The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-01-17
CHARGES Of GERMAN BRU-
TALITIES CLEARLY PROVEN
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these things-that they are chosen
people of God, who has given them the
power to overcome the world If the
beginning, said the speaker, the kals-
er told his subjects that he was or
dained of God for this work and every
s,.eech that has been made since, by
the Kaiser or others invariably con-
tains the slogan Coward with God"
Onward with the devil" supplement
ed DIR. Perry. The autocracy plan
ming, declared they must terrorize,
surprise and shock their enemies into
submission. The army was command
ed to carry this plan out to the letter
and how perfect has their obedience
been; And yet. how futile, for al
though they have. succeeded in a
measure, they have failed in a much
greater sense. ,.....
DIR. Perry said he had listened for
hours to the boys as they told him
horror after horror, but would tell
nothing that he had not himself seen
OF verified by the government. He
spoke of visiting captured German
trenches and seeing the bodies of
young girls, of mothers, and even old
women who had been tortured there
in the worst form of white slavery.
The soldiers would find these women in
captured towns and take them to the
trenches, or rather to the dug outs,
where one would be passed on to beast
after beast until She died in agony.
Sometimes, he said, the girls were
hardly in their teens; other times,
when none other were available, old
women were forced, These trenches
and dugouts were alive with rats and
lice. The straw had not been cleaned
out for three years, in some instances.
The filth from decaying bodies and
eXcretions could. not be imagined.
French doctors pointed this out, in
answering DR.. Perry's inquiry of how
these men, if they. were in their right
senses could do. these most awful
deeds. Moral perverts" the doctors
called them. DR. Perry explained
that the conditions under which they
lived made them lower than beasts.
"But," challenged the speaker" this
happens over and over and over
again" .....-..-....
The spirit of the French women
could"not be broken, hard as the Ger
manstried to do so. He cited one in
stance where soldiers went into the
beautiful home of a French countess.
The husband had gone to war. There
trying to break her proud spirit, they
tied the woman, then before her eyes
covered her furniture, the tapestry,
the walls, the floors with their excre-
tons. Because, instead of fearing she
only despised them, they took her babe
held it before her agonized eyes and
slowly beat it's brains out. eff this
happened only once" said Dr.. Perry,
at might be different, but it happened
thousands and thousands of times"
A man is not allowed, by order, to
crafty his passions, privately. No
Any woman must be violated as much
as it is in mans nower to DO,
is taken out into the street, stripped
and then passed through the regiment.
while others look on. By the time
they are through with her she is prob
ably dead; it is to be hoped that she
is.
The prevalence of uenereal diseases
in the German army is appalling, as
serted DIR. Perry One way the gov
eminent has of keeping, it under con-
troll is to order each man who has