Ripley County democrat., 1918-03-15
SHOWS GERMAN /
AS He REALLY IS.
Brutal Acts Of Hun Graphically
Described by Major Murphy
/! Of Red Cross.
BEAT BEAST Ar ALL COSTS
Must Build and Build and Sacrifice 70
Win the War--A War Of Nations
! In Which Every Man, Woman
Z and Child ls Factor.

New York.--One thousand seven
hundred men and women In the grand
ballroom Of one of the big hotels saw
the German as he really IL through
the eyes Of Maj. Grayson ii. ?. Muir
ply. Red Cross director In Europe.
Major Murphy arrived here recently,
after being In France for nearly ten
months, and he Is going back again.
He came to make a report to Henry 2.
Dawson, chairman of the Red Cross
war board.
Major Murphy said in part:
u want to ask you to consider for
a moment the fact that up to this
day Germany is entirely victorious
in this war; that any peace that is
made today Oh the basis of todays
conditions or on the basis Of the
status quo ante would be practically
a complete victory for Germany and
for the German idea. Germany has
lost nothing In this war except blood.
She has fought her war on the ter
ritory Of others. She has drawn from
the territory of others vast supplies
of materials and vast sums Of money.
She has had between forty and fifty
million people working for her for
practically no wage--really as slaves.
She has established her cursed hold
on Austria, on Turkey and on Bull
garia, and she has at her feet muir
dered Serbia and unfortunate Rou-
mania. ass
Hun stops at Nothing.
Exon don't know what these Ger.
man people are, I believe. e
II cannot hegln to describe to you
the horrible. brutal. beastly, consist
ent official things that Germany has
done. not In Isolated cases, but gen.
elally, to the women and children
AMI the poor old suffering people In
the countries where she has set her
dreadful foot. She has stopped at
nothing. British officers told me of
seeing their wounded piled in heaps
and hand grenades thrown In the
midst and exploded to kill them while
they lay there.
British officers have told me Of
the men being taken as prisoners
through Germany and German women
coming and offering them glass Of
water and splitting in It as they
handed 1t to them. ] came back
across the water with a prominent
British officer and statesman. He told
me OF friend of his, who lay wound
ed and suffering horribly In front Of
the German trenches. He lay there
for day and a half or two days, and
the Germans came out at night, stood
around him and scoffed at him and
hsicked him and made fun of him, and
then went away and left him. and
when some Of his own people went
out at the risk Of their lives and
brought him In before he died he told
them Of these things.
did you think that the men in
TINT British regiment would be will
ing to make hnlf peace with Ger
imanyf Do yeu think that the Cana
dians who went In the trenches and
found their officers crucified-whether
those men will make half peace with
Germany? ten you It is only a
short time before our boys who are
over there now are going to be suf-
fering those same things, and you
have got to understand It here, and
you have got to build and build and
sacrifice, no matter what II costs, to
beat that beast.
A War Of Nations
'aThIs war Is not war Of armies.
1T Is a war Of nations. There isn't
man, q woman or a child In Great
titain. In Belgium. In France or In
Italy that Is not a factor In this war.
/ tell you that. II you should go, as I
have gone, about those ruined dis
tricts in Trance and see the little
children, little bits OF tots, four and
five years old. driving in the herds
at night. seeing the little boys com
ing down the road--little bits Of tots
with their arms full Of faggots that
& they were accommodating against the
winter; old men and old women work
iug In the fields until It was so dark
that, as you looked. you could Just
make out those vague ghostIy forms
gathering in the crops for France.
Il have passed through those towns
and looked In the windows at night.
where you could see q little here and
there. aud they were always working,
working. working. to carry on this