Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-01
WHAT THE GERMANS
DID To BELGIUM
Major Garrct Stirs Liberty Loan
Massmecting With Recital of
What He Had Seen.

The cruelties inflicted by the Germans
on the people of Belgium and France as
witnessed by Major W. A. Garret, who
went to France with 7. 5. mission to
study transportation problems, were re-
ferred to in the address of Major Garret
at the patriotic Liberty Loan mass
meeting in the Queen Theatre, last night
''lf the people of America could only
visualize the atrocities in Belgium, the
descreation of France, the violation of the
women-the mothers. sisters and grand
mothers of our Allies" he said, there
would be no need for call for Liberty
Loan There would be such spon-
taneous and voluntary offering Of money.
as a gift, that it would forever crush mill
tarism and help to make the world safe. >
Major Garret told how the COM
mission of which he was a member
went first to England and there saw
evidences on every side of how the
English people were economizing in
food, coal and every other necessity of
life. He told of crippled soldiers in
London and Of the thousands who went
to France and never came back, He
mentioned then the fact that the people
IN this country are not vet thoroughly
alive 10 what the German threat means
'"The difference between England and
the United States, nc said, us that the
condition Is serious, and England knows
it, Here, the situation is serious. but the
United States docs not know it" "
He spoke Of the Place de Ia Concoric
in PariS and Of the kaiser's boast that he
would bivouac his troops there. 1t is
ono OF the fairest places in France, he
said, but it is no place for German mill
tarism. The Germans never got there
and they never viii get there.
APPEAL TO LABOR.
He made a special appeal To the
workingmen IN this country To do their
utmost TO help win the war and said
that If it were known here in all it's details
what the German military autocracv did
~ the Belgian workman il would stir
every artisan. every mechanic and every
union man to renewed efforts 10 stamp
out from the world the threat of German
-0mlnation. Belgian workingmen were
dc3orted and forced to work as slaves
without payment. he. said and lie read
protest made by the national organ
izafion of the workingmen in that coun-
try against the outrages to which thcv
had been subjected
Major Carrots talk was greeted with |
applause but he deprecated this This |
- no itItlc ltI dptiitu>t. llt' Sstlt. or Tor 1
tlambOuyant speeches. Let Us keep our |
applause for our boys when they come |
home
He skctchcd what the German posi- !
tions mean in terms of American gcog- !
raphy. He pictured the German army
extending IN line through Wawa Ian |
caster, Coatcsville. with one of the flankS |
resting at 0ctoraro. threatening Baltimore
and only few miles from Wilmington
What would YOU give to keep them
out, il they were there he asked he
member. they have said they would come
here. The German program was thirty
DAYS to Paris, three months to England
and three years to the United States.
He told briefly OF what he had seen
In the devastated parts of France. how
the trees were cut down and killed, not
from a motive OF military necessity. but
dictated by the German policy Of ter
rorism and destruction. He read forms |
prepared by the German military au-
thorlties years before the war. providing
Tor the burning OF towns and the levying
OF contributions in certain cases
Major GarTet was introduced bv |
John ;. RoSsen. chairman OF the Lib
erty loan committee. who presided AZ
the meeting Mr.. Rossell announced !
that there would be another massmeetinc
in the Queen Theatre next SUNDAY night
when another distinguished speaker will
make an address
CONCERT BY BAND
one Of the features OF the evening
Was i concert rendered by the military
band from Fort du Pont This organiza-
ton gave concert of patriotic air out
side the theatre before the meeting began
The program inside the theatre consisted
not only OF band selections but also of I
songs sung hy members of the band The
program enthusiastically appiauded by
he audience
The Liberty Loan committee Tor
brandlwlne hundred has organized for T
AZ aggressive campaign by appointing
in each part of the district
@ as 70 assure th- very highest number
i subscriptions possible Last Saturday !
llgnt- A. Rae du Bell, executive secre-
-arv of the Liberty Loan committee. Al y
meeting held In Mt Pleasant. addressed /
lie workers OF the hundred on the ab-
'oiute necessity for hard work IN every
ection He instructed them in the terms
II the loan and urged the best co-opera-
ION possible IN order tD obtain the maxi
mann ~ rcse4l.