The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-11-29
GERMAN FRIGHTFULNEsS
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into the reaction of frightfulness on
the world. Because the insane vanity
of Germany had ignored the rest of
civilization.
Again let US consider the enslaving
of the Belgians and the inhabitants of
Alsace and Northern France. Ger
many during this month has issued
an official statement admitting the
enslavement of Alsatian girls, but de-
nying that more than 9 per cent were
under IT, and explaining that only a
few of them were in the firing zone.
The enslavement of the people of Bel
gium and Northern France has been
publicly justified in Germany time
and again as military necessity. It's
existence has not been denied.
Sad Story of the RepatriOts
When one says hundreds of thou
sands of French people, the poor and
the rich, the ignorant and the cult
waited alike, were forcibly torn from
their homes and families in France
| and Belgium and taken in slavery to
Germany to work in German fields
and mines and factories, one is not
exaggerating the number. And the
stream of broken humanity coming
! through Switzerland every morning
| and evening in the train through Zu-
rich to Avian, proves what kind of
treatment these slaves have endured.
They are eaten out with the white
plague. The children are covered
with skin diseases that come from
underfeeding, and the curse of the
German slave trade is upon the whole
train.
Two hundred and sixty thousand of
these repatriots, as they are called,
have come into France through
Switzerland by train in the last six
months, and the daily stream today
is as large as it was last June. Yet
it is no wanton cruelty that has or
dered this enslavement of the captur-
ed population. Science tells the Ger
man that without work he can live
longer than with work. Therefore il
he can get German work done by the
/ slaves from the lower civilization of
Belgium and France, which must be
blotted out, and the sooner the better
for the world-so much the better off
is the German, the man favored of
Godl More Germans will survive the
war, and naturally fewer of the
French and Belgians and Alsatians.
who have no right to live because
they persist in loving their own civ
ilization. German soldiers have re-
volted at the awful science when the
slaves were taken. For when a man
or woman goes to slavery he goes to
ing these slaves at the bayonet knew
that their revolt was Authenticated.
They knew that the enslavement was
the best thing for the world, so they
prodded mothers with the bayonet
who would shelter their daughters,
and shot protesting fathers who tried
to hide their sons. But not in anger
were these deeds done! They were
done in cold blood, because mountains
of vanity backed by materialistic
philosophy justified these bloody
deeds and made them heroic. That is
hwy Germany struck off medals cele-
brating the sinking of the Lusitania.
Systematic Bombinb of Hospitals
Last summer, the Germans began
a systematic and thorough series of
air raids on the base hospitals of the
Allies. Every moonlight night the
| "Boche" came over and dropped
bombs on the hospitals, killing scores
and scores of doctors and nurses and
killing hundreds of wounded soldiers
some of whom were Germans. At
Vadlincourt the Boche came early in
| the evening and dropped his first
bomb. A German airman taken pris4
oner the day before died of fright
when the first bomb came, for he
knew what to expect. An hour later
they came again, dropping more
tombstone of them being incen-
diary bombs. Soon the hospital was
ablaze. Again the Boche came and
dropped more bombs, and again, I'M
til o'clock in the morning. Then he
dropped a lot of handbills warning
the Allies if they did not want their
hospitals bombed to move them fur
them from the trenches.
The Vadincourt hospital was then
about seven or eight miles from the
front. That hospital was about SOC
feet square, built around compound
and inside the compound was a great
Red Cross about 90 feet square made
of red canvas and whitewashed stone
Also each wing of the hospital carried
on it painted red cross so feet square
All the other bombed hospitals were
similarly equipped. But this hospit.
al was the most clearly designated OF
all. The Germans desired to take the
most clearly designated, so that there
could be no mistaking their intention
Of course, no one before the German
raid on hospitals had dreamed Of
equipping hospitals with anti-aircraf1
guns, so the Germans flew low, drop
ped accurately and had their owl
way.
But it was not wanton cruelty tina
inspired the deed. Too many men haC
been coming back to the firing lines
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