The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-03
THE kAIsER's OWN
kINp-THE HUNS.

fltteen hundred years ae1 the
Huns. a people OF Tartar origin.
checked by the Chinese wall from
Iurther successful plllage OF China, /
turned upon Europe and under King
Atuia' who termed himself the /
ssoufke OF God" swept European /
civilization with fire and sword I
They carried their friehtfuI connnest |
INTO Hungary. Germany, Greece. the
Baikans and italy They ,ieyeioped /
frightfnlness to the last degree. and
Wherever they passed the stricken
land famed with CONFEDERATION and
whole nations lifted the voice of lam.
entation, For generations after their
Fisitatlons their ab0minablb atroci.
ties We're remembered In dark tradl-
tion.
ON July %, 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm
went to BermerhaYen 10 bid farewcll
~ tne German troops embaTklng for
Nhlha' 70 take part In the allied
movement to protect Europeans and
americans against the Boxer lnsur
rection. AZ the German soldlera
were drawn up just previous to en-.
park3tlon. he addressed to them this
faat Official message and admoni-.
tom
IA soon as you come to blows
with the enemy he viii be beaten. !
NO mercy will be shown No prison. /
era VIII be taken. As the Huns un. !
uef King Attila made u name for I
themselves which Ii Rtlll mighty In !
traditions and legends today. may !
che name Of Germany be 80 fxed in
China by your deeds that no Chinese
shall ever again dare even look al \
German askance. Open the way for n
kultuF once for all /" a
The soldiers did all they were told !
10 do, and this II what Herr Bebel,
leader OF the Social Democrats In the "a
German Reischtag declared after I,
the soldiers had obeyed the Kaiser's :.
mandate and committed atrocities =
that outdid the work OF the Huns: :,
Nothing worse than this has hap =
nened IN history. ether By the Huns, "
Vandals, Gengls Khan. Tamerlane. p,
o. even by Attila"
Roy Fowler has sent home TO Sal rs,
mon clipping from his trench mag, al
azine. the Stars and Stripes. pub Il
llshed In France, giving details OF "a
HUFF brutality, Thls Is entirely In
Keeping with what we already know 10
ut the present German method OF IA
warfare. which "a so revolving that III
worda fail to describe a. Here are
fQme extracts from the magazine ur al
ticlo mentioned 4,
When the representatives. Of the :"
nations assemble for the anal settle.
ment. there viii be laid before the n,
representatives Of Germany aflidav r.
lie. photographs. and other legal ~
proofs Thai make GERMAN atr6cities To-
far better established than the or
scalpings OF the Sioux Indians on pc
the Western frontiers. the murders ~
uf the Black Hole OF Calcutta. or the :
crimes Of the Spanish inquisition "a
On a battle line three hundred miles id'
LONG, In every village the retreatins to
Germans passed. the following morn. IN,
INK accredited men hurried 20 the A,
scene % a.. ke the record against the 49,
lay " judgment y"
'.In Bcrhcyllor thcy took the pho tot
.ograph OF the bodice OF hffecn old tlg
men whom the Germans had lined wit
lp and shot because there were no
.oung soldiers % kill. heard the de- n.
allied story Of a woman whose boy
n II. beiag nearest the age Of ha,
soldier, WINS hrst hanged to a pear Cb
ice IN the garden, and when the of. ,tr
lcer and soldier had left him ANA 7 .,
sorc busy setting IRE % the next nm,
'ouse. che cat the rope. revived the cn,
.tranNled body, only To find the sol. ~.
iters had returned, and While the c,,,
itfleer held her hands behind her !.
Jack. his assistants poured petrol on ~,
he boys head and clothing. set FIRE ~,
O him, ana while he staggered -
tout, flaming torch. they shrieked
sith laughter,
when the Germans burned an NO
hc houses ana retreated the next
AornlnE the Project OF Lorraine pho.
the bodies of women strip
ed and az LAST slain. while IN the n
elfry into which the Germans had
fted machine gums then forced Cv 't.'u
ext village stood the ruined sauare 10
~ woman aud child 2T5 IN number n
into the litfle church. sud notified dire
he French soldiers that II they nred Gen
pom the machine gums they would ions
IN their own women and children The
After several days hunger and "a
hiTst, at midnight these brave wo. a.
zen slipped lille boy through the Ne,
hurch window and bade their nus, :,
ands hre upon the Germans in the ~. !
elfry. saying they preferred death ~, ~
} the indiEuitles they were suffer. '''S
", And so these Ftenchmen turn. lahu
. their guns. and in blowing those snip
.aehine guns out the beIlfyy knlsa Mcr
! enty Of their own women and NJ
1ildren. but
Further indisputahle proof % the thos
eartlessness OF the Germans is to hay,
? found IN the letters and diaries max
ken from the bodies OF dead Ger. oulr
an soldiers. r..
Their Own Written Testimony.
Here BE- the diary. on August % q"
Private Max Thomas; Our sol. 'u'
ers are so excited we are like wild '' |
angfE p.strovsB .fubf h,,,y.s ,,.f.h ON q