Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-18

sunk by German submarine. That
great ship was fully equipped to care
Tor wounded, sufferin soldiers. It's
only passengers were doctors ana
nurses 1t was marked with n great
red cross made OF red electric lights
The sides Of that ship were Illuminated,
showing for miles away the character
OF the vessel There was no possible
chance OF MISLEADING the Llandovery
Castle for anything but a hospital
ship. And damn then, they deIiber-
ately torpcdoed that ship and took
American doctors from open life boats
and abused them. The shock OF this
distinctly british act was little sof-
tened by the fact that we have been
pretty we'll trained to expect such
atrocities from the Austrians and Cor
mans, who have deliberately shot our
doctors. outraged our nurses, bombed
our hospitals apd destroyed other hos
pital ships 1t is Kultur spelled with
:, k
Before the war we imported from
The central powers practically every
surgical instrument used in America.
not because we couldn't make them but
because the volume of such business
~as comparatively small and the Ger
cnanS made n speciality OF handmade
aurgical tools. The other day in Wash
ington saw the set Of surgical instru-
men,s adopted by the medical chief of
our =! my. Practically every instru-
men; could be readily made by any of
our plier manufacturers, and the orders
are running into such quantities that
they will be stamped out as are Amer
ican-made pliers. In tho days to come
VIII those Am erican surgeons who are
seeing and caring for the thousands
OF victims OF Hun atrocities ever per-
riit themselves to forget sufficiently to
purchase a surgical instrument made
in Germany? Never The memory OF
those doctors and nurses who lost their
lives In the Llandovery Castle murder
cry in protest even against the thought.
The Germans may ship their instru-
merts over hero without Identifying
marks. Not IL true Americans are in
the purchasing department. Is Ger
many's surgical instrument business
dead in America? Mr.. Buyer. it's up
to you.
KITCHEN ENAMEL WARE
MADE IN GERMANY
Before the war We imported annually
millions Of dollars worth OF kitchen
cnameled ware from Germany and AUS
iria. These utensils were used in the
Kitchens OF American homes.
Before the war American manufac-
turcrs had made great strides in the
manufacture of enameled wares. Their
goods were favorably known in every
state in the union. yet In almost every
American town there was line OF
heavy-coated colored wares and OF
white cnameied wares that came from
the central powers. The blockade
against their shipping quickly broke
these forcign-made stocks and the ODDS
and ends were cleared up with special
sales. Complete lines OF enaPelcd
wares made in our factories havA &c
placed them. viii German and Aus
I TRAN enameled wares go on to our
shelves again when tho Kaiser and his
} !'russian war maniacs arc whipped
VIII we swallow the story that all the
Germans were forced into these afro
cities with absolute proof that the Ba-
+. "arians worked single handed and in
apparent giee at many OF these hell
/ ssh outrages? II would seem that a
good American would starve rather
than foul his lips with food from a
l German utensil. That's the way II
/ looks; but after all. It's up TO one sin
Z gle class OF Americans, over whose
doors are lettered the big word. buyer
BURNED HOSPITAL FILLED
| WITH 200 INSANE INMATES
I Postal cards We have used millions
! AZ them 10 say brief hello TO the folks
a. home when we were on the road
/ pstal caro- holiday greetings, postal
/ birthday congratulations, postal cards
/ nat could be written quickly and mail
/ sd with ease when pleasure or bust
ness. magnetlike. speeded the use we
inade OF our time. For the past three
?ears postal cards have frequently ;old
brief stories so direct in their wording
q at the full shock OF their horro-
I eGualled or excelled those kilograms
from the War Department which are
bringing home to US the price we are
naying for democracy.
! Imagine postal card telling that
your son had lost his third Gnger, de-
l!berateiy cut from his hand shat 4
Sun might become possessed OF the
ring he wore.
Picture the postal that told you of
the burning of the lunatic asylum at
Obourg. Belgium. and of the frightfuI
death O. the 200 insane women who
were being cared for in that institu-
ticn.
Another mail and the postal that
! tells of the women and children at