The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-09-19
CHAPLAIN WOULD
.ExTERMIAATE FOE
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for crueIties
Perpetrated by Army
WANTS BERLIN DESTROYED
"Loathe the 6oehe, Preach Against
Him, Work Against Him, Wherever
He Is, ostracize Him Socially
and Commercially"

ana commercially.
Baltimore, Md.-Rev. George A. |
Griffin, Baltimore Protestant Episco- |
pal clergyman serving as chaplain |
with the Fifth field artillery, the regi- |
ment that fired Americas first shot in |
the war, has written letter TO DIR. |
Henry Barton Jacobs, a prominent Bal
timorean, which was printed in full in
the current issue of the Manufacturers
Record, in which he discusses at length
cruelties inflicted by the Germans upon
civilians and soldiers.
81 feel" he says, "that express the
sentiment of those who have seen and
heard over here, when I say that were
l in America today, priest as / am, /
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America or any so-caEed
American who would apologize in any
way for what the Boche has done.
"AI that you have heard in America
about them does not approximate the
truth. There are little children right
here in France with their little stumps
Of hands; there were some not far from
my last camp, and young men with all
the fingers of their right hand cut off.
The other day British officer and
three Tommies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into little village from which
the Boche had been driven back, and in
q large room there We're four young
Canadians crucified, one on each wall
of the room.
Torture Young Girls.
"Also, when was with the British
they told me the Boches had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the
Scotch and the Canadians so craZed
they would go over into the machine
gun nests which the Boche had set up,
using the women's screams as decoy.
~And have it on the word of Brit
ish officer that they have stood (the
sficers) with guns 1eveled at their men
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly
Slaughtered. cannot tell you what
the Tommies told me they found when
they drove these hell-fiends out of these
positions; it is too awful even to think
about. i also have it on the word of
one of the greatest French abbes that
The Boche were especially instructed to
destroy conyents-and kill or outrage
the nuns-and he says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents, and that the nuns were given to
he soldiers to be outraged in camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor alb
formal conditions which prevail here
and there where troops were drunk or
without restraint. Go along the French
or British front, and the only conclu-
sion you arrive at is that they are
lust the ground principle Of Boche eff.
dciency in action. don't believe there
Is one of us here who wouldn't like
to be home. But there is not one of us
1ere, believe, who does not want to
see Bocheland devastated from one end
to the other, with Berlin a blackened
:uin-with the Boche exterminated, mill
J itarists and all, before we come home.
Eavors determination.
cit is American blood that is flowing
low, and God grant it may give Amer
lea some strength to realize what we
are up against. To talk of terms until
The Boche is exterminated is to league
with Satan for corner in hell. Priva-
Itions, sacrfficesi What can you do at
nome to compare with what these men
nj. ours are doing over here? Meatless
lays, wheatSess days, sugarless days,
good women knitting, benefits for the
Red Cross-or all your social diver
sfons with charitable object sand
Tiehed in!
When you are out on shell-swept
hill and the shells are going by like
bats out of hell, as the soldiers say,
and it's dark as the grave, and every
nan, God bless him! stands strong and
rue, eamoufiaging all his own feelings
for your sake and for the sake of what
he has hack home, meatless days and
wheatless days, and Liberty bond cam
paigns seem cheap as your support of
him in sucf an hour.
1Loathe the Boche-preach against
aim-work against MIN, wherever he
Is, ostracize him socially and CONNER
,ially. Take no chance-even though
mis- reputation for loyalty has been a
ong-standing one. The leopard cannot
change his spots-neither can the
Boche demon lose his horns. I'm beg
ying you now-as the Boche are try
ng to murder us-to help wake every
one up to the fact that America must |
realize what the world is facing over
here. Can't you see it-can't America |
see it-how everything is hanging in |
he balance? And know that the |
weight which shall cast it down is |
when your loathing for the Boche will
so burn in you as to make you count
nothing consider nothing-but his ex- /
termination"