The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-03-25
WHAT CAN TAKE PLACE IF HUNS:
 ARE VICTORIOUS
June 30, 1920.

the Sarah and a half dozen other boats pulled into Cinema loaded with German troops. The people of that town. having heard that the Germans were in that vicinity. lad already come to Fairbanks, and the Ger man troops, enraged that they shuld find no one upon whom they might impress the power and magnificence of the German army. immediately fired the town and proceeded on their way to Fairbanks. Enroute the buildings of the Government Ex. pertinent Station were burnt and the Director in charge was murdered be- fore his wife and family.
 Upon their arrival in Fairbanks they proceeded to the Federal Court House and demanded that all city and Federal officials. together with the ministers. be summoned there at once.
 When the officials and the minis ters had assembled they were in- formed that they would be held as hostages and that any act of vio- lence on the part of any of the citi- zens would be held as sufficient cause for the shooting of the hos tages. They further demanded that all public funds be turned over to them and that one of the ministers inform the people, when they be as sembled at the Auditorium, that it was by the will of God that Fair banks had fallen into the hands of the Germans and that as His Divine wish they (the ministers) asked the people to obey every order issued by the Germans. Upon the refusal of the ministers to obey this con- mand, Lieutenant von Weimar, the officer in command. snatched his re- volver from the table before him and shot one of them through the head, then ordered his body thrown into the street. The other ministers were escorted to the street and shot by firing squad of brave German soldiers before the eyes of all The prisoners in the federal jail were freed and several held there | for making "seditious utterances" were given rifles and taken into the German army.
 All of the banks were destroyed, as well as the hospital, the churches and the school house.
 Some of the smaller residences were destroyed. but care was taken that the fire should not spread to the business section. where every thing of any value was gathered to- gether.
 1 Lieutenant von Weimar issued an order prohibiting anyone to leave their house after g o'clock and re- quiring every person to turn in all firearms in their possession before o'clock. Any person not obeying this order was to be shot.
 A body of German soldiers march ing down Cushman street late in the afternoon noticed a small child. too small to walk, crawling in the street One soldier thrust his bayo- net through the body of the child and carried 1t on his shoulder down Cushman street to the intersection of Third. where he hurled it to the ground amid the cheers of his comrades, shouting in German: An other swine dead" Later in the ev- ening some of the incensed citizens, who had retained their arms, fired upon some soldiers who were mis- treating a small girl. and immedi- ately there broke out a wholesale murdering of men. women and chil- dren that has not been seen since Germany's invasion of Belgium.
 Every American that came in sight was shot and many houses were burnt with their occupants locked inside.
 | Women were dragged into the streets, stripped of their clothing and turned loose. Some were mur- dered outright. Others had their breasts cut off. The fingers of those wearing rings were cut off. Others had their ears cut off. Young girls were tied to telephone poles, tor tured beyond human endurance and left to die. The U. s. marshal was hung to a street sign on Cushman and then shot full of holes.
 The chief of police was murdered, his hands and feet cut off and his eyes gouged out. Mothers were shot down in the streets and babes at their breasts were left to die.
 The streets were strewn with dead and dying. and one Sister of Chari- ty was shot when she attempted to give aid to a wounded mother.
 A four.year-old girl was frishtfully mangled in an explosion when she attempted to recover her doll from the pile of wrecked furniture in front of her former home. It was learned that the doll had been con.