The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-27
Brutal Acts of Hun Graphically
Described by Major Murphy
of Red Cross.
BEAT BEAST AT ALL COSTS
Must Build and Build and Sacrifice to
Win the War--A War of Nations
in Which Every Man, Woman
and Child Is Factor.

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ballroom of one of the big hotels saw
the German as he really is through
the eyes of Maj. Grayson M. P. Muir
ply, Red Cross director in Europe.
Major Murphy arrived here recently,
after being in France for nearly ten
months, and he is going back again.
He came to make report to Henry P.
war board.
Major Murphy said in part:
u want to ask you to consider for
moment the fact that up to this
day Germany is entirely victorious
in this war; that any peace that is
made today on the basis of today's
conditions or on the basis of the
status quo ante would be practically
complete victory for Germany and
for the German idea. Germany has
lost nothing in this war except blood.
She has fought her war on the ter
ritory Of others. She has drawn from
the territory Of others vast supplies
of materials and vast sums Of money.
She has had between forty and fifty
million people working for her for
practically no wage-really as slaves.
She has established her cursed hold
on Austria, on Turkey and on Bull
garia, and she has at her feet MUIR
dered Serbia and unfortunate Rou-
mania.
Hun Stops At Nothing.
'You don't know what these Ger
man people are, I believe.
II cannot begin to describe to you
the horrible, brutal, beastly, consist
ent official things that Germany has
done, not in isolated cases, but gen
orally, to the women and children
and the poor old suffering people in
the countries where she has set her
dreadful foot. She has stopped at
nothing. British officers told me of
seeing their wounded piled in heaps
and hand grenades thrown in the
midst and exploded to kill them while
they lay there.
British officers have told me of /
the men being taken as prisoners
through Germany and German women
water and splitting in it as they
handed it TO them. came back |
across the water with a prominent |
British officer and statesman. He told |
me of a friend of his who lay wound
ed and suffering horribly in front of
the German trenches. He lay there
for day and a half or two days. and /
the Germans came out at night, stood
around him and scoffed at him and
kicked him and made fun Of him, and
then went away and left him, and
when some of his own people went
out at the risk of their lives and
brought him in before he died he told
them of these things.
ibid you think that the men in
that British regiment would be will
ing to make a half peace with Ger
many? Do you think that the Cana
dams who went in the trenches and
found their officers Observation-Disclosures
those men will make half peace with
Germany? I tell you 1t is only a
short time before our boys who are
over there now are going to be suf-
fering those same things, and you
have got. to understand it here, and
you have got to build and build and
sacrifice, no matter what it costs. to
beat that beast.
A War Of Nations.
'This war is not a war of armies
1t is war Of nations. There isn't a
man, woman or child in Great
Britain, in Belgium, in France or in
Italy that is not a factor in this war.
tell you that if you should go, as I
have gone, about those ruined dis
tricts in France and see the little
children, little bits of tots, four and
i've years old, driving in the herds
1T night, seeing the little boys COM
ng down the rOad-little bits of tots
with their arms full of faggots that
hey were accommodating against the
winter; old men and old women work.
ng in the fields until it was so dark
hat, as you looked, you could just
make out those vague. ghostly forms
gathering in the crops for France.
II have passed through those towns
ind looked in the windows at night,
where you could see little here and
here, and they were always working,
working, working, to carry on this
var 1t is not the armies of France
hat are the essential thing to France
n this war, nor the armies of Eng
and, nor the other countries. Those
lrmies will do their part, and do 1t
o a finish, If they are supported by
he people behind, and the great cry
ng need in Europe today is to build
lp the spirit and Keep up the spirit
# the people behind the lines, and it
S that great work in which the Red
yross-thanks not to us on the other
tide, but to you on this Side-have
performed and become the largest
Known single factor since our entry