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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-18

Vinton, Texas, April 1s.-The Vim
ton district made a good showing In
the Liberty loan campaign. Among
those purchasing bonds were F. J..
Belk. Charles LANCE. J. c. Rishaber-
ger, DR.. A. E Lauson. Harry Risha-
berger. C. n Church. C. o. servateus.
IL r. Henley and Herman Jundt.
Repairing Bridge Approach.
Men and teams are at work haul
ing gravel for the west a -proach to
the Yinton bridge. where the water
is undermining the brush encroach-
ments.
School closes here this week with
the rendition Of a program on Friday
afternoon. The La Union and Alta
Vista schools. on the west side. will
close also. AIRS. H. II Vincent Of the
La Union school and Miss sarah Hath
away, OF the Alta Vista school. viii
spend the summer in Trinidad. Colo
Miss Esther Crow, Of the Alta Vista
school VIII remain with relatives in
Anthony, and Miss Ruth Lewis. of the
La Union school, accompanied by her
sister. Miss Vera Lewis, who has been
teaching at Anapra, viii go to Arizona
70 JOIN their family, living near Flag
staff
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-18
Rains Aid To
CattLen1e11 In
The Southeast
Wheeler, Tex, and CARR
zozo, N. NJ, Inspectors
Report Showers.

A good rain fell in the vicinity Of
Wheeler Tex, during the past week,
according to a report received from
inspector W. y. Taylor by the Pan
handle and Southwestern Stockmen's
assoclation- Three shipments were
made.
The largest was 500 head Of 3 year
old steers sold by McMurtry brothers
to c. E. Thompson at $50 per head
Eleven carloads Of the herd were
shipped from Alanreed, Tex. TO Grand
summit. Kan. and three carloads to
Sedan. Kan, from Alanreed.
Albert Sweet sold 100 yearlings to
T. F. Kelly and they were shipped
from Wellington. Tex TO Wheeler
Tex.
showers at Carrizozo.
In the report given by J. B. Baird.
inspector at Carrizozo, n NJ, he said
that the range was slightly improved.
There had been light local showers
the last week and the weather was
warm and winds
The Carrizdao Commission com
pany shipped one carload OF stock
horses TO Babe Jones. at Calumet. Ok
lahoma-
Three carloads Of stock cattle were
shipped by OF Finley from Tularosa.
n. NJ, 10 Carrizozo.
SHIPS FROM MARIA.
William Scott shipped three car
loads Of cattle from Maria. Tex,
Tuesday into Ell Paso. which were re-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-18
S. P. DEPOT AT TUCSON
IS BEING ENLARGED

Tucson. Ariz- April 1s.-EnIarge-
ment is being made Of the Southern
Pacific depot at an expense Of $50 900
in order 10 provide better quarters for
the force Of the division superintend-
ent
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-18
sHIPs PROM MARIA.

William Scott shipped three car
loads Of cattle from Maria. Tex.
Tuesday into FL Paso. which were re-
shinned
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-18
SBs6sEa
kaGEaaY1 M
Kills PAIN

slaaH's BFles. NOT increased a5e soc 81
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

thousands of towns, the floating dust of
funeral pyres. The world was to be made
German, not merely its lands, but all men,
And where humanity, held by memories
and faiths the German could not under
stand or appreciate, resisted, the answer
was death-death in all the vile forms
that lust and flaming animal wrath could
before one as he turns over the records
which stand now as a formal indictment.
1t is not one Belgian child with mu-
tilated arms that the world must face,
but hundreds of thousands of human be-
ings mutilated, raped, bayoneted, burned,
robbed Of wealth, goods and honor and
then tossed to death like carbon 1t
would take many volumes to give the full
report of the available mass Of evidence
This summary, prepared from materials
covering the last four years, can at best
Dut point the way.
Belgium is an overpowering episode in
the indictment against the German. But
In the end it remains only an episode.
The ruin of Belgium--literally the rape
of Belgium, because thousands of women
were ravished and assaulted--was the
beginning in a long programme. The
horrors of Aerschot are matched by the
horrors of Eish and Erzerum. For one
body in Belgian canal there have been
thousands in the Euphrates. In the East
the Turk and the Bulgar, led by German
officers, stirred to ambition by German
accomplishment, have matched the Bel
glan programme in every particular.
Europe and Asia, wherever the poisoned
German breath has touched, have be-
come waste, swept clean of everything
but blood.
In the volumes to be compiled some
day will be the report Of the Bel
gian royal commission. The story of
Aerschot will be told, Aerschot where,
In the middle of August, 1914, the
German army pillaged and fired for
three days. taking the men Of the village
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
accumulation of facts takes it further
and further from the realm of the acci-
DENTAL

