Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-11-09
GERMAN HORRORS.

UENrlhN uVNNVNO'
General Won Hartman. saws toI
the German armv that terrorism
is made necessary by military
considerations"
The War Manual of the Ger
man Army has these sentences
1.-The officers y must guard
himself against excessive hui
manitarianism certain
seventies are Indispensable tol
war."-page IS and from page
81 of the War Manual we read i
"War . must seek to destroy |
tie total intellectual and mater
ial resources of the enomy," and
this has been very literally obey
ed bv the German soldiers. From
the pocket diary of Max Thomas.
captured German soldier, are
the words Our soldiers are SO
excited we are like wild beasts.
Today destroyed eight houses
with all the people in them, and
one girl of eighteen. Tho little
one almost unnerved me, so in
nocent was her expression" This
was dated August %.
From the diary of another cap
tured German soldier, Eitel An
ders I'm Vendre, all the in
habitants without exception were
brought out and shot. This
shooting was heart-breaking, as
they all knelt down and prayed
1t was real sport, yet it was ter.
rible to watch"
On page FL of sworn sf6davits
No. 81, is this i: At Haeci,t, I
saw the dead body of a young
girl nailed to the outside door Of
4 cottage by her hands. She
was about fourteen or sixteen
years old"
Another reads: ION return
ing through Malines, eight SOL
diers were marching through the
street, partly intoxicated. A lit
tie child of two years came out
and a soldier skewered the child
with his bayonet and carried it
away while his comrades sang"
Twenty-Five sworn affidavits
exist of witnesses who saw a boy
of sixteen years age, at Hofstad,
before he died. who had both of
his hands cut off by German SOL
diers. Jesus said WOE urto
him by whom offences come"
The Kaiser s. id /: Il have dis
cardeG the teaching of Jesus.
Give no quarter. Strike him
dead. The day of judgment will
ask no questions. Make your
selves more frightful than the
Huns see that for a thousand
years no enemy mentions the
very name of Germany without
shuddering."
On August II. General Won
Lieber gave out this order: THE
town of Waevre will be set on
fire and destroyed without dis
tinction of person. The inno-
cent will suffer with the guilty"
In many of the pockets of cap.
tured or slain German soldiers
are the written words of General
Won Hartman's words Terror.
ism is a principle made neces
sary by military considerations
Taken from the pockets Of
wounded or captured German
soldiers are the orders from Ger
man headquarters. Army order
August 20, 1914 From this
date no prisoners will be made
any longer. All prisoners will
be executed. The wounded,
whether armed or defenceless,
will be executed. Prisoners,
even in large and compact for
nation, will be executed. Not
man will be lett alive behind
u.s." Later came a Brigade Or
der. taken from Rhinehart Bren.
nelson, a captured German pr;s.
oner: "All French, vhrtherI
or not. who fall int
our hands, are to be shot. No
prisoners are to be made K
Wounded and defenceless sol
diers, alone and in companies,
were bayonetted or shot all along
the march. Testimony like the {
following is ia great abundance:
Il was wounded and lying lielp-I
less on the field. A German sol.
der passed By and stopped long