The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-01-30
'DR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS TELLS
Of ATROCITIES Of GERMAN ARMY
EMINENT MINISTER EECITES THE
TERRIBLE GRIMES HE SAW
IN BELGM.
Declared That He VIII Soon Sail for
France to Help Put Down the
Horrible Brutality.

With the Martins Ferry high schon!
! auditorium literally picked with more
than thousand persons. tho Rev. Dr..
Newell Dwigh, Hills OF New York de-
livcrrd a stirring address last evening
on IA" atrocities hr!uF committed N
Europe ny the llunS.
Or. Hills ramo 10 Martins Ferry un-
der the auspices Of tn" Martins Ferry
BOARD OF Trade. lie was presented last
evening by NJ. W. y. Walls. superin-
tciul,at OF public schools Of that city.
Or Hills. recently returned from Bel
ci":n and France. told OF the horrible
s!.hts he witnessed personally. lie de-
rla:rd. that he regretted that he was too
old TO join tho forces OF America in
the trenches. but that he had son IN
tho navy. Il shall do my bit by going
20 the front IN other than tha capacity
cfSa soldier he declared land IT will
mot b. long until / shall sail FOR
Engand or France" he declared.
1T would make any patriots blood
boil with hatred to hear the unmention-
able crimes being committed on helpless
women. children and old men. and lnbue
them with l. desire 10 take up arms and
fight 10 the last ditch against the kaiser
land his toolS.' he declared: DIR. Hills
talk Is based on his recent visit 10
northern Franco and Belgium. where ha
studied particularly tho brutality prnc-
ticed by the Germans upon tho defense
less inhabitants Of these countries. nntl
altogether 1t makes blood-curd1ng
revelation.
Among other things he referred to the
town OF GcrbcvIllior, In which he says
that standing beside thoir graves. no
found tho photographs OF fifteen old
men who had been lined up and SHOT
by the Germans. none of them bearing
arms or being able to defend them
selves In any way. He heard the details
Gt story Of a woman whose son was
first hanged to n pear tree In her gar
den. When tho Germans went away
she cut the rope and revived the
s,ranElcd youth. Later the German SOL
dicrs returned and while they held the
mothers hands, they poured oil on the
youth and set fire 10 him. leaving him
To run about, burning before hia
mothers eyes. L living skeleton. In the
town Of Lorraine the bodies Of thirty
old men and women were found whore
they fell. victims to tho awful crimes
OF the Hun. Tho women had been
stripped, outraged and 1T Inst slain. l>r.
Hills told OF another village In %hich
tho Germans had fortified tho village
church towor with machine guns and
then had driven two hundred and sew
cnty-hve French women and children
into thu church when tho French Mt
tnck took place. The French attacking
force were notified that II they fired
on the church thuy would XIII their own
wives and children. After several days
Of hunger and thirst, these brave
women slipped u small boy out Of the
window at midnight to tell tho French
attacking forcn to fire on the church.
as they preferred death 10 the outraScs
they wero suffering. The French SOL
dlers then fred on til church, killing
twenty OF their own wives and chill
dren.
Diaries Pound on Dead Germans.
DR. Hills then told Of some Of the
pages Of various diaries found upon the
persons Of dead German soldiers. One
private. Max Thomas. had diary on
his person. an abstract Of which fol-
lows: We soldiers are all excited. We
are like wild sheep. Destroyed eight
houses today with their inmates. GRO
mating two men with their wives and
q Girl OF eighteen" DR.. Hills continued
further and said that at Haccht he
found the dead body OF a young girl
nailed 10 tho outside of building
through her bare hands. Fe also said
that such incidents as these could be
named by thousands. In one city alone
he saw the bodies Of at least 600 dead
women old men and children. who hal
fallen victims to the savage Hun. IN
SOME Instances the bodies of newly born
babes were found beside the body Of
their dead mother. On every hand was
the evidence Of tn kaiscr's instructions
10 his blood-th!rsty tools: Give no
quarter and take no prisoners. Let all
WHO fall into your hands be a; your
mercy"