The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-01-17

an evil disease to mark the women
whom he uses as play thing. The
method of marking is to slash her
across her breasts
81 turned away, sick with horror, at
the sight Of a pool OF blood, where
they told me, a woman had been PIN
ned down by her thighs with bayonets
and raped And this didn't happen
once, but thousands Of times" Child
rem are either killed or mutilated Sc
that when they have reached their
maturity they are powerless to per-
petuate the race. Even more than
that, their hands are often cut off, so
that they cannot even earn their own
livelihood.
Prisoners of war, returning through
neutral Switzerland, told of the treat
ment they had received. Besides be-
ing forced to work until they dropped,
besides being whipped until they were
raw, besides being starved into mad
ness, a favorite amusement was to
strip these men and crowd them blue
with cold and starving hungry and
take them through town after town.
Their coming was joyfully announced
with ringing church bells and shrek
Ing whistles, the signal for the town
to tLtn out for the wild animal show.
They were tainted, Knocked and spit
upon. Bread would be held close to
their eager hands and then snatched
away as they tried to take it. Tempt
ing mugs of coffee were held out to
them then taken away and passed
through the crowd while each specta-
tor "hawked and spit" in it. Then the
rotten stuff was thrust into, the hands
of the wretches. They had to drink
that poison, even the thought of
which nauseates us, or go without.
The German women were the beasts
these times. More than this the
prisoners are often mutilated In re-
ferring to this, DR., Perry added, "You
men cannot help but get my infer
ence."
DR.. Perry contrasted the different
ways in which the wounded were
treated in both armies. The wounded
German taken in by the Allies is given
as tender care as their own soldiers;
he spoke of the times he had visited
hospitals and seen the German in.
valids as carefully and tenderly nurs-
ed as the rest. But the German treat
ment of the wounded enemy; differ
ent matter. Men in the trenches told
him Of the horrible nights when the
Germans went out on their territory
and stabbed to death the men, who
with little care might have been
saved. The German government will
hardly clothe' or feed their prisoners
any more, depending on the Red
Cross to send supplies through.
Knowing perhaps that his audience
were unable to bear more he turned to
the subject of the Allies and told of all
the Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross and
the. K. C.'s were doing for them. He
spoke in particular of trainload of
I French soldiers who a short time ago
were being sent home after a long
time in the trenches. He described
them as dirty, hungry, cold and sick.
Their clothing was so thick with the
mud of the trenches that it work,
stand alone, their hair lad not been
cut Tor weeks some were almost raw
with Ice. Nothing but blackness in
the world. Thurs they were packed in
to cars and sent home. But now the
Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. are
there. Large stations are being built
all over the country, while the
Red Cross has taken over 1000 French
hospital and is building numberless
hospitals of her own. Fefore beginning
their journey home, those who are well
enough are taken to these stations,
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