The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-03-15
lREV. DR.. Hills
| SPOKE At HUNTINGTON
GREAT PREACHER AND LEcTuR-
Err TELLS WHAT HE SAW
IN BELGIUM.

DR.. Newell Dwight Hills. one Of our
greatest public speakers. went TO Bel
gium and Northern France last sum-
mer and made personal investigation OF
the horrors there He spoke at Hunt
ington Monday night TO a crowded
house. Many OF the deeds he describ-
ed as committed by German soldiers
are unprintable. but the following ex-
tracts are horrible enough:
This catalogue OF German crime is
documented and in the government ar
chives OF the different nations and II
makes up q most aickening picture In
history. Every solemn pledge that Ger
many signed year and halfibefors
at the Hague convention, as to safe
guarding the Red Cross, hospitals, ca
thedrals. Libraries. women and child
rem, and unarmed citizens are scoffed
at as a scrap OF paper" The atrocities
also were committed not IN a mood OF
drunkenness nor an hour OF anger. but
were organized by so-called German
efficiency and perpetrated on the delib-
crate, cold. precises scientific policy OF
German frightfulness. II is not simply
that they looted factories carried away
machinery and robbed houses bombed
every farm house and granary. left no
plow nor reaper. chopped down every
pear tree and plum tree with every
grapevine, and poisoned all wells? The
Germans slaughtered old men and ma
irons. mutilated captives In ways that
can only be spoken OF by men In whis-
pers. violated little girls until they
were dead; finding calf skin nailed
upon a barn door TO be dried, they nail
ed babe beside IL and wrote beneath
the word--Zwei.''
"The German soldiers hold up their
hands, thus said DIR. Hills. holding
up first his right and then his left hand.
"and say. Yes. | committed this or
that crime. What are you going to do
about itY
"The diary OF a German soldier is
sufficient evidence OF their brazen at
titude IL no other is obtainable. In Bel
gium. the diary says. there is plenty
OF wine and plenty OF women especial
| ly plenty OF young girls The diary
then recited how family was murder
ed. including the old man and his
granddaughter. little child
DIR. Hills held up square piece OF
pasteboard. on which was written in
German: Strike them all dead: the
day OF Judgment shall ask you no ques-
tions." He said this was found on a
dead German soldier, and that this is
given to each OF the kaiser's defend
ers.- This bit OF pastehoard. said DR..
Hills. contains the creed OF the Ger
man soldier. 1T is an echo OF the In
quisition" he declared, ''and in its
meaning. horrors that eclipse those OF
the Black Hole OF Calcutta have been
committed In Belgium and Northern
France"
| He said that the philosophy OF Ger
many for the practice of officers and
soldiers OF the military was written
and published in 1912. two years before
the declaration OF war. This work was
entitled the LAWS of German War
fare,- and contained repeated admoni-
lions for terrorism" and "frightful-
ness" 1t went into detail on such mat
ters as the use OF poison gas the kill
ing OF unarmed women and children,
and anything necessary TO accomplish
German ends in war"
What is more important still here are
the letters taken from the bodies Of
dead German soldiers with their dia-
ries. Out OF the large number. note
these: Photographs OF the dead bodies
OF aged priests some OF whom were
dead because they had been staked
down and used as lavatory until they
perished. Dead girls. with breasts cut
of.
Take these pages found in the dia-
ries OF German soldiers, August %.
Note book of Private Max Thames
l"our soldiers are so excited we are
Ike wild beasts. Today. destroyed eight
houses. with their inmates. Bayonetted
two men with their wives and a girl OF
eighteen. The little one almost unnerv-
ed me so innocent was her expression
Diary OF Eitel Anders: In Verdre all
the Inhabitants without exception were
brought out and shot. This shooting
was heartbreaking as they all knelt
down and prayed. II is real sport. yet it
was really terrible TO watch"