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


treaty signed by the Kaiser and
his government means anything.
And here is BernStorff, German
Ambassador in Washington, who
fOrgetS that cannibals and saw
ages, even, consider that eating
salt in another Indians tent or
white mans house is n pledge of
truth-while this Judas Ambas-
sador dimes at the White House
at night and goes on plotting
seditionS in Mexico, blowing up
of our munition factories, and
the killing of our people. Bern
storff smiled and smiled, as he
kept one hand above the table
and in the other hand under the
table whetted a dagger on his
boots with which to stab his
host in the back.
witness the discovery of treach-
cry to Norway two months ago.
After several Norwegian steamers
had been mysteriously sunk at sea,
the German Consul was found trav-
cling back and forth from the For
eign office in Berlin. filling his
trunk with bombs and glass tubes
containing the cultures of glanders
to spread one of the most deadly dis
eases, to annihilate men, horses and
cattle, aE.3 protecting these instru-
ments of deais. hv the seals of the
Berlin Foreign Office. The sub
stance of Germany's answer to Nor
ways protest was the sneering an
swer What are you going to do
about it?' While Germany's Ambas-
sador to the Argentine Republic, ad-
Vising the sinking of Argentine ships
so as to leave no trace behind, is a
part of the same cunning, devilish,
German diplomacy that exhibits
these German Ambassadors as a
composite Judas, Macchiavelli and
Mephistopheles, united and carried
up to the nth power of diabolism.
No wonder the Kaiser baptized them
Huns and 'barbarians.'
German Philosophy Degrades
THE German philosophy has de-
humanized Germany's officers and
men. Later on, 1 shall give a de-
tailed account of the devastated re-
gions of Northern France, but here
and now let us confine the observa-
tions to the ruined villages and towns
of Eastern France. Pulling his iron
token out of his pocket-that exhib-
tied Deity as a DESTROYING soldier
the German officer and private reads
the words beneath: 'Smite your enc
my dead. The Day of Judgment will
not ask you for your reasons Hav-
ing, therefore, full liberty to loot,
these Germans became the wild
beasts. The plan had been Brussels
in one week; Paris in two weeks;
London in two months and then
two pockets filled with rings, brace
lets and watches, from Paris or
Nancy, for the sweethearts at home.
When the German army in Lorraine
was defeated by one-half of its num-
Der, it fell northward, passing
through French towns and villages
where there were no F'renchmen, no
guns, and where no shots were fired.
During July and August we went
slowly from one ruined town to an
other, talking with the women and
the children; comparing the photo
graphs and the full official records
made at the time with the state
ments of the poor, wretched survt-
vors, who lived in cellars where once
there had been beautiful houses, or
chards, Vineyards-but now was only
desolatjon. In GerbeVillier, stand
ing beside their graves, | studied the
photograph of the bodies of fifteen
old men whom the Germans lined up
and shot because there were no
young soldiers to kill; heard the de-
tailed story of a woman whose son
was first hung to a pear tree in the
garden, and when the officer and
soldier had left him and were busy
setting fire to the next house, she
cut the rope, revived the strangled
youth only to find the soldiers had
returned, and while the officer held
her hands behind her back, his as
sistant poured petrol on the sons
head and clothes, set fire to him, and
while he staggered about, flaming
torch. they shrieked with laughter.
When they had burned all the houses
r1nrninp tho
project of Lorraine reached that
Gethsemane and photographed the
bodies of thirty aged men lying as
they fell, the bodies of women
stripped and at last slain. In the
next village stood the ruined square
belfry into which the Germans had
lifted machine guns, then forced
every woman and child-275 in
number-into the little church, End
notified the French soldiers that if
they fired upon the machine guns,
they would kill their own women
and children. After several days
hunger and thirst, at midnight these
brave women slipped a little boy
through the church window, and
bade their husbands fire upon the
Germans in the belfry, saying they
preferred death to the indignities
they were suffering. And so these
Frenchmen turned their guns, and in
blowing that machine gun out of the
belfry killed twenty of their own
wives and Qhildren. In a hundred
years of history, where shall you find
q record of any other race, who call
themselves civilized, who are such
sneaking towards that they could
not fight like men or play the game
fairly, but in their chattering terror
put women and little children before
them as a shield? Proof oVerwhelnl-
ing. Here are, in brief, the records
of more than thousand individual
atrocities, that go with the original
photographs, affidavits and docu-
ments resting in the archives of
France against the day of reckoning.
What is more important still, here
are the letters taken from the bodies
of dead German soldiers with their
diaries. Out of the large number
note these: Photographs of dead
bodies of aged priests. some of
whom were dead because they had
| been staked down and used as a
lavatory until they perished. Dead
girls, with breasts cut off-and for
this reason: Every German soldier
is examined for syphilis by the sur
geon of the regiment and only the
healthy ones receive the card giving
| access to the camp women. If the
syphillitic German contaminates the
camp woman, his disease is handed
| on to his brother soldier, and that
means he will be shot. This syphil-
| litic soldier, therefore, finds his only
chance with the captured French
girls, but having contaminated a girl,
he fears that she in turn will con-
taminate the next German soldier
and. therefore, he mutilates her body
| to warn away Germans.