The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-10-22
CHAPLAIN WOULD
ExTERMINATEFO FOE
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for crueIties
Perpetrated by Army.
WANTS BERLIN DESTROYED
:."Leathe the Hoche, Preach Against
Him, Work Against Him, Wherever
He Is, ostracize Him Socially
and Commercially"


! Baltimore, Md.-Rev. George A.
Griffin, q Baltimore Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman serving as chaplain
with the Fifth field artillery, the regi-
ment that fired Americas first shot in
! the war, has written a letter to DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs, prominent Bal
tsmorean, which was printed in full in
the current issue of the Manufac cturers'
Record, in which he discusses at length
cruelties inflicted by the Germans upon
civilians and soldiers.
Il feel" he says, "that I express the
sentiment of those who have seen and
heard over here, when I say that were
/ in America today, priest as / am, ]
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America or any so-caAed
American who would apologize in any
way for what the boche has done.
@All that you have heard in America
about them does not approximate the
truth. There are little children right
here in France with their little stumps
Of hands; there were some not far from
my last camp, and young men with all
the fingers of their right hand cut off.
The other day a British officer and
three Tommies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into little village from which
the Bo,he had been driven back, and in
large room there were four young
Canadians crucifed, one on each wall
Of the room.
! Torture Young Girls.
"Also, when / was with the British
they told me the Boches had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the
Scotch and the Canadians so crazed
they would go over into the machine
gun nests which the Boche had set up,
using the women's screams as a decoy.
"And / have it on the word Of Brit
ish officer that they have stood (the
ohcers) with guns leveled at their men
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly
slaughtered. / cannot tell you what
the Tommies told me they found when
they drove these hell-fiends out of these
positions; it is too awful even to think
about. also have it on the word Of
one of the greatest French abbes that
the Boche were especially instructed to
destroy convents-and kill or outrage
the nuns-and he says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents, and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged in camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor alb
normal conditions which prevail here
and there where troops were drunk or
without restraint. Go along the French
or British front, and the only conclu-
sion you arrive at is that they are
just the ground principle Of Boche eff
ficiency in action. don't believe there
is one Of US here who wouldn't like
to be home. But there is not one Of US
here, l believe, who does not want to
see Bocheland devastated from one end
to the other, with Berlin blackened
ruin-with the Boche exterminated, mil
,itarists and all, before we come home.
Fayors determination.
"It is American blood that is fewing
now, and God grant it may give Amer
lea some strength to realize what we
are up against. To talk of terms until
the Boche is exterminated is to league
with Satan for corner in hell. Priva-
'tions, sacrificesl What can you do at
home to compare with what these men
of ours are doing over here? Meatless
days, wheatless days, sugarless days,
good women knitting, benefits for the
Red Cross-or all your social diver
Isions with charitable object sand
Iwiched I'M
''When you are out on a shell-swept
hill and the shells are going by like
bats out Of he'll, as the soldiers say,
and it's dark as the grave, and every
man, God bless him stands strong and
true, camoufaging all his own feelings
for your sake and for the sake of what
he has back home, meatless days and
Iwheatless days, and Liberty bond cam
paigns seem cheap as your support of
Fhim in such an hour.
'Loathe the Boche-preach against
Ihim-work against him, wherever he
lis, ostracize him socially and CONNER.
|cially. Take no chance-even though
Ibis reputation for loyalty has been a
llong-standing one. The leopard cannot
change his spots-neither can the
lBoche demon lose his horns. I'm beg
ging you now-as the Boche are try
ing to murder us-to help wake every
one up to the fact that America must
realize what the world is facing over
here. Can't you see it-can't America
see it-how everything is hanging in
the balance? And know that the
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