The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-01-13
.ST0RIFs OF GERMAN BRUTALITY
MT EXAGGERATED, SAYS BUND

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. IL No
story that has been told OF inc oeu'a''''
and. bestjality IF the German ONE.
md soldiers has been eHaGGeralco' II l.
hevond the human imagination 20 No.
,reratc the Hun in this war Inc ''o''
hos nrobably never been told. loASt"HS
NOT in print, for it Is unpr'ntaols.
danger is that civilians may not DC "u''
to believc-I grant you II - "o 49,"
airficu,t for them--and that sentiment
III 49,, IN Allied countries that Will
o,ru ror a peace for the Germans short
az ~, exact Justice that their indescTlo-
.h1o and uns7nnkable. crimes merit
60 smoke Major John G. Bond. former
.airt,nt general Of West NirEinis- VINO
has hut RECENTLY returned from nine
month. service with tho army IN france
! Hc .toppcd In Washington for uay 10
,,ie;t friends on the West Virginia con-
occasional delegation and at IN" war az
na-mcnt He especially wanted TO
; tb,nk his friend General Harris for OK
. ,r, uio11 urQ SuJ2LEuoS1p hlSnollp'a
| army. Major Bond landed IN New ORR
! Sunday tho fifth. applied Tor ms ofS,
charge by phone, and (having persona, la
! friend. high In thc Afntont t'"n"Tal
| depa rtrcnt. secured his d'S'harEN ~
! once. Com parativcly few returning OF =
ilcers and even fewer private so'u'erS'
! have been 50 fortunate
! Major Rond was shipped home AS a
"o,en,l" un had boon gassed several
times he said. but non" Of them SERIOUS
I1oucver Il helped some In enabling hin1
! m bc detached from his command abroad
| md secure leave TO come homo. ms mlI-
;,,rv experience and friends mad" ut th'
| Var Department when he was s"TFlhI
nc adtutant general Of West virginia
was what enabled him {" get homo hnH
out Of tho army in record nr"hhlhS
hrevity Of time"
| Af1cr -nrcc months training att"'
landing abroad. Major Fond was sent 10
- tho front. II" went abroad with 'h'
I FIRST division. but most "f his service
,ros With the Thirty-ffth. as hrigad'
odiutant TIr was n; s.. Mihi"l. in th'
Arronnc in tho Anicns sector and "'h"
ir,oortsnt onEaenmcntS. The ArEnnn
c,mn,izn was the scv"r"St he says
.r,rcrv nearly all the officers 7 know. as
eor,atod and chumn"d with w"r" o;th"
killed or wounded" said Major E"n6
was in luck all IN" time. "Tc"ntinE "h"'
II %, e-nsscd rlther NOR" seriously ihai
TIE preceding tuo times but compare
lively it was nothing.
ct saw little Of any west virgins
friends after / landrd IN eTh'f'"' Wv
in Paris on a vacation ! mot two officer
from the home state W" had hapn
reunion. Ny comrades n the front w"r
,nnstly from Kansas and Missouri. I'm
. Of them was Capt. Horny Alien who wa
: elected governor Of kansas by ire
Ircudous majority. wh'l" "n IN" BATH
front. The clcctornt" Cf shat stat" 'nal
No nisakc. HI is n fin" follow. ard VI
mako ro ID rs chief Nccu'i"" n h" d.
as soldier.
, "Clad 70 got hack home" Fit" mos
Welcome sigh. oyer SAW in my lif" {
oyer oxrrrt 70 $"C. W:lS III" 'i"Gh"S
I Liberty coming toward m" out "f tn
- mist and for her appraised har" dr"rF'
T IN an anglo as r I" grasp th'' hanh
u ~vrr expect II 500. was ih' ''""h'SS
I hcr IN maternal wclr"r'n.
n SOM. declared that ih,$ mirarl" Ao''
any took place Wha; with III" fnG M
= n. mist over The harh'r and IN our "f'
: and our hcnrts-wcll it may hav" hal
p~n~d-I would not want To arE'
a-ninst tn"er Of my comrades VINO Al
| 50 certain aha; il did occur.