The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-03-07
GERMANS EXCUSE
 ATR0C|0US ACTS
Murder, Pillage and Arson Part of Deliberate Scheme of
 Warfare.
HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD
No Possible Evasion of Responsibility for Bestial Acts Which for Centu- ries Have Had No Parallel
 Officially Indorsed

The people Of the Gnited States are beginning 10 iears the truth con cerhiag the conduct of the War Jy Germany. Proof Is offered thai Ger man oficiaLs deliberately lied in Meir statements concpraing atroci- lies committed by the Belgians and allies. TAat Meir own soldiers mere disqusted bg the crueltitS practiced dt the order of higA officers of the kaiser is Shown. Ertydcts taken from fsamphleiS issued folloW:
 The Vos'wnerrs of Berlin. October 9. i i9l4. said
 I've have already been able to eS- tabliSh thc falsencss of il great number Of assertions which have been made with great precision and published i everywhere in t3ae press. concerning all legged crieltes committed. by tie popu- lationS of the countries with which Germany is at war. upon German sol diers and civilians. We are now in po- sSitiOn Ia silence two others Of these fantastic stories
 The war correspusiiesit af the Der r liner Tagp,j;ift Sl:n::e q frX weeks ago of cigars ansi ri g;lfetTes filled wi !h powder alleged t,, aayc heeii given out or sold to ouf soldiers NlSi .,iii)uliCaI |. iiateilt. lie cveii i,felel4dtsI tlitt he had sen Will. his ,3Hls cS'Ssi isur!drtUs ot tilS kind of cigarettes. Sfe listlSsl frOln ..1l aulhc;itic 9~s2rr,A ti4at t3SiS story ot cigars and cigarettes i- ieil1iI.s ijut Il braZcn iRycGtian. s't,.ics e,f ~el'iiCrs whose eyes are alleged Jo isaye been torn out hy franc~-tire9r. ng>e eifcli;tt- rtl throughout Germany. Not Il single case of' this kind has bee4s officially .es- iahli>hetl.
 "ft matters little that reports of this nature bear an appearance of positive certitude, or are even roi!cht3 for by eyc-WitneSSes. The desire for nutoriety, thc ahseRce of criticism. and personal error play an unfortunate part in tlie days in which We are living. Every nose shot off or simply bound up. every eye removed. is immediately transformed into a nose or eye torn away by the frnncs-tireurs. Already the VolksZeitung of Cologne has been able. contrary to the very categorical asser- tinnS from AiX-la-Chnppile. to prove shat there was no soldier with his eyes torn out in the field ambulance of this town. Ii was Sni1. also. that people wounded in this way were under treat ment in the neighhorhood of Berlin. but whenever inquiries have been made in regard to these reports. their abSo. lute falsity has been demonstrated. At length these reports were concentrated ;it Cross Lichterfclhp. X newspaper published at noon and widely circIi- lated in Berlin printed few days ago In large type the news that at the LazarettO of Lichterfclde alone there were ten German soldiers. only slight iy wounded. whose eyes had been wick edly torn out But to Il vnquest for information by Comrade Liehknocht the following written reply was sent by the chief medical officer of the aforementioned field hospital. dated the eighteenth of the month:
 "'Sir: Happily thcre is no truth whatever in these stories.
 Yours ohetliCntly