The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-21
DR.. HILLS VISITS FRANCE
Committed German
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the German

hind her back. his assistant poured
/ petrol on the boys head and clothes.
set fire 10 him, and while he staggered
about, flaming torch, thtey shrieked
with laughter.
When they burned all the houses
and retreated the next morning, the
F.. project OF Lorraine photographed the
( bodies OF thirty aged men lying as
I they fell, the bodies OF women strip
/ ped and al last slain, while in the
next village stood the ruined square
belfTy into which the Germans had
lifted machine guns, then forced every
woman and chiId.2T5 in number-in-
TO the little church, and notified the
French soldiers that If they fred up
on the machine guns they would kill
. their own women and children.
After several days hunger and
thirst, az midnight these brave women
slipped little boy through the church
window and babe their husbands fire
upon the Germans in the belfry, say
ing they preferred death to the In
dignities they were suffering. And so
these Frenchmen turned their guns,
and in blowing those machine guns out
OF the belfry killed twenty OF their
own wives and children
disputable proof of the heartles sness
of the Germans was found in the let
tiers and diaries taken from the bodies,
OF dead German soldiers He contin-
ued:
"Out of the large number note
these: Hundreds OF photographs of
the dead bodies OF aged priests, some
OF whom had been staked down. Here
is the German efficiency for you. Here
is the diary on Aug. % of Private Max
Thomas: Our soldiers are so excited
we are like wild beasts. Destroyed
eight houses, with their inmates Bay
oneted two men with their wives and
a girl of Is. The little one almost I'M
nerved me, so innocent was her ex-
preston
DR., Hills read what had been cop
led from the diary of Eitel Anders, an
other German soldier. II read: In
Vendre all the inhabitants without ex-
ceDtion were brought out and shot.
This shooting was heartbreaking, as
they all knelt down and prayed. It
was real sport, yet it was terrible 10
watch. At Hecht l saw the dead body
of a young girl nailed to the outside
door of cottage by her hands. She
was about "A or 16 years old" DIR.
Hills quoted from one Of the affdavfts
Affidavit DISC" II read: After
passing Weerde we met woman COW
cred with blood, with her breasts cut
off. She was delerious"
Standing in the village of Herr
menil." continued Dr.. Hills, "a boy
of 16 and his mother showed me
twelve bullet marks against the stone
wall where mother, % years old,
with a babe on her breast, with her
young sister and sister-in-law OF IS
and II years old, were shot by twelve
German soldiers. On little board
in one ruined village. l read these
words: Marie. Aged 1s. Dead Aug.
"a, 1915. Vengeance is mine, will
repay. saith the Lord The hundreds
of atrocities personally Investigated
only serve to interpret Ambassador
Morgenthau's statement as to Ar
menia, that the Turkish soldiers and
German o1ncers massacred in Armen-
lie half million people, that they
might move into their farm houses
and little shops and stores"
Germany's philosophy, the pastor
concluded, had dehumanized her Of
ffcers and men. He said the kaiser,
and not the rest OF the world, had
coined the word Hun" and had ap-
piled it to his own people.