The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

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was first hanged to a pear tree in the
garden, and when the officer and
soldier had left him and we1e busy
setting fire to the next house, she cut
the rope, revived the strang,cd bcy.
only to find the soldiers had return
ed, and while the officer held her
Esnds behind her back, his assist
ant poured petrol on the boys head
snd clothes, set fire to him, and
while he staggered about, flaming
torch, they shrieked with laughter.
when they burned all the houses
and retreated the next morning. the
Project Of Lorraine photographed the
bodies Of thirty aged men lying as
they fell, the bodies Of women strip
ped and at last slain, while in the
next village stood the ruined square
belfry into which the Germans had
lifted machine guns, then forced ev-
cry woman and child-275 in number
Into the little church, and notified
the French soldiers that if they fir
ed upon the machine guns they would
Kill their own women and children.
"After several days of hunger and
thirst, at midnight these brave wo-
men slipped a little boy through the
church window and bade their hus-
bands fire upon the Germans in the
belfry, saying they preferred death
to the indignities they were suffer
ing. And so these Frenchmen turn
ed their guns, and in blowing those
machine guns out of the belfry kill
ed twenty of their own wives and
children"
DR.. Hills asserted that further in
disputable proof of the heartlessness
of the Germans was found in the let
tiers and diaries taken from the bod
les of dead German soldiers. He
continued:
"Out of the large number note
these: Hundreds of photographs of
the dead bodies of aged priests, some
Of whom had been staken down.
you. Here is the diary on August
diers are so excited we are like wild
beasts. Destroyed eight houses witt.
their inmates. Bayonetted two men
with their wives and a girl of 10.
The little one almost unnerved me
SO innocent was her expression"
DR.. Hills read what had been cop
led from the diary Of Eitel Anders
another German soldie.l It read
In Vendre all the inhabitants with
out exception were brought out an(
shot. This shooting was heartbreak
ing, as they all knelt down and pray
! ed. It was real sport, yet it was ter
rible to watch. At Hecht l saw tn
dead body of a young girl nailnd t,
the outside door Of a cottage by he
hands. She Was about IA or 16 Year
old" DR.. Hills quoted from one o
the affidavits: "Affidavit D-89." I
: read: "After passing Weerde We me
:, woman covered with blood, wit
, her breasts cut off. She was deliri
ous."
- "Standing in the village of Herr
menil," continued DR.. Hills, "a DO
les Of 16 and his mother showed m
a twelve bullet marks against the ston
20. wall where a mother, aged %, wit
10 a babe on her breast, with her youn
er- sister and sisterin-law of 16 an
ng ~, We're shot by twelve Germa
enc soldiers. On little board IN on
lay ruined village, ! read these words
Marie. Aged 16. Dead Aug. Q
nu- 1914. Vengeance is mine, I will RI
my Of atrocities personally investiga
SUI GU oHly serve 70 1HCeIpIeG AIHUd
cen sador Morgenthau's statement as
nil Armenia, that the Turkish soldier
leir and German officers massacred
ell Armenia half million people, tn;
me they might move into their far
ced houses and little shops and store
his Germany's philosophy, the paste
I'M concluded, had dehumanized her O.
,an ficers and men. He said the Kali
err, and not the rest Of the worl
nan had coined the word "Hun," and ha
ted applied it to his own people.