Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-09
"FRIGHTFULNESS."


German the under but there other places apply Nothing could be ovedrawn for the kaiser policy savagery yet and then details uncovered that create stonsmen after nearly three years of "gtfulness They still thorough in that performance
 why they wantony destroy which they could not take with them their retreat northern France and which would be of benefit purposes the French people who may their were passes comprehension basis of civilized warfare of humanity Details of what the Germans left behind them they eeated furnishes for Christendom ponder and it not surprising that London paper haracterzes systematic wecng u eraken for military advantages but from degenerate lust destruction Here glimpse of the ruin left behind them:
 necessary the world have laid country which they have evacuated Chauny is not ing than heap of lat and plaster and walls burned black Out 1900 have been destroyed by fire The and Notrc Dame. the Palais de Jus tcc the Ecoc Prmac the hospital amsoues and Hotel de Vile Only 10 streets spared in the Brouage quarter what left of the population hcded Here 300 houses sheltered about half the inhabitants of the l3 surrounding communes.
 The German military authorities only left behind 60; all carried off. After aban donng place. the enemy bombardcd the only quarter of the which they had left unfortunate fellow counymen training their guns seminary St Charles quarter only the feeble and aged housed and the Brouge quarter and children huddled together
 This would condemn the German forever were not that has already been condemned long Twelve old men, who ill., killed in their beds and six other civilians met a similar fate. The inhabitants physically out by the long tale of misery under the German occupation.
 
 what they did property that could by stretch of the magin useful any purpose the returning inhabitants of the abandoned districts:
 should like to put on record in more deliberate possible hurried tegams written the end of long and journeys the naked facts of the German evacuation French and villages. have traversed blasted vii ages and have spent almost esurey hours in Peonne With opportunities difficult tell how much of the has been wrought by she'll mine fire by housebreak CTS brutality scientific cvceration cloak themselves under the gue of of The facts these
 As soon driven off and behind the great fortified line of which the German boast all that was having off and all the destroyed The varied with the thing to be destroyed In Pcronne many fine planted for ornament The Ger military authorities probably from lack of labor could not away could spend time in fclng hem So given hack hcdgeayer cuts deep enough insure the death Of the tree left his mark-a Vapcd convicts mark cut halfway through each trunk of the Fruttrces more than ornamental and especial has been taken destroy completely the cpers and prety train which French gardeners take special and pecu jar delight do not know why, but the sight ot these little fruit trees their throats filled with rcnchant rage against the mind than all the of the havoc
 Passing describe what took place with the deserted houses the correspondent continues:
 Now for the houses Along whole where every front wall open could find vcstgc of any shchOc The work has been done wholly convinced by small charges ammonal of which found and bravcy carried by of the party The quarters of the where the shells had been directed very well defined and it in these only that the front walls erect though damaged With the houses and filth nvarablc The general i'm psson dcsoation wrought by buhcaded notaur vuurc-apy, etched the features odous be- human and intelligent when minor ind vual details of this general wcckagc reached imagination
 Here long mirror hung against the wall 1t shiy cred by of hammer, still lying the floor Here
 cabinet with shallow shelves, each of which had been hacked by blunt instrument Here again Renaissance mante finely designed marble It had been battered shape pattern by the blunt side of certain number of fine library greater number thrown about the floor and wantony and foul cd No pictures left intact single table chair or piece of croclcry
 War expected be hell But these descriptions indicate that there be abandoned and malignant spirit hell that modern civilization had dreamed "Kultu takes