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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

thousands of towns, the floating dust of
funeral pyres. The world was to be made
German, not merely its lands, but all men,
And where humanity, held by memories
and faiths the German could not under
stand or appreciate, resisted, the answer
was death-death in all the vile forms
that lust and flaming animal wrath could
before one as he turns over the records
which stand now as a formal indictment.
1t is not one Belgian child with mu-
tilated arms that the world must face,
but hundreds of thousands of human be-
ings mutilated, raped, bayoneted, burned,
robbed Of wealth, goods and honor and
then tossed to death like carbon 1t
would take many volumes to give the full
report of the available mass Of evidence
This summary, prepared from materials
covering the last four years, can at best
Out point the way.
Belgium is an overpowering episode in
the indictment against the German. But
In the end it remains only an episode.
The ruin of Belgium--literally the rape
of Belgium, because thousands of women
were ravished and assaulted--was the
beginning in a long programme. The
horrors of Aerschot are matched by the
horrors of Eish and Erzerum. For one
body in Belgian canal there have been
thousands in the Euphrates. In the East
the Turk and the Bulgar, led by German
officers, stirred to ambition by German
accomplishment, have matched the Bel
glan programme in every particular.
Europe and Asia, wherever the poisoned
German breath has touched, have be-
come waste, swept clean of everything
but blood.
In the volumes to be compiled some
day will be the report Of the Bel
gian royal commission. The story of
Aerschot will be told, Aerschot where,
In the middle of August, 1914, the
German army pillaged and fired for
three days. taking the men Of the village
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
accumulation of facts takes it further
and further from the realm of the acct
DENTAL

At Louvan the German deliberately
St. Pierre, and gave the splendid univer-
sity and it's library to the torch. He
entered Rheims September q of that
first year and bombarded it that day. A
week later he evacuated the ancient
city and bombarded it steadily for five
days, later turning his guns malev-
emily on the cathedral until only a shell
remained. He tried to lie out of his
crime. He had claimed so long to be the
protector of art, the patron of the
beautiful, that the role of destroyer did
not sit gracefully. Lieutenant Wengler, Of
the Germany Heavy Artillery, made a
public announcement. 1t was he who
had bombarded Rheims, but he had fired
two poor shots, merely to dislodge a
French observer. That was the total
account. 1t is interesting to recall the
letter that Richard Harding Davis wrote
to "The New York Times" about Lieu
tenant Wengler's shots, in which he
pointed out how we'll the lieutenant lied {:
Sup to the hour of 3 howitzer shells had
passed through the southern wall of the
cathedral, killing two of the German wound
ed inside, had wrecked the Grand Hotel OPP
houses Immediately facing it, and in dozen
places had torn up immense holes in the
cathedral square. Twenty-four hours after
Lieutenant Wengler claims he ceased firing
shells set fire to the roof and utterly
wrecked the chapel of the cathedral and
the archbishop's palace, which is Joined to
the cathedral by yard no wider than
Fifth Avenue; and in the direction of the
German guns the two shells fired by Lieu
tenant Wengler had already wrecked that
part of the city surrounding the cathedral
for a quarter of q mile"
There is still the fringe of events that
radiate from Belgium, like spear points
of fire from burning sun. There is
the sinking of Belgian relief ships that
Germany must account for when SEN
tence is pronounced, beginning with the
Storstad, plainly marked and carrying
10000 tons of corn to relieve the starv-
ing nation. The Storstad was sunk and
shelled, so were the Tunisie and the
Haeken. Submarines have been carry
ing out the design further at intervals
ever since.
And if a conspiracy to complete, by
the destruction of aid, the assault on a
people were not enough, Germany fur
thsxsd it By q more consistent plan Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

