The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-09-21
"IEST We FORGET"
Chaplain Favors Exterminat-
ing Foe.
Rev. G. A. Griffith Declares
Germany Should Be De-
wasted for Army's
Cruelties.
Wants Berlin Destroyed.
Officer of Fifth Field Artillery
Says All Our Soldiers
Share His View in
This Respect.
Wants Berlin Destroyed.

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regiment that fired Americas f1rsl
shot in the war, has written a let
ter to DIR. Henry Barton Jacobs, 9
prominent Baltimorean, which was
printed III full in the current issue
Of the Manufacturers Record, iu
which he discusses at length cru
elites Inflicted by the Germans
upon civilians and soldiers.
81 feel, he says, that ! express
the sentiment Of those who have
seen and heard over here, when
say that were in America today
priest as | am, | should do my
best to have put to death any
boche in America or any so called
American who would aEoI0gized
in any way for what the bOche has
done.
"All that you have heard in
America about them does not ap
prOximate the truth. There are
little children right here in France
with their little stumps Of hands;
there we're some not far from my
last camp, and young men with
all the fingers of their right hand
cut off. The other day a British
officer and three Tommies told me
that short time ago they went as
an advance party into a little vii
lage from which the boche had
been driven back, and IN u large
room there were four young Cana
dians crucitied, one on each wall
OF the room. Also, when | was
with the British they told me the
boches bad taken young Belgian
and French girls into the first line
trenches and tortured them until
their screams made the Scotch
and the Canadians so craztd they
would GO over into the machine
gun nests which the boche had
set mp, using the womeD's screams
as a decoy.
"And | have it on the word Of a
British officer that they have
stood (the officers) with guns lev
eled at their men to keep them
from going over when the women
SCI cam, and being needlessly
slaughtered. / cannot tell yon
what the Tommies told me they
found when they drove these hell
iends ouI of these positions; it is
too awful even to think about. /
also have it on the word Of one of
the greatest French Abbies that
the boche were specially instructed
to destroy coDvents-aDd kill or
outrage the nuns-and he says
that all through France and Bel
gan are ruined converts, aud that
the nuns we're given to the soldiers
to be outraged in the camps.
"These are not isolated cases
nor abnormal conditions which
prevail here aud there where
troops we're drunk or without 70
straint. Go along the French or
British front, and the only conclu.
sion you arrive at is that they are
just the ground principle Of b0che
efficiency in action. l don't be
lieve there is one of US here who
wouldn't like to be home. But
there Is not one of US here, be
lieve, who does not want to see
Bocheland devasted from one end
to the other, with Berlin black.
ened ruin-with the boche exter.
minated, militarisls and all, before
we come home.
FAvoRs ExTERMINATIoN.
"It is American blood that IL
flowing now, and God grant it may
give America some strength to re
alize what we are up against. To
talk of terms until the boche is
exterminated is to league with
Satan for corner in hell. Privs
tions, sacrifices! What can you do
at home to compare With what
these men of ours are doing over
herei Meatless days, wheatIess
days, sugarless days, good women
knitting, benefits for the Red
Cross--or all your social diver
sions with q charitable object
sand " wiched ID!
"W hen you are out on q ehell
swept bill and the shells are going
by like bats out of hell, as the sol
diers cay, and it's dark as the
grave, and every man, God bless
him! stands strong and true, ca.
mouflagiDg all bis own feelings for
your sake aud for the sake Of
what he has back home, mestless
days and wheatless days, and Lib
erty Bond campaigns seem cheap
as your support Of him in such an
hour.
"Loathe the boche-presch
against him work against him,
wherever he is, 0stracise him 30.
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