Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-12
Corpse Factory and "Offi-
cial" Motherhood Stories
Borne Out
TO LECTURE WEDNESDAY
Dugmore, British Officer, Es-
capped Germans When Cap
tured as a Spy
Nv M'LISS

true about the 'oHltiai motne'"V"N
rumors of both of which atrocities have
shaken American msnnood and womanhood
60 the very depths at the inconceirable hor-
sur Of II all--rumors which we have scarce
= had the heart to credit
:sut Captain A. Radcliffe Dugmore who
fs ~ America for let-ure tour as a rep
resentative Of Great Britain put the official
stamp 80 verifcation on these heinous ru-
mors today In an interview he gave me at
the Bellevue.
A member Of the Kings own Yorkshire
Light artillery. the captain Is lecturing In
stead of fighting because IN the battle of the
Somme he was "gassed" by phosgene, the
new gas that Germany introduced by way
of showing still further wnat her concep-
tion OF vslorous warfare fs PhoSgene does
something TO the heart and lungs OF the
unfortunate who Is attacked by II that un-
fits him for further warfare and other
strenuous activities.
That's the reason I'm now 'gassing the
American public instead of being out there"
Captain Dugmore said. houmorously.
out there the captain saw and heard and
had verified all of those inhuman things
that we have been loath to believe against
our enemies.
USE OWN DEAD
''The Germans are efficient" he said with
an airy nonchalance that did not deceive.
"and they do use the dead their own dead.
everybody's dead Nothing goes to waste
with them.
''They take the dead and sterilize them
he was sure of his facts and went into de-
tails. then they remove all Of the fat from
the bodies--ths is fed to the pigs. The
bones ground up for fertilizer. The
factory where this Is done is In the Black
Forest and the men used In the factory are
never permitted To leave This has all
been verified.
About the women. you will excuse me-
the Captain said, deprecatngly. "if talk
Of things which in ordinary times would
be unmentonable. but the German attitude
toward their women in this war has been
abonnable simply atrocious. Single wom-
en and married women--regardless OF the
fDct that their husands away at the
front-are expected to be officially mothers,
] know in this country man who is a
German, he is "A banker, and although his
sentiments were German he was not and
is not anti-Amercan. His wife was back
In Germany. few weeks ago he received
curt word that she was officially preg-
nant' Needless to say he IL no longer pro-
German"
The captli has many friends in Amer
ica. Back In 1889. though he II very
boyish looking officer despite this date. he
came to America to study the birds being
an ornithologist as well az painter of no
mean skill. Here he met Miss Henrietta
watkins. of South Orange, y. j.. the daugh-
Ter OF the inventor Oh tne suton tuc nre'
alarm oeNice re married ne,' ne s y
game in South Africa with the Colonel In
1910.
But the game that the captain was
hunting when he gassed at the Somme
front Is the biggest game IN mortal man
has ever gone after. $40 hear captain Dug
more talk about the German efficiency Is to
realize the size Of the job that the civilized
world have gone UP against
ooVo 'AnoNLiih les t'A'h DAY
'.They'ye taken the sentinent nm, nj
everything the Germans have" no said
",nd God beln ,ba na,iop ,,hich d,as ,h.,
But we've 20, to lick them ,boupb II n,
n long 6rht. and every dav's delsv mean,
a casualty List NJ aOoO for mo and 2ooo IN,
France. That's a minimum. and it,s IN,
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