The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-16
Brutal Acts Of Hun Graphically
Described by Major Murphy
of Red Cross.
BEAT BEAST At ALL COSTS
Must Build and Build and Sacrifice to
Win the War-A War Of Nations
In Which Every Man, Woman
and Child 10 Factor. a".

/ New York.-One thousand sevel
hundred men and women in the CRANE
ballroom Of one Of the big hotels saw
the German as he really is through
the eyes Of Maj. Grayson M. P. Muir
ply, Red Cross director in Europe.
| Major Murphy arrived here recently
after being in France for nearly ten
months, and he is going back again
He came to make report to Henry P,
Dawson, chairman of the Red Cross
war board.
Major Murphy said in part:
u want to ask you to consider for
a moment the fact that up to this
day Germany is entirely victorious
In this war; that any peace that is
made today on the basis of today's
conditions or on the basis Of the
status quo ante would be practically
complete victory for Germany and
for the German idea. Germany has
lost nothing in this war except blood.
She has fought her war on the ter
ritory of others. She has drawn from
the territory of others vast supplies
OF materials and vast sums of money.
She has had between forty and fifty
million people working for her for
practically no wage-really as slaves
She has established her cursed hold
on Austria, on Turkey and on Bull
garia, and she has at her feet MUIR
dered Serbia and unfortunate Rou-
mania.
Hun Stops at Nothing.
"You don't know what these Ger
man people are, believe.
II cannot begin to describe to you
the horrible, brutal, beastly, consist
ent official things that Germany has
done, not in isolated cases, but gen.
elally, to the women and children
and the poor old suffering people in
the countries where she has set her
dreadful foot. She has stopped at
nothing. British officers told me of
seeing their wounded piled in heaps
and hand grenades thrown in the
midst and exploded to kill them while
they lay there.
British officers have told me of
the men being taken as prisoners
through Germany and German women
coming and offering them glass Of
water and splitting in 1t as they
handed it to them. I came back
across the water with a prominent
British officer and statesman. He told
ne Of friend of his who lay wound
ID and suffering horribly in front Of
he German trenches. He lay there
or day and half or two days, and II
he Germans came out at night, stood
round him and scOffed at him and IL
licked him and made fun of him, and Il
hen went away and left him, and |E
Vhen some Of his own people went E
ut at the risk of their lives and =
rought him in before he died he told
hem Of these things.
ibid you think that the men in
hat British regiment would be will
lg to make half peace with Ger 4
lany? Do you think that the Cana &
ians who went in the trenches and 4
'und their officers crucifed-whether =
lose men will make half peace with
ermany? I tell you it is only
hort time before our boys who are o.
yer there now are going to be suf- 81
ring those same things, and you II
Ave got to understand it here, and u
~ have got to build and build and is
crifice, no matter what it costs, to e(
at that beast. e.
A War Of Nations. ~,
This war is not war of armies. ly
Is war Of nations. There isn't a in
IN, woman or a child in Great W
itain, in Belgium, in France or in br
lily that is not a factor in this war. in
ell you that If you should go, as I of
We gone, about those ruined dis m
cts In France and see the little TO
lldren, little bits of tots, four and
e years old, driving in the herds VIZ,
night, seeing the little boys COM CIV
!, down the road-little bits of tots ~,
With their arms full of faggots that Of,
y were accommodating against the Tn
liter; old men and old women work s,,
in the fields until 1t was so dark no
It, as you looked, you could just an
Ike out those vague ghostly forms CIV,
herring in the crops for France. ~,
I have passed through those towns val
looked in the windows at night, til,
ere you could see little here and cas-
re, and they were always working, out
king, working, to carry on this its
:. 1t is not the armies of France hot
t are the essential thing to France fen
this war, nor the armies of Eng. IN,
d, nor the otheN countries. Those wa
lies will do their part. and do It for
finish, If they are supported BY pin
people behind, and the great cry tai,
need in Europe today is to build ma
the spirit and keep up the spirit we,
The people behind the lines, and it for
hat great work in which the Red a =
not to us on the other a,u
). h"f to w" IN this side-have snr
forlr"l 'H'' Nlr"n,n the largest 90,
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