The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-11-02
philosophy Degrades German Officers and Soldiers.

ton one of his more recent addresses as foIows:)
Philosophy Degrades German Officers and Soldiers.
\, German philosophy has dehumanized Germanys
and men, Later on | shall give detailed account
1%nstated regions of Northern France but here and
NC confne the observations to the ruined villages
rrs Of Eastern France. Pulling his iron token out
norkpf-that exhibited Deity as a destroying soldier
Ernon officer and private reads the words beneath:
vonr enemy dead The Day Of Judgment will not
En- for your reasons" Having, therefore, full lib
1 ohot these Germans became the wild beasts The
| had bpen brussels in week, Paris in two weeks.
\ in two MONTHS" and then two pockets filled with
Macelets and watches from Paris or Nancy for the
! hearts at home
E1er tbe German army in Lorraine was defeated by
F IFS number, it fell northward, passing through
I1ovns and villages where there were no French
no guns and where no shots were fired. During jr-
| Ancust we went slowly from one ruined town t.
r talking with the women and the children com
tbe photographs and the full official records made
fine with the statements Of the poor Wretched sur
who lived in cellars where there had been beau
houses Orchards vineyards--but now was only desc
| Gebevillier standing beside their graves studied
3cograph of the bodies of Is old men whom the Ger
lined up and shot because there no young sol
! 10 kill; heard the detailed story of a woman whose
S first hung to pear tree in the garden and when
SfNr and soldier had left him and were busy setting
the next house. she cut the rope, revived the Stran-
Outh only to find the soldiers had returned, and while
tfcer held her hands behind her back his assistant
petrol on the sons head and Clothes set fire to him
he he staggered about, flaming torch, they shrek
tn laughter When they had burned all the houses and
ted the next morning, the prefect Of Lorraine reached
ehSemane and photographed the bodies OF 30 aged
| wing as they fell the bodies Of women stripped and
! lan
hthe next village stood the ruined square bey into
the Germans had lifted machine guns then forced
woman and chld-275 in number-into the little
E and notified the French soldiers that if they fired
the machine guns thev would kill their own women
hdren. After several days hunger and thirst, at
ght these brave women slipped a little boy through
hucn window and bade their husbands fire upon the
ans the belfry, saying they preferred death to the
NeS they were suffering. And so these Irenchmen
her guns, and in blowing that machine gun olE
perry killed 20 Of their own wives and children IN
INyearS of history, where shall you find record OF
hT race who call themselves civilized who arc ~0ch
%c0wardS that they could not fight like men or nI2F
1e 1alriy but in their chattering terror put women
cnIdren before them as a shield.
mm WI overwhelming. Here are. in brief the rerNFoS
man thousand individual atrocities that 90 with
ngnaI photographs, affdavits and documents rest
ue archives of France against the day 0T reckoning
more important still, here are the letters 'a>e"
T ooaeS of dead German soldiers with their daTg>
We large number, note these: Photographs o, lhr
TueS OF aged priests. some Of whom were aeao De-
"N h&d been staked down and used as !Na''N