The Rice belt journal., 1918-10-11
| ARMY CHAPLAIN FAVORS
| DETERMINATION OF HUN
concluded from page one)

has done
"All that you have heard in Amer
:ca about them does not approximate
the truth. There are little children
right there in France with their lfttie
stumps Of hands; there were some
not far from my last camp, and
Young men with all the fingers OF
their right hand cut of. The other
dav British officer and three Tom
mics told me that short time ago
they went as an advance party into
a little village from which the oocne
had been driven back, and in large
room there were four young Cana
dians crucifed, one on each wall OF
the room. Also, when | was with the
British they told me the boches had
taken young Belgian nd .''"h girls
into the first zinc trenches and tor
tured them until their screams made
Tie Scotch and the Ca's''s so
..razed they would GO over into the
machine gun nests which the boche
had set up, using the women's
screams as a decoy.
"And I have it on the word OF a
British officer that they have stood
(the officers) with guns leveled at
their men to keep them from going
over when the women scream, and
being needlessly slaughtered. | cam
not tell you what the Tommies told
me they found when they drove these
hell fiends out Of these positions; it is
too awful even to think about. also
have it on the word Of one OF the
greatest French abbies that the boche
was especially instructed to destroy
convents-and kill or outrage the
nuns-and he says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents, and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged in the
camps.
"These are not isolated cases, nor
abnormal conditions which prevail
here and there where troops were
without restraint. Go along the
French or British front, and the only
conclusion you arrive at is that they
are just the ground principle Of boche
efficiency in action. I don't believe
there is one of us here who wouldn't
| like to be home But there is not one
of US here, I believe, who does not
want to see Bocheland devastated
from one end to the other, with Berlin
blackened ruin--with the hoche ex-
terminated, militarists and all, before
we come home.
Favors determination
''It is American blood that is flow
ling now, and God gran THAT it may
| give America some strength to real
ize what we are up against. To talk
Of terms until the boche is extermin-
ated is to league with Satan for q
corner in hell. Privations, sacrifices
What can you do at home to COM
pare with what these men of ours are
doing over here? Meatless days,
wheatless days, sugarless days, good
women knitting, benefits for the Red
Cross-or all your social diversions
with a charitable object sandwiched
in!
"When you go out on shell swept
hill and the shells are going by like
bats out of hell, as the soldiers say,
and it's dark as the grave, and every
man, God bless him, stands strong
and true, camoufiaging all his own
feelings for your sake and for the
sake of what he has back home, meat
less days and wheatless days, and Lib
erty Bond campaigns seem cheap az
your support Of him in such an hour.
"Loathe the boche-preach against
him-work against him, wherever he
is, ostracize him socially and commer-
cially. Take no chance-even though
his reputation for loyalty has been n