The Tupelo journal., 1918-03-22
GIRLS WERE BRANDED
Horrible Brutality Inflicted By Ger
mans Upon Young Girls.

this war Each day some additional
phase of their fendishness is exhibited
And it spares no condition in life,
neither age nor SEX AS illustration
there is printed below a story from
the columns of the Pine Bluff Com
mercial, telling of the savagery to
which captured girls were compelled
to submit: Editor Pine Bluff Com
mercial:
am of the opinion that many OF
our best people are in doubt as to
the crimes being committed upon the
women of France and Belgium by
the German savages. You will find
inclosed a clipping from the Stars
and Stripes of Paris, France, which
was mailed to me by my niece, Miss
Henrietta Taylor, which | would ap-
preciate very much your publishing
I am positive that there is not man
who has red blood coursing through
his veins who will not decide after
reading this article that it is not
matter of blood or money with us.
This beast must be crushed for the
protection of those whom we have
been taught from childhood are just
a step below the Master, "our wo-
men," Yours truly,
A. W. Num-.
A new and startling story Of Ger
man atrocities is told by an Amerl-
can formerly in the service of the
British army, but now attending one
of the A. E. F. schools in preparation
for a commission in the American
army. 1t is in accordance with other
stories of the prostitution of woman
hood which the kaiser is forcing IN
order to repopulate the German en-
pire.
The rapid British advance at Cam
brai in November, when towns which
the Germans had occupied for three
wears were captured before the latter
could deport the civilian population
into Germany, as is their custom, dis
closed the latest effort of the Ger
man army. French women and girls
had been made the victims.
Among the refugees who passed
along the roads making their way
southwark farther into France after
we made our first big advance were
scores of women and girls, each mark
ed on her breast by cross IN red
paint" said the officer 'These were
disclosed when the refugees passed
in front Of our medical officers who
were inspecting them. All of them
were about to become mothers, ana
the French Interpreter who was as
sisting the medicos explained that the
cross indicated that German soldiers
were the fathers. The crosses had
been painted on them, the women ex-
planned, to show that their children
would belong to the German govern
ment.
This Iron Cross Red Hot.
cone of these unfortunates, ap-
parently not more than II years OF
age, had not only been painted, but
branded with hot iron so that she
would be marked for life with the sign
of the cross. She said that German
officer would be the father OF her
child. This officer, the girl said, had
been quartered in her parents home
and she had been forced to submit
to his desires.
"After her health became such
/ that he had no further use for her,
she said. he ordered her to act as his
personal servant, doing the menlal
work in his chamber 1t was not long
until she was unable to continue thus
and then, angered at her weakness,
! he ordered soldiers to scour the paint
from her breast and burn the cross
into her flesh. When this was done
she was forced to leave her home and
was taken to maternity hospital
which the army had established Tor
other girls and women of the town IN
the same condition.
An Eyewitness on "kultur.
81 myself saw the girl who had
been branded and the others who
had been painted like sheep and heard
their stories, as had been detailed
to supervise the return OF the refu-
gees. Thank God, America, by COM
4 ing into the war, will help to stamp
out this beastly 'kultur' from the
world and make it safe, clean place
to live in for your women folk and
mine-our mothers, our sweethearts,
our wives and our daughters. / have
a daughter just II years DID, con-
-cluded the American, firmly.
-W.S.S.-
E0P CAI.E-Rhode Island Red