At Louvan the German deliberately
St. Pierre, and gave the splendid univer-
sity and it's library to the torch. He
entered Rheims September q of that
first year and bombarded it that day. A
week later he evacuated the ancient
city and bombarded it steadily for five
days, later turning his guns malev-
emily on the cathedral until only a shell
remained. He tried to lie out of his
crime. He had claimed so long to be the
protector of art, the patron of the
beautiful, that the role of destroyer did
not sit gracefully. Lieutenant Wengler, Of
the Germany Heavy Artillery, made a
public announcement. 1t was he who
had bombarded Rheims, but he had fired
two poor shots, merely to dislodge a
French observer. That was the total
account. 1t is interesting to recall the
letter that Richard Harding Davis wrote
to "The New York Times" about Lieu
tenant Wengler's shots, in which he
pointed out how we'll the lieutenant lied {:
Sup to the hour of 3 howitzer shells had
passed through the southern wall of the
cathedral, killing two of the German wound
ed inside, had wrecked the Grand Hotel op-
houses Immediately facing it, and in dozen
places had torn up immense holes in the
cathedral square. Twenty-four hours after
Lieutenant Wengler claims he ceased firing
shells set fire to the roof and utterly
wrecked the chapel of the cathedral and
the archbishop's palace, which is Joined to
the cathedral by yard no wider than
Fifth Avenue; and in the direction of the
German guns the two shells fired by Lieu
tenant Wengler had already wrecked that
part of the city surrounding the cathedral
for a quarter of q mile"
There is still the fringe of events that
radiate from Belgium, like spear points
of fire from burning sun. There is
the sinking of Belgian relief ships that
Germany must account for when SEN
tence is pronounced, beginning with the
Storstad, plainly marked and carrying
10000 tons of corn to relieve the starv-
ing nation. The Storstad was sunk and
shelled, so were the Tunisie and the
Haeken. Submarines have been carry
ing out the design further at intervals
ever since.
And if a conspiracy to complete, by
the destruction of aid, the assault on a
people were not enough, Germany fur
thsxsd it By q more consistent plan Of
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

Lithuania was Hindenburg's lob be-
fore his mastery of the conqueror's task
had put him on the Western front Read
the speech of DR.. Tresic Pavicic, Jugo-
Slav Deputy at Vienna, for the clearest
picture of the ruin in Lithuania and
Serbia. Everything of value to Ger
many was stolen and sent back. Girls
of fourteen were stripped and publicly
violated, then murdered, in front of
their parents. When the infuriated men
broke loose they were hanged. Pregnant
women were beaten and hanged
Trenches evacuated by the German
Austrian troops were found filled with
the bodies of dead Lithuanian girls who
had been passed on from officers to pri-
Yates. "Red light districts were estab-
lshed, with Lithuanians as inmates.
Families were forced to send their
daughters to soldiers to get money for
food
And the Bulgars in Serbia were con-
sistent pupils of the German scheme. In
Bosnia Herzegovina the Jugo-Slavs were
compelled to dig their own graves. lie in
them and be shot, the living putting
earth over the dead until their turn
came. 1t was for the Bulgars war of
determination. Near Nish 10000 were
carried off into Asia Minor. The Serbs
would not eat fish from the River
,Nishava because they said it was full of
Serbian dead
But all this Is sanctioned in the book
of Prussian ethics, the Bible of the Super-
men. You open it at random and YOU
read:
The strong will and must DISCHARGE thar
strength; and in doing so the havoc thev
make of other beings in their deyelonmsn.
is purely Incidental" -
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

of atrocities can be found in report
rendered by R. A. Reiss, a professor at
the University of Lausanne Switzer-
land. In Serbia he found the dead dis
embowelled, arms and legs broken, cut or
torn, noses and ears cut off, eyes put
out, the breasts cut off, and bodies cut
in pieces or beheaded.
Turn a little nearer Berlin, and the
German himself is met again at the
game. There was Poland, with 100000
girls ravished. General Won Beseler, the
German Governor of Warsaw, posted
bulletin, offering $50 marks for bows
and 100 marks for girls for every child
born of a German father. Helen
Paderewska, Polish woman in Amer
lea, wrote: German armies occupy the
land, and nearly every Polish girl is the
property of a German. There is no es-
cape"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
With apologies to Herod the First

