dupieraux knelt
down and the priest heard his confession ana
gave him absolution.
"Thirty wards from u.s." says the priest
who related the brutal assassination, ia
tber Dupieraux was ordered to halt. Four
soldiers were lined up ten yards in front OF
us The order to fire was given. Father
Dupieraux fell. There was silence for two
minutes. The fathers arm still moved; the
victim was dispatched by bullet in the
temple and buried"
All this is related by Father Schill, an
eminent Jesuit priest. who was one OF the
party and witnessed this horrible murder.
Judge Nppert reports that the beautiful
Hotel de Vile City HalD Of Louvain was
not burned This was no fault Of the Ger
man vandals, as they set it on fire several
times. but each time the fire was extin-
guished.
Judge Nippert writes of the so-called atroc-
tics Of the Cossacks in Eastern Prussia,
which is unbelievable, and am glad an Amer
lean lady. a resident of Poland, the wife OF
a Russian nobleman, has written under her
own name the unprintable outrages Of the
German soldiers while in occupation of her
section and the terrible condition she found
her home in after the brutes left it.
II the Germans were successful they
would be a menace to the world. Now is
the time for Rumania, Holland and Sean
dinavia to join the Allies, which would en-
able heroic little Denmark to recover the
rich provinces Of Holstein and Schleswig,
which the Germans stole from her.
The destruction of her largest merchant
steamer was an act Of war against Holland.
II is an historical fact that at the sur
render of CORVALLIS at Yorktown among
the twenty-eight flags surrendered fourteen
were German.
I hone our people are not forgetting that
large numbers of Hessians were hired for
money TO fight against US in the Revolu-
tionary War, and that Baron Steuben was
merely a soldier OF fortune who joined our
army for all the money there was in 1t.
We have been dining and winning the OFF,
GERS and crew Of the Deutschland, and am
afraid we are forgetting the atrocious muir
der Of 1l5 men, women and children on board
the Lusitania, who were sent to their death
without any warning, and even now they are
dropping bombs from the Zeppelins on the
sleeping women and children Of our kinsmen
in England. Is this legitimate warfare? No,
it is deliberate murder!
In to-day's papers ! find threat from a
correspondent that when the Germans are
victorious the United States will be brought
20 account for helping the Allies with am
munition.
have lived in Belgium for ten years, and
one Of my daughters still lives in Brussels