The Nenana daily news., 1918-04-30
INHUMAN HUNS

gathering of Portland women, re- gently, Luther D. Wishard, personal representative of President Wilson in the war zone of Europe, told of the frightful atrocities of the Ger man soldier, from whose brutality defenseless women are not spared. He also assured his audience that this world conflict will in all proba- bility, continue for several years, and that, eventually, it must be a war of extermination.
 "You in all probability will not believe the frightful things which I am going to tell you," he said, "but there are three sources of evidences of facts. In the first place, Lord Bryce formed commission, com posed of men, who worked in Bel gium, France and Armenia. Every statement which they issued had to be substantiated.
 ''In the second place there are in Paris today 4,000 diaries filled by German officers, with the record of devilish atrocities which they com mitted and the ones they witnessed. There they are. If you can read that barbarian language in which they are written, you have the evi- dence. Then the last reason why you should believe them is the daily statements from people who have been on the battlefront and who have seen evidences of these things.
 ''If the brave women over there can live through the things which I tell you about, then you women can steel yourselves to listen and swear new allegiance to our flag and to that of the allied nations"
 Mir. Wishard told of the treatment of little children by the Germans. He told how children are bayoneted. or crucified to a door or a table, and in one instance how little boy hap pened to run out into the street just as German officer was passing by and how he ran his bayonet through him, hung him over his IL Lo ol his life away, and walked on singing down the road.
 Another incident he told was this :: One poor mother was forced to stand by while her husband was tor tured to death and her little boy was taken away from her. She faint ed, and when she recovered asked where her child was. "He has been sent down the road" she was told. When she went to find him she found him hanging from a limb of a tree, tied along with five or six other children, all dead. His body was till warm, and by giving of her breath to him, and by much coaxing and betting, she got him so that he could talk and recognize her. She heard a rustling, and when she look ed around she saw another German officer standing beside her. He tore the youngster away from her, cov- cred his clothes with gasoline, ig- nited them, and burned the boy to crisp.
 He then told of the indignities to the women. There is absolutely nothing of humanity left in the hearts of the men when they get hold of the women and girls" he said. "There are three reasons for their brutal treatment First, pure and unbridled lust; second, deliber- ately to horrify and terr0rize them in order to make every one afraid of Germany.
 "The last reason is this: They are given a deliberate and precon. certed order to inflict unwelcome motherhood upon every woman, ir order that they may rear an army to fight against the people of the mothers. This thing is being car ried on on such a gigantic scale that we cannot even begin to gather together figures"
 MT. Wishard told of the enormous amount of good which is being don' by the Red Cross society and by thu Young Mems Christian Association fLo 4n