The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-07-07
EXPLOSIVE TOY IS
GERMANS NEW
WEAPON =,
DIABOLIC METHODS USED TO
KILL or CRIPPLE LITTLE
CHILDREN
TRANSLATED For The Tribune)


According to the Partisan CORES
pendent of La Gazette" of Lau-
same, Switzerland, the prefecture
OF the department of the Somme,
France, has addressed to the news
papers the following note:
I'VE have warned our fellow CHI
n against new and abuminable
methods employed ty the Germans
to injure or kill the inhabitants
of this region. We have described,
among these means, poisoned can
dies, toys of different kinds, and
watches containing explosives. A
child here, having picked up in
the street a penholder, started to
make use of it when the benholder
exploded, seriously wounding the
little one.
Decidedly, the German is SUI
preme in creation and initiative.
The trade of Switzerland, Japan,
France and England has taken pos
session of the worlds toy market
But here we perceive the travelling
statesmen of Nuremberg leaving in
the reconquered territory their visit
ing cards and a sample of their
latest creation-the explosive toy!
1t is a trifle, but at that the Ger
man must develop it.
81 am convinced that all fathers
md n,Dfhorc baroohn,t anJ ~ Cuif-
zerland also, will appreciate this
German ingenuity, which, even in
time of war, strives always for
something eve and better. We
must always remember the allure
ment of the German toy, especially
after the war, when we shall have
leisure to think again of the joys
of the little ones who have surviv-
ed poisoned candy, Zeppelin bombs
and submarine ~torpedoes.
What a charming idea to have
annexed a fireworks plant to the
celebrated factories of the town of
Hans Sachs and to have replaced
the sound in his dolls, which re-
vealed to the small beings the trea-
sures of maternal love, by perfectly
good and intensely murderous dy-
namite!
Zone may we'll conceive also the
"kolossal" properties of those wood
en- horses, stuffed with explosiA
powder, as in days OF old the hor
of Troy was filled with warriorN
You will avo that only a people
of superior culture and advanced
organization could invent the idea
of scattering along the streets Of
the villages they evacuated, bayonet
at side, a little celluloid decoy which
would MAIN the little one, or a
baby-carriage, in which the assassin
ated child clasped the debris with
mutilated hands.
81 am convinced that the work
ers for the imperial defense, who
design these explosive toys and who
are perhaps the fathers of families,
should find it very good" Is 1T not
"grandiose" and in the military
spirit of the race to have at last
discovered a practical means of m
ploying these baubles which consti-
tuted, heretofore, only the enchant-
ed fairy-land of our children, the
world in miniature, where they
learned of life smiling and wnere
their little hearts were carried
away by little joys and little sor-
rows.
The Germans have DESTROYED
many other dreams and many other
illusions, but morally they have
evolved nothing SO complete as the
assassin-doll and the numbering
peg-top. They have opened a road
where they will have no COMPETE
ton to fear. Despite commercial
treaties, prohibitive tariffs. no one
but the Germans will manufacture
such an article, made with great
care, we'll constructed. at low price.
which will kill a child surely and
almost instantly, or in any case
cripple it with certainty. And to
think that moral neutrality is still
preached.
1T is we'll understood that the
majority of our parlimentarians
Will not protest at anything. They
will not seek to prevent the explo-
sive toy remaining always a part of
the arrangement of history against
Germany"