The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-09-12
CHAPLAIN WOULD
|ExTERMIAATE FOE
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for -crueIties
Perpetrated by Army.
HANTs BERLIN DESTROYED
'Loathe the soehe, Preach Against
Him, Work against Him, Wherever
He Is, Cstracizc Him Socially
ard Commercially"

Baltimore, Md.-Rev. George A.
Griffin. Baltimore Protestant Episco-
Dal Clergyman serving as chaplain
With the Fifth field artillery, the regi-
llent that fired A:aerica's first shot in
The war, has written letter TO DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs. prominent Bal
.iIaorean, which was printed in full in
iIc curreni issue Of the Manufacturers
Record, N whic.! lie discusses at length
fueitics inflicted BY ihe Germans upon
| iviiians and soldiers.
~ feel, be says, ".nat ! express the
sentiment OF those who have seen and
leard over here, whea I say that We're
! in America today. priest as ! am, l
should do my best To have put to death
my Boche in America or any so-caned
American who would apologize in any
way for what the Roche has done.
"Ali that you have heard in America
| lbOut them does hot approximate the
ruth. There are little children right
here in France with their little stumps
| # hands; there were some not far from
ny last camp. and young men with all
he fingers of their right hand cut off.
The other day British officer and
ilree I0mmieS told me that short
imp ago they went as an advance
,arty into 81 little village from which
he Boche had been driven back, and in
! large rnom there were four young
'anaGiars crncified. one on each wall
| Il the room.
! Torture Young Girls.
ALSO, when was with the British
hey told me the Boches had taken
Dung Belgian and French girls into
| heir first line trenches and tortured
| hem until their screams made the
icotcE and the Canadians so craZed
ney would go over into the machine
.un nests which The Boche had set up,
sing the womcn's screams as a decOy.
And have it on the word of Brit
| 81 officer that they have stood (the
| ificers) with guns ie"elCd at their men
| 0 keep them from going Oyer when the
women scream, and being neediessiy
| laughtered. ! cannot tell you what
| he TOmmies told Ine they found when
| hey drove these heli-henGs out Of these
| positions; 1t is too awful even to think
lDout. also have it Oh TIE weird of
| ne of the greatest French abbCS that
he Boche were especially instructed TO
| aestrOy conyents-and Kill or outrage
| he nuns-;lnd he says that all through
rance and Belgium are ruined con-
'ents, and that the nuns were given TO
| he soldiers to be outraged in camps.
"Tlese are not isolated cases nor alb
;0rnlal conditions which prevail here
nd there where troops were dFunl: OF
| i.ithout restraint. Go along the French
!r British front, and the only cOnclu-
ion you arrive at is that they are
ilst The ground principle of BOche ef
| iciency IN action. / don't believe there
i, one OF us here who wouldn't Ike
| ID be home. But there is not one of us
iere. believe, who does not want to
ice Bocheland devastated from one end
10 the other, with Berlin blackened
!in-with the BOche extermiRated, mil
ltarists. and all, before we come home.
Favors DETERMINATION.
at is American blood that is flowing
.ow, and God grant it may give Amer
"a some strength to realize what we
re up against. To talk of terms until
he BOche is eXterIninated is to league
,ith Satan for corner in hell. Priva-
I ions, sacrifices! What can you do at
| l,.,,,n 70 Wit
sf ours are doing over here? Meatless
lays, Wheatless days, sugarless days,
| rood women knitting, benefits for the
! ED CrOsS-Or all YOUR social diver
| ions with a charitable object sand
wiched in!
''When you are 0ut on a shCil-sUept
ill and the shells are going by like
/ bats out OF he'll, as tao soldiers say,
| md It's dark as the grave and every
nan, God bless him stands strong and
rue, caInoUtiacins all his own feelings
sar Your sake and fer the sake of what
se has back home, mcatlesS days and
f'heatiess days and Liberty bond CAM
tbaigns seem cheaf, IS your support of
him in such an hour
IoaIhe the Beche-preach against
| t;m--wOrk against him. wherever the
| IS, Ostracize him socially and CONNER
rally. Take no chance-eyen though
his reputation for loyalty has been Il
;ong-siandins one. The leopard cannot
thange his spots-nsither can the
BOche demon lose his horns. I'm beg
| King you now--as the Boche are try
ling 10 murder us-tO help wake every
lbne up IN the fact that America must
realize What the world is facing over
here. Can't you see it--can't America
pee it-how everything is hanging In
The balance? And I know that the
weight which shall east It down is
when youT loathins for the Boche will
30 burn in You as TO make you count
bothing-consider nothlng-but his eX-
Termination