South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-21


there were no Young soldiers 20
kill. heard the detailed story Of
woman whose son was first hum TO
pear tree in the garden. and when
the officer and soldier had left him
and were busy setting lire 10 the
next house. she cat the rope. re-
vived the strangled youth Ouly 10
fnd the soldiers had returned. and
while the officer held her hands
behind her back, his assistant pour
ed petrol on the sons head and
clothes. set fire 90 him. and while
ne staggered about. a flaming torch,
they shrieked with laughter. When
they had burned all the houses and
retreatcd the next morning, the
project Of Lorraine reached that
Gethsemane and photographed the
. bodies OF 80 aged men lying as
they FELL the bodies Of women strip
ped and at last slain. In the next
village stodd the ruined square bel
fry into which the Germans had
lifted machine guns, then forced
every woman and child - 27b in
number-intO the little church. and
notified the French soldiers that II
they fred upon the machine guns
they would kill their own women
and children. After several days
I hunger and thirst, al midnight
these brave women slipped a little
boy through the church window
and bade their husbands ire upon
the Germans i'm the belfly, saying
they preferred death TO the indig-
mites they We're suffering And so
these Frenchmen turned their guns
and in blowing that machine gun
out Of the belfry, killed 20 Of their
own wives and children. In q
hundred years of history. where
shall you ind a record of any other
race. who call themselves civilized.
I who are such sneaking towards that
they could not fight like men or
/ play the game fairly. but i'm their
chattering terror put women and
little children before them as n
shield2 Proof Overwhelming. Here
are. I'm brief. the records of more
than a thousand individual atroci-
/ ties, that go with the original pho
| tographs affidavits and documents
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,
I note these. Photographs of the dead
( bodies. of sed priests, some of
whom were dead because they had
| been staked down and used as "a
I lavatory until they persisted. Dead
girls with breasts cut of--and for
/ this reason: Every German soldier
\ is examined for syphilis by the sur
geon of the regiment and only the
I healthy ones receive the card Civ
I ing access 20 the camp women. ii
I the syphilitic German contaminates
the camp woman, his disease is
handed on 10 his brother soldier.
and that means he Will be shot
I This syphilitic soldier therefore
finds his only chance with the cap
tured French girls. but having con-
I tamiuated a girl. he fears that she
| I'm turn viii contaminate the next
German soldier and, therefore, he
mutilates her body 10 warn away
Germans. The girls life weighs
!
I lust or the possibility of the brute's
/ handing his contamination to the
next soldier. Here is German eff
cheney for YOU: and organized by
/ the devil himself. Take these pages
I found I'm the diaries of German SOL
diers. Aug 22nd, note book of Pri-
/ vate Max Thomas. "Our soldiers
are So excited we are like wild
I beasts. Today, destroyed eight
houses, with their inmates. Bay
onetted two men with their wives
and a girl of IS The little one al
I most unnerved me, SO innocent was
I her expression" Diary of Eitel An
ders: I'm Nendre all the inhabitants
without exception were brought out
\ and shot This shooting was heart
| breaking as they all knelt down
and prayed IL is real sport. Yet it
was really terrible TO watch At
/ .'Haecht T saw the dead body Of a
young girl nailed to the outside door
! of a cottaSe by her hands She was
about "a or is years old.
The Catalogue of Grimes.
The cold catalogue of German
I atrocities now dOcumented and i'm
! the government archives of the diff
/ ferent nations makes up the most
sickeuing page i'm history. Days
spent upon the records preserved in
southern Belgium, northern France,
or i'm and about Paris, days spent in
/ the ruined villages of Alsace and
/ Lorraine. leave 6ne nauseated -
physically and mentally.
1T is one long. black series Of
/ legally documented atrocities. Ev-
i cry solemn pledge that Germany
+ signed o year and a half before at
+ the Hague convention, as to safe
guarding the Red Cross. hospitals,
cathedrals. libraries. women and
children. and unarmed citizens. are
/ sconed at as a scrap of paper
These atrocities also were com
mitted not i'm a mood OF drunken
ness. nor an hour of anger. but
were organized 10y a so-caHed Ger
7 man efficiency and perpetrated on
a deliberate. cold. precise. scientific
policy of German frightfulness. II
is not simply that they looted ftc-
. tories. carried away machinery,
robbed houses. bombed every farm
+ house and granary. left no plough
nor reaper: chopped down every
/ near tree and MUM tree with every