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

Thousand individual atrocities that go
with the original photographs, afi-
! davitS and documents resting in the
archieves of France against the day
of reckoning. What is more import
ant still. here are the letters taken
from the bodies of dead German SOL
diers with their diaries Out of the
large number, note these: Photo
graphs of the dead bodies of aged
priests, some Of whom were dead be
cause they had been staked down and
used as q lavatory until they per
ished. Dead girls, with breasts cut
Off-and for this reason: every Ger
man soldier is examined for syphilis
by the surgeon of the regiment, and
only healthy ones receive the card
giving access to the camp women
If the syphilitic German contami-
mates the camp woman, his disease is
handed on to his brother soldier, and
syphilitic soldier, therefore, finds his
only chance with the captured French
girls, but, having contaminated a girl
he fears that she in turn will contain
mate the next German soldier, and
therefore, he mutilates her body to
warn away Germans. The girls life
weighs nothing against a German
soldiers lust or the possibility of the
brute's handing his contamination to
the next soldier.
Here is German efficiency for you
I-and organized by the devil himself
Take these pages found in the diaries
of German soldiers August 22; note
book of Private Max Thomas: "Our
soldiers are SO excited we are like
wild beasts. Today destroyed eight
houses, with their inmates Bayonet-
ted two men with their wives and a
girl of is. The little one almost un-
nerved me so innocent was her eX-
preston" Diary of Eitel Anders:
In Vendre all the inhabitants, with
out exception, were brought out and
shot. This shooting was heartbreak-
ing as they all knelt down and pray
ed. 1t is real sport, yet it was really
terrible to watch"
AT IIaecht 1 saw the dead body of
a young girl nailed to the outside door
of II cottage 10y her hands She was
about II or 16 years old" Page 21
Ahidavits H-G7.
In returning from Malines eight
drunken soldiers were marching
through the street. A little child OF
two years came out and a soldier
skewered the child on his bayonet
and carried it away, while his COM
rades sang. ID. 1915.
Withdrawing from Hofstade in ad-
dition to other atrocities, the Germans
cut off both hands of boy of 16
AZ the inquest aiIidavits were taken
from 20 witnesses, who saw the boy
before he died or just afterwards.
Psfssing through Haecht, in addition
to the. young women whom they vio-
lated and killed, afiidavits were TAX
en- and the photographs Of a child
three years old nailed 10 a door by its
hands and feet. Afiidavits ID. zoos.
That al these atrocities were care
fully planned in advance for terror
izing the people is proven by the fact
that on the morning Of August % the
officers who had received great kind
tary's wife, warned her to make her
escape Immediately. as the looting
and killing of all the citizens. men.
women and children, was about to
begin.
These records could be multiplied
by thousands. Upon the retreat from
one city alone, inquests were held
uron the bodies OF over 500 victims.
Including very aged men and women
bayonet from tncir mothers. 1t is
the logical result Of the charge of
the Kaiser to his army: "Give ne
quarter and take no prisoners. Let
all who fail into your hands be nj
your mercy" The general staff of
the German army published a manual
several years before they began this
war. They explicitly char sed their
soldiers to break the will OF the enc
my by cruelty. Witness this page
from the War Manual on page 81:
"A war is conducted with energy
merely against the combatants. of the
enemy states and the positions they
occupy, but it will and must in like
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