The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-05-15
EMINENT LECTURER REC|TES
TALES OF HUN ATROCITIES
Horrors of War Brought Home by
Word and Picture to Large
Reno Audience

Those fortunate enough to be
present at the lecture given In Reno
last Friday on "The German Atroci-
ties" by DR.. Newell Dwight Hills,
according to Archdeacon Howe. will
not soon have faded from their mem
ories the Impressions of that occa-
sion.
The Rialto was crowded to the
doors and as the story brought first
hand by this eminent lecturer of the
fendish atrocities of the Germans,
was told in minute detail to the great
audience, men shuddered at the re-
cital and women sat apparently
stunned that such fiendish cruelties
could be perpetrated in this so-called
civilized age.
With the aid of excellent screen
illustrations. the lecturer enabled the
audience to visualize some of the
horrors devised by the maniacal Ger
man ruler, and of which the unfor-
tunate people of our sister nations
are victims.
One picture of dozen girls and
children represented six of these
children lying with their legs sever
ed and the remainder dead victims
of the lust of the German fiends and
with the marks OF their brutality
plainly evident
The speaker instaneed the case of
a visit to a meat market where sus-
pended at the side of beef for sale,
was French soldier hanging in a
most revolving manner.
He related an incident of one of
the high officers of the German army
lying paraly2ed in a hospital, and
pleading for a priest 10 whom he
whispered look under my pillow"
From beneath the pillow the priest
drew a token in the form of medal,
on one side Of which was stamped
what was intended to be the image
of the German God. sword in hand.
and on the reverse side the inscrip-
ton Strike TO Kill. no questions will
be asked at the day of Judgment
Even while receiving the last
rites of his church this soldier NUT
tered curses on the Kaiser.
For over two hours the lecturer
held the attention of the audience,
ricturing the tortures and cruelties
daily and patiently borne by Belgians
and French and which he said form
ed but a small part of the heilish
methods adoRted by the Germans to
break down the spirit of these brave
people.
To the British women he paid a
high tribute for their noble work
100000 of them in shifts of eight
hours working in the munition fac
tories and producing greater guam
titles of munitions than England did
prior to the war.
The spirit of the French people
the speaker said was embodied in the
reply of wounded French soldier
to the question of his return to the
front.
He said "for three years | have
been at the front, and | sleep In mud.
| bathe In blood. but my soul is with
the stars"
DIR. Hills also delivered an after
noon lecture for women only to an
audience of equal numbers with that
of the evening and the expression
was frequent that 1t was cause for
regret that II We're not possible for
these lectures to be heard in every
hamlet In the state.
Narrowing as we're his experience
es the speaker said that to the great
glory of France and Great Britain
these people would not permit him
to forget that there was God, and
their faith in ultimate victory reach
ed the sublime.