Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-12
FIENDISH CRIMES
OF HUN SOLDIERS
DIR. Hills Makes Congregation
Gasp at Revelation of Bosch's
Brutality In Belgium.
IwOMENs BREASTS CUT OFF
Charges the Kaiser With Plot to
Bring the World Under His Do
minion and Germanize u. S.

The Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hill
lis. just returned from cover there"
stood in the pulpit of Plymouth
church in Brooklyn, and drew SO ter
rible n picture of German "efllcicn-
cy" in France and Belgium that the
throng that filled the church was
moved to gasps of horror.
| why do the German people sny
they feel SO terribly because the au-
thors of the world call them Hun
| and 'barbarian?" no exclaimed. "Who
named them Hun? Their kaiser!
Who christened them 'barbnrians p
Their kaiser. Who likened the Ger
man soldiers to cruelty and artocity
upon the leash of tho kaiser's thong,
as they strained with bloody jaws to
tear their French and Belgian prey?
The kaiser, this ruler-who lifts n
diseased and withered arm and with
bloody fingers says:
81 baptize thee Hun and barbar-
ian! Let the kaiser's words stand
'For n thousand years no man shall
speak the word Hun without shud-
dsringP
Here upon the pulpit" began DR..
Hills slowly, "rests reproduction Of
Ah avn NOih biNcu att ~ IOhcIl W GHCn
German soldier. At the top Ia n Cor
man portrait of the Deity and under
meath are the words, The Good Old
German Cod To encourage the Ger
man soldiers to cruelty and artocity
against Belginns and Frenchmen, the
Deity holds weapon in his right
hand and to dull his conscience and
TO steel his heart to murder, the tok-
en- holds these words: Smite your
enemy dead. The day of Judgment
will not ask you for your reasons.
Recites Goeth's Opinion.
"To this native characteristic
Goethe was referring" continued the
speaker, "whcn he said, 'Thc Prus-
sian is naturally crue.; civilization
will naturally intensity that cruelty
and make him savage The Ger
man atrocities of the last three years
simply illustrate Goethe's words, for
we must confess that German elf
cheney reached its highest point in
the discovery of new and horrible de-
vices for torturing old women, help
less old men and little children.
"For three years German Amcri-
cans have protested that the stories
OF German atrocities were to he dis
believed as English inventions, Bel
gian lies and French hypocracos. But
that day is gone forever. When the
representatives Of the nations as
semble for the final settlement there
will be laid before the Germans pho
tographs with other legal proof that
make German atrocities to be far bet
ter established than the scalpings of
the Sioux sIndians on the western
frnntiar hn lx,,, 80 4.
Hole Of Calcutta. and the crimes of
the Spanish inquisition.
For the first time in history Ger
mans have reduced savagery to n
science, therefore, the great war for
peace must go on until the German
cancer is cut out Of the body
Women" he cried, "Your son he
is Gods soldier let him be. l know
Of no fnirer DEATH"
DR.. Hills added that the cold
catalogue Of German atrocities makes
the most sickening pages of history.
These atrocities were not committed
in mood Of drunkenness, nor in nm
hour Of danger, but were organized by
so-called German efficiency 1t is
not simply that they looted facto-
| ries, carried away machinery, robbed
houses, bombed every farm house
and granary, LETT no plough or reap
err, chopped down every fruit tree
and poisoned every well! The Ger
mans slaughtered old men and ma
irons, mutilated captives in ways that
can only be spoken of by men in
whispers, violated little girls until
they were dead; finding calfskin
nailed to a barn door to be dried, they
nailed a baby beside it and wrote
beneath the word 'zwei;' bombed and
looted hospitals, Red Cross buildings,
violated the white flag-while the
worst atrocities cannot be even NAM
| ed" He mentioned the name of the
German General Plauss.
Curse Called on Plauss.
Plauss!" he shouted. "Plauss--
| ten thousand curses on his name,"
The audience echoed the sentiment by
vigorous applause
Amid a profound silence, DR.. Hills
said that German philosophic thought
was the root Of Gemany's war spir-
it.
"The kaiser, Nietzche, Won Beth
mann-Hollweg, Won Kissing and
Plauss think and teach the theory of
iron force, the right Of big Germany
to loot little Belgium, the right of the
lion over the lamb, and that no ques-
tions will be asked by just God on
the last day Of judgment" he assert
ed.
"This war began in the Potsdam
Palace conference of 1892. The
pamphlet distributed by the kaiser
begins in these words:
"The Pan-German Empire: from
1 II H.
Persian Gulf. Our immediate goal,
25,000,000 of people. Our ultimate
goal, the Germanization of the world
The explanation of the kaiser con-
tains these words:
"'From childhood I have been un-
der the influence Of five men, Alexan-
der, Julius Caesar, Theodore the
Second, Frederick, the Great, Napo-
leon. Each of these men dreamed of
world empire-they failed. l am
dreaming dream of German world
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