The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-18

hoy OF NTS being nG@F@@N kWG age
Of soldier, was first hanged TO
pear tree in the garden, and
when the officer and soldier had
left him and were busy setting
fire TO the next house, she cut the
rope, revived the strangled boy
only TO find the soldiers had re.
turned, and while the officer held
her hands behind her back, his
assistant poured petrol on the
boys head and clothes, set fire to
him and while staggering about,
flaming torch, they shrieked
with laughter.
when they had burned all the
houses and retreated the next morn
ing, the project OF Lorraine reached
that Gethsemane and photographed
the bodies of 80 aged men lying as
they fell, the bodies of women strip
ped and at last slain.
DsfsnseIess ~ Shield.
an the village stood the ruined
square beIfry into which the Ger
mans had lifted machine guns, then
forced every woman and child, ga in
number, into the little church and
notified the French soldiers that If
they fired upon the machine guns,
they would kill their own women
and children. After several days
hunger and thirst, at midnight these
brave women slipped a little boy
through the church window and bade
their husbands fire upon the Ger
mans in the belfry, saying they pre-
ferred death to the indignities they
were suffering. And so these French
men turned their guns, and in blow
ing those machine guns out Of the
belfry killed 20 of their own wives
and children.
'In a hundred years of history
where shall you find a record of any
other race, who call themselves
civilized, who are such sneaking
towards that they could not fight
like men or play the game fairly, but
en- and little children before them as
a shield?"
10000 Photographs Proof.
And here on this pulpit are. in
brief, the records of more than 10000
individual atrocities, with the
original photographs, affidavits and
documents resting in the archives of
France against the day Of reckoning.
What is more important still, here
are the letters taken from the bodies
of dead German soldiers with their
diaries. Here is Germany efficiency
for you! And organized by the devil
himself.
Diaries of German soldiers, Aug.
%, notebook Of Private Max Thomas:
Our soldiers are so excited we are
like wild beasts. Destroyed eight
houses, with their inmates. Bayonet-
ted two men with their wives and
girl of Is. The little one almost I'M
Derved me, so innocent was her ex-
preston
DIARY of Eitel Anders: In Vendre
all the inhabitants without exception
were brought out and shot. This
shooting was heartbreaking, as they
all knelt down and prayed. 1t is
real sport, yet it was really terrible
to watch. At Haecht saw the dead
body Of young girl nailed to the
outside door of a cottage by her
hands. She was about IA or 16 years
old Page 21, affidavit HIST.
"AffidaVit D-s9: After pass
ing aWeerde we met a woman,
covered with blood, with her
breasts cut off. She was dsliri-
ous.'
Records From Germans.
"And here are the records Of hun
dreds and hundreds of similar case9
with every form of atrocity. Does
the sunlight in photography tell lies?
Are the German soldiers liars in
writing to brothers at home, or in
keeping the record Of events in their
diaries, thus leaving on their bodies
the indubitable evidence of the high
est order Of truth?
Standing in the village of Herr
menil boy of 16 and his mother
showed me IL bullet marks against
the stone wall, where young moth
er, aged %, with a babe on her
ST wNyffh he.
sister in-law of Is and IL were shot |
by IL German soldiers-four brave |
and heroic Germans shooting at each |
girl.
"on a little board in one ruined |
village read these words: Marie, |
aged Is. Died Aug. "a, 1915. Venge- |
ance is mine, will repay, saith the /
Lord The hundreds of atrocities |
investigated only serve to /
interpret Ambassador Morgenthau's /
statement as to Armenia, that the
Turkish soldiers and German officers
in Armenia 500, 900 people,
farmhouses and little shops and
stores.
Scholar Glory of Nation.
"The glory of every great city and
country is its scholars, with their
love of truth and their stainless lives.
We have had our civilization at the
hands of men who loved the truth
supremely, pursued the truth etern-
ally, and cherished the truth above
their fear Of hell or hope of heaven.
The world has It's liberty, its science,
and its law at the hands of the
heroes who preferred the truth above
life.
Concerning the patriots, the re-
formers and the statesmen, we can
only say they were stones, they were
sawn asunder, they were crucified in
Jerusalem, poisoned in Athens, tor
tured in Ephesus. exiled in Florence.
burned at the stake in Oxford,
lssassinated in Washington, crucified
n Jerusalem. But the iron autocracy
and militarism of Germany debauch-
I'd her university men.
German Teachers Degraded.
Here in my hand is an address
20 the civilized world, signed by 80
German professors. They all received
heir salaries from state endow-
nents. Any hour the Kaiser or the
chancellor can cut off their in
some.
when the indignation Of the
siviIized world famed out against
Germany in the winter Of 1915 the
German government asked these
professors to sign document, and
.hese men had been so degraded by
he German philosophy of militarism
md autocracy that they obeyed, los
ng their souls to save their salary.
And consider what they signed! In
he previous August Bethmann- Holl-
veg issued statement to the world
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