The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-10
GERMANS GLORY IN
 THEIR BARBARISM
EMULATION OVER NUMBER OF cATHEDRALs AND CHURCHES DESTROYED AND MS. TREATMENT OF PRIs-
 OVERS.

lAf1SntihlnesS as being practiced in France and Belgium has been made the subject of a German warning to neutral nations of the fate which they expect if they take up arms against the central powers.
 If they are still thinking of siding with the allies, let them take warning from the fate of others" says the warning. It is in the form of a circu- lar wh1h recites the amount of booty seized in France and Belgium the number of churches damaged and de- | str0yed, the money wrung from the | stricken inhabitants and finally the ! deliberate mistFeatnent Of English | prisoners Of war.
 1 German propagandists have flooded Slpain with this document printed in Spanish and copies have come into the DOSE ession of the state department. Having established its German origin the department made public this translation.
 Besides an untold amount of war material captured on the battle field the Germans have taken poss ession of incalculable bounty in France and Belgium. In Belgius, besides many art treasures, they have confiscated old paintings valued at three million peso tas.
 Due 10 the treacheIy of Cardinal 3ietcier and other priests who dld their utmost to stir the priests against the good hearted German soldiers, they were forced to teach a severe less2n to the Belgian and French Catholics.
 "Cathedrals destroyed, 4; rendered unserviceable, s; churches destroyed, 27; rendered unseryiceable, 34; total 73. In Poland also a large number of churches have been destroyed for mil- itary reasons The figures roncern- ing these have not yet been publish ed. As a result of the stupid stub bornness of the Belgian people in con- tinuing the struggle after their bloody and final defeat on the battlefield, the German officers were forced against their will to impose punishment upon many rich individuals and wealthy cities, This has netted the following amounts to the German treasury:
 fPunishments. S7 900 900 pesetasI security. 13.000.5OO pesetas; reprisals, 15,500,0 ,000 pesetas; forced contrfbu- tions, 4.32A.S50 pesetas. Total, 120,- G51,350 pesetas. rrs
 "This amount includes fine of 15,- ha A lg aft Ia children who insist on speaking the French language and refuse to study the beautiful German language. These statistics are most useful warning to the neutral countries.
 If there are any still thinking ot siding with the allies, let them takS warning from the fate of the others.
 In connection with claims of the extent of the territory occupied by German troops the following foot-note appears: When 1t Is held that the Germans have occupied no English territory and that on the contrary they have lost all their African colo nies amounting to some three million square kifometers it must be remem- bered that the English according To the declaration of their ministers, are not intending to secure any extension of the British empire; that they have entered the struggle with only the aim of helping the Belgians. That Is to say, the English have practically pledged themselves to return the Ger man colonies in exchange for the evacuation and indemnification Of Belgium. The Germans, therefore. are to recover all they have lost in Africa" It is claimed in this document tha' more than 50 GOO British have been made prisoners and in this connection the following statement is made:
 Although to these figures the Eng fish oppose 124,S0S German prisoners taken by them on the western front it must be remembered the English treat their prisoners with notable Kindness (Blandura Notoria) while the regime imposed on the English pris- oners by the Germans is one of eX- treme rigor; so that the Germans with small number of prisoners have sc cured a much superior moral effect Besides. to the 2l,2Gi officers and 5i,- 325 soldiers must be added the sew eral thousand English prisoners that have died in consequence of disease, Scanty food and other accidents in German concentration camps
 The figures regarding British pris- oners it is explained, refer to the to- and Flanders.