The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-14
KljNNlSH ATROCITIES
ARE STILL CONTINUED
Adult. STARBCARD TELLS OF
ElENOiSH ACTS OF GERMAN
SOLDiERY IN PREPARATION
FOR NEW WAR;

Chicago .-SuDstantiated evidence Of
terrible atrocities committed by tho
/ Huns was given here today by Adju-
tant Raymond Starboard of the Sal
walton Army who recently returned
from the front after being gassed.
The adjutant, who was one of the
early American Salvationist relief
workers to join the American EXpe-
dictionary forces in the battle zones.
said that before visiting the places
where many outrages had occurred he
did not believe that such practices
were general but that his opinion
was hurriedly changed BY the sights
he saw.
In their retreat from the Marine.
following the unsuccessful drive on
Paris, Adjutant Starboard said that
the Huns left living evidences Of
their brutality in the forms of the
mutilated women and children. He
retold stories he had gathered frs,
hand Of the wholesale poisoning Of
children in 1916. after holding
French women and children in alb
ject slavery for two years.
In prison camp. he said, he ques-
toned a German sergeant and asked
him why the Huns committed such
atrocities. At frs. he said. he was
loathe to talk. but after considerable
questioning said that they We're Or
dered by their officers TO murder, be-
cause, as the officer said another
war will be fought within the next
20 years and women and children
must be murdered TO deplete the pop
ulation SO that war may be won if
this one is lost
Il realized" Adjutant StarDoard
said. after seeing the things I saw
and hearing the stories told to me
that there can be no lasting peace
until the Hun is plotted out, and the
Stars and Stripes and the dags OF
the other allies are planted in Ber-
lin. That Is the reason why the Sal
vation Army. religious organiza-
ton, has taken such a determined
md definite stand In this war"
The adjutant told Of the capture
OF the first American soldiers by the
Huns. There were fourteen taken
out of patrol of twenty-six who
were ambushed and captured only af-
ter hard fight. The sergeant, who
led them, was wounded in a score
Of places but escaped capture, the
Huns believing him to be dead. 4
stTb;o cor0oopfo roiH al
Starboard, afterwards told me how al
German soldier ground his foot in that
pit of his stomach and left him forI
dead and how three American boysI
were beheaded Immediately after cap-l
ture. He also told me how anotherI
had been found on the next day with
his head crushed
The story came back TO the conf
rades of the American boys anil
coupled with it was another sayingI
that FIVE OF the prisoners had beenl
burned to death by liquid fire SLOWLY
poured upon them. Members OF theI
Eighteenth Infantry, which was theI
regiment to whom they belonged.
sWore vengeance and their time came
early N March in the Toul sector.
A general artillery engagement had
begun and was still in progress when
some American soldiers came in,
covered with mud and matted with
blood, but happy at the success OF
their trip over the top" They had
killed every German in the opposing
trenches
Adjutant Starboard told Of the oy.
erseas WoGE Of the Salvation Army,
declaring that within two weeks after
Great Britain entered the war the
Salvation Army had established huta
at the front in Belgium and have
si1oo continuously been in the fight
ing lines.