The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-08-21
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WATCH OUT FOR PEACE TALK.

II there are any benighted pacihsts or people with
German sympathy in America who imagine that this
country is going to let up until 1t has so thoroughly
licked the Hun that he will never stick his head up
again. they might as we'll disabuse themselves Of sucn
perfectly outrageous ideas.
We anticipate the new Hun peace offensive. II is
coming as sure as God made little apples. The Hun
knows he IS on his way 70 a valloplng and he Is golng
10 begin to SWIVEL and CRY. He nuever was a game
sport and will never take his medicine like a man. He
will never take four years of the insults, the beatings,
the beastly treatment he has given the Belglans. the
French and British. He wants TO end the war now and
he will try 10 save his hide. The propaganda viii be
circulated in this country, but it IS not going TO get any
leeway hereabouts. There shall be no peace proposals
by understanding, no activity Of the Huns heltsh secret
agents in the United States, if its loyal people have any
thing 70 say.
Germany is going to get a taste of her own devilish
poison before the United States completes this job
The horrible atrocities inflicted on women, children. old
men, priests. young girls, are not to be forgotten. The
ruin and waste committed BY the German beasts are
burnt in the worlds memories. The U-boat horrors.
the Staying Of Red Cross nurses. the rape Of nuns, stick
IN the craw. Every day new atrocities are coming TO
light. Only yesterday details were officially published
for the first time Of gross outrages on British prisoners
and wounded men committed by the Germans last
March Afhdavits Of Scottish soldiers testify to the au-
thenticity Of the charges. A private of the royal high
landers tells how he and q number OF comrades. con
sisting of one officer and fifteen men, ten Of whom we're
wounded. were compelled to surrerder near Monchy
March q. They we're lined up in the original front line
trench and after some time a German officer and two
men appeared. One Of the men, under orders of the Of
fcer. turned a stream Of liquid fire straight down the
trench in which the Brtishers were standing, and not
withstanding the fact that they were unarmed, continued
70 spray them for six or seven minutes.
Another private testified that he and other prison
ers we're marched down a trench to an emplacement
about six feet deep, nine feet wide and from nine TO
twelve feet long. and while tightly packed in the en-
closure two Germans, one of whom carried a revolver
and seemed to be an officer, appeared. The other man
had a cylinder on his back and attached to it was a
flexible pipe.
Just as he reached the entrance to the Enclosure"
said the soldier. referring to the man with the cylinder
on his back, "a fame spurted out in a stream from the
pipe and caught the men who were nearest to the en-.
trance. The other men lay in heaps around and partI.
on me. I heard a kissing sound for short while Then
It stopped. but started again. During this time the men
were shrieking and writhing. The flames reached right
back to where I was Ny overcoat and tunic caught
fire. By this time all the men we're on the ground
The soldier added that he managed TO crawl up the
slope and get away.
Pity for the Hun AZ any stage OF the game? Never,
\ thousand times no, Not until he is ground IN III
dust.