Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-11
By JAMES w. GERARD

dffeciionhte embrace, all without eN-
citing any comment or ridicule
The hoy Scout movement was
taken mp enthusiastically In Ger
many with the cheerful support of
the military caste. who look on the
activity as "a welcome adjunct to
military trainmg The boys GER
minH are given a dose ~ real drill.
en-. one occasion | saw boy com
pany at iriil march straight into the
HuNei river no COMMAND TO halt
having been given at the river hank
The Wprkingmeu Of Germany are
more brutal than those OF England.
France ana America. but this is be
cause ~ the low wages they receive,
and because they feel the weight Of
the caste system
brutality tniong the GcrmnnA
In speech In December, 1917. I
said that any revolution In Germany
would come after the war and that a
Fellow ambassador In Berlin had said
To me that because OF the great bru-
hliiN "f the working men In Ger
many this upriAlnE would make the
French revolution look like a
Methodist sunday school picnic 4
newspaper reported me as saying
ihis on my own authority and added
mat ! had said the Germans were
The most "bestial" people on earth
only want 10 be responsible for
what ] actually say. I did not call
the Germans "bestlal." although un-
fortunately II is fact that many
Officers Of the army and others have
been guilty Of "A brutality which has
helped turn the face OF the world
from the whole German people
Not all the Germans are brutal. |
received many letters revealing evi-
denco to the contrary
Here IA the protest OF German
soldier an eyewitness OF the
slaughter OF Russian soldiers In the
Mnsurian lakes and swamps
/ III was frlghtful. heart-rending.
nS these masses of human beings
were driven to destruction. Above
the terrible thunder OF the cannon
could be heard the heart-rcnding
cries Of the Russians. oh. Prus.
SLAMS oh, rrIssianA" Hut thcra
was no mercy our captain had
ordered The whole lot must die
Eo rapid fire
As have heard. five men and
ono officer on our side went mad
from those heart rending cries nut
most ~ my comrades and the offl-
wors iokcd a. the unarmed and hrlp-
less russians shrieked for mercy
when they were being suffocated In
IN" swamps and snot down. The
order was; Close up and at IL
harder"
For days af,erwnrd those heart
rcnding yells followed me, and /
dare not think OF them or shall
60 mad There is no God there IL
no morality and no ethics any more
There are no human beings any
more, but only beasts Down with
mllitarlsm
III you are truth owing man.
please receive these lines from "A
common frusslnn soldier"
This was the experience OF prus-
SIAN soldier. A. present wounded ,
berlin, October 90, 1914
Here Is the testimony Of another
Herman soldier on the east front;
Russian Poland. Dec rs, 1914.
In the name OF Christ unity |
send you these words NV consci-
encc forces me ss Christian der
man soldier To inform you OF these
lines
Wounded Russiane are KILLED
with the havonet according Ia orders,
pnd Russians who have surrendered
are often shot down In masses ac-
cording To orders IN spite Of their
heart-rendlng prayers
In the hope that you. MS the rep
teNentattye OF "A Chr ttlnu stale will
protest against this, ! sign myself
a German Solder aud Christian
D Il would give my name and regl.