Lithuania was Hindenburg's lob be-
fore his mastery of the conqueror's task
had put him on the Western front Read
the speech of DR.. Tresic Pavicic, Jugo-
Slav Deputy at Vienna, for the clearest
picture of the ruin in Lithuania and
Serbia. Everything of value to Ger
many was stolen and sent back. Girls
of fourteen were stripped and publicly
violated, then murdered, in front of
their parents. When the Infatuated men
broke loose they were hanged. Pregnant
women were beaten and hanged
Trenches evacuated by the German
Austrian troops were found filled with
the bodies of dead Lithuanian girls who
had been passed on from officers to pri-
Yates. "Red light districts were estab-
lshed, with Lithuanians as inmates.
Families were forced to send their
daughters to soldiers to get money for
food
And the Bulgars in Serbia were con-
sistent pupils of the German scheme. In
Bosnia Herzegovina the Jugo-Slavs were
compelled to dig their own graves. lie in
them and be shot, the living putting
earth over the dead until their turn
came. 1t was for the Bulgars war of
determination. Near Nish 10000 were
carried off into Asia Minor. The Serbs
would not eat fish from the River
,Nishava because they said it was full of
Serbian dead
But all this Is sanctioned in the book
of Prussian ethics, the Bible of the Super-
men. You open it at random and YOU
read:
The strong will and must DISCHARGE thar
strength; and in doing so the havoc thew
make of other beings in their deyelonmsn.
is purely Incidental" -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

of atrocities can be found in report
rendered by R. A. Reiss, a professor at
the University of Lausanne Switzer-
land. In Serbia he found the dead dis
embowelled, arms and legs broken, cut or
torn, noses and ears cut off, eyes put
out, the breasts cut off, and bodies cut
in pieces or beheaded.
Turn a little nearer Berlin, and the
German himself is met again at the
game. There was Poland, with 100000
girls ravished. General Won Beseler, the
German Governor of Warsaw, posted
bulletin, offering $50 marks for bows
and 100 marks for girls for every child
born of a German father. Helen
Paderewska, Polish woman in Amer
lea, wrote: German armies occupy the
land, and nearly every Polish girl is the
property of a German. There is no es-
cape"
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With apologies to Herod the First

out and shooting them four at a time.
There is the story of Louvain, where the
banks were robbed, the women of all ages
raped and baycneted. the mep soaked in
petroleum and burned alive. 1t was the
road between Louvain and Tiremont
that the Belgian commission reported as
lined with civilian corpses.
The notebooks of captured German
soldiers will not be forgotten in the in
dictment There is in instance the note
book of the private of the 22d Reserve
Infantry who wrote from Crei on Sep
TENDER 3: "The iron bridge was blown
up. For this we set the streets on fire
and shot the civilians" Another whose
record was made near Bouvignes, north
of Dinant, reports that the inhabitants
were "shot at such close range that they
were almost decapitated the
women and children locked into a con-
vent from which shots were fired. And
for this reason the convent is about to
be set fire to-
General Won Bulow himself made no
secret of his intentions toward the Bel
gian people. On August %, 1914, he
proclaimed at Liege, with respect to the
charge that the people of Ardennes had
been shooting at his troops: "It was
with my consent that the general in
chief set fire to the whole locality and
that about one hundred persons were
shot"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

robbery, the records reveal Familieswere
destroyed, and 100000 individuals were
taken from their homes to Germany.
Cardinal MERCER protested to Gov
ernor General Won Kissing, who re-
piled with what have since been called
scarcely yelled sophistries Holland pro-
tested, so did the United States and the
Pope-to little end.
But if Belgium had suffered, what of
France? During the German retreat of
March, 1917, cities and towns were pill
LACED and destroyed, the fruit trees were
hacked down, or ringed, to die later.
Wells and streams were poisoned Sc
curities were even taken from the banks,
in violation of The Hague articles, and
the thousand square miles that were
evacuated were left empty and barren Of
all that had given them life and beauty.
Houses were blown up, furniture
smashed with picks, farm carts hacked
to pieces andsimplements burned. And
as in Belgium, many of the civilian pop
ulation were sent back to Germany to
labor there. Proclamations were posted
in the Asne region calling men, women
and children TO work in the fields from
a. m. to p. M, including Sunday,
with penalties, most often of the whip,
sometimes the bullet, for idlers.
Then there was Edith Cavell, MUIR
dered because she helped Belgian SOL
diers across the frontier. 1t has been
called "an uneasy conscience" that made
the Germans deny to Hugh Gibson, sec
rotary of the American Legation, that
sentence had been pronounced, when the
moment for the shooting had already
been set. There were early air raids on
London and Paris, planned for purposes
of terrorization. The Lusitania, with it's
thousand dead; the thousand visitations
Of the submarine, the Smelling of open
lifeboats tossed on the ocean, the mined
shipping track in the North Sea to kill
Dutch and Danish sailors by the hun
dreds when the submarine had not vet
found its pace. There were the poison
gases around Ypres-the first poison gas
in the war-sending the British and the
French back, Keeling, gasping, choking
and strangling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

