The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-10-24

Bernstorf, German ambassador in
Washington, who forgets that canni-
balls and savages, even, consider that
eating salt in another Indians tent
or white mans house is a pledge of
truth; while this Judas Ambassador
dimes at the White House at night
and goes on plotting seditions in Mex
leo, blowing up of our munition fac
tories and the killing of our people.
Bernstorff smiled and smiled as he
Kept one hand above the table and
the other hand under the table whet-
ted a dagger on his boots with which
to stab his host in the back.
Witness the discovery of treachery
10 Norway two months ago. After
several Norwegian steamers had been
mysteriOusly sunk at sea the German
Consul was found travelling back and
forth from the Foreign Office in Ber-
I'm, filling his trunk with bombs and
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glanders to spread one of the most
deadly diseases, to annihilate men,
horses and cattle, and protecting
these instruments of death by the
seals OF the Berlin Foreign Office.
The substance of Germany's answer
to NOrway's protest was the sneer-
ing answer: what are you going to
do about it?" While Germany's Am
bassador to the Argentine Republic,
advising the sinking of Argentine
ships so as to leave no trace behind
is, a part of the same Ginning, devil
ish, German diplomacy that exhibits
these German Ambassadors as a COM
posite Judas, Macchiavelli and Me-
phistopholes, united and carried up
to the nth power of diabOlism No
wonder the Kaiser baptized them
Huns" and barbarians"
German Philosophy Dcgradcs German
OlliccfS ana Soldiers.
The German philosophy has dehu-
manized Germany's officers and men.
Later on / shall give a. detailed ac-
count of the devastated regions Of
Northern France, but here and now
let us cOnline the observations to the
ruined villages and towns of Eastern
France. Pulling his iron token out
OF his pocket..that exhibited Deity
as u destroying soldier-the German
officer and private reads the words
beneath: 'Smite your enemy dead.
The Day of judgment will not ask
you for your reasons" Having there
fore, full liberty to loot, these Ger
mans became the wild beasts. The
plan had been brussels in one week,
Paris in two weeks, London in two
MONTHS and then two pockets filled
with rings, bracelets and watches
from Paris or Nancy for the sweet
hearts at home.
n When the German army in Lor-
4sane-was 4 defeated by one-half its
number, it fell northward, passing
through French towns and villages
where there were no Frenchmen, no
guns, and where no shots were fired.
During July and August we~went
slowly from one ruined town to an
other, talking With the women ara the
children, comparing the photographs
and the full official records made at
the time with the statements of the
poor, wretched survivors, who lived
In cellars where once there had been
beautiful houses orchards, vineyards
but now was only desolation.
In Gerbevillier, standing beside
their graves, / studied the photo
graph of the bodies of 15 old men
whom the Germans lined up and
shot because there were no young
soldiers to Kill; heard the detailed
story of a woman whose son was
first hung to Il pear tree in the gar
den, and when the officer and SOL
dier had left him and we're busy set
ting fire to. the next house, she cut
the rope, revived the stranglcd you'll
only to find the soldiers had returned.
and while the officer held her hnads
behind her back, his assistant poured
Fpeuol on the sons head and clothes
set fire to him and, while he stag
sered about, flaming, torch, they
shrieked with laughter. When they
had burned all the houses and re-
treated, the next morning, the pre-
feet of Lorraine reached that Gethes-
name and photographed the bodies
of 80 aged men lying as they fell,
the bodies of women stripped and at