Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-22
Tho Murderer Mark on Germany.

drawn a picture which Is Impressive
In its vivid portrayal of human ten
denotes that can be safely counted
upon as we have seen the workings
Of civilization in the past. He fore
sees world recognition of the brand
Of Cain on Germany. He foretells
the altogether probable attitude of
seamen OF other nations toward Ger
man shipping and German men of the
sea. long after the last gun of the
war has been fired. He thinks that
treaties may change the outward at
titude of governments but not the
feeling of human hearts toward the
wholesale murderers of women, chill
dred, wounded soldiers and rescue
workers. He thinks the world will be
long in forgetting and forgiving the
dastardly deeds Of Prussianism as
daily demonstrated for four years.
Ha says:
Let there be no mistake about
the depth Of the feeling against
Germany which all decent sea
men entertain at this moment.
1t is ficrcer than the worst storm
that ever blew and as htrong as
the trade wind which comes from the
southeast.
After the war there will be strange
ships on the waves-vessels flying a
flag which has been hidden in canals
and backwaters, where dastardly
deeds are plotted for close on four
full Years. They will outwardly look
like other ships. To all appear
ances they will be honest ships,
sucked by German mother or sired
by one of the ravishers of brave
Belgium they will be known as
Scheussliche Schiffe. or horrible,
abominable ships, They may fly the
German flag in all its Haunting fiashi-
ness, but it will always be foul and
bloody even in the pure sunlight of
the tropics.
Against the deep blue sky of
summer this flag will look like
an old boot on a sacred altar; the
very vault Of heaven will be stabbed
with shame when it swims into the
light of day. No one will salute it;
no CHEEKY message from CHEEKY heart
will greet it as it passes; no eye will
be turned upon it from the crows
nest without curse; it will pass
along the silent highways of the
world like the murderer of a little
child seeking to hide from justice.
Dirty, foul. horrible and abominable,
red with the blood of innocent women
and children and brave men, even
the cleansing ozone of Gods great
sea will not wash it clean in twice
ten thousand years. 1t will stink in
the nostrils of all mankind forever
and ever.
To clean, honest sailor the
sea Is like a mother. The British
Seamens Union knows all about the
foul murders which have been com
mitted by German seamen, and it's
members will see that the full price
is paid for these awful crimes against
humanity. Three so-called peace
delegates have been trying to sneak
away to America for some time past,
but so far they have found it i'm
possible to embark. Why? Simply
because the British seamcn say no.
They would refuse to work vessel
were on board.
This shows the spirit, and if fur
Their evidence were needed it can be
found in the recent utterances of j.
Havelock Wilson, who has stated in
public that the merchant marine
masters, engineers, sailors, firemen,
and deckhands were fully resolved
not to carry pacifists across the
ocean. In addition to this the mer-
chant service, from the officers down
to the cabin boys, have pledged them
selves not Ia salute the German nag
in any port abroad. and they will re-
fuse to salute it, or even recognize it,
on the high seas.
The German papers, which I'M
doubtedly reflect the German mind,
gloat over the crimes of their U-boats
much as a foul murderer glOatS over
his victims. They take sort of dis
eased pride in such CHASTITY work.
But the feeling of all neutra. sea
men is against them. Norway, since
the outbreak of the war, has lost 745
vessels and GAG sailors through the
German butchers, and it may be
taken for granted that the result has
been a legacy of eternal hate. Spain,
Brazil, Uruguay, every nation on
earth, has suffered at the hands of
the Teuton pirates, and the seamcn
of every nation will make them pay
tho bills.
At large meeting held in Copen-
hagen some weeks back, whereat
hundreds of officers of the Danish
merchant marine were present, it
was agreed unanimously that in view
of the fact that the German nation
had approved of the outrages COM
mittcd by their U-boats against neu-
trail scamen all association with it
was impossible, and it was decided
that all intercourse with German
seamcn must he broken off for long
time to come.
AS far as this country is con-
cerned, the punishment of German
seamen may safely be left to British
seamen. They know exactly what
the bruteS have done. They know
that over 1000 British civilian men.
women and children have been foully
murdered by the German submarines,