The Glenwood post., 1918-10-12
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for CrueIties
Perpetrated by Army.
WANTS BERLIN DESTROYED
"Loathe the Boche, Preach Against
Him, Work Against Him, Wherever
He 10, ostraoIze Him Socially
and Commercially"


Griffin, Baltimore Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman serving as chaplain
with the Fifth field artillery, the regi-
ment that fred Americas first shot in
the war, has written a letter to DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs, prominent Bal
ttmorean, which was printed in full in
the current issue of the Manufacturers
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 say that were
l in America today, priest as I 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 British officer and
three Tommies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into little village from which
the Boche had been driven back, and in
n large room there were four young
Canadians crucifled, one on each wall
Of the room.
Torture Young Girls.
"Also, when I 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 decoy.
And have 1t on the word Of Brit
ish officer that they have stood (the
officers) with guns leveled at their men
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly
slaughtered. I cannot tell you what
the Tommies told me they found when
they drove these hell-fends out Of these
positions; 1t Is too awful even to think
about. I also have 1t 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
he soldiers to be outraged In camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor ab-
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
lust the ground principle Of Boche eff
aciency in action. don't believe there
S one of us here who wouldn't like
to be home. But there is not one of US
here, believe, who does not want to
see Bocheland devastated from one end
to the other, with Berlin a blackened
'uin-with the Boche exterminated, mil
ltarists and all. before we come home.
Favors Exterrination. q.
ut is American blood that is flowing
low, and God grant 1t may give Amer
lca some strength to realize what we
ire up against. To talk of terms until
he Boche is exterminated is to league
with Satan for corner In hell. Priva-
lions, sacrifices! What can you do at
lome to compare with what these men
If ours are doing over here7 Meatless
lays, wheatless days, sugarless days,
good women knitting, benefits for the
Red Cross-or all your social diver
,ions with q charitable object sand
Tiched in!
"When you are out on n shell-swept
1ill and the shells are going by like
bats out of hell, as the soldiers say.
md it's dark as the grave, and every
nan, God bless him stands strong and
rue, camouflaging all his own feelings
for your sake and for the sake of what
lie has back home, mentless days and
wheatless days, and Liberty bond cam
paigns seem cheap Us your support of
him in such an hour. nj "H
'LOathe the BOche-preach against
lim-work against him, wherever he
Is. ostracize him socially and CONNER
tally. Take no chance-even though
his reputation for loyalty has been u
ong-standine one. The leopard cannot
,hange his spots-neither can the
Boche demon lose his horns. I'm beg
ying you now-as the Boche are try
ng to murder us-to help wake every
one up to the fact that America must
realize what the world is facing oyer
here. Can't you see it-can't America
see it-how everything is hanging in
the balance? And know that the
weight which shall cast II down is