The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-17
GERMAN KULTUR
RECITAL OF THE TERRIBLE
ATROCITIES OF THE GER
MANS BY RED CROSS
LECTURER.

lty, LIT. fre0erlck Perry TUESDAY
night, under the auspices of the Red
Cross, delivered one of the most re-
markable, interesting, but horrifying
lectures on the horrors of the Euro
pean war that any of his audience
had eve heard.
Prefaeing his indictment of the
German nation with a statement that
he would relate nothing but matters
with which he was thoroughly ac-
q~uainted, taking no mans word for
anything until he had thoroughly in
vestigated II and secured ~irrefutable
evidences of its absolute accuracy.
DR.. Perry told his audience of the
theory of the German government
that ii could subdue other nations
and conquer the world by making
war so frightful as to sicken and
break the will and the spirit of Ger
many's enemies. 1t was the Ger
mans, he said, who invented the poi
son gas bomb, which caused allied
soldiers coming under it's influence to
lie on their backs, frothing at the
mouth, and enduring an agony worse
than that resulting from the bite of
a mad dog until death relieved them.
Even the ''unspeakable Turk" DIR.
Perry said, refused to use the poison
gas bomb on the ground that it was
inhuman. The Germans invented il,
and the Germans use it.
He told, too, of the Germans haul
ing captured allied prisoners-"fine,
manly boys. boys just like those you
people here have sent to the war
through the kaiser's realm in cattle
trains. naked. freezing and without
food. Prior to entering a town. the
locomotive whistles were blown in
order to assemble the populace at
the station. where women jeered at
the shamed young men, extended
sandwiches and hot coffee toward
the famished men and then withdrew
them. and women there ere who
spat In the coffee and then extended
1t to the men to drink. German
women, followers of the kaiser's
"kultur," did these things.
And he told Of speaking with SOL
diers who had been German prison
ers but who had escaped. And these
soldiers had been mutilated, they
showed him themselves, in order
that they might never be able to
found homes, marry wives. and e
children of their own. German "kul-
tur," again in its campaign OF fright
~fulness, with two things in view
one to break the spirit of the men in
the enemy armies, and those yet to
be captured, the other to prevent so
far as possible the rearing of chill
dren in the allied countries in the
future, through whom hatred of Ger
man "kultur" might be perpetuated.
Crimes Against Women.
But the worst crimes committed
by German "kultur" in its campaign
of frightfulness-a campaign con-
Quoted by direct authorization from
Berlin-were those against women
and children, non-combatants.
DIR. Perry told of beautiful homes
being deliberately and systematically
defiled by German beasts. And he
told Of charming, cultured women
being dragged into the streets and
mothers of families being ravished
by the German soldiers before the
eyes Of their husbands, tied with
ropes and stationed nearby in order
that their spirit might be broken by
the fearful crimes committed against
their dear ones. These systematic
crimes against women were not COM
mitted, he charged in the privacy OF
their homes. They were dragged in
to the open. and there assaulted that
all about might witness their degra-
dation.
These crimes. he said. we're not
committed in isolated instances. They
were committed thousands of times.
and were not the outcome of the acts
of ruffians that are found In nearly
every army, but were carried on as a
part of the deliberate policy OF the
German government-one Of the
steps taken by Germany to conquer
the world.
He told of young girls, as well as
, mothers Of families. being seized In
French and Belgian territory and
sent behind the German lines, that
they might be used to crafty German
lust. When one German trench was
found. he said. there were in trench
a number OF young girls, barely In
their teens, half dead from mistreat'
ment and repeated outrages. But
young girls were not the only victims
One of them was an old, grey haired
feeble grandmother, past 10 years
of age!
Hundreds of infants had beer
7 seized and their brains beaten out by
t German soldiers before the eyes Of
their fathers and mothers, of Other
{ children, their father dead or with
the allied army, their mother sem
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