out and shooting them four at a time.
There is the story of Louvain, where the
banks were robbed, the women of all ages
raped and baycneted. the mep soaked in
petroleum and burned alive. 1t was the
road between Louvain and Tiremont
that the Belgian commission reported as
lined with civilian corpses.
The notebooks of captured German
soldiers will not be forgotten in the in
dictment There is in instance the note
book of the private of the 22d Reserve
Infantry who wrote from Crei on Sep
tember 3: "The iron bridge was blown
up. For this we set the streets on fire
and shot the civilians" Another whose
record was made near Bouvignes, north
of Dinant, reports that the inhabitants
were "shot at such close range that they
were almost decapitated the
women and children locked into a con-
vent from which shots were fired. And
for this reason the convent is about to
be set fire to-
General Won Bulow himself made no
secret of his intentions toward the Bel
gian people. On August %, 1914, he
proclaimed at Liege, with respect to the
charge that the people of Ardennes had
been shooting at his troops: "It was
with my consent that the general in
chief set fire to the whole locality and
that about one hundred persons were
shot"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

robbery, the records reveal Familieswere
destroyed, and 100000 individuals were
taken from their homes to Germany.
Cardinal Mercier protested to Gov
ernor General Won Bissing, who re-
piled with what have since been called
scarcely yelled sophistries Holland pro-
tested, so did the United States and the
Pope-to little end.
But if Belgium had suffered, what of
France? During the German retreat of
March, 1917, cities and towns were pill
laged and destroyed, the fruit trees were
hacked down, or ringed, to die later.
Wells and streams were poisoned Sc
curities were even taken from the banks,
in violation of The Hague articles, and
the thousand square miles that were
evacuated were left empty and barren Of
all that had given them life and beauty.
Houses were blown up, furniture
smashed with picks, farm carts hacked
to pieces andsimplements burned. And
as in Belgium, many of the civilian pop
ulation were sent back to Germany to
labor there. Proclamations were posted
in the Asne region calling men, women
and children TO work in the fields from
a. m. to p. M, including Sunday,
with penalties, most often of the whip,
sometimes the bullet, for idlers.
Then there was Edith Cavell, mur-
dered because she helped Belgian SOL
diers across the frontier. 1t has been
called "an uneasy conscience" that made
the Germans deny to Hugh Gibson, sec
retary of the American Legation, that
sentence had been pronounced, when the
moment for the shooting had already
been set. There were early air raids on
London and Paris, planned for purposes
of terrorization. The Lusitania, with it's
thousand dead; the thousand visitations
Of the submarine, the shellng of open
lifeboats tossed on the ocean, the mined
shipping track in the North Sea to kill
Dutch and Danish sailors by the hun
dreds when the submarine had not vet
found its pace. There were the poison
gases around Ypres-the first poison gas
in the war-sending the British and the
French back, reeling, gasping, choking
and strangling.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

young girl of thirteen Another witness
saw nineteen corpses in a meadow"
Three hundred houses were burned at
Herve. Mounted men shot into the doors
and windows to prevent escape. This
was repeated at Liege, where fifteen
women were raped in daylight on tables
in the Place de PUniversite.
This is from German soldiers dia1 =
for August Is, 1914, written at the town
of Wandre: "The inhabitants without
exception were shot. This shooting was
heartbreaking, as they all knet down
and prayed, but that was no ground for
mercy"
At Ardennes on the Meuse, near
Namur, the Germans machine-gunned
the town for two hours. Four hundred
civilians were killed here. At Dinant
there were 120 bodies. The rest of the
inhabitants were taken to Germany. At
Hofstade there were "many corpses";
and then "two young women were lying
in the backyard of the house. One had
her breasts cut off, the other had been
stabbed young man had been
hacked with the bayonet until his entrails
protruded. He also had his hands Joined
in an attitude of prayer" From this
district Belgians were transported to
Germany in cattle trucks. The cars were
crowded, without food for days, and full
Of filth. Some of the women went mad
on the way.
The Bryce committee, concluding it's
ties Of other wars, keeping in mind that
war is always thing of brutality, and
then wrote "the killing was done as part
/, of deliberate plan. 1t began at a GER
tain fixed date and stopped at another
fixed date"
The report was valuable for more than
its effect upon the opinion of the world.
1t disclosed an actual, we'll worked out
and comprehensively planned effort on
the part of Germany to terrorize the
world.
Every appearance of German fright
fulness cannot escape this implication of
an intentional madness. 1t is the same
on the seas as on land. 1t gives SINH
lar meaning to the Lusitania sinking, to
the Armenian massacres, the spoliation
of Lithuania and Poland, the devasta-
ton of conquered French territory, the
murder of Edith Cavell, the firing on
Red Cross camps and the shelling Of
hospital ships, the Zeppelin raids on
open cities in England, the lombard
ment of Paris, the air raids on Italian
cities, filled with the art treasures of
another time; the destruction of the
Rheims Cathedral, the attempted murder
Of the Serbian people by Austria. The
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

