Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-05-30
DR. HUDSON SPEAKS ON
AMERICA N FRANCE

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evening" BY D.. y W.. Hotsoa, q ne
Miszcur STATE University. vho but ~
crnily returned fron france vhere
Ne had BEN sent en- . spocia ecuni-
sicn b. the Amaican Red Crss.
In spcAking 81 The German aiti-
taie 70 Humanity. NJ. Hudson said
the Germans belicyci that other reo-
pc had no right 70 consicr themselves
a. rersoaS unless permitted ibis IL
srty By CcrmaaA Germany represent
"a the apex Of ire human race. Of the
human mind. they wcrc the elect Of
TIA world. srd NJ other race could aa
proaeh their sacred circle nss
were a revivincation q the old Hin
do caste. Being born without the Ger
man caste. no human law could permit
entrance into the holy Of holes i rep
resented The German. be said. had no
conscience. the kaiSer was morally de-
pravcd and had No conscience. and
was without hope. because he believed
he was doing no wrong. DR.. Hudson
suhstsnaGted this BY quoting from
Plato. who said that there was hope
for a person who dB wrong II he knew
be was doing wrofk, but for the per-
son who did wrong and did not know
il, there was absolutely no hope.
In speaking Of German atrocities
Or. Hudson said; III anything you
have heard isn't true, it is something
worse" A Red Gross nurse, who had
seen them herself told him Of Belgian
children with both hands cut of. From
equally reliable sources he learned
that German soldiers had killed
stretcher bearers gathering wounded
in No Mans Land, that they had
nailed an American soldier to a door,
and chopped both hands from another.
ais it true you are no longer tax
ing German prisoners?" DR.. Hudson
asked a soldier, and the comprehens-
i've, laeonic answer was: "The only
way to end the war is to kill Ger
mans"
Reading from a paper on which he
had written as she recounted event:
to him, DR.. Huson gave the dramatic
story of a Sister of Mercy. Among
other things she told of seeing Ger.
man soldiers line fifteen old mer
against a wall and shoot them. Sh'
saw them shoot men, pour petrol owe
them and burn them. She saw then
hang an invalid son in his mother
presence. They finally permitted he
to cut her son down, and when unde
: her ministrations he was APPARENT
: reviving, they jeered at her, shot hir
and burned him before her.
Sister Julie said "the town was Xix
the crater of a volcano, the German
shooting every one and setting fire
the houses. The German soldiers lool
: ed like devils. They came to my hous
and called me out, and were mad wit
rage when | told themI rad onlywoul
ded men. Whentheir weapons readyf'
use they entered. Covering the pri
oners with their pistols they wou
n tear away the bandagcs. While Of
stood with his dagger over a woun
u ed mans heart, | implored him
spare my wounded, and ! would ca
a for the German wounded"
u While Sister Julie confessed to 1
iir Hudson her inability to be otherwi
by than merciful TO the indiviual Germ
o. soldier, he tried her Christian soul 81
ng further by asking what she would
if by pressing an electric button, S
be could exterminate the German arm
err, Il would press It with both hand
he said this pure souled, patriotic Sis
ng of Mercy proving herself a Sister
Humanity.
a DIR. Hudson was in France WI
to Archie Roosevelt was wouned and S
he the young man in the American h
pital. In the next cot lay a you
oss German, overcome with amazemI
The that Americans had rescued him W
RS, their own wounded and had brouI
er- him to their own hospital, 81 though
re- said the wondering Hun, chat
Americans killed all their prisoner
In one place he found where Amt
cans had buried a German soldier
tween two of their own dead. Sim
Err crosses stood at the head of each
IN flowers lay in the same quantity u
ap- each grave.
the In sharp contradistinction to
ors, spirit of the Allies is the vindic'
FER hun malice, shooting old men, burn
ised their victims, m%utilating women.
lied same vindictive hate prompts then
lich teach their children this prayer. L"
The all Of them who for mercy impl
de- Shoot them down like dogs. Alw
the make enemies. This shall Away:
the our prayer, for this, our Vaterland
pots Victory will come, said DR.. Il
nor son, when America has her full fiji
one. ing force in France. "But," he ad
En- "the most that America can do
time never equal what the British and
ear, French have done" The French
the said, had the same fighting spirit
a they had at the Marine. Time vi
Eas- intensity this spirit. A general haC
sued orders to not let the Germ
49,. pass. The answer came back, ~
asses shall not passl" Though repeat
SUP the full force Of the German a
had been hurled against the Al
1lsH line logged British, fiery French
con dauntless American still grimly ST
laifs "They shall not passl" "And
: never WILL" said DIR. Hudson.
nails DR.. Hudson sees nothing but |
SGn, military defeat and economic d
case ter for Germany. "The only wa