The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-05
URGED To STAY
And SPARE MOI
German Soldiers melted to Acts
of Cruelty by General Won
Kissing.
EXAMINATION OF HIGH KULTUR'
Governor General of Belgium on Rec
ord as Declaring the innocent Must
Suffer With the Guity-lrvin
Cobb's Tale of Horrors.


Ihe horrors deliberately and SyS-
temdticdlZu inflicted anon the De0ple
of Po1oiu9n b,, tho German coJ3iprg
-.-9,......,
""'''' ."o - "t's " ''''' 'o"'"''''''s
ing 0HtceFS, are M00R ~ dIt WeF
| hideOuSRcSS by official documents
AID the testimong Of ege-uitncSSeS,
ne greU nc h., Iottore orrittop Inn Gpr-
-, IL. -. r.11 M -
"'t'" oo'Ute'9 I" nc I'c'"' 20 org
zen effort OF Emperor " HttGm 10
| cast the 0dtum Of the fearful deeds
m, f6o PoJo;one ie oIeo ebo,rn ana
tat;ons o;,.o, AFRO from 5ar,,o1a,,is
o'feu"y m"'t P"ot'o " ~ '"r P'S-
session OF the government at " ash
| iHGt0n.
This interview was reproduced in
the Berliner Tugeblatt of November
20 1914.
Mr.. +. C. WaIcott of the Belgian re
lief commission tells in the Geograpt.-
lcal Magazine for Nav, 1917, of meet
ing Gen Won Bernhardi:
"Ae ,ro1I.od ONT 90, ron porn-
bordi oo,,,, 49, a. ron,, -, o,,,,,r+
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N,'"' my il''",.7 ii'"''S i.,n ~ w.
u 'ht country ioi ''''' tngS s''''
Gu nv it' 'i'' va o. VI ''i' ''''H,
D.,iu 40 ma ,,'' ''s ,''7' ,'''''','
Of itT
81 said, General, l did not believe q
word of it when | read If, but | now
feel that you did not tell the Who'll,
truth and the old general looked
actually pleased"
Speaking on August 90, 1914, al
Munster. of the extreme measures
, which the Germans felt obliged TO tax,
, against the civil population of Bel
e GUM, Gen. Won Kissing said:
THE Innocent must suffer with thu
. guilty. In the repression o.
lnfamy, human hVes cannot De spared
4 ana II Isolated houses Hourlshlh2 VII
lagos. and even entire towns ar" ami
I MATED, that Is aSNarcdiF re&teltaole
hut II must not excite ih-hmed sehti
! mehtailtY. All TINS must not IN gu
/ eyes WcEh rs i'ucl us tle me- Oh
/ single one OF our htaNe soltlleis IN
I rigorous Accomplishment "l oulE Is IN
I eIhahailoh VI hlsh hA'lur' ana Il
that, the populatl'h OF the ehelh
countries can learn lesson from gu
army.
Officers Eneouraned Atrocities.
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| 49, .,.lt
l ;, -
/ = po' = -. ,n,,
az -
I INli - No'o Sl''''9 ~ ,.'ii'' ''N'oN
1 Oh the responsibility u '''e ill5iiei "e'
y man eoiliilAailu Aoi lile "li oNiIeS'
"But l was an eyewitness to crime
Which' measured pS 'ne Slanl"ia'
y humanity anu clNliiAatI"A iIlpieSSe
q me aS worse ui1n any ''i'I N'''''"l $,
al cess any lhdiNldau Outrage, coui
a ever nave peeh OF can ever oe' D
~ c'uHe 'he9e cililie9 H'!"'i'"oi3 wei
IA lhslSated on "holeSale udSiS "
IA der OF olhcefs Oh RANK ana must NAY
81 been carried our under thelr persons
"a SUPERVISION direction ana approVa
& Iaklhg the physlcal evidence one
~ cd before our own eyes ana DuttfeS
3 ing 1t with the statements maze TO u
fN not only by natives, but German SC
& dicrs and German officers, we cou
ma reach but one conclusion, which WI
81 that here, In such and such plaC
M those in command had said to u
S& troops: Spare this town and the
~ people And there they had salt
q Waste this town and shoot these pc
f8 pie And here the troops had discril
&a inately spared, ana there they had |