Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-21
CHAPLAIN WOULD
ExTERM|NATE FOE
Declares Germany Should Be
Devastated for crueIties
Perpetrated by Army.
WANTS BERLIN DESTROYED
"Loathe the Boehe, Preach Against
Him, Work Against Him, Wherever
He lie, ostracize Him Socially
and Commercially"

Baltimore. Md.-Rev. George A
Griffin. a Baltimore Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman serving al 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.
II feel" he says. that I express the
sentiment of those who have seen and
heard over here. when / say that were
| In America today. priest as I am. l
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America or any so-caAed
American who would apologize In any
way for what the Boche has done.
"An 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 of.
The other day a British officer and
three Tommies told me that q 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 cruciied, one on each wall
Of the room.
Torture Young Girls.
"Also. when I WINS 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 scream 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 I have 1t on the word Of q Brit
lsh officer that they have stood (the
oficers) with guns leveled at their men
to keep them from going over when tho
women scream. and being needlessly
slaughtered. / cannot tell you what
the Tommies told me they found when
they Dr. these hell-iends out of these
position. 1t Is too awful even to think
about. also have 1t on the word of
n 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 Belgt. a are ruined con
vents, and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged In camps.
"These are not isolated nor alb
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
iciency In action. I don't believe there
Is one of US here who wouldn't like
to be home. But there is not n Of Us
here. I believe. who does not want to
see Bocheland devastated from one end
to the other, with Berlin a blackened
ruin-with the Boche exterminated, mil.
itarists and all. before we come home.
Favors determination.
at is American blood that Is flowing
now. and God grant 1t may hive Amer
lea some strength to realize what we
rre up against. To talk Of terms until
the Boehe Is exterminnted Is 10 league
with Satan for a corner In hell. Prfvn'
lions. sacrifices, What can you do al
home to compare with whit these men
OF ours are doing owe here7 Meatlesi
days. wheatiess days. suzarless days