Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-23
WOMAN DENOUNCEs
GERMAN BARBARIsM
American Prisoner Shouts to Bcrli,,
Crowds, "There Arc 10000
900 More Like U.s."
HUNS STILL ARE UNREpENTANr
Turk Tells How They Treated Amer
ica's Entrance Into War with
Scorn at First-Captives Sing
Merry Songs.
zoHREH nANNouM NAssouunY.


aurR'sh Province: she as studying In Ber-
IN when tho great war broke out and has
.vnnsnma, there until recently. when she
mar place she sends these chapters cx
''1siI Iaf, Tor this newspaper)
-, ielt starving Gcrmany--C;ermany
nu,siiiusloned. Germany dcgenerated the
hh,hu where death stalks by day and
dssys" '6 6ao reached Zurich three
u,,er'nany year before the war. when
NE world had great respect for her.
and respect her people. for most of
NE Germans 1 knew in my native
ooGstnntinople had deserved respect.
and some Of them the love of those Who
knew them WIZ
,!w was at Berlin when the world con-
H., ,as ransm,, broke out, and watched
curtain whosc.tragcdIGs rs we'll as sins.
hat, 'nnf even God Himself, must find diff
place since the last four years saw
her iegions march through the streets
ia ~ bsrlin to the strain OF music and
strew the streets with nowcrs and
perfume through which their brothers.
nUns ana husbands marched TO France
ana / watched them return wounded
ana mmtiiated. until hospitals and pub
est capacities. And | heard them proan
ana whine aud I heard the very dan
y wnan ana singing women cry and
fullest measure what size had sown in in
The face of God Yes left behinn
me whipped. whining. grooming Ger
..rmahE. out not rerentant Germany
The land that lost it's soul and broke
OF with it's God, that Is the Germany
II was u Lutheran minister who
s Sisi,ed the family with whom was
IN switzerland that Germany was be-
ing wronged and maligncd by England
d NE traitor and ,America the peril
putty to the Reichstag who begged me
10 take letter to a French priest in
French Switzerland, whom he would
was for the good Of France that
"s5man armies should devastatc her
ana destroy her churches and desc
crate her houses OF the God. German,
me soullcsS. the Godlcss--thc pcopIc
Who sold their soul ana honor for less
man thirty p!eces-ihni is the Ger
True. IN. peopie arc dissatisfied
Win the conditions that are prevalent
Junkcrs almost everybody is discon-
tented. but there are very. very few
Germans throughout the empire who
are honestly repentant for the sins OF
because they have committed crimes
against humanity and their God but
,hey are impatient with them because.
like tho robbcr tribes of old. they sent
out their plunderers TO return with
booty. but they returned defeated and
even robbed Of what they had before
plumber. That Is the true cause OF tn.
German peoples discomfort to-day
Since year have been making
every attempt to leave that land from
which God has been forcibly exil.d.
but have been unable to obtain per-
mission 10 come 10 switzerland until
now. Even when ] obtained such a
permit 10 leave the land of the gather
Ing portcntous clouds | was forced
against my will and wish TO pledge To
perform dcsp!cable missions which.
ri ~ tn. for tNa,
the slightest intention TO execute. So
on reaching the sacred soil OF IIelvctia
| tore up the unholy mssives. permit
ted the scraps TO be consumed by fire.
and. had / been still as dcvout a Mo-
hammedan as | had been before taking
my studies in that land without soul
| would have felt IL my duty to pray
TO my own Allah for having sinned
against him by staying there as loag
as I did.
Some few weeks before leaving Ber-
lin an intimate friend, a young woman
OF about twenty-five years of age
whom ] had known from the Palestine
days. visited me To bid me bon voyage
She Is the daughter Of Il former Ger
man missionary in syria. During our
convcrsation-all of which was very
Sad-with tears in her eyes she burst
out. why. Zohrch Ilanoun Miss
Iohreh). does the world hate us?"
told her that ] could not quote to ner
from her own Bible. but that one OF
our Moslcm holy men had said: only
a few days can sinner hide himself
in white robes; sin blackens the soul
and a tainted soul besmirches evan
the outer garments" She wept still
more and reminded me that l had be-
come unjust to her own people. Her
tears did not move me because the
tears that do not flow Huently for
own self betray n selfish heart that
wished to hide behind others sym
pathy.
Two days later visited her home 10
n ha IL, nj
For nearly three hours her father. him
self former apostle of the Christian
God of Syria. abused and maligned his
enemies"-his countrys enemies
cvokingf he curse of God on the heads
of all peoples who are fighting against
his fatherIand.
Only six or seven years before he had
heen sent to our land TO preach us the
gospel Of his God and now. a few
years later, found myself compelled
TO remind him that II was not becom-
ing TO an apostle of God to possess
such u spirit to mankind, did not in
tend to be sarcastic. but lie took it that
way when told him that after tho
war Arabia should send missionaries TO
soul and reconcling her with her
former God.
Was he repentant? No! He left the
"Zohreh Hanoun, You Will do me a
favor by Fastening your departure
from my house"
Shi CpcuthHl lll-leHlpGTe Gef =
many! If your Messiah was on earth
to-day He would weep bitterly over
your sins and your consequent reck-
Jerusalem and her people!
SALVATION OF GERMANY THROUGH
HER RETURNED SOLDIERS
have said that there are only a
think normally and see in true spirit
the tranSgressions of their people: and
most Of these are soldiers and officers
who have returned from the battle
front incapa.itated and mutilated
Many of these have had opportunities
to interview in the privacies of their
hospital wards or homes. The saliva
ton OF Germany will come through
these. not from her statesmen, pro-
lessons. or those who once styled them
selves the men of God.
Unrepentant and ill-temperel Ger
many! 1t was last year when on the
occasion of VISIT [, the home of
friend during the conversation | sud-
denly found myself discussing the war.
An officer who had never smelt powder