The Bryce report is probably the most
conclusive of all the evidence, prepared
after long deliberation, drawn up by
men accustomed to give the proper judi
cial review to facts, based on 1000 Bel
gian depositions, diaries taken from the
German dead and German proclamations.
In the report here and there are found
Illuminating instances of the German
method
'At Mean, hamlet west of Herve, forty
men were shot. In one household alone
the father and mother (names given) were
shot, the daughter died after being repeat
edly outraged"
"The systematic execution of civilians" is
reported.
"In Soumagne and Micheroux very many
civilians were summarily shot in a field
belonging to a man named E., ffty-six or
fifty seven were put to death. A German
officer said: you have shot at u.s. One
of the villagers asked to be allowed to
speak, and said: If you think these people
fired, kill me, but let them co. The an
swer was three volleys. The survivors were
bayoneted. Their corpses were seen in the
field that night by another witness. One
at least had been mutilated. These were
not the only victims in Soumagne. The
eyewitness of the massacre saw, on his
way home. twenty bodies, one that of q
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
German Air Plot"No hospitals on
--pn

cember of 1914, said: "Pillage, rape,
arson and murder are the common prac-
tlces of our enemies. Crimes against
women and young girls have been of ap-
palling frequency"
Shift the scene to Armenia, to Serbia,
to Lithuania and to Poland
In Armenia it seems to have been the
German example in Belgium that en-
couraged Turkey to set out to exter-
inmate the Armenian nation. In five
months from 100000 to 100000 Ar
menians died, snuffed out by procedure
quite German in it's uniformity. The
men from fifteen to seventy were taken
out and shot. Others were taken out
across great barren stretches of land
and abandoned to starvation. Women
were ravished, sold to harems, children
sold to brothels. Children born by the
roadside were left to die, their mothers
dragged along until death, too, came to
rescue them. The Euphrates in 1915
was covered with the bodies of Ar
menlan women who preferred death in
the river to the death and dishonor that
Germanized Turkey brought to them
The Bryce report on the Turkish
atrocities in Armenia was based on $50
documents and all the available authen-
tic evidence obtainable to July, 1915.
The report characterized the Armenian
case as "the most colossal crime in the
history Of the world" According to the
Bryce report the roads in Erzerum, Bills
and Diarbekir were lined with corpses of
Armenians hanged in patches. For a
month corpses flooded the Euphrates A
| German eyewitness wrote thus of the
tortures he saw in Harput:
"They have had their eyebrows
plucked out, their breasts cut off, their
nails torn off, their torturers hew off
their feet or else hammer nails into
them" And to complete the irony of
this, coming from a German, members
of the German High School faculty at
Aleppo, knowing we'll enough where the
source of these things might be found.
protested to the German Foreign Office
that Armenia would be "a stain on Ger
man honor for centuries to come.''
But if the Turks learned the lesson
we'll, the Austrians are shown to have
profited likewise. Quantities of explo-
sive bullets were found among the Aus
trian stores in the Serbian invasion in
1914--whole cases of them, devised to
penetrate the skin and then explode
Serbian prisoners who were wounded
were killed, the civilian population
burned alive, women raped here as else
where. An Austrian soldier Of the 26th
Landsturm wrote that they had received
"orders to bayonet men, women and
children without distinction" II fright
fulness was good fer Belgium, surely it
was effective against Serbia. The table
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28

undone what it
took forty years
to build.
A er four
years the Ger
man thing" is
a n a t h e m a
' through all the
world. It's en-
pire is edged in
blood on the map
of Europe, and
over it turks
the smoke of
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
s!4e%H;5A.<
go