young girl of thirteen Another witness
saw nineteen corpses in a meadow"
Three hundred houses were burned at
Herve. Mounted men shot into the doors
and windows to prevent escape. This
was repeated at Liege, where fifteen
women were raped in daylight on tables
in the Place de PUniversite.
This is from German soldiers dia1 =
for August Is, 1914, written at the town
of Wandre: "The inhabitants without
exception were shot. This shooting was
heartbreaking, as they all knet down
and prayed, but that was no ground for
mercy"
At Ardennes on the Meuse, near
Namur, the Germans machine-gunned
the town for two hours. Four hundred
civilians were killed here. At Dinant
there were 120 bodies. The rest of the
inhabitants were taken to Germany. At
Hofstade there were "many corpses";
and then "two young women were lying
in the backyard of the house. One had
her breasts cut off, the other had been
stabbed young man had been
hacked with the bayonet until his entrails
protruded. He also had his hands Joined
in an attitude of prayer" From this
district Belgians were transported to
Germany in cattle trucks. The cars were
crowded, without food for days, and full
Of filth. Some of the women went mad
on the way.
The Bryce committee, concluding it's
ties Of other wars, keeping in mind that
war is always thing of brutality, and
then wrote "the killing was done as part
/, of deliberate plan. 1t began at a GER
tain fixed date and stopped at another
fixed date"
The report was valuable for more than
its effect upon the opinion of the world.
1t disclosed an actual, we'll worked out
and comprehensively planned effort on
the part of Germany to terrorize the
world.
Every appearance of German fright
fitness cannot escape this implication of
an intentional madness. 1t is the same
on the seas as on land. 1t gives SINH
lar meaning to the Lusitania sinking, to
the Armenian massacres, the spoliation
of Lithuania and Poland, the devasta-
ton of conquered French territory, the
murder of Edith Cavell, the firing on
Red Cross camps and the Smelling Of
hospital ships, the Zeppelin raids on
open cities in England, the lombard
ment of Paris, the air raids on Italian
cities, filled with the art treasures of
another time; the destruction of the
Rheims Cathedral, the attempted murder
Of the Serbian people by Austria. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

The Bryce report is probably the most
conclusive of all the evidence, prepared
after long deliberation, drawn up by
men accustomed to give the proper judi
cial review to facts, based on 1000 Bel
gian dispositions, diaries taken from the
German dead and German proclamations.
In the report here and there are found
Illuminating instances of the German
method
cat Mean, hamlet west of Herve, forty
men were shot. In one household alone
the father and mother (names given) were
shot, the daughter died after being repeat
eddy outraged"
"The systematic execution of civilians" is
reported.
"In Soumagne and Micheroux very many
civilians were summarily shot in a field
belonging to a man named E., ffty-six or
fifty seven were put to death. A German
officer said: you have shot at u.s. One
of the villagers asked to be allowed to
speak, and said: If you think these people
fired, kill me, but let them co. The an
swer was three volleys. The survivors were
bayoneted. Their corpses were seen in the
field that night by another witness. One
at least had been mutilated. These were
not the only victims in Soumagne. The
eyewitness of the massacre saw, on his
way home. twenty bodies, one that of q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
German Air Plot"No hospitals on
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cember of 1914, said: "Pillage, rape,
arson and murder are the common prac-
tees of our enemies. Crimes against
women and young girls have been of ap-
palling frequency"
Shift the scene to Armenia, to Serbia,
to Lithuania and to Poland
In Armenia it seems to have been the
German example in Belgium that en-
couraged Turkey to set out to exter-
inmate the Armenian nation. In five
months from 100000 to 100000 Ar
menians died, snuffed out by procedure
quite German in it's uniformity. The
men from fifteen to seventy were taken
out and shot. Others were taken out
across great barren stretches of land
and abandoned to starvation. Women
were ravished, sold to harems, children
sold to brothels. Children born by the
roadside were left to die, their mothers
dragged along until death, too, came to
rescue them. The Euphrates in 1915
was covered with the bodies of Ar
menlan women who preferred death in
the river to the death and dishonor that
Germanized Turkey brought to them
The Bryce report on the Turkish
atrocities in Armenia was based on $50
documents and all the available authen-
tic evidence obtainable to July, 1915.
The report characterized the Armenian
case as "the most colossal crime in the
history Of the world" According to the
Bryce report the roads in Erzerum, Bills
and Diarbekir were lined with corpses of
Armenians hanged in patches. For a
month corpses flooded the Euphrates A
| German eyewitness wrote thus of the
tortures he saw in Harput:
"They have had their eyebrows
plucked out, their breasts cut off, their
nails torn off, their torturers hew off
their feet or else hammer nails into
them" And to complete the irony of
this, coming from a German, members
of the German High School faculty at
Aleppo, knowing we'll enough where the
source of these things might be found.
protested to the German Foreign Office
that Armenia would be "a stain on Ger
man honor for centuries to come.''
But if the Turks learned the lesson
we'll, the Austrians are shown to have
profited likewise. Quantities of explo-
sive bullets were found among the Aus
trian stores in the Serbian invasion in
1914--whole cases of them, devised to
penetrate the skin and then explode
Serbian prisoners who were wounded
were killed, the civilian population
burned alive, women raped here as else
where. An Austrian soldier Of the 26th
Landsturm wrote that they had received
"orders to bayonet men, women and
children without distinction" II fright
fitness was good fer Belgium, surely it
was effective against Serbia. The table
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

