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RICHLAND, ORE.. THURSDAY. JAN. 17. 1918. Vol. fi. No. 10.
URGED TO SLAY
AND SPARE NOT
German Soldiers Incited to Acts
of Cruelty by General Von
Bissing.
'EMANATION OF HIGH KULTUR'i
The horrors deliberately and sys
tematically inflicted upon the peoplt
of Belgium by the German soldiers
under the orders of their command
ing officers, are shown in ail their
hideousness by official documents
find the testimony of eye-witnesses,
as well as by letters written by Ger
man soldiers in the field. The bra
zen effort of Emperor William to
cast the odium of the fearful deeds
on the Belgians is also shown. Quo
tations given are from documents
already made public or in the pos
ression of the government at Wash
ington. This interview was reproduced In
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local application, at ihvy cam.ut reach
bo ilm-aaod portion ot the nr. Trere li
only one way to euro -caturrnnl Joiifnm.
nnj t.ut I by a conitltutlonnt rimrily.
Catarrhal Deafncis la cauird by an In
flamrd condition ot Hie mucous Unlnc of
the Kuitachlan Tube Whvn tl.la tuuo la
Inllnmid )-ou havo a rumbllne lound or lm.
pcri.ct hearing, nnd when It Ij entirety
tk'tJ. Lvafnt la the mull Inlets the
Inflammation can be reduced nnd thla tube
restored to Ita normal condition. Ii.nrlnc
will be destroyed forever. M-tny catea of
afnuo are caused by catarrh, which Is
an tntlamed condition of the mucoua fur
facet Half Catarrh Medicine act thru
the blood on the mucous aurfacra of tho
tyttem
We will Blv Ono Hundred Dollars for
any caae of Catarrhal Dtarnm that cannot
l cured by Hall Catarrh Medicine. Cir
culars free. All lmii:lt. "Ze
F. J. CHENEY At CO.. Toledo. O.
Kxtrnet from a letter written by n
(lerman soldier to his lirotlior. (ThU
Jotter, now In Up. possession of the
I'nlted Ktutcs.governiucnt. was obtain- '
oil for this pnmplilet from Sir. J. ,0.
(row, formerly secretary to (lie United
States emhassy ut Berlin,)
"November I, 1011.
"jriie battles nre everywhere ex
tremely tenacious nnd liloody, Tlie
lingllslunen e hate most nml wo want
to set even wt)i then- for onee. While
one now nnd then neon I'rctieh prison
ers, one hnnlly ever beholds rreneh
ldnek troops or Kiinllshtncu. These
...... . . t
the Berliner Tageblutt of November
XI 1014.
Mr. T. C. Walcott of the Belgian re
lief commission tells In the Olograph
ical Magazine for May. 1917, of meet
In Gen von nernhardi :
"As I walked out. Gen. von Bern
hardl came Into the room, an expert
artilleryman, a professor In one of
their war colleges. I met him the
next morning, and lie asked me If I
had read his book, 'Germany in the
Next War.'
"I Mild I had. He said: 'Do you
know, my friends nearly ran me out
of the country for that?' They said,
'You have let the cat out of the bag.
' I said, 'No, I have not, because nobody
will believe It.' ' What did you think
of it?'
"1 said, 'General, I did not believe a
word of it when I read It, but I now
feel that you did not tell the whole
truth;' find the old general looked
actually pleased."
Speaking on August 20, 1011, at
Munster, of tho extreme measures
which the German felt obliged to take
against the civil population' of Bel
gium, Gen. von Hissing said:
"The innocent must suffer with the
guilty. ... In the repression of
infamy, human lives cannot lie spared,
and if isolated houses, flourishing vil
lages, and even entire towns are anni
hilated, that Is assuredly regrettable,
but it must not excite Ill-timed senti
mentality. All this must not in our
eyes weigh as much as the life of a
single one of our brave soldiers the
rigorous accomplishment of duty Is the
emanation of a high kultur, and In
that, the population of the enemy
countries can leurn a lesson from our
rmy."
Officers Encouraged Atrocities.
Gen. von Hissing, after his appoint
ment as governor general of Belgium,
repented in substance the above opin
ion to n Dutch Journalist. The Inter
ylev, Is published In the Dusseldorfer
AnzciKer of December 8, 1914.
Irvin S, Cobb states his conclusions
on the responslbllhy of the higher Ger
man command for the atrocities:
"But I was nn eyewltnesi to crimes
jrWclli measured by tho stondurda of
t, niiM.i'y rmtl eivlllz.-iti-in, Iii'-:i -ted
tile as ,orse than any individual ex
ess, nny individual outrage, could
ever have been or can ever lie : be
cause thest crimes Indubitably were
instigated on a wholesale basis by or
der of ollicvrs of rank, and must have
be. n carried out under their personal
supervision, direction, and approval.
"Taking the physical evidence offer
d before our own eyes, and buttrc.ss
ing It with the statements made to us,
not only by natives, but German sol
diers and German olllcers, we could
reach but one conclusion, which was
that here, in such and sueli a place,
those la command had said to the
troops; 'Simre this town and these
people.' And there they had said
'Waste tills town ami shoot these peo-
j pie." And here the troops had dixcrlin-
inately span 1. and them they had In
discriminately waMcd. in exact nc
coi dance wit!, the word of their supe
riors." Irvin Cobb, Speaking of Prus
sians, New York, III IT. pp. .'Ili-Ill.
Hoodwinked German People.
These bb-jis, then, were systemat
enily impressed up iii the military and
official chi.-Ms, It was necessary,
however, to work upon the minds of
file German people, so that they might
lend themselves to the inhuman poli
cies advocated by the military leaders.
