The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-19

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Americans have found it almost
impossible to believe that human be-
ings could commit such terrible
crimes.
Seeing is believing. | have seen.
Not only have the German soldiers
committed unspeakable atrocities,
atrocity is the very soul of the Ger
man system of making war. The COM
mission of atroeity is not passionate,
sporadic or spontaneous. 1t has been
Systematically and scientifically
taught in the German Army since
1912.
In the German Handbook of Mil
itary Tactics" printed in 1912 Gen.
Hoffman, instructor general to the
German Army, writes:
War must be made not only on
the soldiers of the enemy, but on the
civilians behind the armies. Anything
that will shatter the nerves and re-
sistance of the enemy nation is prop
er and must be praetieed. By steep
ing himself in military history an of
fieer will be able to guard himself
against excessive humanitarian no.
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Murder as Taught.
Through the Handbook of Ger
man Military Tactics the kaiser and
his general staff systematically and
scientifically taught murder, mutila
ton and arson of defenseless people.
81 have seen photographs of dead
girls with their breasts cut off for this
reason: They had been outraged by a
German soldier afflicted with vile,
venereal disease. These diseased sol
diers are denied access to women who
follow the camp, lest the disease be
transmitted to healthy German sol
diers. Thus the rotten-blooded, rot
ten-boned, rotten-fleshed, rotten-mar-
rowed and rotten-souled German SOL
der vents his bestial lust upon cap
tured French girls. To prevent the
transmission of his fearful disease to
other German soldiers he warns them
by mutilating the hapless and infect
ed female.
1.-THE woman's life and body mean
nothing to the Germans as compared
with the within of a German soldiers
lust.
"There is the Wanted efficiency of
the German, organized by the devil
himself.
From Soldiers Diaries.
"Read these excerpts taken from
diaries found on the bodies of German
soldiers:
Note book of Private Max Thorn
as-"Our soldiers are SO excited, we
are like wild beasts. Today, destroy
ed eight houses, with their inmates.
Bayoneted two men with their wives
and girl of IS. The little one almost
unnerved me, so innocent was her ex-
preston" Diary of Eitel Anders: I'm
Vendre all the inhabitants without ex-
ception were brought out and shot.
This shooting was heartbreaking as
they all knelt down and prayed. 1t
is real sport, yet it was really terri
BILE to watch. At Haecht | saw the
dead body of young girl nailed to
the outside door of a cottage by her
hands. She was about fourteen or
sixteen years Old
"Take Gen Hoffman's Handbook of
German Military Tactics written for
and approved by the General Staff.
Take the things said of the Prussian
character of Gothic, Heine and even
Nietzsche Then take the ruthless in
vasion of Belgium, the attempt to
blame the war on England, charge
denied by Prince Lichnowsky, the Ger
man ambassador to London when the
war broke out; Bethman- Hollweg' S
scrap of paper and then look at the
photographs, read the affidavits and
listen to the tales of the little children
who saw these awful things and who
are too young to invent such tales yet
old enough to tell what awful sights
they saw; read the letters taken from
the bodies of German dead and pri-
soners."