The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1917-11-01
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills Picture
of Germany's War Plans and Her
Atrocities in Belgium and France.


10 Win li2G OF ptlOAOEAG d.
fidayits and documents resting in
the archives OF France against the
dayof reckoning. What is more ini-
po~;ant still, here are the letters ia
Ken from the bodies OF dead Ger
nan soldiers with their diaries Out
OF the large number, note these
Photographs CT the dead bodies of
aged priests. some of whom were
dead because they had been staked
down and used as a lavatory until
they persisted. Dead girls, with their
breasts cut oif-and Tor this reason
every German soldier is examined
for syphilis by the surgeon OF the
regiment, and only healthy ones re-
ceiyed the card giving access TO the
camp women. it the syphihtic Ger
man contaninatcs the camp his dis
case is handed on to his brother sol
der, and that means he will be shot,
This Syphilis soldier, therefore,
finds his only chance with the cap
lured French girls, but, having con-
taminated a girl, ne fears that she
in turn will contamnate the next
German soldier, and therefore, he
multilatcs her body TO warn away
Germans. The girls life weighs moth
Ing against German soldiers lust
or the possibility OF the brute's hand
ing his contamination to the next
soldier.
Here is German efficiency for you
and organized by the devil himself
Take these pages found in the diaries
OF German soldiers August p; note
book OF Private Max Thomas: Our
soldiers are 50 eXcited we are like
wild beasts. Today destroyed eight
houses, with their inmates. Bayonett-
ed two men with their wives and a
girl Of lS, The l;tle one almost un-
ncrved me, SO innocent was her ex
preston" Diary OF Etel Anders
in Ncndre all the inhabitants. with
out exception, were brought out and
shot This shooting was heartbreak
ing as they all knelt down and pray
ed II is real sport, yet it was really
terrible to watch
AT Haectt | saw the dead body
OF girl nailed TO the outside dooi
of 4 cottage b. her hands. She Wa
about "A or 70 years old" Page 81,
Affidavit H-67.
In returning from Malines. eight
drun ken soldiers were marching
drought the street A little child o,
two years came out and a soldiei
hNkfNtNQ li.I Al1iid vi iiio ID OAGt
and carried it away, while his COM
rades sang. d. lC-I5.
Withdrawing from Hofstadc, ii
addition to other atrocities, the Ger
mans cut off both hands of boy OF
10. At the inquest afiidavits were
taken from Is witnesses, who saw
the boy before he died or just after
wards
Passing through Haecht, in addi-
ton TO the young women whom they
violated and killed affidavits were
taken and the photographs of a lit
re chss5 three years old nailed to a
door by lis hands and feet. Affida-
Wits. d 1908
That all these atrocities were care
1wlly planned in advance for terror
i1n8 tiic people is proven by the
facf that OH the morning of August
rs the officers who had received great
kindness fsoYn Madam Romans,
notary's wife, warned her to make
her escape Immediately as the loot
ing and killing of all the citizens,
men, women and children, was about
to becin.
These records could be multiplied
by thousands Upon the retreat from.
on city alone, inquests were held up
on the bodies of over coo victims, in
Guiding very aged men and women
and babes unborn, removed by the
bayonet from their mothers. II is the
logical result of the charge of the
Kaiser to his army: Give no quar-
tiers and take no prisoners. Let all
who fall into your hands be at your
mercy" The general staff of the Ger
man army published a manual sever
al years before they began this war.
They explicitly charged their SOL
dierS to break the will of the enemy
by cruelty Witness this page from
the War Manual on page 81: "a
war is conducted with energy mere
against the complaints of the
enemy states and the positions they
occupy, but it viii and must in
like manner seek to destroy the total
intellectual and material resources
OF the latter"
And witness this Injunction TO
atrocity, page 35 by sleeping him
self in military history, an officer
will be able to guard himself against
excessive humanitarianism. 1t will
teach him that certain seventies are
Indispensable to war. Humanitarian
claims, such as the protection of men
and their goods. can only be taken
into consideration i'll so far as the
nature and object of the war per-
init" Therefore, the War General
gave each German soldier his token
large as a silver dollar, bidding the
soldier Strike him dead. The Day
OF Judgment will ask you no ques.
tons" Jesus said Take heed thai
ye offend not one OF Ny little ones.
The Kaiser says: Il have done away
with Jesus teachings" The Master
who loved the little children said
Il was an hungered and We gave ms
no meat | was athirst and we CAV,
me no drink Therefore, depart from
me into everlasting fire, prepared foi
the devil and his fellows" The wal
staff answers: Don't be afraid. Loci
at your token. The Kaiser will tax,
care of you in the Day of Judgment
Kill old men and little children, loo
merchants houses, violate women
the Kaiser will see that the God o
Justice asks you no questions" Thu
result was logical and inevitable
These horrible atrocities On Angus
n General Won Lieber gave out thi
proclamation "Thc town OF WaeVrl