undone what it
took forty years
to build.
A er four
years the Ger
man thing" is
a n a t h e m a
' through all the
world. It's en-
pire is edged in
blood on the map
of Europe, and
over it turks
the smoke of
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go

This is small part of the German
tale in the west. The east still remains,
with a story that is no less horrible, "no
less comprehensively an arraignment of
the German scheme to make the world
bow or be slain" A French official re-
port, thirty pages Of it, written in De-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
By Ralph Block

T TOOK the Germans something like
forty years to build up their great
: nineteenth century tradition of
kultur. But four swift years have
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
List of Jurors
 Drawn for Term
 of Valdez Court

The following grand and petit jur- ors were drawn Tuesday by District Clerk Arthur Lang and Ed Wood, jury commissioner:
 Grand Jurors F. Bertholf, La, touchc; James Clark, Latouchc, Rob- crt Shafl"r, fidalgo, C. A. Mcllison, CordOya; l.. \. Decker. Valdez; II. Bccbc, Cordoya; R A. w. kraapitz, Valdez, J $. NJ Nelson, Chitina, w. E. Shclthorn, Seward, Bartlcy How. ard. Cordoya; H. $. Kerr. Cordoya i; James Henry, McCarth}: \. LaMott, Cordova. (. S. Bratton. CordoNa, Rob crt Kelsey, Valdez; Fred Radcll, La. touchc; NJ F. w Frye, Mccarthy; J, r. Hall. Cordoya, J. 0 Parker Sew. ard, John Noo@, Seward. William Me Faddcn. CogdoNa; Komainc scott Valdez, James IIylands Mccarthy.
 The grand jury is ordered to report at lO o'clock in the morning of OC tobcr l.
 Petit Jury Charles Cochran, Cor. doya, John $. Nelson, LatOuChe; F.. E. Ray, Cordova; w. r. Brown. Cor dova; Walter Wolf, Cordova; William L.. Smith. Cordova; T. II Reams, Sew ard; J. D. LOring, Cordova; w. J. Shepard. Eyak; k. B. Giles. CordOVa Henry Russell. Seward; J. w DcCver, Cordova; C. R Higginson, CordOva; w. C. Sutton. Cordova, William Gro kcr, Cord0va, F. F. McConaghy. Cor, dova; Horace Leach, COrdova; j. F.. Richardson, COrdova; John J. Ross, Mccarthy; Archie Parks, Valdez; l.. G. Better, Cordova; w. r. Henry. Sew ard; r. A Schumacher. LatouChe; John Erickson. Valdez, C. F. Bourke, CordOva, Joe Reeves. ordova; Paul Bloedhorn, Cordoya; jlmes Brady, Seward: Oscar Margraf Mccarthy; N. Anderson, L.atOuche
 Tn" petit jurors are rdered to re port at lo o'clock a. m. October {.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Loan Quota to
 Be Given Our
 Nearby Towns

