The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-02
Murder, PiIIage and Arson Part ot Deliberate Scheme of
 Warfare.
HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD
No Possible Evasion of Responsibility for sestiaI Acts Which for centu- res Have Had No Parallel
 Officially lndorsed.

"' 9""'s'ty tO teuTU the tTUR con- cerH'"g the conduct of the war by Germany. Proof IS offered that Ger ma" officials deliberately lied in ther statements concerning atroci- lies committed by the Belgians and allies. That their own soldiers mere disg4sted by the cruelties practiced at the order Of high officers Of the kaiser IS shown. Extracts taken from pamphlets issued foll0w:
 The Vorwaerts of Berlin, October 22, 1914, said:
 We have already been able [ es- | tablish the falseness of Il great number of assertions which have been made with great precision and published everywhere in the press, concerning al- legged cruelties committed, hy the popu- l latlons of the countries with which Germany is at war, upon German sol | diers and civilians. We are now in p0- sition to silence two others of these fantastic stories.
 "The war correspondent of the Der | liner Tageblatt spoke d few weeks ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with powder alleged to have been given out or sold to our soldiers with diaboiical intent. He even pretended that he had l seen with his own eyes hundreds of l this kind of cigarettes. We learn from an authentic source that this story of cigars and cigarettes is nothing but ! brazen invention. Stories of soldiers whose eyes are alleged to have been l torn out by francs-tireurs are circuiat- cd throughout Germany. Not single case of this kind has been officially es- tablshed
 Tt matters little that reports of this nature bear an appearance of positive certitude, or are even v0uched for by Pye-Witnesses. The desire for notoriety, the absence of criticism, and personal error play an unfortunate part in the days in which we are living. Every nose shot off or simply bound up. I every eye removed, Is immediately transformed into a nose or eye torn away by the francs-tireurs. Already the VOlksZeitung of Cologne has been able, contrary to the very categorical asser- ti0ns from Aix-la- -ChapelIe, to prove that there was no soldier with his eyes torn out In the field ambulance of this town. If was said, also, that people wounded in this way were under treat ment in the neighbOrhOOd of Berlin, but whenever inquiries have been made in regard to these reports, their abso- lTte faiSity has been demonstrated At length these reports were concentrated at Gross LichterfeIde A newspaper Il ruhliShed at noon and widely circu- lHted in Berlin printed a few days ago in large type the news that at the
 .a2aretto of Lichterfeide alone there "crc ten German soldiers. only slight " wounded. whose eyes had been wick ediy torn out But to d request for information by Comrade Liebknecht the following written reply was sent hy the chief medical officer of the aforementioned field hospital, dated the eighteenth of the month
 "'Sir: Happily there Is no truth whatever in these stories.
 Yours obediently,
 PROFESSOR RAUTENBERG,'
 German Soldiers Protested.
 Thus the teachings of the German War Book and of the German apostles of frightfulness, suspicion and hatred, had now begun to bear their natural fruit. But the voice of protest was | e,tlos ! number of letters by German soldiers who were shocked by the German atrocities were sent to Ambassador Gerard, because he was the representa- tive of the United States. the leading neutral nation. The three letters which follow, in translation. were re- ceived by the American ambassador | from German soldiers.
 Here Is the protest of German sol dier, an eyewitness of the slaughter of II Russian soldiers fin the Masurian lakes fl and swamps:
 Ut was frightful. heart-rendng, as | these masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the ter 1ble thunder of the cannon could be heard the heart-rending cries of the 1 Russians: @ Prussans! O PrusSianS r but there was no mercy. Our captain 1 had ordered: The whole lot must die 1 so rapid fire AS I have heard. five men and one officer on our side went 1 mad from these heart-rending cries. But most of my comrades and the off cers joked as the unarmed and helpless Russians shrieked for mercy while they were being suffocated in the swamps and shot down. The order was: Close up and at it harder!' For days afterwards those heart-rending yells followed me and I dare not think of them or l shall go mad. There is no God there is no morality and no ethics any more. There are no human beings any more, but only beasts. Down with militarism.
 If you are truth-loving man, please receive these lines from a com mon Prussian soldier"
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