Arizona republican., 1918-04-25

children; comparing the photographs and the full official records made at the time with the statement of the poor, wretched survivors, who lived in cellars where once there had been beautiful houses, orchards, vineyards but now was only desolation.
 In Gerbevillier, standing beside their graves, studied the photograph cf the bodies Of fifteen old men whom the Germans lined up and shot because there were no young soldiers to kill; heard the detailed story of a woman whose son was first hung to a pear tree in the garden, and when the officer and soldier had left him and were busy set ting fire to the next house, she cut the rope, revived the strangled youth only To find the soldiers had returned, and while the officer poured petrol on the sons head and clothes, set fire to him, and while he staggered about, a fam ing torch. they Shrieked with laughter. When they had burned all the houses and rctreated, the next morning, the prefect Of Lorraine reached that Geth- semane and photographed the bodies of thirty aged men lying as they fell, the bodies ot women stripped and at last slain, In the next village stood the ruined square belfry into which the Germans had lifted machine guns, then forced every woman and child--275 in number--into the little church, and mo- tified the French soldiers that if they fired upon the machine guns, they would kill their own women and chil- dren. After several days hunger and thirst, at midnight, these brave women slipped a little boy through the church window, and bade their husbands fire upon the Germans in the belfry, saying they preferred death 10 the indignities they were suffering. And so these Frenchmen turned their guns, and in blowing that machine gun out of the belfry killed twenty of their own wives and children. In a hundred years Of history, where shall you find q record Of any other race, who called them selves civilized. who are such sneaking towards that they could not fight like men or play the game fairly, but in their chattering terror put women and little children before them as a shield ? Proof overwhelming. Here are, in brief, the records of more than a thous- and individual atrocities, that go with the original photographs, affidavits and documents resting in the archives of France against the day of reckoning. What is more important still, here are the letters taken from the bodies of dead German soldiers with their diaries. Out of the large number, note these: Photographs of the dead bodies or aged priests, some of whom were dead because they had been staked | down and usd as a lavatory until they perished. Dead girls, with breasts cut oft-and for this reason: Every Ger man soldier is examined for syphilis by the surgeon of the regiment and only the healthy ones receive the card giving access 10 the camp women. If the syphilitic German contaminates the camp women, his disease is handed OF to his brother soldier and that means he will be shot. This syphilitic soldier therefore, finds his onl~ chance witt the captured French girls, but having contaminated a girl, he fears that she In turn Will contaminate the next Ger. man soldier and, therefore, he mutilate. her body to warn away Germans. The girls life weighs nothing against { German soldiers lust or the possibilit, of the brute's handing his contamina. ton to. the next soldier. Here is Ger,
 man efficiency for you; and organized
 bv the devil himself.
 Pages From German Diaries
 Take these pages found in the diarie, or German soldiers, August 22nd. Not,
 book Of Private Max Thomas "Oul soldiers are so excited. we are like wilc
 beasts. Today, destroyed eight houses With their inmates. Bayonetted tw, men with their wives and a girl Q
 eighteen. The little one almost un nerved me, 50 innocent was her ex
 pression." Diary of Eitel finders: Fl
 Nendre all the inhabitants without ex
 cepton were brought out and sho,
 Ihis shooting was heartbreakinr a
 they all knelt down and prayed, 1t i
 real sport, yet 1t was really terrible f.
 watch" At Haecht saw the dead bod
 ot young girl nailed to the outsid
 ooor Of a cottage by her hands. Sh
 was about fourteen or sixteen year
 old? Page 21. Affidavits H-e7.
 In retreating from Malines eigh
 urunken soldiers were marchin
 through the street. A little child q
 two years came out and a soldier skew
 eieo the child on his bayonct, and car
 D. 10. 45.
 Withdrawing from Hofstade, in addi
 tion 10 other atrocities the German
 cut off both hands of 8 boy of sixteer At the inquest affidavits were take , from twenty-five witnesses. who sa,
 the boy before he died or just after
 wards. Passing through Haecht, in additio 10 the young women whom they vio lated and killed, affidavits were take
 ana the photographs of a child thre years old nailed to door by it's hand and feet. Affidavits D 1o0-S.
 mat all these atrocities were care tuiiy planned in advance for terroriz ms the people is proven by the fat tlat on the morning of August 25th. ii
 otilcefs Who had received great kind ness rom Madame Roomaps. a. nc tarys wife, warned her to make h, escape immediately, as the footing an Kuiing or all the citizens, men, wonae and children. was about to begin.
 n. Records Could be Multiplied
 Inese records could be multiplied r ' thousands. Upon the retreat from or :. Sity alone, lnquests were held upon il !, oodies or over six hundred victims ir ! cluulng very aged men and women. ar oaoes unoorn, removed by the bayon, : : rom their mothers. It is the logical r, 1. 1. suit or the charge of the kaiser to h army. Give no quarter and take r . prisoners Let all who fall into yo, :. nanus De at your mercy The eener
 i U, '"e herman army published
 manual several years before they b,
 san tnls var. They explicitly charg, : tneir soidlers to break the will of il n smsIly, oy cruelty, Witness this pa . nom the War Manual on page 55. :" o Har ls cononcted with energy mere against the combatants of the enen states and the positions they ocrrn ;, but 1t will and must in like mann " seeK to destroy the total intellectn ? ana material resources of the latter 1" r And witness this injunction to afro r llF; Pase S5. By sleeping himself
 military history, an officer will he ah
 10 guard himself against excessive h,
 naanitarianism. It win teacI, hin, n