The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-12-15

beginning at Hamburg and ending al
The Persian Gulf
The maps ana plans as given out IN
1894 run the German frontier limo
around Denmark. Holland. Belgium,
the iron provinces Of Northern France
the German province " North Switz-
erland: they make Austria-lIungary 20
ne an ally state ~ equal rank with
Prussia, but in the plan as published
in 1911 the kaiser places German mil.
iiary hoes In control Of the Austrian
and Turkish armies, while The south
ern lines Of the Pan-Gcrman empire
include p' the Balkan states. the kai.
ser's sistC, $ state of Greece, with all
OF ASIA Minor and Persia. SO care
fnlly was the plan wrought out. 50
perfect were tho details. that today
should the war close. AS some wish,
nine-ienths of All the Pan-German
scheme would have been achieved.
| haye IN my possession an iron coin
given as - token TO each German sol.
der. At the top IL a German portrait
OF Deity, and underneath are these
words: The good old German God
The Diety holds a weapon in his right
hand, and the token bears these
words; "Smitc your onemy dead. The
day OF judgment win not ask you for
your reasons" To his native charac-
ieristic Goethe was referring when he
said: The prussidn is naturally cruel:
civilization viii intensity that cruel,y
and make him a savage"
For three years German-American.
have protested that the stories ~
German atrocities were To be disbe.
leVcd rs English inventions, belgian
lies and French hypocrisics, but that
day has gone by forever. On a battle
line -four hundred miles In length. in
whatsoever village the rctreating
Germans pass the following morning
accredited men hurried Co he scene
To make the record against the day
~ Judgment.
The photographs Of the dead and
mutilatcd girls, children and old men,
tell no lies Jurists rank high two
forms OF testimony, the testimony Of
what mature men have seen ana heard
n the testimony OF children too IN
nocout To- invent their statements but
old enough To- ell what they SAW.
The Cold Catalogue ~ German
atrocities now documcned ana in the
f'N'N HiAl'AAA hANAANFN ~ wv ulilFt fNNN
nations makes mp the most sickening
PAGE Ia history. These atrocities ain,
were committed not iu f, mood -
drunkenness not an hour Of anger
hut were organized nv So.Called Ger
man efficiency. and peIpctrited on =
deliberate. cold, precise, scientific
policy ~ German friEhtfuluess. THE
Germans slaughtered old men and
mitrons, mutilated captiyes In ways
that can only be spoken ~ by men
in whispers, violated little girls until
they were dead finding a calk-skin
nailed upon "a barn door 80 be dried,
they nailed A babe beside II n wrote
the word "Zwei:" they thrust women
and children between themselves ana
soldiers coming up 10 defend their ma
tive land; bombed and looted hospitals
Red Gross buildings, violated h
white nag-while the worst atrocities
cannot even he named here, Ma one
understands the German people as
well as the kaiser. oar president, IN
a spirii Of m~agnauimitS. patience. and
good will. distinguished between tho
kaiser and the Prussian government.
aud over against them put the Ger
man people. But Germany's cham
! bers OF commerce, liamburg's board