The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-05-02
LIFE in TRENCH
and BATTLEFIELD
TOLD BY VETERAN
SERGT. "BILLY" MOORE GRAPH
CALLY DESCRIBES GERMAN
BRUTALITY TUESDAY.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO RED CROSS
WEIGH SINGERS ROUND OUi
FINE SUPERINTENDENT
OUTSIDE DELEGATIONS.

The appearance of Sergt.. "Billy''
Moore and the Royal WEIGH Singers at
the Junior High School auditorium
Tuesday evening under supervision of
the Home Guard was the signal for a
large audience. Over 80 of the citi-
zens of Long Prairie and 80 from
Melrose were present. These large
delegations were no doubt to greater
or less extent complimentary to the
Home Guard, but the fame Of BILLY"
Moore and the WEIGH singers had i'm
pressed upon them that it would be a
worth while entertainment, and they
were not disappointed.
AS preliminary to the program
proper Attorney Stephens of Melrose
gave the details of rousing Loyalty
gathering to be held in Melrose Sum
day afternoon, May 5,which will be adj
dressed by Gov. j. A. Burnquist and
Rt. Rev. Bishop Busch. Mr.. Stephens
stated that the Sank Centre Home
Guard would head the procession and
! that Capt. VIM. Parker would have
general supervision. A most urgent
invitation was extended to all present
to gather at Melrose on this occasion
and help unity the patriotism OF this
section.
The WEIGH singers opened the pro-
gram proper with several splendldly
rendered selections, including a num-
Der of patriotic songs and old ballad
favorites as encores.
The applause which greeted the ap-
pearance of Sergt. Moore was deafen-
ing. He opened his remarks by stat
ing that he did not poce as an orator,
but rather he would attempt to take
his audience with him from Western
Canada to England, to the bloody bat
tie fields of France, to the hospitals,
and back again to America.
The young man deserted a thresh-
ing crew in Western Saskatchewan
and enlisted IA dayc after the Kaiser
had opened his world wide war of ex-
termination. He told of his short
period of training in Eastern Canada
and how 33 transports carrying 10000
men conveyed by seven British cruis-
ers sailed down the ST. Lawrence river
= Into the Atlantic in November, 1914.
The reception and training in England
was recounted and the arrival IN
France in April, 1915.
The battlefront was referred to as
shell with the lid off and the bottom
dropped out" In a graphic manner
he told of the brutality of the German
soldiers in their raping, mutilitating
and maltreating of old and young
women, girls and babes, the crucifxion
of prisoners, the severing of hands of
children, etc. All of these things the
speaker had witnessed. The purpose,
he said, was to terroize the world ana
impress the people with the strength
of the Imperial military program.
Of the first division of 10000 men
sent over by Canada, which Sergt.
Moore, said was one of the finest body
of men the world had ever seen over
80 per cent of them will never return.
The charge that the British had push
ed the Canadian soldiers into death
strap he pronounced as a damnable
German lie and propaganda spread
for the purpose of demorahzing the
morale of the civilian. Sergt. Moore
said that Tommy Atkins (the British
soldier) is doing his full share, and
have made more German sausage than
any other allied nation.
He said that Democratic and peace
loving America had been chloroformed
by German kultur for 40 years, and
were caught mapping. Now that we
are in the war;" he said, 1--WE will clean
up Germany, its kultur and its mill
tarism. We will not stop until the
German army is exterminated, because
by this means only can world wide
democracy and everlasting peace be
secured" Sergt. Moore admitted that
he hated the German militarist, which
he said included practically every one
on German soil. They have been led
to believe that the Allied nations were
the aggressors in the conflict, and not
only soldiers, but civilian as well were
guilty Of atrocious brutalities. He
claimed that any man having served
on the French battlefield is bound to
have this feeling.
Men wearing the American uniform,
he declared, will be honored by the
whole world. 1t viii make no differ
ence how many divisions the kaiser
places in the field, with the United
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