Mexico Missouri message., 1918-07-04
HORROR OF HORRORS
THE HUN ATROCITIES.
bringing The War A Little Nearer
To Us--"A Young Nurse Who
Lived Near Mexico, NO." A
French Woman's Story.

City recently, which was referred to
as follows by the Kansas City
Journal:
Children Slaves OF Hun.
."In Northern France, 1000 towns
and $50 cities have been so complete
ly demolished that they have literally
vanished from the face of the EARTH"
she said. "The inhabitants have been
forced into hopeless slavery by hun
taskmasters. These poor villagers, af-
ter three years of forced labor in
Germany, are now sent back to
France. Over 100000 of these refu-
ges have been sent thru Switzerland,
after their bodies have been wrecked
by the Germans. One-tenth of the
horrible experiences have not been
told. Thousands of these people are
dying of tuberculosis, having on the
bodies the scars where German sur
geons have inoculated them with the
disease. They are worked without
proper food until the disease is in
its last stages, then, when death is
certain, they are sent back to France
to die, and perhaps spread death.
Thanks to the American Red
Cross, these cases are being handled
in concentration camps and infection
does not spread. In the ranks of
these returning are mutilated women
and girls of 13 and IA years, who
have been made the playthings of
huns, inoculated with horrible dis
eases, and sent home, never to smile
again, but die in agony.
For years France has borne this,
almost alone. Now the Americans are
there fighting shoulder to shoulder
with the French. We are so proud
of these splendid fellows who dig
in with one hand, fight with the 9TH
er, and smile all the time. Our boys
are cheered by their presence, and
together they will fight, and so long
as such men live, the Germans shall
not pass"
II will bring the war just little
nearer home to you tonight, she
said. Il have here letter from JEFF
ferson City, telling of young nurse
who lived near Mexico, Mo-, who
went to the front with the Red Cross
last year. She was missing for
long ime and could not be located.
Last week a cable was received at
her home, asking that someone meet
her at the New York landing. They
found her, but, oh. God. what did
they find. She had been a prisoner,
the plaything of German Officers,
and when she was about to become
a mother, they cut off her hands,
split her tongue, and sent her back
to France"
This is only one tale of horror
for you, but in France we have them
by the thousands. Such brutality
will not frighten the Americans out
of the war, but instead will place
hate in the heart that only Ger
man blood can wash ou. Your boys
will fight, and with each bayonet
thrust they will realize that they are
fighting for the honor of their moth
ers, wives, sisters and sweethearts,
and to avenge beastly, accursed act
ions that only a hun beast can toll
crate"
Several weeks ago the attention
of the Message was called to the
case referred to above by Madame
Guerin The facts told us are sub
stantially as given by the French
lecturer. A lady living in Indiana
whose sister resides in st. Louis,
saw two nurses, returned from Eu-
rope, who had undergone just such
indignities and mutilation. In the
statement as it reached his office,
a sister of the injured nurse lives
in this section of Missouri, not far
from Mexico, in adjoining county.
However, the case is SO distressing
that the family who has to bear
the grief and horror Of such an