The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-09
Drive Given Impetus
BY Great Brooklyn
Divine 8 fatk
BARES GERMAN
ATROCITIES
Tale Is One of Awful
Slaughter and De-
bauchery

Stirred 90 their depths by The Rev
Newell Dwight Hulis' recital NJ tho
naked facts about German atroci
tics in France and Belgium before
a crowd OF 5000 persons In mo De
troit armory Monday night 900
Liberty bond statesmen started ouf
Tuesday morning with a determine
ton 90 at least double the first
days subscriptions.
The reception accorded tho noted
Brooklyn pastor Who with Law
renee Chamberlain New y 0rk
banker made % tour OF the d'vasted
district Of northern France and
brouGh' back convincing prools OF
Teufonio inhumauily loft mo doubt
- 90 The quality OF Dctrou- pa
triotism Every one OF tha 1000
who packed %. hall should be I've
bond prospect today A. q purely
patriotic demonstration the meet
ing ranked with any ever held there
Hundreds packed the entrances un-
able to gain admission.
The story pr Hills told was not
pretty one. IT, talked OF ihinrs
not usually discussed In q mixed
audience and there were many
women present Yet they We're
facts tho public were entitled to
know facts that almost frole one s.
blood ae fhe orator, in simple lam
guaec did his utmost 90 convey to
his auditors rho picture that had
stamped itsclf ON his own mind No
man he declared, can visit France
LEA Nf.rfss
manenuy saddened man, and those
Who heard his narrative were pre-
pared 90 believe it
Moist eyes and blanched cheeks
bore witness tO the emotions stirred
by the preachers words. Al times
biz voice fell almost 20 whisper
and "A great hush fell over the
throng. only 90 be followed q mo.
mcnt later with burst OF applause
that surred thru the hall like a
wave breaking on the shore
ThruOut the district visited by Or
Hills. beginning 80 a point so miles
north OF Paris and extending north
ward thru eastern France for 100
miles the preacher and his com
panion found not single village
standing Not a church or q school
house had been left Every bush
and tree and grapevine had felt the
whitening blight OF the German Ak.
and the retrcating Huns had oheyed
orders 90 pollute the wells so duti-
fully that even then. months after
the departure OF the invaders. the
water was hardly ~ 10 drink
But far worse than these physical
evidences of Prussian wanfonness.
he said. were The atrocities revealed
by the photographs and other cvi-
dence collected by the French gov
ernmeni. backed up by incon-
troveriiblc afndavits. They told Of
unohcnding women ravishcd and
slaughtered by bcstlal soldiers One
photograph which Dr Hills held
up 20 view. showed tho bodies Of
several old men from 20 10 90. the
sole malo survivors OF little French
hamlet. lylng in an open field where
the Huns had left ihom after the
firing squad had finished its work.
There are photos of hundreds or
lovely girls lying dead with their
breasts cut on continued Dr iii
lis This g. The explanation
Every German soldier must pass
tho Wasserman test 20 get a card
permitting him 60 consort with
camp women N syphilitic Ger
man communicates a camp woman
his horrible disease Is passed on to
his brother soldier and that means
he will b. shot This syphiitic sol
der therefore debauches tho cap
turcd French girls. but having con
taminatcd e girl. be- fears that she
will Contamlnate another German
soldier. and. therefore. he mutilates
her body TO warn his comrades.