The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-06
Author of sMy Home on the
Field of Honor Denounces
Huns for Atrocities
i'm France.
OFFICERS WERE BARDARIANS
Even the Best of Them Committed Acts
Of Vandansn-They Desecrated Art
and Violated Women Germany
Must Pay.

AS vivid as moving pictures and
much more artistic, Madame Frances
Huard's lecture at the Kemper Hall
Gymnasium on Monday evening made
it perfectly clear to Kenoshans "why
Germany must pay'' a hundred and
twenty billion dollars to compensate
France and Belgium for the blighting
desolation left in the wake Of war
and Prussian barbarism.
Madame Huard, daughter Of the IA
nous actor, Francis Wilson and wife
of Baron Huard, one Of the two French
artists who invented camouflage, is
the author of one Of last year 8 best
sellers my Home on the Field Of
Honor
The distinguished noble woman s
lecture was characterized by the same
sincerity and simplicity which have
made her book favorite with three
nations, America, France and England.
It carried the story of her thrilling
experiences in the war zones and per-
suaded those who heard her that the
half Of Prussia s treachery and vandal-
ism has not as yet been told.
The Germans crimes and desecra-
tions were pitilessly presented by
Madame Huard. She showed pictures
Of her chateau--stThe Home on the
Field Of Honor before and after it's
occupation by German officers. The
contrast told it's own story--a convict
ing Indictment of Prussia on charges
of brutality and wanton dissertation.
"And this is only one of hundred
reasons, the baroness declared, why
Germany must pay unprecedented in
IDENTITIES to compensate the allies for
their unreasonable losses in art, in
dustry, and human life
When the Huns came surging into
France Baron Huard 3 chateau lay IN
the very path of the first wave Of in
vasion. It was seized by officers and
used as headquarters. All manner Of
atrocities were committed here. Beau
tiful paintings were slashed and cut
antique and rare old pieces, were cut
up and broken. The officers acted as
if they had been reared in stables and
treated the chateau accordingly, living
for nine days in their own filth.
Villagers escaped as best they could.
Madame Huard made a clever getaway
on an old horse that the Germans had
in some way forgotten to confiscate.
Returning to the chateau after the
Germans had evacuated it, she found
havoc. Jam and preserves which she
had put up during the summer for
wounded and sick soldiers, had been
dumped into the piano, the top Of
which was adorned with as many beer
and champagne bottles as it would
hold. When Madame Huard went TO
the village seeking women to help her
clean up, she found the full effect Of
German atrocities; she could find not
one woman well enough to assist her.
Immediately the chateau was turn
ed into hospital for wounded sol
diers. In 1914 Madame Huard pledg-
ed herself to raise 800 day for the
use of this improyised hospital, and
since that time she has been lecturing
tirelessly and raising money by sell
ing etchings for the fund.
The baroness was brought to Ke.
nosha in the interest Of her own char
tiles and also Of the Kemper Hall War
Orphan Fund which is supporting sew
eral fatherless children living some
where on "the field Of honor
Financially and artistically Madame
Huard 3 lecture was an unqualified
success, and its promoters are today
congratulating themselves on having
brought an ultra celebrity to Keno
sha.