The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-01
Shoot Them Down Like Mad
Dogs, the Only Way.
That Is What British Captain
Tells TOpekanS.
HE WAS ON THREE FRONTS
Abercrombie Says BOlshevistS
Are All PrO-German.
The Socialists Also Have Much
To Explain.

kill all the Huns. It is your duty.
They are mad. Kill the Huns in the
same spirit of duty that you kill
mad dog
! This is the spirit of the allied ar
mics now in action on the battle
fronts toward their barbaric and saw
age opponents, according to the tale
told this noon by Capt. Robert Aber
crombie, of the British Royal Flying
| Corps.
Captain Abercrombie also voiced the
sentiment already expressed in Topeka
or French soldier who has spoken
here. 1t is this, There will be no
end to this war until the allied armies
have carried the war to the very
will not dare to make peace without
| our consent We have been put in the
trenches and in the trenches we are
! going to stay until we are fully con-
WINGED that we have done away with
| any possibility of a come back. The
| boys who have been in the show and
are in the show are in it to stay, and
they will say what terms the peace
will be made on and when"
Was on Three Fronts.
The captain spoke of his personal
Experiences on three fronts the Marine.
|
Abercrombie traced the history of the
| Royal Flying corps from its very
baptism of fire in the first year of
this war to the high state of efficiency
| that it now displays. He told of some
| of his personal experiences in the
air, of how he and his observer had
two or three narrow escapes from cap
| ture by the Germans, and of the diff
| culties under which the royal flyers
operated in the first two years of the
struggle,
| Captain Abercrombie served his last
year on the Russian front. during the
downfall of the Romanoff, the dream
rule of Kerensky and the rise of the
| Bolshevists.
."Bolshevists are just plain Ger
MANS" declared Abercrombie, land
| if the American Socialists could just
go over to Russia they would soon take
a different view of their beliefs"
Send Bolshcvists Back.
when one sees the chaos and
devastation that the Bolshevists have
| made in Russia there would be no
more talk of Socialism in any civil
lied country. I hear that the Boil
| shevists have sent a delegation to
America for a conference with the
Socialists here. If the Socialists know
right from wrong they will send the
Bolshevists back without any confer
ence at all.
lists and Bolshevists and pro-Germans
are going to have considerable ex-
planning to do and l am not at all
sure that the explanations will be
heard for long. The boys over there
| in the trenches have had all the Boil
| shevism they want"
Captain Abercrombie told a small
circle of men of the atrocities commit
| ted by the Bolshevist party in Russia
and asserted that the women got the
same treatment from the Bolshevists
that the women received at the hands
| of the German brutes.
He said that a party of Bolshevists
raided a house in Petrograd during
the latter days of the Bolshevist revo-
luton and called for something to
| drink. He said that the house was
occupied by an aged man, his daugh-
| ger and two maid and one man ser
wants. All three of the women were
violated, he said. and their breasts
were cut off and they were left to
bleed to death. The aged man was
the only one of the party left alive.
Kill the Huns Only Way.
Abercrombie told how a party of
the Battalion of Death surrendered to
the German invaders, were stripped
| naked and carried into the German
lines, where they were repeatedly vio-
| lated until death came to their relief
The ones wi.o survived the ordeal
| were sent to Germany, still naked and
without a vestige of protection from
the vulgar stare of the populace
In closing Abercromhie said quietly
and without heat. THE best way out
of the show is to kill the Huns, to the
last man. 1t is the only way"
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