The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-09-21

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Dabo, the Brooklyn artist, who was
with Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, pas
tor of Plymouth Church, in Northern
France this summer, told today of the
wrath aroused in the breast of the
cleric by the evidence of cold-blooded,
calculating, systematic savagery on
the part of the Prussians.
Dabo went abroad as interpreter
and translator for an American mis-
sion, the other members of which were
DR.. Hills and Laurence Chamberlain,
the representative of the Bankers
Association. The devastated districts
were visited under the escors of the
perfect of Nancy, who, for two days,
pointed out the devastation and ruins
of the Meuthe and Moselle districts.
"After you have seen what have
SEEM" said Dabo, "you realize it is a
case of a whole nation gone mad. 1t
has been one orgy of crime"
Much of what Dabo told was I'M
printable. Even the Bryce reports,
according to him was expurgated be-
fore it's contents were given to the
world. The artist has seen, has read
the unexpurgated version.
No newspaper could publish it in its
entirety.
Arsenic in Water,
"You know" said Dabo, THAT they
poisoned the wells by sinking dead
bodies in them, tied with rocks and
metal. The French soldiers were or
dered not to drink any well water.
They were told that they might drink
anything else.
"Some time after this order was
given soldiers began to report sick
They were asked if they had drunk
any water. Yes, they had drunk
from such and such a spring. They
described its location. The spring was
examined. There it was, apparently
as clear as crystal, with circle of
stone about it, just as the peasants
had placed them-stones polished by
the constant action of the water.
Samples of the water were taken
and on analysis proved to be filled
with arsenic. What do you suppose
the Prussians had done with their
fendish ingenuity? They had dug
down under the spring and firmly
fixed there a linen mesh bag filled
with arsenic. This had been enclosed
in wire mesh case shaped like a
shell.
Spread Disease Germs.
every drop of water pumped to
the surface of the spring was forced
through the bag and the wire mesh
case. So ingeniously had the Ger
mans done their work that they had
left no rubbish behind. They put
I back the soil, replaced the stones and
saw to it that the stones were pol
ished just as they were before.
81 have seen and talked with women
who had been mutilated, and with
their relatives and friends, who were
able to tell me just where and when
the atrocity took place and where they
stood at the time of the fiendishness,
| have had plenty of evidence pre-
scented to me to support the story that
the Germans spread broadcast the
germs of the most deadly and horri-
Bile diseases. / have seen the marks
of the beast all through Northern
France"
Dabo told of a French girl who was
trussed to the branches of an apple
tree after she had been subjected to
the most horrible indignities.
Sees Year of War.
The great Reims Cathedral is no
thing but shell, he declared
"Dr. Hills was under fire many
times" he said. "He did not care to
60 to sleep at night, so anxious was
he not to miss anything Shells burst
within 500 feet of him at times, but
he was quite cool. He has come back
with such wealth of material that
l think may say no man in America
knows as much about what the Ger
mans have done as he"
Dabo said he thought the Germans
could stick it out another year-that
they were not starving, although they
were suffering and chiefly so for want
of fats. "The swift subjugation Of
Rumania," he said, "opened up fol
them field from which great guam
tity of foodstuffs flowed into Ger
many. That STAYED off real need fol
at least six months.
"They are short of wool and wool
en- clothing is absolutely essential fol-
the soldiers. No uniform is good fol
more than 60 days service and yor
must remember that the soldiers have
to sleep in the trenches, into which
it rains.
France Won't Lose.
"In their search for metal, the!
have used even the tenders from the
freplaces of German households ant
the metal from the electric light fix