Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-25
WORK OF GERMAN
CRIMINALS MAKES
BLOOD RUN COLD

I
inals; it would make your blood run
cold" says DR.. James H. Cory, we'll
known Atlanta physician, now a first
lieutenant in the medical corps in
France, writing to Carl +. Hutchinson
| and NJ. II. Abbott, of this city.
His letter, one of the most interesting
! yet published, is as follows:
! Dear Friends: When President Will
/ son arose in the senate of freedom and
! threw down the gauntlet TO Germany in
! one OF the greatest messages in the his
/ tory of the world, he said the day had
! come when America is privileged TO
| spend her blood and her might for the
/ principle that gave her birth and hap
pinCss, and the peace she has treasured!
/ we are going to lick this bunch OF
| German criminals if it takes all the
money and half the men we have to do
| it. They can't sink our ships and kill
our women and children and get away
! with it. l wish you could see what
have seen. 1t would make your blood
! run cold to think of it, I've seen little
girls fifteen and sixteen with German
/ babies. l have seen refugees who have
| lost everything in the world they had.
All this is the Huns criminal work.
! Thank God, we have them going the 9TH
/ er way now. They are on the run.
| THE medical work being done in our
| hospitals is marvellous, Men are liter
| ally snatched from death, and the
! MANNED are restored to motion and use.
! There is an explosive bullet that the
! Germans use contrary to the usages Of
!
| caused terrible jaw wounds! Where the
| bones are shortened, the men would or
| dinarily die, because he could not eat
| Now, we take piece of the mans rib,
| and make him a new jaw-bone, which is
| hinged on, skin grated on, and later
! teeth installed, and he is just as good as
new, and all the rest of his life he has
good joke on Adam, whose rib was
taken to make helpmeet who talked
| too much
How | wish the people at home could
ca lN1f hn a a vrYlnI Fb ffnNr IaNy
poured out for the Red Cross and Y. NJ
/ e. A. are actually doing. L wish they
| could see what it means in lives saved
| A base hospital is supposed to be out of
range of heavy guns, but the Germans
! have made point of firing on hospitals,
and seevral have been bombed. The Red
| Cross flag is no longer a protection.
When one of our hospitals was bombed
and several have been bombed. The Red
| aviator, who headed the bombing expe-
J dition was brought down and wounded
| by our guns, he was cared for. by the
| nurses that he tried to kill The Red
| Cross treats every one that needs treat
| ment. Every time they drop one bomb,
we are going to drop ten, and every time
they kill one Of our men, they will have
| five killed. Don't you think that is what
/ they need?
This can't last much longer. Some
of the lads that we capture are only
sixteen years old. They look like chill
dren. They can't hold out very much
| longer.
!
| tanks that we went after the Germans
! with. You wouldn't blame them for
| leaving everything, and going back
| thirty miles on hundred and twenty
| five mile front L guess you would run
! if YOU were to see one standing still.
! These tanks have already saved the
smashed iraS and defeated thousands CT
/ Germans They (the tanIs) crawl upon
! their bellies in way that would be ue-
dious to describe They go over the
rr.f, mil Z, 1a NJ iva
snail. They can so very fast-almost
as fast as a car, now. 1t comes to an
! obstacle, a low wall or heap OF bricks.
/ 1t sets to work to climb with it's SnOut.
| it's straining belly. It overhangs more
and more. and at last topples for
| ward. 1t sways upon the heap, and then
| goes plunging doWnwards, sticking OUT
| the weak cOunterpoiSe of It's wheeled
| tail. If it comes to q house. a tree
or wall, it rams against it so as to
! bring all it's weight to bear upon it
and then climbs over the debris.
after GU have seen these things,
| it is not hard to see HON we are going
to bring Germany to her knees Ger
home to her stronger and more dread,
full even than she made it.
Trampling the German towns and fields
with German blood. they run like rab-
bits when they see these tanks appear
ing. One of the German officers who
was captured, said he couldn't do any
tnlng with MS men WIcu IICy sec
these tanks, so he said, The only
thing for us to do is to give up" The
Germans didn't believe that the Amerl-
cans had more than hundred thou
cans drove them back thirty miles on
a forty-mile front, and one German,
who was captured, told me that it
looked like there were more than five
million Amerjc cans in that place.
Have you heard the one they tell
on the country boy from South Caro-
lima, who came over and wanted to flnd
his brother, who had enlisted with the
American army three months previous
to the time that he did? few days
after he landed in France. he began
looking for his brother so he went TO
the division commander and inquired,
rs my brother, John Smith, with this
diVision?, and the commander replied.
L have a hundred John Smiths in my
division And the boy said, My broth
err is Long John Smith, And the com
mander replied, 4 have fifty Long John
Smiths in my division And then ne
said to the commander, My brother.
Long John Smith, is red-headed.' So the
commander replied to him, i have
twelve red-headed Smiths in my dlYl-
sion So the boy thought he would
settle the matter by saying, But this
John Smith has lice and can't sleep
at nights, and the commander replied
You are further away no wthan evefi
because they all have lie and can
sleep at night
u want to tell you about my trip to
the front line. ] only stayed there LOT
a short while. I went up to relieve
man to 20 on leave for two weeks.
Every officer gets two weeks leave
after he has been in France for seven
months (For dates and towns l VIII
use the letter X, because We are not
permitted to give dates or places in the
zone of advanced. on the morning OF
+ together with a young officer and
two sergeants, was detailed to go for
ward and familarize myself with the
advance post and dressing station IN
front of Y. We arrived at a ruined
city at II o'clock and reported at our
main dressing station to the command
ing officer of the stretcher- bearers. In
this city we came under heavy shell
fire Before the war, this city contain
ed some 10000 inhabitants. When we
entered it. except for the troops in our
dressing station, it was scene of desc
lation 1 went through 1t number OF
times and only saw one building un-
damaged by explosives. During the
hours that we remained in this town
until twilight cams on-there was
very heavy Smelling. Most of the shells
PASSED over US, but il was a very eE-
ceIlent way to become acquainted with
shell fire Some OF the shells fell
within a few yeards of US, while we
were seated at our supper meal. The
disturbance made by the troops and by
the heavy artillery and by the motor
trucks was such that 1T was difficult
to be heard at the dinner table. The
dishes danced and ratified from the vi
bration.
I'm the long-drawn twilight we
started upon our tour to the real front,
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