Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-28

| German trenches northeast OF .Badon.
viller. ..-.-s-
| WAS list? Kamarad"
| It was a scene of wreckage. Five
groups Of poison gas projectors which
the enemy had set up for an attack
were simply obliterated by our prelimi-
nary Smelling. Four towns. occupied by
Germans officers and commissariat, were
in flames behind the German lines! Now
and again the explosion Of some big
ammunition dump would shake the
earth. The explosions came from well
back, but the enemy troops, in their
terror.
The Americans raided past the first
line to the second, cleaned 1t, killing by
rifle fire and knife.
did you write that poetry"
"Nein. nein. Was ist?"
"Weibliche TigerkatzenY
'Nein. neinw
Big Jim Street Of Philadelphia stop
ped the inquiry.
Whats the use. bud? Kick the
Brighter a good one in the stern for
suspicion and start them for the pen.
These aren't the same fellows who were
here in 1914. You can't expect it."
While America was still neutral
atrocities.
"Why are not a bunch of victims sent
through our cities to tell their stories
and show their mutilations?" was asked.
1T would do more than anything else
to bring America into the war"
The majority of the mutflated bled to
death. Survivors. mostly, were behind
the. German lines, not available for ex-
hibition. In Lausanne, Switzerland,
during the middle of December. 1914.
word passed that certain famous local
clinic had two Belgian women with
their right hands cut of. In two days
they had disappeared by request of
the German consul, 1t was said, and on
order of the federal council. So were
Raemaekers' designs suppressed. So
the Swiss paper Gugusse.
Later, in PARISH met the Dutch pas
tor. Carolus Bernard Wolfe. who had
followed the German armies through
their first drive to the Marine.
why are not the mutilations pho
tographed?" sked
Would the Germans permit itf' he
replied. ANY attempt would mean ar
rest, perhaps being shot on tho spot.
And people watching for. their lives in
sraphs ssss .u sa
would have to be taken at once; for the
victim Is soon buried. At Diest, in Bel
GUM, I buried two lads with their
hands cut off, personally. Later. I
of bayonet holes. At Badonviller cut
down the body of a man tied to q tree
and buried him by order of the German
captain. His feet were chopped off,"
\ \
Raemaekers, the Dutch designer, Was
present.
How are such things possibIe?'
asked. eve were still new to the war
then.)
'1n a war Of conquest" answered Rae
hackers, at is awful to think how low
an officer must descend. What did they
demand the first thing when they en-
tered the towns of Belgium and north
France? Why, 10000 bottles Of claret
and 10000 bottles of cognac! There was
a friend Of mine at Wise. German SOL
diers went about the streets with bot
ties of gin and wine in their hands. One
offered my friend: Have a drink" Ny
friend refused. Then came q German
officer and advised him: 1t is best to
drink he said, or you risk to be shot.
The men are out Of hand They had no
control of the men. They had purpose
ly got them drunk-unchained the
beast-to burn and plumber"
Raemaekers continued:
Their greatest wickedness was this
francs-tireurs fable-pretext Of afro