The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-03-14

point OF SINKING. lie ere" anu pass
engers sought the lifeboats, and one
boat manned by officers and men of
the sinking merchantmen was sum-
moned to approach the submarine.
The British obeyed. for they knew
that to refuse meant to be blown to
pieces.
''They were ordered to climb on
the boat. The captain was sent be-
low a prisoner, while the others were
huddled on the forward deck, their
boat destroyed. and then the subma-
rine slowly submerged, leaving the
forty helpless captives to be washed
into the sea, and of that forty, thirty
eight were drowned. Is not that pi-
racy?
I'm February a submarine was dis
abled and brought to the verge of
sinking by two American gunboats.
The crew of. the sinking pirate
swarmed to the deck, waving their
arms and shouting 'Kamerad, and
then dived into the water and swan
toward the American boats.
How America does 1t.
These pirates were helpless on
board, some so weak that it was nee
essary to throw out ropes to help
them on board and one SO near COM
plete exhaustion that two American
seamen sprang into the water and
lifted him on board. They were TAX
en- below and given warm food and
dry clothes. That is the difference
in spirit between the German and
American navies.
Germany prepared for this war
long before there was an ostensible
excuse for hostilities. In the summer
of 1914, before the crown prince of
Austria had been assassinated, saw
in Luxembourg, from whence the first
attack was made against neutral
countries. German troops roll in by
every train.
while fishing in quiet little
stream with some German friends, I
inquired why so many troops were
mobilizing, and my German friends
said that they were giving the SOL
diers a change of air, and that the
air was very good at this particular
place.
,"France at the outbreak of the
war had a comparatively strong
army, but it was in state of reor-
ganization and was not concentrated.
Russia had a large army in point of
man-power, but an average of just
one rife to every nine men.
Servia Tried to Keep Peace.
''Servia offered to settle the con-
troversy by acceding to eight of Aus
tria's ten demands and agreeing to
be tried and punished by The Hague
tribunal for whatever she had done,
but Germany said, nothing doing
When I speak of Germany I also in
clude Austria, like including the tail
when speaking of dog.
"Great Britain, France, Italy and
Russia urged Germany to settle the
matter without actually resorting to
arms, but again Germany replied
nothing doing and then invaded the
neutral territory of Belgium, tearing
to pieces it's own treaty to protect the
neutrality of Belgium and never
dreaming that the little nation would
dare offer resistance.
But, thank God Belgium did dare
offer resistance and during those first
six days of the war prevented the
light of civilization from being eX-
tinguished.
81 have sat in my office in the
shadow of the Palace of Peace and
heard the stories told by Belgian
refugees of how their women had
been violated before their eyes by
drunken German soldiers, of their
daughters carried away into white
slavery under pretense of being SER
wants to German officers. Of little
child crucifed because it stumbled
in the way of a drunken soldier, and
of men and boys stood up and shot
for refusing to tell the Germans
things that would enable them to
hunt down and kill the Belgian SOL
diers.
Belgians Wantonly Murdered.
II travelled through the ruins Of
the Belgian villages while the smoke
was yet rising from the ruins and
smelled the odor of the bodies muir
dered beneath them. l have seen that
water let in for defense slowly recede,
leaving stark and bare the bodies Of