The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-191?, 1917-10-31
Heartless Butchery
OF Unspeakable Hun Graphically Told
BY Wesley Frost.

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Frost, of Berea College, is delivering
addresses at various points in the
country, telling of the barbarism of
the Germans, how they joked while
the victims of their submarines were
drowning and took pictures of them
to send back to their sweethearts.
Col. Frost was American Consul at
Queenstown, Ireland, and administer
ed to the survivors of the Lusitania
horror
The picture he gives of the German
is that of his ancestor, the Hun, with
out the veil of civilization and educa-
tion-the Hun who would stoop to the
lowest depths imaginable and COM
NIT the most dastardly deeds to ac-
complish his purpose.
Whatever your opinion may be as
to the English navy" he said in a re-
cent address, 81 want you to join with
me here and now in saying All honor
to the gallant British navy, which,
night and day, year in and year out,
has been tirelessly and fearlessly
hunting down the coyotes of the sea. "
In making his talks Mr.. Frost also
shows number of lantern slides with
the pictures of the victims of the Ger
man submarine campaign of fright
fulness, referring to them as the
"fOwer of German kultur."
81 am a man of one song," said
Mr. Frost. "Since the nightmare at
tending the rescue of victims of the
Lusitania and the Arabic l can think
and talk of nothing else" He said
that sinking of the Lusitania probably
made the greatest impression on the
American people, but that it was only
one of the eighty-one cases he had
investigated.
81 can name you case after case"
the speaker said, "when even harm
less sailing craft have been forced to
heave to and make submission, like a
small dog that turns upon it's back
and raises its paw, then mercilessly
pounded with gunfre, after becoming
flaming inferno"
Mr.. Frost told Nf the sinking of the
Lusitania, causing the murder of more
than one hundred Americans, and of
the facts he had obtained about the
death Of prominent citizens Of the
United States, who went down with
the snip, victims of the Kaiser's s.an,=
bition to conquer the world. -
He said that Ebert Hubbard chung
to a cylindrical teel drum broken off
from a lifecraft and as often as he
was able to, climbed upon it. 1t rolled
and toppled him off on the opposite
side until the great philosopher gave
way to shock and exposure.
81 was there when the ghostly pro-
session of rescue boats carrying the
living and dead touched the water
'front.'" he said. "Boat after boat
came up out of the darkness discharg-
ing bruised and shuddering women,
MANNED and half-naked men, and a
few wide-eyed little children.
"Frenzied women begged me to find
their husbands. Men went ceaselessly
from group to group looking for lost
daughter, brother and in some cases
for an American bride.
Every voice in that great throng
spoke in instructive undertones varied
only here and there by smothered
sobbing. Much has been said by the
German agents of the warning to un-
armed vessels before they We're tor
pedoed. This would be a joke if it
were not tragedy. This warning"
he said, usually consists of lombard
lining the wretched victims without
pause or pity. Men and women are
mangled by shell fire after they have
surrender and are doing their utmost
to give obedience to the submarines"
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Mr.. Frost as a typical warning given
by the Germans before they sink an
unarmed vessel:
"The Madura, a little Russian bark,
cut down her mainsail at the sub
marines first shot. 1t was done to
show submission. But when the life
boats were rescued it was a perfect
shambles. The captain, a black
bearded Finn, sat in the sternsheets
with his wife, and at their feet lay
Two dead sailors, weltering in their
own blood. Another was just gasping
his last breath. These inoffensive
workingmen were slaughtered while
trying to fulfill the submarines de-
sire"
Another striking example of Ger
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