El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-04-19
EVEN THE GRAVE
is DESECnA1ED
BY Run; POISON
GIVEN TO HORSES
Naked French Girls Are
Made to Wait Table
For Germans
WELLS BEFOULED;
PHOTOS DEFILED

0O ILL lL-l-L
Detailed and voluminous reports OF
the uncivilized warfare of the Ger
mans in their retreat from France ap
pear daily in the London newspapers,
sent by correspondents in the field
They elaborate the reports carried by
the Associated Press from its CORE
spondents. The world has become
convinced of these atrocities and the
Germans no longer make any attempt
to palliate or deny them, the weight
Of evidence is so overwhelming and
incontrovertible.
I'm village after village says the
correspondent of the London Times,
especially in Chauny itself, they have
burnt whole rows of houses for NO
reason whatever but pure spite and
lust of destruction. In house after
house they have pillaged every room
that they have not set on fire and
taken all the contents away with
them, or else, more vilely still, they
have smashed them to atoms.
." think It cannot be too strongly
UHP'USScu 0H AHS EVst " VIE WV'tt
that the power Of this particular form
Of evitdoins must be taken away from
this uncivilized race"
Here is the latest invention of
this generation of house-breakers, the
newest refinement in the ungentle art
of doing mischief. In the fields be-
tween Noyon and Chauny, many of
which--a sure sign that the German
retreat was not foreseen until COM
paratiyely lately-have been carefully
%ploughed and even sowny there are
or were, a considerable number of.
fruit trees. Every one of them within
a certain distance of the road-forI
the thing vas obviously done in a hur-
ry when they found that they were
bound to retreat-had been killed.
"They have either been sawn
through a couple of feet from the
ground, and left lying where they
fell, or else a cash three or four inches
deep has been hacked in a complete
circle round the trunk. The gashes
are quite fresh. 1t is quite clear that
it is the officers of the Germany army
who are responsible for this particular
crime of tree mutilation.
Carnival of Lust .As
"And here are two more facts about
the particular class who at the pres
ent moment have the control, but not,
let US hope, the destiny, of the Ger.
race in their hands, Both Of them
were told me today by a distinguished
French officer, whose truthfulness and
honor are beyond question::
"When the Germans left Noyon on
Sunday they took with them so young
girls who, they said, were to
act as officers servants When he was
on a part Of the Somme front now
taken over by the British he saw with
his own eyes photographs taken from
German prisoners Of German officers
at dinner and being waited up
on at table by naked women.
"One feels that these men have
the source and origin of what
ever keeps humanity ommon with a
pelIucid and general sense Of right
behavior.
n can understand national monu-
being removed by an enemy for
war material, but cannot understand
The smearing of filth over the por-
traits of children. In Bapaume yes
the proof of the enemy's cur
ious national traits was the city IT,
self, which has been deliberately con-
into a mass of muck. There
Is no Bapaume now. It is shoulder
ing rubble and timber and an evil
hidden. When in future the Germans
talk of the worlds need Of their Gull
ture Bapaume and Peronne should
them.
"There was much In Bapaume to
make the mind and the stomach sick,
but among the broken mirrors and
srockery, smashed furniture, plaster,
and old papers of what had been al
statIoner's shop in the city, that pho
engagements of q group Of
little girls, evidently once a
treasure, but made foul as an insult
oy a German trooper, was the trivial
but ultimate piece of siekening evil
ience.
"The destruction Of orchards, the
Killing of trees, the throwing Of or
lure and sheep dip down wells, and
he defling of books, portraits and
little things in homes which were not
worth looting turns M in disgust from
he name Of German If he could
sven win the war he could never win
his name from being anything but an
insulting epithet.
Correspondent Philip Gibbs, writing
the "Chronicle" says:
Foul Warfare
Horrible also to say, he has tried
delay us by foul and poisonous
means, outside the pale even of mod
I'm warfare, which is very broad
in its definition Of lawfulness.
"A German agent has been caught
our lines with meteorological cuI-
,ure for Spreading disease among our
His orders were to mix these
microbes with the animals
God, or to scratch their n~ostrils with
wire tainted with these living organ
SIMS of disease. /,
at is on a level with the b~efouIing
II the wells, which have seer with 1
ny own eyes. II Is a Ioathsome way
~ war, enIisting another branch of
to make . mockery of all
mems conquest of knowledge which
q used far c,tnh deviIish ~purnosee. A