The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-01-31
VIZ HAVB0UTR YOUR
WOMEN IS TEUT0N TAUNT
WHILE SCREAMS RING OUT
Beastiality Exhibited on Italian
Front Equals Worst That
Belgium Suffered
ev MILTON ,BRONN'ER.

Washington, ID. T., Jan 3l.-- lou
Italian pigs, here we are! We have
outraged your women. We have at
tackled your sisters"
This terrible message was shouted
by Austrian and German soldiers to
Italians confronting them IN the
Chiesa Nuova sector January ~. IL
was followed by unspeakaDly filthy
abuse.
| didn't get this from propaganda
bureau. was allowed access to the
cables received by the Italian embassy
from it's government. These cables
are not sent for publication, but for
the information Of the ambassador.
items concerning Austro-German afro
cities were scattered amid routine re-
ports on political and military hap
penlngs.
BY going through the papers with
Signor f. Cuniberti, and attache, was
ena oled to extract a story OF outrage
as vile and as shocking as anything
the Teutons have perpetrated in Bel
gium, Serbia, Poland and France. 1t
IS the same routine - attacks upon
women, enforced labor by helpless CIV
ilians, senseless destruction of art OBJ
iects, looting Of public and private
houses.
A proclamation was issued at Udine
of which this is the gist:
"All workmen, women and children
over Is years old are obliged to work
IN the fields every day, Sunday In
cluded, from 4 a. M. to 8 p. III. Rests
of one half hour in the morning, an
hour and a half at noon, and half an
hours in the afternoon are permitted.
Disobedience will be punished in the
following manner:
"Lazy workmen will be accompan-
led to work and watched by German
soldiers. After the harvest they will
be imprisoned for six months and ev'
cry third day will be given nothing
but bread and water. Lazy women
will be exiled and obliged to work
and afterd the harvest receive six
months Imprisonment. Lazy children
will be punished by flogging. The
commandant reserves the right to pun
ish lazy workmen with 20 lashes
daily"
Near Zenzon the ENEMY PUT
ITALIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
IN THE FIRST LINE in order to
shield the Teutons from the fire of the
Italian soldiers who were compelled
to sacrifice the innocents in order to
repel the attack.
Luigi Barzini, war correspondent OF
the Corriere della Sera of Milan, tcs-
tilted that Italian soldiers on the
Piava river front often during the
night heard the desperate screams OF
women on the opposite bank occupied
by the Teutons.
Numerous proofs of pillage are be-
ing found on the bodies of the Aus
trian soldiers in whose coat pockets
have been discovered loot taken from
Italian shops and homes. Prisoners
have told of massacres of Italian citi-
zens by Teuton troops on the same
kind of pretexts employed in Belgium.
On some sections not only have the
invaders taken all cattle and food, but
they have used furniture for fuel for
their bivouac fires back Of the
lines.
In the note book of an Austrian Of
ficer, who was captured, was found
the following copy of an order that
had been issued:
Forward boys, let us be thor.
ougn Let us take away what 10
movable, detach what is attached
and use what is useful"
Other officers, who were captured,
admitted cruel treatment Of the civ