The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-24
Savage Warfare Meth
ods Used By the
Germans
Story Told By DR.. N. D.
Hills, Based On AGda-
wits and Actual Photos

we are all we'll aware but the fol-
lowing extracts from a speech of
DIR. Newell Dwight Hills of New
York, make it clearer to us that the
frIghtfulness of the German pro-
gram Is not the result of madness
suddenly produced by their being
driven INTO a corner, but part of
the whole German plan for the war.
1t is in their philosophy of rule by
might instead of right.
! What DR.. Hills has to say is sub
stantlated by evidence in the form
of photographs and affidavits COL
lected during IS trip abroad re-
Gently. The eI.racts are given as
reported to the Detroit Journal.
II shall try t. tell you something
OF what my eyes have seen," he said.
But l trust that you will remem-
Der that kodak picture of the Cal
ifornia earthquake is one thing and
to see San Francisco in conflagra-
tion is another.
"You can sit in your library and
read Dante, but you have not been
in hell with Virgil because you have
seen picture.
"There is what they call Dakin
solution to cleanse a cash in the
arm, but there is no mental selu-
ton to heal the gashes in the heart
left by what has happened in Bel
gium and France.
"Never were human atrocities 40
firmly proved They are better e.
tablished than what you have read
OF Sioux tortures of captives on the
frontiers, or the horrors of the
Black Hole of Calcutta, or all that
can be imagined Of the Spanish ini-
QUESTION, when they crushed mems
feet in the boot and tore their limbs
apart with the rack, crushed their
hands with the thumb-screw, tore
their nails out with pincers and sac
riced them with red-hot needles.
RECALLS TORTURES
There was no necessity for the
people of Belgium and France to
hide the old instrument of torture
preserved in museums. The Ger
mans came with methods of torment
beyond any previously known or
dreamed Of"
"Some of you are conservative and
say you will not believe what your
eyes have not seen," he said. He
stepped back to the table and pick
ed up a heavy pape.-covered docu-
ment. -....
This is one Of the many books.
the material Of which is made out Of
a vast number Of affidavits.
There are three important kind,
OF testimony. One is the testimony
OF mature and substantial people.
The second is the testimony of chill
dren too young to invent false
hoods. A third is the testimony Of
the sunbeam in the photograph.
After the German retreats the
testimony of what has happened is
collected by men sent into the dis
trict. A judge, if possible, several
attorneys, stenographers and two
or three photographers. A single
case, though condensed into one
report, may be buttressed by twen-
ty-five affidavits. Nothing in his
tory was ever better attested than
this series Of wicked deeds of which
the Germans have been guilty"
GERMAN PHILOSOPHY.
What is the philosophy of the
Germans course?" said DR.. Hills.
I'VE know that they must have had
some tutelage. Well, l happen to
have secured copy of the German
Manual of Military Tactics.
This treatise begins: Terrorism
is the heart Of the modern method Of
warfare carried on by GERMANY
This treatise teaches that de-
stroying of combatants is the least
part of war, that all laws may be
cast aside for the gaining of the
great object of war And officers"
it says, tcan steel themselves
against excessive humanitarians by
considering the following princi-
pias:
"Training the officers to steel
themselves against humanity, they
can bomb hospital ships, they can