Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-01-16
$50 Hun Officers to Be Indicted.
BY Newell Dwight HILLS.

The department of Justice in Belgium n France hav nw announced hat
they have drawn up indictment against5 so German officers n soldiers. with
.osEaths taken after the Germans had fled from the bloody scenes y mem
o s OF the alice conference are Il be asked to authorize te return Of hes
may be tred ~ established courts. defended by their attorneys; and if guilty.
pahshed Many Americans are asking upon what kind of testhnon the trial
ITO" one emf OF a blazing leaving their victims behind them. that the
rtFehch'B egians. British M Americans, coming from the out Immediately
no'osIaph the mutlated bodies called thu witnesses. prepared the affdavits
go" ru ue proofs. ana sent back to the department of justice he name so1t hse
HefMan o1lcersa md Sodiers. Little wonder that here areG Germans now feaSt-
ms m Berlin and Munich whose faces blanched when they read this noun
"e. ana "ho b day nd by night henceforth. will e pursued " fear
hesSeS sivns their testimony as to these crimes IN therefore 10 nt fully
understand the procedure tina will be adopted. Take. therefore, the w OF
eIoeVhler, and Generalkl auss as the German officer M in thought setu p the
masement seat In AuguI. 1914, Ge-beviler was a OWL of 3140 n
ennoren. with a few I'D men. IN the 2Gth of August the Germans were forced
1880 sa %" . "e morning or a late August day General KLAUS promptly insanea
nmsehH the house of the oil nayo He ordered his Officers to search the
20 ne mayors house n reported hat they found no weapons n no soldiers
save ne but hey had found 10 old men, in addition to the mayor apd the secre-
ooSAs ' 'e mayor. an or whom are living, Generals lauss commanded MS
c"oonel to inc up these 10 old men ad shoot them, AM hardly had thu Germans
na from the village that they la first looted INT then urned than Project
Ninnah and certain French officers dashed into the ruined W m photo
sraphed the bodies of those 13 old men as hey la upon he grass. Standing
Mpon that spot lawrence Chamberlain, the writer on finance, m Leo Dabc.
he artist myselfi listened to all these witnesses witt the photographs sin or
hands.
Most thrilling was he testimony of Sister Julie whose statement, with
those of her associates were clear, precise N damning to tn Germans. III
ne aiIoaVNs that these Witnesse signed found detailed teStmon as to ~
1oHowlngc I'm First. Sister Julie saw Eugene Perrin arrested, struck, out-
rageo, NTH lomngs oaked in Ill. burned alive Second a Red Cross am
oncer. Third. a young French grlw h vas helping Sister Julie al a Red Cross
nurse Nurse In her hospital was sot by n Germans. Fourth. h Germans took a
a,er the German had Ted. Fifth. they pinned the coolest IA of the village.
Monsieur arthelem to tn ground by thrusttnga bayonet through his right eye.
wuneni nave ever seer. wo vas an we witness to these crimes, some of which
%l DE ecount in detahb BY as nan a 20 witnesses IN say these murders.
ne names OF theseG German officers ire known, III .afddavts filed. Inc photo
sta L preserved m FOR the safety O. he world these criminals nus be aken
PACK TO TIT sene OF their ime n there trd an here execute There
nus not be me law for a murderous burglar n danotherla Lax for a murderous
sernan officer. Society will never pc safes so og as these murdgersg &
unhune!