Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13
GERMANS EXCUSE
ATRocI0Us ACTS
Murder, Pi|lage and Arson Part
Of Deliberate Scheme Of
Warfare.
High OFFICERS 60 on RECORD
No PesslbIs Evasion es Responsibility
for DsstlaI Acts Which for csntu.
ries Have Had Nc Parallel
offieIaliy lnderssd.

Tho people Of tho United States
are beginning to learn the truth corr
cerning the conduct of tho ear By
Germany. Proof Is offered that Cor
man o6scials deliberately lied in
tAsir statements concerning ssroc;-
tiss committed BY tks Belgians and
allies. That their epn soldiers Usrs
disgSstsd BY tho erusltiss precticsd
At the order Of high officers Of the
koissr = shopn. Eztmcts taken
from pampAlets issued follop:
The vorwaerts Of Berlin, October n,
1914. said:
I'VE have already been able to e.
tablish the falseness Of great number
Of assertions which have been made
with great precision and publlshed
everywhere In the press, concerning q.
lsgod eFuelties committed. By the popu-
latSoos Of the countries with which
Germany b At war. upon German sol.
diers and civilians. We are now In po-
sition 70 silencs two others Of these
fantastic stories.
The war correspondent Of the Ben.
unar TAgeblatt spoke . few weeks
ago of cigars and cigarettes nlled with
powder alleged to have been given out
Or eold b our soldiers With diabolical
inteut. Hs even pretended that he had
sssn with his own eyes hundreds of
this hind Of cigarettes. We learn from
an authentic source that this story Of
cigars and cigarettes q nothing but
beasea invention. Stories Of soldiers
whoso syes are alleged to have been
torn out b. francs -tirsurs are clrculat.
ed tAfoughout Germany. Not q sinsis
cass oe this kind has been omcially -
tablished.
IT matters littls that reports Of this
nature bear an appearance Of poatiye
cert1tude. or are even vouched for by
eyeeWttnesses. The desire for notofiety,
the absence Of criticism, and personal
error play an unfortunate part in the
days IN which We are living. Every
nose mot OF or simply bound up,
every eye removed. b Immediately
transformed into Z nose or eye torn
away by the francs-tireurs. Already The
volksssitung Of Cologne has been able.
contrafy to the very categorical asser-
tione from Aix-la- -Chapelle, to prove
that there WAS NO soldier with his eyes
torn out In the field ambulance Of this
town. It was said. also. that people
wounded In this way were under treat
msnt IN the neighborhood Of Berlin,
but whenever Inquiries have been made
in regard to these reports, their abso-
lutte falsity has been demonstrated. Al
length these reports were concentrated
at 0roes Nchterfelde. A newspapef
pubsisAed 1t noon and widely circu-
lated n Berlin printed . few days ago
in hryo Upe the nsws that ct the
LAaarstto At Lchterfelds alone theFs
were sten German soldiers. only slight
y wounded. whose syes had been wick
sd1y torn out.s But to Z fequest foe
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