El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-24


1 German soldiers at the command o
their officers are not done in drunk
enness. not done in degeneracy, no
done in rage and fury but "are baset
on a military system Of the mos
scrupulous form Of scientific eff
cheney" aimed to shatter the nerves Of
allied fighting men by inflicting ter.
ribIe horrors on their women and chill
dren:" but a nation like France, that
produces men such as the poiiu who
said he stood in mud. slept in blood
but his soul was with the stars" and
women such as the widowed young
wife who clenched her fist and de-
clared. 81 am only his wife France is
his mother; and I give him back to
the mother who bore him." can never
he defeated by a German enemy fight
inE on the principle of terrorizing-
This was the message brought El
Pasoans from the front by DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills who spoke TO over
1900 citizens on German Atroci-
ties at a gathering at the courthouse
auditorium Tuesday night. under the
auspices Of FL PasO Rotary.
Evidence of UnsneukabIe Horrors.
Evidence Of uuspeazable horrors in
fiicted on Belgian and French civil
ians was presented by the lecturer in
The form OF data gathered first hand
from relatives of the victims and pho
tographs Of dead and mutilated bodies
projected on a screen as ocular proof
for FL PasOans who attended the Ice
ture.
Women were violated, old men were
slain, while little boys and girls, not
yet puberized, were so tortured as TO
be rendered incapable OF exercising
the reproductive functions, the lee
turer showed; and all was done at the
command OF German officers, such as
Cen Won Hartman. author Of the
Handbook of Military Information.
who advised his readers to steep
themselves in military history and
thus avoid feelings Of humanitarian
ISM The kaiser's officers them
selves commanded that wells be
poisoned with dead bodies. coWduug
and creosote. and that old men and
women be killed in order that the
nerves Of French and Belgian soldiers
be shattered
Dying Colonel Curses Germany.
So horrible had the atrocities be-
come that even German subofficers
were shocked DR.. Hills told. relat
ing the case Of a colonel who had
been uursed at his death by Belgian
priest and an aged woman, and who.
as his last breath was escaping. NUT
q
GA our fatherland- curses on our
kaiser. Either God is dead or Ger
many is doomed Curses on our cOun-
Try. Cur fatherland. our kaiser"
God is not dead and Germany is
doomed" was Dr.. Hillis's comment on I
this dying declaration.
Dr. Hills spoke. in part, as follows. I
Burns Son Before Mothers Eyes.
-In GerDeTilier, standing beside {
their graves, I studied the photo I
graph II the bodies OF 10 old men 1
whom the Germans lined Up and shot I
because there were no young soldiers I
to KILL heard the detailed story OF I
woman whose son was first hung TO Z
o pear tree i'm the garden, and when I
iSe officers and soldier had left him 4
and we've busy setting fire 10 the next Z
house. she cut the rope, revived the /
strangled youth only 70 find the sol /
iiers had returned, and while the Of Z
lcer held her hands behind her back, {
his assistant poured petrol on the I
sons head and clothes. set fire TO him,
md while he staggered about. fam
ng torch. they shrieked with
aughter. when they had burned all
he houses and retreated, the next
morning, the project Of Lorraine
cached that Gethsemane and photo
.raphed the bodies OF so aged men "
ng as they feL, the bodies Of women
tripped and at last slain.
Wives Go To Death.
I'm the next village stood the
mined square belfry into which the
Germans had lifted machine guns.
hen forced every woman and child
- in number-into the little church,
md notified the French soldiers that
{ they fired upon the machine guns,
hey would XIII their own women and
After several DAYS hunger
nd thirst. at midnight, these brave
women slipped a little boy through
he church window, and bade their
husbands fire upon the Germans in
he belfry, saying they preferred
.eath TO the indignities they we're
uftering- And so these Frenchmen
urneu their guns and in blowing
hat machine gun out Of the belfry
-illed 20 Of their own wives and
In a hundred years OF his
DRY where shall you find a record Of I
ny other race who called themselves
ivillzed- who are such sneakinE cow
rds that they could not fight like
len OF. play the game fairly, but in
neir eharterlng terror put women
nd little children before them as
hield2 Proof 0verW refining.
Cut OFF Girls Breasts.
Here are, in brlef. the records OF
lOre than thousand individual
tr0cities. that go with the original
photographs. affidavits md documents
esting in the archives Of France
Eaiust the day OF reckoning. What
3 more Important still. here are the
stters taken from the bodies Of dead
erman soldiers with their diaries. I {
" OF the large number, note these
photographs Of the dead bodies OF
sed priests, some OF whom were dead {
ecause they had been stalzed down ]
nd used as a laTatory until they
erisheo- Dead girls, with breasts cut