The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-09-06
CHAPLAIN WOULD
ExTERMINATE FOE
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for CrueItieS
Perpetrated by Army.
WANTS BERLIN DESTROYED
"Loathe the Boche, Preach Against
Him, Work Against Him, Wherever
He is, ostracize Him Socially
and Commercially"

Baltimore, NId.-Rev George A.
Griffin, Baltimore Protestant Episco-
/ pal clergyman serving as chaplain
with the Fifth field artillery, the regi-
ment that fired Americas first shot in
| the war has written a letter to DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs, a prominent Bal
timOrean, which was printed in full in
the current issue Of the Manufacturers
Record in which he discusses at length
cruelties inflicted by the Germans upon
civilians and soldiers.
81 feel" he says, that express the
sentiment of those who have seen and
heard over here, when l say that were
| in America today, priest as l am, /
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America or any sO-caHed
American who would apologize in any
way for what the Boche has done.
"All that you have heard in America
about them does not approximate the
truth. There are little children right
here in France with their little stumps
of hands there were some not far from
my last camp, and young men with all
the fingers Of their right hand cut off.
The other day a British officer and
three TOmmies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into a little village from which
the Boche had been driven back, and in
a large room there were four young
Canadians crucified, one on each wall
of the room.
Torture Young Girls.
"Also, when l was with the British
they told me the Boches had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the
Scotch and the Canadians so crazed
they would go over into the machine
gun nests which the Boche had set up,
using the wOmen'S screams as a decoy. |
"And have it on the word of Brit |
Ash officer that they have stood (the !
officers) with guns leveled at their men =,
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly |
slaughtered. | cannot tell you what !
the TOmmies told me they found when |
they drove these hell-fends out of these |
positions; it is too awful even to think
about. l also have it on the word of |
one Of the greatest French abbes that
the BOche were especially instructed to
destroy convents-and kill or outrage
the nuns-and he says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents, and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged in camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor abb
normal conditions which prevail here
and there where troops were drunk or
without restraint. Go along the French
or British front, and the only conclu-
sion you arrive at is that they are
just the ground principle Of Boche eff
ficiency in action. don't believe there
Is one of us here who wouldn't like
to be home. But there is not one of us
here, believe, who does not want to
see Bocheland devastated from one end
to the other, with Berlin a blackened
the BOche exterminated, mil
itarlsts and all, before we come home.
FaVors determination.
ut is American blood that is flowing
now, and God grant 1t may give Amer
lea some strength to realize what we
ire up against To talk of terms until
he Boche is exterminated is to league