Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-06
CANADIAN SAW opal"
CRUCIFTED BY GERMANS
Captain McCallum, NJ Il p ! C
Leaf Filler, Tells of Cruelty
L. S. Men Face
HERE TO BOOST LOAN

To see his school chum crucihed on
a barn door, with thirty German bayo-
nets and several men under his come
mand blown TO atoms when about &c
pick up 4 wounded German officer
and to be one OF thirty-three men and
officers coming out alive after one after
Moons fighting in tho Regina trench in
the Somme district. in which s23 SOL
diers entered-thesc arc some OF tho
experiences related by Captain Willard
McCalIum. former lieutenant Of tho
Black Watch Canadian regiment and
now In the aviation corps.
Captain McCallum, who, together with
several other Canadian officers. Is in
Philadelphia helping push the third Lib
ertE Loan drive to a successful close
, told for the first time today Of what
the American troops can expect from
the treacherous Germans. The captain
has been in France from the very start
Of the war until July OF last year, ana
/ has been injured by German bullets
three times, bay yonetCd once and Garscd
/ twice.
"If YOUR fighters expect t. fight
| against other civilized men In France
| they are very much mistaken asserted
| the captain, who, though born in Mon
/ treal, received his education in this
| country. lie was graduated from the
| Virginia city High school Nevada and
| from Santa Clara College, California
! The German soldier Is a beast. And
how terrible he really Is Is orly best
shown by some of his wise tricks 10
tempt the opposing soldier. A Canadian
IN la q a
helmet, but in most cases when he
picks up the helmet lie goes UP with II.
Invariably We have taken these he'll
NETS and found them attached cleo
trically to dynamite charges. No Won
der We now say TO helmet helmit.'
You have read glowing accounts in
your American newspapers of the many
| German trenches taken by the British
forces" lie continued. 'In some Of
these trenches We have found German
officer dummies literally filled with
mustard gas sacks and dynamite. As
soon as they were pierced by British
bayonet hundreds of the captorS Of the
trench we're blown to pieces or sur
focated.
"on October S. 1916. 500 men anH
twenty-three officers decided 10 trap
q company Of Germans I'm the Sonlme
district. When the trapping was over
I thirty-three men and two officers were
alive. think that WAS the sIddest day
| spent in France.
30, yes l guess I put several Huns
on their trip west but. would you be-
lieve it, one never stops 10 count how
| many. | was gunner on a machine gun
! one day and you could see the Germans
dropping like snow. And then when the
| lighting was over and We tried to de-
Gently bury our dead enemies, like
Christians hope to he. the Germans, only
fegning death, turned on US with
bombs and nearly wiped out all of my
men. We never take the word Of .
German now. We round them full of
holes to make sure they are dead and
then give them their last rites.
Your heart would bleed" pathetically
recalled Captain McCallum, III you
could only see some of the thirteen and
fourteen-year-old French girls showing
signs OF German soldier atrocities. Mere
kids, too. There is one woman / saw
before / was inValided home who had
her entire left breast amputated by a
Hun scabbard. Then is there any gooC
reason why we should not detest the
Hun and anything Hunnish?
You Americans have not heard ANY
THING. That which you have you are
prone TO discredit as coming from ques
! NlOlld VIC oOulNtSG bAA "llNu YOUR ON 7
boys tell you of some Of the things they
have seen and heard, then maybe yoJ
will face this conflict in even a NOR,
serious light"
Captain McCallum, who viii rcmair
in the city for several days assisting IN,
, Four-Minute Men in arousing enthusi
asm for America and her Allies, sal,
that In the Victory Loan in Toronto re
> Gently the inhabitants responded will
such huge amounts that If this countr,
were to purchase proportionately Amer
. lea would dispose Of $1,000, 100000 wort
Of bonds in this issue,
Tell your people," said the captain
that If they are to stop the advance o
, the Hun they must vie with the spiri
of Canada as a whole. Not only ha
, she given every available man TO tn
. tc1lors but has cheerfully given up he
. wealth that the Germans might be con
quered and democracy and liberty save,
for the world"