The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-24
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brand WH|TLocK
Minister to Belgium Tells Of
German Terrorism

NEW YORK, April 24.-Dtscribing
heretofore unreyealed German alfoci-
ties. Brand Whitloek. United States
minister 10 Belgium. indicates the Prus-
sian horrors were conducted with Pfus.
olan efficiency as part Of the plan OF
eanpsian. Whitlock was in Belgium
when kuItur overwhelmed the land.
Writing In Everybody Magazine for
May, he tells how carefully organized
bsrbafities followed in the wake OF The
German drive. being especially cruel
after sseh German defeat
Rvsn Babies Were Shot Down.
Picturins what occurred when The
French resisted a German attempt 20
bridge the Meuse August q, 1914 Whit
lock says
-People we're held there. evidently a.
3 sort Of screen, while the Germans be
gan 10 construct a temporary bridge
over the river. The Germans sent
Q citiren OF Oman one OF the prison
era, In a boat across the river 10 in.
form the French that unless they ceased
firing she civilians would be shot But
3 lev stray bullets still sped across the
river. The prisoners were massed to-
gether- nearly ninety OF them, old men
and young, girls and boys. little chill
dren and babies in their mothers arms
A platoon was called uD, the colonel N
command gave tho word TO fire and
she grsy soldiers in cold blood shot
down those ninety persons ~ they stood
huddled there together. Among them
were twelve children under the age Of
s years, six Of them little babies whose
mothers. a. they stood Up 10 face their
pitiless murderer, held them in their
arms"
Germans Ran Amuek In Andsnns
The fate Of the town Of Andenns, be
fore the war a place OF 1900 people
Il cited BY Whitloek as an example Of
what happened when the Germans were
thrown back In an attempt 70 cross the
Neuss on q temporary bridge.
sAli night the killing and pillaging
went on" he saws. The crowd was
ordered to walk toward the Place deS
TiIleuis. Those who did not walk fast
enough we're shot down. A Flemish
eioclmaker came out OF his dwelling
supporting his aged father-in-law tie
was osdcred to hold up his hands, but
he could no, do so without letting the
old man fall, so d soldier struck him
Ia the neck with an Ak.
-Arrived at the Place des TilleulS the
women and children we're separated
from the men, Haphatard the soldiers
oicked out thirty or forty men and
Shot them down in cold blood. And all
the while, day and night, in the flaming
streets the pillage and the murder went
"a. The man who described II all to
me had vivid memory OF tall, red
headed soldier who was particularly
eoaspieuous BY the ferocity with which
he Welded the AK and mutilated his
victims. b baby among them, IN the
arms OF Its mother"
Revenge for Every Defeat
Speaking Of the destruction OF Bort
meerbeek. near Maiines, Whitlock says
that every time the German army was
thrown back upon II, they burned forty
houses.
At Dinant, Whitlock declares
sWomen and children were forced to
stand by and witness the murder Of hus-
bands and fathers. One woman, Nine
Ain. who had given birth to a child
three days before, was borne forth on
q mattress by German soldiers, who
said they would compel her to look on
while they shot her husband, but her
cries and supplicatious finally moved
the soldiers to spare the husbands life
~In the little graveyard beside the
church at Tamines there are hundreds
Of new made graves" writes Whitlock
The crosses stand in rows They ar'
sil neat, OF painted wood, alike eScep
for the names and ages-irom Is to "a
But they all bore the same sinlSte
date, August q. 1914
Huns Killed the Wounded.
About six hundred men were masset
II, St. Martins Square by the rive
bank and the women folk, their wiye,
mothers, daughters, were assembled I
witness the scene"
Quoting an eyewitness, Whitlock de
scfibed how the Germans lined up III
I. victims. then tumbled $50 OF them back
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