To do this was difficult, for. as has
been shown often, many of the clvil
'nn leaders of public opinion, time and
again, oxpnved their horror of the
new spirit whlrh was animating the
nilltnry authorities. The relchstag
lebatos give amr.de evidence of Ibis,
iiid the task of the military leaders
vould have been still more difficult if
,be rcirliMng bad any real power.
(See War Information Series No. .1.
Tho Government of Germany;" see
ilso Gerard's ".My Four Years in Ger
nany," chapter 2.)
The military authorities and thosi
n sympathy with them have done aH
In their power to stimulate a hatred of
other peoples in t lie minds of the Ger
nans. A catup: ign of education be
fore the war was carried on with the
object of impressing upon the minds
of the Germans the treacherous nature
of the peoples against whom the mill-
tnry lenders were anxious to wage
war. Not only were the Germara grad
ually led (o believe that It was neces
sary to light a defensive war ngalnst
unscrupulous foes, but also that these
foes would violate every precept of hu
manity, nnd consequently must be
crushed without mercy ns a measure
of self-defense, The fruits of this
campnlgn of suspicion and hatred be
came evident when almost nt the out
break of the war many Germans be
came possessed with the belief that
the whole population of Belgium, the
first country to be Invaded, had vio
lated every rule of honorable warfare,
that the froncs-tlreurs (gucrrillns)
were everywhere present doing their
deadly work In secrecy or under the
cover of darkness; thnt women and
even children were mutilating nnd kill
ing, tljo' wounded orf helpjess prisoners,
.These
pood people are not overlooked by our
Infantrymen! that sort of people-In
mowed down without mercy. The
losses of the Kiigllshuicn must bo enor
mous. There Is a desire to wipe them
out, root and nil,"
Urrjed to Kill Without Pity.
Kitract from another letter to p
brother:
Slhleswlg, as. S 1 (Aug. 2S, 11IM).
"Dear Brother,' . . . Yon will
shortly go to Brussels with your regl
pent, as you know. Take care to pro
tect yourself against these civilian,
especially In the villages. Do not let
anyone co.ae too near. They are very
clever, cunning, fellows, these Bel
gians; even the women ami children
lire armed and tire their guns. Never
go Inside a house, especially alone.
If ou take uuytlilng to drink make
the Inhabitants drink tlrst.uud keep nt
a distance from them. The newspn
pers relate numerous eases In which
they huve lired on our soldiers whilst
they were drinking. You soldiers must
spread around so much fear of your
selves that no civilian will venttin:
to come near you. Ketimln always In
the company of others. I hope that
you have read tho newspapers and thht
you know how to behave. Above all
have no compassion for these cut
throats. Make for them without pity
with the butt-end of your rllle and the
bayonet. . . .
"Your brother. WILLI.
The emperor gave his sanction to
the reports of the hiatal acts of the
Belgians In a telegram to President
Wilson.
"Berlin, via Copenhagen. Sept. 7, 10 M
"'1 feel It my duty, Mr. President,
to inform you as the most prominent
representative of principles of human
Ity, that after hiking the French fort
ress of I.ongwy, my troops discovered
there thousands of dumdum cartridges
made by speelul government machlii
cry. The same kind of aiiiuiuultlnn
was found on killed and wounded
troops and prisoners, also on the Hr't
sb troops. You know what terrible
wounds nivJ sulTerlng these bullets In-
lllet and that their use Is strictly for
hidden by the esiubllshed rules of In
ternailouul law. I therefore address
a solemn protest to you against this
kind of warfare, which, owing to the
methods of our adversaries, has be
come one of the most bnrharous known
In history. Not only have they em
ployed these ut melons weapons, hut
the Belgian government has openly en
couraged and long since carefully pre
pared the participation of tin; Belgian
civil population In the lighting. The
atrocities committed even by women
and priests In this guerrilla warfare,
also on wounded soldiers, medical staff
and nurses, doctors killed, hospitals
attacked by rllle lire, were such that
my generals dually were compelled to
take the most drasiit; measures in or
der to punish 1 1n- guilty and to fright
en the bloodthirsty population frem
eontlnuliig their work of vile murder
and horror. Some villages and even
the old town of I.oewen (I.oitvalu)
tccptlng the line hotel do ville, h-nl
lo bo destroyed In self-defense, and
for the protection of my troops. M
heart bleeds when I see that suc'i
measures have become unavoldabli
and when I think of the numerous In
nocent people who lose their home nnd
property as a consequence of the bar
bnrous behavior of those criminals.
Signed. William. Ihnperor nnd King.'
"OnitAItD, Berlin."
Lorens; Muller in the German Cath
ollc Review, Der Fels, February, lHlfi,
made the following statement In re
jard to the emperor's telegram:
"Officially no Instance has been
proven of persons having fired wltll
tho help of prlesla from the lowers; of
churches. All that has been made
known up to the prosent, nml that has
been made the object of Inquiry con
cerning alleged atrocities attributed to
Catholic priests during this war, has
been shown to be false utld altogether
Imaginary, without any exception. Our
emperor telegraphed to tlie president
of the United States of America that
in
if
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fjossara
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lMiysiiiiiinu tho world ovor
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famous women, mothers nod
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Tho Gossan! lino is not lim
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even women nnd priests had commit
ted atrocities during this KUeiilila wtu
fare on wounded soldiers, doctors and
nurses attached to the Held ambu
lances. low tbih telegram enn bo rec
onciled with the fact stated above we
hall li t be able t learn until after
the wiir."
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Our services until later notieo
will be as follows:
Sunday:
Hiblt School at 10:00 a. m.
Communion and preaching, 11:00.
Christian Endeavor, 7:00 p. m.
Preaching at 8:00 p. m.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday
evening at 8:00.
Ladies Aid v nday afternoon.
ion arc eordiallj invited.
William E. Hean,
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