The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1918-08-30
THE BOCHE'S
SCARLET RECORD
What a Clergyman Learned of
| Their Outrages in Northern
| France

An American army chaplain in
France. George Alexander Griffiths,
writing to the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, says:
4 wonder If America will ever be
converted 10 such loathing of the
Boc-te that i will make the sacrifice
that France and England are making :?
= don't know whether they have
changed since left America, but there
certainty were lot OF 'pussyfooters'
then who would find some good point
n The Boche or who made a distinction
between the militarists and the peo-
Z pie. Ii is one Of the joys OF being
over here 10 be free from dependence
upon the reports OF commissioners con-
corning the vileness Of the Boche and
&C.: the facts first hand; and then when
"Cl get them. il you are a moral hum
an being, they scar your soul and your
r2-ig;on IS expanded TO the inclusion
}! = contempt and loathing for them
that Is beyond anything else you had
before. or else you lose your religion.
/ Fortunately mine has expanded and
am willing 10 add clause OF belief
n the extinction of the Boche and re-
gard it as orthodox and as necessary
e. M souls salvation as other great
truths OF our religion.
ha- ho.
7ress the Sentiment OF those who have
seen and heard over here when | say
that, were | in America today, priest
as am. | should do my best to have
put 70 death any Boche in America
~ any so-called American who would
apologize in any way for what the
be The has done. All that you have
hard in America. about them does
not approximate the truth. There are
/ little children right here in France
with their little stumps Of hands
here 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 went as an advance
party into q little village from which
in large room there were four young
Canadians crucified-one on each wall
| OF the room. Also. when l was with
the British, they told me they (the
Bcche) had been taking young Belgian
and French girls into their front line
trenches and tortured them until their
screams made the Scotch and the
Canadians SO crazed they would go
ovf- into the machine gun nests which
The Boche had set up, using the wo-
mems screams as decoy. And
; have it on the word Of a British Off
Ger that they have stood-the officers
With guns leyeled at their men to
keep them from going over when the
! women scream and being Immediately
slaughtered; and | cannot tell you
what the soldiers told me they found
when they drove the hell fiends out
OF one OF these positions; it is too
awful TO think about it. / also have
| IL on the word OF one of the greatest
French abbes that the Boche were
especially instructed to destroy con-
vents and Kill or outrage the nuns. and
he says that all through France and
Belgium are ruined covents and that
the nuns were given TO the soldiers
to be outraged in the camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor
abnormal conditions which prevailed
here and there where troops were
drunk or without any moral restraint
Go along the French and British front
and the only conclusion you arrive at
ID that they are just the ground prin-
ciple of Bcche efficiency in action.
To talk Of terms until the Boche