The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-02-14

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The little graveyard in which the church stanos pears e
mute testimony horrors of the event There are
reds of graves each with its small cross ana It's
of flowers; the closely hudded that tnere -
anv room to walk between them The crosses are
alike and all bear the sinister date OF August
3d. 1914
but whether their hands cut off or not whether thy
impaed bayonets not children were shoS uo", ~
military ORDER in cold blood In the awful CRIME Oh the oc
Bayard there overlooking the Meuse below Dnan dill
in their mothers shot down without Helcy
deed never surpassed cruelty by band OF savage is oe
scribed by the bishop of Namur himself: -
Zone surpasses horror all others is the fusade
the Rocher Bayard Dnant appears TO nave oee
ordered by Colonel Meister This fusade made many Vct
among nearby parishes especially those OF DIES Rvages ana
Nee 1t caused the death of nearly 30 persons wthou Jus
tincton of age Among the victims were papes III a
boys and girls fathers and mothers of families even ola men,
at there that IL children under the age OF persned
from the of the executoners of them they lay IN their
mothers
''The child Fievet, weeks old.
Maurice Betemps, IL months old
'Nely Pollet, 18 months old.
"Gilda Genon, II months old.
! "Gilda Marchot, years old.
i "Clara Struvay, years and months
The pile of bodies comprised also many children from 10
IA years Eight large families have entirely disappeared Four
have survivor Those have escaped DEATH and
of whom rdded with bullets were Obliged 10 ou
in summary and hastily fashion their fathers, mothers
brothers. sisters then after having been relieved OF their
money being placed in chains they sent to Casse
i (Prussia)."
Mr. Hugh Gibson the secretary of our legation in Belgium
visited ouvan during systematic routing out OF from
cellars and garre wholesale shoong the generous use OF
guns and the free application of the TORCH the whole
enough to make red And for our guidance
was impressed that this would make people respect
Germany and think twice about resisting her
pastors and professors far from the excitement OF
the firing have defended this policy of rghtfulness,
D Pastor Defends Frghtfulness
We only compelled accept the that is forced
upon us but compelled to carry this wal
with ruthessness employment at imaginable device
unknown in any other war" Pastor D. Baumgarten,
Deutsche Reden in schwerer zeit German Speeches IN D
{, cult Days"
he that Belgium has called down herself is hare
for the individual but not too hard for this political structure
Staatsgebde for desnes of the immortal great nation
high that they cannot but have the right in case
need stride exstences that cannot defend themselves
but ve parasites the rvaes OF the great Pro1
lie H. Oncken in Suddeutsche Monatsheft, "South German
is Monthly"
Would they dared defend such policy if they cou
have the sent out by the parish OF
e. Hadelin with its silent eoquence?
This invitation to the service memory OF 90 men an
al from parish of whom all but two killed by tn
Germans in the of August and g. 1914 The cosn
OF sentences
IN Pray to God for the Repose of their Souls
es Gentle Heart of Mary, be my refuge.
Mt Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for
an st. Joseph, patron of Belgium pray for
an st. Haden, patron of the parish pray for
st. Barbe patroness of kindly death, pray for
After reading such CHASTITY accounts of them write
by German eyewitnesses, and knowing that similar tale
published widely in the German newspapers is diff
a cult to read with patience such words as these
The German army lin which of course include the Navy
r is to-day the greatest institute for moral education in tt
rt world
Is 'The German soldiers alone thoroughly discipline
and have much hurt hair of single nnoce
ed human being" Houstan Stewart Chamberlain, in Kre
n saufsatze "War Essays 1914
ne everywhere how soldiers respect the
ar defenceessnes of woman and child" Prof g. Rothe
to Deutsche Reden in Schwerer Zet German Speeches
Difficult Days'