This is small part of the German
tale in the west. The east still remains,
with a story that is no less horrible, "no
less comprehensively an arraignment of
the German scheme to make the world
bow or be slain" A French official re-
port, thirty pages Of it, written in De-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-28
By Ralph Block

T TOOK the Germans something like
forty years to build up their great
: nineteenth century tradition of
kultur. But four swift years have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25

Saunders admits it will take some
time for the navy department to do
over into uusinkables the fleet of for
mer liners now transporting our troops,
but said that the work would be done
as speedily as possible.
vaterIand to Be One of First?
The Levia than. formerly the Water
land of the Hamburg American line, is
believed to be one of the first of the
big transports slated for overhauling
should the report of Rear Admiral
Winterhalter b that the Lucia is I'M
sinkable. The Vaterland recently car
ried 5000 American fighters safely to
France
Other ships formerly German or Aus
trian liners which will undergo the
process of being made unsuitable are
the America. formerly Amerika: the
President Lincoln: the President
Grant; the Powhattan, formerly the
Hamburg: the Madewaska, formerly
the Koenig Wilhelm II; the George
Washington: the Mount Vernon, for
merly the kronprinzessin Cecilie; the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
THE Finished
Mystery

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what will be the results and what will
follow after. 1t is the first and only
book that makes clear Revelations
and Ezekiel. This book is a compila-
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who forty years ago showed how the
Bible prophets predicted a worldwide
war to begin in the fall of 1914. The
outcome of this war was also predict
ed by the Prophets. Get The Fin
ished Mystery and be one of the
wise ones. Daniel -: 80. The book
contains COS pages embossed cloth
The first copy was sold July 16, 1917;
the first week off the press $4,000
copies were sold; now 100000 edi-
ton is on the press. Send us 60c and
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Co. Post Office Box No. 129, Rich
mond. Ind.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
IS UNSUITABLE TRANSPORT TO BE SCIENCES ANSWER
TO UBOAT MENACE? THE WORLD WILL SOON KNOW

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-A U-boat
hobs up in the path of a transport
carrying a capacity load Of United
States soldiers to France. Almost as
soon as the periscope is sighted tor
pedo ia seen whizzing through the
water to hit just behind the bow
The transport captain cannot make
a turn quick enough to evade the tor.
pedo and as the gunners blaze away at
the periscope a second torpedo is
loosed and sent on its mission of
horror. Both torpedoes hit.
The gunners keep on firing at the
subsea demon and there is no rush for
the hfeboats. The transport captain
slows down. but continues steaming
ahead and after a while distress rock.
cts are sent aloft.
By and by there appears a relief
ship or two and the big transport Is
helped along into port.
May Be Story Soon.
That may be an episode Of the sea
in the near future il the statement Of
Vice Chairman William Lawrence
Saunders of the naval consulting board
is proven true. Saunders recently
made the statement that the govern
ment had perfected an unsuitable
ship.
"A ship recently Communicated by
the government now lies at an Atlantic
port in such shape that she cannot be
sunk by an exploding torpedo" said
Saunders. in an address before the
alumni of the University Of Pennsyl.
vania in New York city
Shortly thereafter Secretary Daniels
of the navy announced that a special
board had been appointed to make q
careful study and tests of the steamer
Lucia-referred to by Saunders.
The Lucia, formerly an Austrian
steamer, is now on her way from New
Orleans to New York city. Aboard it
are Rear Admiral Albert G. Winter
halter. head of the Investigators named
by Daniels, Captain Rooster. Naval
Constructor Stocker and Naval Con
structor Du Bose. These men are ex-
pected to put the Lucia to practical
tests in deep water and see if it is un-
sinkable.
Their report 20 Daniels will tell
whether American engineering genius
which perfected the submarine has
now perfected the successful offset.
Navy Department Keeps Mum.
At the navy department nothing is
being said of the unsuitable Lucia.
1t is understood, however, that plans
are already made to convert into I'M
every one of the dozen or
more German and Austrian liners COM
Wandered after their internment aud
now in use as transports.
Saunders in making his announce
ment said that he could see no reason
why news of the successful invention
should be withheld
One Of these unsinkables may
have hole blown in her side as big
as forty feet in diameter and still re.