Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-12
OUTRAGED WOMEN
Of FRANCE ARE
REAL HERD|NEs
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills De-
cIares That They Should
Be Given Medals for the
Sufferings in Captivity.
Rr Newton Dwight Hills.

Never within a century have there
been scenes so piteously tragic as the
arrival at the Swiss frontier of the pi-
weekly trains loaded with French and
Belgian girls who have at last been re-
leased by the Huns.
When the Germans captured these
girls, and carried them away as pris-
oners, many of them were scarcely
more than children.
At the very moment when multi
tudes were just budding into woman
hood, or looking forward to their
marriage day, or were learning 10
sing the cradle song, they were
seized with an iron grip, and MADE 10
be the chattels of british soldiers.
Near Vinly Ridge the visitor is
shown an underground club room.
safe from bombs, where the Huns
held until their defeat in the. spring
OF 1917, seven of the loyeliest girls
that were ever the pride of HUSBAND
or the JOY of parents.
Not until many months nad
passed, and the burden and sorrow
OF motherhood were approaching, dld
the white slaves receive the release
from their prisons. Y
Som Live Through Hell.
Many became insane: others Klllea
themselves, and the rest. enduring
every pain of the fiery furnace, llvea
through the hell set up by the huns
About one half of the. young wom-
en- who step down from the refugee
trains into Evion, Switzerland, hold
half German babies in their arms.
Never were children, so unwelcome
or their coming SO bitterly fought
against.
Not infrequently, when their train
approaches the Swiss frontier, they
plan devices to leave the babe pehlno'
and now and then a girl, quite des-
perate drops the infant out OF me
window of the car. leaving It TO the
care of the Hun father.
They Die, of shame.
When the young men who love
them, rush forward to meet these
girls. who are broken in health
often consumptive, with horny HANDS
that once were soft, whose robes OF
beauty have become rags, bearing
that dreadful thing, a Hun BABE, IN
their arms, the spectacle OF the
agony of the husband, father OF
lover, is terrible.
= Not infreauently the shock Of the
meeting Stays the girl.
But the shame of her young nus.
band is as nothing to the agony. Oh
this Young woman who feels her-
self an outcast. who finds that those
she loved shrink from her. and real
ICES that every hope is dead.
oh, what problem is this, tha'
the people Of France and sRslSlhp
must soon confront.
The committees Of arbitration ma
coerce indemnities. force the Hun V
rebuild the factories, stores, ca
thedrals, farm houses, but where \
the divine hand that can recover 9h'
lost innocency, the ruined health, tn
broken life. ;.
one hot breath upon the frost II
the window mars it's beauty. ThlnF
of the bloom on the grape and tins
peach--how one rough stroke de'
stroys that bloom forever.
In this dark hour, the women OF
France, who have kept their beauty
and their health, have risen up III
defense of the violated girls.
A Plea to America. i
They have sent q plea to the women
of America.
Generals pin decorations to the
man who has endured six days ano
nights in trench,
What honors, therefore. should be
reserved for these girls who endured
a greater peril for. weeks aale
months?
Is there to be a legion of honor fol
wounded men, but no legion of honor
for these French and Belgian girls
who helped the allies win their vic;
tory?
Suffering from every form of sex.
ual outrage, these girl soldiers strus;
= }t,a naI HI
whom tho world calls violated
women.
All honor TO brave boys. whom we
would like to see loaded with decora-
lions, but surely the, world is not sc
poor but that it has honor and deeora-
lions for thesh injured girls.
The time has come for the WON,