Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-25

hands. She was about fourteen
or sixteen years DID, Page ri.
Affidavits H-67.
I'm retirement from Malines eight
drunken soldiers were marching
through the street. A little child of
skewered the child on his bayonet,
and carried it away while his COM
rades sang. d. 10. 45.
Withdrawing from Hofstade, In
addition to other atrocities the Ger
mans cut off both hands of boy of
sixteen. At the inquest affidavits
were taken from twenty-five VIE
nesses, who saw the boy before he
died or just afterwards.
Passing through Haecht, in addi-
ton to the young women whom they
violated and killed, affidavits were
taken and the photographs of a child
three years old nailed to a door by
its hands and feet. Affidavits d
1908.
THAT all these atrocities were care
fully planned in advance for terror
izing the people is proven by the fact
that on the morning of August 25
the officers who had received great
kindness from Madame Roomans. a
notary's wife, warned her to make
her escape Immediately, as the loot
ing and killing of all the citizens,
men, women and children was about
to begin.
Show No Mercy.
These records could be multiplied
by thousands. Upon the retreat
from one city alone, inquests were
held upon the bodies of over six
hundred victims, including very aged
mea1 and women, and babes unborn,
VsaaFR NNN3 Il ha.y % IAtV,
mothers. 1t is the logical result of
the charge of the Kaiser to his army.
Give no quarter and take no pris-
oners. Let all who fall into your
hands be at your mercy The gem
eral staff of the German army pub
lished a manual several years be-
fore they began this war. They eX-
plicitly charged their soldiers to
break the will of the enemy by
curelty. Witness this page from the
War Manual on page So: "A war is
conducted with energy merely
against the combatants of the enemy
states and the positions they occupy,
but it will and must in like manner
seek to destroy the total intellectual
and material resources of the latter.
And witness this injunction TO
atrocity, page So: BY sleeping him
self in military history, an officer
will be able to guard himself against
excessive humanitarianism. 1t will
teach him that certain seventies are
indispensable to war. Humanita-
rian claims, such as the protection of
men and their goods, can only be
the nature and object of the war per-
nit Therefore, the war general
gave each German soldier his token.
large as a silver dollar, bidding the
soldier, Strike him dead. The Day
of Judgment will ask you no ques-
tions. Jesus said, Take heed that
ye offend not one of my little ones
The Kaiser says, L have done away
with Jesus teachings The Master
who loved the little children said, I
was an hungered and ye gave me no
meat. 1 was athirst and ye gave me
no drink. Therefore depart from me
into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his fellows The War
1t answers: Don't be afraid. Look at
your token. The Kaiser will take
care of you in the Day of Judgment.
Kill old men and little children, loot
merchants houses, violate women;
the Kaiser will see that the God of
Justice asks you no questions The
result was logical and inevitable.
These horrible atrocities! On August
81, General Won Leber gave out this
proclamation. The town of Waevre
will be set on fire and destroyed,
without distinction of persons. The
innocent will suffer with the guilty
After this town was destroyed and oil
the inhabitants killed, from the body
of a soldier slain on the retreat, we
find this page in his diary: We lived
gorgeously. Two or three bottles of
champagne at each meal. All the
girls we want. 1t is fine sport Are
we surprised that many of the letters
and journals taken from the bodies
of Germans quote General Won Hart
mans sentence, Terrorism is a prin-
ciple made necessary by military
considerations. German-American
objections that these towns were de-
stroyed because the inhabitants had
fired upon the invading army from
the windows of their houses is, con-
clusively met and answered by an
other letter written by a German Of
ficer to his wife. ON approaching a
village a soldier is sent on in ad-
vance to insert a Belgian rifle in the
cellar window or stable, and of
course, when this weapon is found
We take it to the Burgomaster, and
then the sport begins
"On a little board in one ruined
village, / read these words, Marie,
aged sixteen. Dead August "a, 1915.
vengeance is mine, l 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 officers massacred in Ar
menia a half million people, that
they might move into their farm
houses and little shops and stores.
1.-The glory of every great city and
country is its scholars, with their
love of truth, and their stainless
lives. We have had our civilization
at the hands of men who loved the
truth supremely, pursued the truth
eternally, and cherished the truth
above their fear of hell or hope OF
heaven. The world has it's liberty,
it's science and its law at the hands
of the heroes who preferred the
truth above life. Concerning the pa
triots, the reformers and the states
men, we can only say they were
stoned, they were pawn asunder, they
were crucified in Jerusalem, poi
soned in Athens, tortured in Ephe-
sus, exiled in Florence, burned al
the stake in Oxford, assassinated in
Washington. But the iron autoC-
,racy and militarism of Germany de-
hauched her university men. Here
in my hand is an address to the civil
lied world, signed by ninety-thre
German professors. They all receive
their salaries from state endow-
ments. Any hour the Kaiser or
Bethmann-H Hollweg can cut off their
income. When the indignation OF
the civilized world famed out against
Germany in the winter of 1915, tho
German government asked these
professors to sign a document. and
these men had been so degraded by