Through the efforts of the First Bank of Cordoya, the towns of Chit ina, Mccarthy, Kennecott Katalla and Strelna will be given stated quotas in the Fourth Liberty loan sub scription, and this will accord to them the privilege of earning an honor flag.
 Last spring the quota of $47,00O was named by the Federal Reserve Bank to apply to Cordoya and the towns tributary. At that time the First Bank of COrdoya took up with the Federal Reserve Bank the matter of apportioninE quota to neighbOr- ing towns, and was advised that noth- ing could be done then towards that end. but that the matter would have consideration in any future loans.
 Today the First Bank of Cordova re Ceived the following telegram from the Federal Reserve Bank.
 "Cordova quota Fourth Liberty loan $ll9,200. Appreciate suggestions as tu how the quota should be subdivided among communities your district for honor flag contest"
 So that undoubtedly quotas will be assigned to the various communities.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

The following supplementary tele. gram, re the Liberty Loan, has been received by the First Bank of Cor dova from Governor Lynch of the Twelfth Federal Reserve Bank: The Fourth Liberty loan is s6,000, 100000 maturing October l5. 1880 under terms of the treasury depart. ment circular No. 12l. which eXempts the interest on not to exceed s3O.0O0 worth of Fourth Loan bonds owned hy any one holder from graduated in come taxes, commonly known as sur taxes and excess profits and war pro fits taxes Foregoing covers practic ally all of the important provisions tor the Fourth loan"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Cost of Living Skyward in the
 Quaker City

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-The bu- rcau of statistics has issued q bull letin showing that the cost Of living in Philadelphia has increased 6717 per cent since December. 1914 Cloth ing increased los per cent
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Buhl Airdromes Are Bombed by
 British Guns

LONDON, Sept. 26.-British airmen last night bombed the German air. dromes at Buhl. twenty-five miles southwest of Karlsruhe.
 In the fighting which occurred two enemy machines were destroyed and three British machines have not been located
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Ship Steel Is Doctored By
 Seattle Man

SEATTLE. Sept. 26.-J. A. Carlson, a shipyard patternmaker, has been arrested, charged with having doctored ship steel, conspiring to wreck troop trains. and with having destroyed spaghnum moss supplies of the Red Cross.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

Mrs. 0. E. Jones is the recipient of letters from Miss George, daughter of Prime Minister Lloyd George of England, thanking her for d contribu- tion to the war fund, one from Col. Frederick Mears, formerly of Anchor age, expressing sympathy over the death of her son, William. and also one from her son John, who is now at the front. These communications will be read with interest, and are printed on Page ,.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

At meeting of the city council held last night F. s. Anderson was elected patrolman. protest against the present inadequate mail service will be forwarded to Washington by Clerk Greene. A. J. MaCConnell and J. B. Sapiro were appointed as com mittee to represent the council in the dance to be given the draft boys at Hegg hall on Saturday night.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
NOTICE TO PATRONS

During the recent storm several poles of the power transmission line were blown down. and these are being re placed as rapidly as possible.
 Commencing tomorrow, how ever, 1t will be necessary to shut off power and light during the noon hour for a few days. in order to facilitate the work. ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Big Rush Now On from Dawson
 to the States

DAWSON, Y. T.. Sept 26.-The an nual rush for the Outside prior to the approaching freeze-up is on. Reser- vations on all boats leaving for the upper river are at q premium.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

st Georges Episcopal church has received notice of gift of d Meneely bronze bell, the gift Of Louisa D. At kinson of Baltimore. Md. The bell is d memorial to Philip Algernon Lillard and Thomas Atkinson Lillard, both nephews of Mrs. Atkinson. who were killed in the first battle of the Somme.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

B. R. Ross of the Bank of Alaska, who made d short business trip to Anchorage. was in the city this morn ing. He will go to Seattle and thence to Skagway
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

Public Opinicn, played hy Blanche Sweet at the Empress theatre this cNcmng for the last time, also hv!- stone two-recl comedy and Pathe Ed uCational. Tomorrow Clara kimball Young will be presented after q long d." cnCe.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
Poor Hobo Is
 Liable to Arrest
 Under New Act

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26 Railroad de tectives have given notice that all per sons found "hoboing" shall be liable for arrest under the war revenue act
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
34 Americans
 Are Awarded
 Service Crosses

WASHINGTON. Sept 26.-General Pershing announces that he has awarded the distinguished service cross to thirty-four enlisted men and officers of the American expeditionary- forces for gallantry in action.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26
French Loans To Be Floated
 Next Month

PARIS. Sept. 26.-The drive for the new French loans open October 20 and closes November 24.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-26

C. l.. Anderson of the l.. S Bureau ot Fisheries arrived from Latouchc th.s morning and will remain here several days imparting information as ring curing.