Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-12-05

Perhaps the greatest martyr of hui
MAJ savagery was the little nation
of Armenia. Atrocities of such hi
deous brutality We're perpetrated ay
Turks that one Is tempted TO dis
count them, We're not proof over
whelmingly indictive. Allied accounts
of violence fade into insignificance
before those OF sabre attacks on
pregnant women, dismembering of
infants, unparalleled defioration of
virgins. The following are reported
by Lord Jams Bryce. former ambas-
sador 10 the United States, in the
British blue book of 1915.
Things which we find scarcely
credible excite little surprise in Tur-
key. Not a few of the Armenian wo-
men We're stripped naked and made
10 travel beneath the burning sun
of desert. -Four thousand in Trebi-
zond were taken out on the Black
sea. thrown overheard and drowned
Others. securely tied, were rolled
down cliffs at the bottom of which
they were slashed TO death. A Turk
was seer TO tear the child out OF its
mothers womb and hurl il against
the wall"
Thus were massacred 1,100,O 600 in
nocent members of a nation which
adopted Christianity in 1863 a.d. II is
the toll of modern war.
The greatest concern of a general
is the morale of his troops, which
means nothing more than the task
Of maintaing at boiling pitch their
noScinn m CLAW met thnfora tbA ari.
teal second battle of he Marine. for
example, General Gouraud thus ad
dressed French and American sol
diers.
THE bombardment will be terri
BILE. The attack in a cloud of dust
and gas will be fierce. You will en-
dure ii without weakness. None will
give way. Every man will have but
one thought-"Kill them. Kill them
in abundance, until they have had
enough. Therefore your general tells
you it will be a glorious day"
1t was a glorious day. Effects of
the eyhortation are seen in a report
by a German soldier.
Never have l seen so many dead,
nor so many frightful sights in bat
tie. The Americans had completely
shot us to pieces. This foe showed
a bestial brutality. More than SOC OF
our troops fell. The Americans Kill
everything became the cry of hor-
ror."
Greater savagery and a greater
lust to murder were the decisive fac
tors. Allied barbarism, il you please,
won the second Marine fracas.
Each mothers son died an indi-
vidual death. Each twas punctured
and tortured singly; each shriekad,
moaned, gasped and individually
stiffened on hat foreign soil. While
torment was personal. massacre vas
wholesale. Multiply $4,000 the av-
erage toll in a major offensive-by
one hundred and you get al idea OF
he violent death of S,543,515 vigor-
Gus males. That figure does not in
clude 81 PIG, ASP painfully wounded
234, 900 of them from homes in the
United States.
One stunt was the use of dumdums
that exploded when they hit a bone,
soundly mangling a wide radius. An
other was the use of i%ncendiary hLl-
lets that reduced you TO a charre1
hulk in short order. A third was the
spray of liquid fire during close
lighting. 1t had such terrific potency
that large quantities reduced war
tanks to red heat, roundly roasting
its occupants.
1t is difficult to conceive how war
may be regarded a glorious adven-
ture.
If a machine gun riddles you in
the heart, you might tailspin once
and die 'mercifully." But it shoots
500 rounds each minute. In the drive
of ST. Mihiel it drilled a soldier
straight across the stomach, and let
him live just long enough to learn
what the glory of war felt like. An
other soldier was ripped in the groin.
They saved his life but what a fine
mess he brought back to the girl he
had promised to marry and love.
War Eunuchs
1t is not known to the layman that
numerous instances of e~masculation
resulted from the holy war" Excl
sion of g%angrened organs was fire.
quent. Countless returned home as
war eunuchs. In the book by Carl
Agiotto, the following passage is rep
resentative:
Kurt, I'm ready for you, and I've
even warmed the bed
kurt fell on his knees and sobbed
~inarticulately: 4 can no longer come
to you for | am not a man any long
er. me enemy a bomb"
How many other homes did DOW
der from gun barrel wreck totally?
Why did the crafty goad the unsus-
pecting within range Of the diaboli-
cal instruments that dealt a long.
lingering death?
Nor does the average man know
hat soldiers p%urposely wounded
themselves. Others borrowed and
bought gonorrheal hux from dis.
eased soldiers and infected them
selves in order to be sent TO yene-
real hospitals of rest.
Sexually starved men did not find
1t impossible to cohabi with harlots
who had served many hundreds. Vio-
lent epidemics of venereal diseases
We're the result. In Warsaw EST of
U prostitutes were venereal. Ten
thousand untreated cases filled the