Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-15
Geymany'S UnceaSmg Brutality.

The Huns effort to obtain an armistice in no
wise deters him from his usual brutalties. At the
moment Prince Max was bordering the American
response to his peace overtures, a German sub
marine was raining shrapnel upon the defenseless
lifeboats of the American steamer Ticonderoga
Detached from her convoy, the vessel had been
>gashed by a torpedo and sinking. As the crew
took to their boats the submarines guns were
turned full upon the frail craft, tearing most of
them to spnters. Men in one boat runs the
report of the ever-reable Associated Press, tried
TO pull away while hurricane of shells burst over
them, and over the struggling in the water.
One man swan to the U-boat, which was less than
a Quarter of a mile away, beseeching the German
lieutenant to stop. He was commanded to swim
away by the Lieutenant. who leveled revolver
at him" The tossing lifeboat was then ordered
alongside the submarine and tied to it by line.
a few moments later the German raider submerged,
intending, of course, to draw the lifeboat under;
and but for { fortunate breaking of the line, the
murderous trick would have succeeded. Such is
our treacherous enemys conduct while he pro-
fesses readiness to abide by the humane and just
principles which resiaent Wilson has laid down
as the basis of peace.
On land as at sea, German ruthlessness con-
tinues unsoftened while Berlin makes its bid for
a truce In their present retreat through Belgium
and northern France Hindenburg's butchers are
burning and plundering as barbarously ever.
Defeat seems merely to have heightened their
agery Again and again they are committing
crimes akin to that recorded in Lord Bryces I'M
Improbable report on the atrocities of the German
invasion:
sIn a little wood of Belgian saplings a
y short walk from Malines there is discoored
spot of ground, where house burned down.
This is what happened there: A German
patrol-six men and one offcer-with forty
civilian prisoners was marching by. The Off
Ger stopped, for Heaven knows what, perhaps
drink of water, and knocked at the door.
Nobody came. He ordered the men to break
in The peasant appeared and they shot him
at once for not coming quickly. Then, says
the Bryce Report page SD: The wife came
out with a little sucking child. She put the
child down and sprang at the Germans like
lioness. She cawed their faces This
great provocation, to be sure. Besides, forty
Belgian prisoners we're looking on. One sol
der killed the woman by tremendous blow
with the butt of his rifle her head. An
other transfxed the child with his bayonet and
held it up for the forty to see Its little arms,
reads the testimony, stretched out once
twice Straw was brought, the house was
fired the bodies were cast into the flames, and
the officer said: This is a lesson and example
to you. When German tells you to do some
thing you must do it quickly,
This is Prussianism. This is Germany. This is
the brutal Power that asks to forego the
victory that is assured if fight on, and to
enter into treacherous negotiations with the Pots
dam murderers. America and her allies could no
more afford to make terms short of an uncondi-
tional German surrender than courts of justice
could afford to parley with a red-handed criminal
whom they stood duty-bound to condemn.