TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT AUGUST 22, 1918.
MONSTROUS IDEA
IN GERMAN MIND
CAPTURED HUN TANK REPAIRED BY FRENCH
Treachery, Murder, Barbarity,
Anything, Praiseworthy if for
CRUELTY AND LUST
WEAPONSOF HUNS
The Usefulness
of This Bank
Conquered Peoples Shamefully
Treated for Advantage of the
German State.
Prussia’s Gain,
Abominable System That Must Be
Overthrown if the World Is to Be
Worth Living In, Regardless
of the Cost
people do not realize the many
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different ways in which this hank can
Prussian Officers Callously Tell How
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Starvation and Abuse Are Made
to Serve Their Purpose—Cap
tive Women Made Slaves.
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This I have seen. I could not
believe It unless I had seen it
through and through. For aev-
*ral weeks I lived with It; I
went all about it and back of It;
inside and out of it was shown
to mi ■until finally I came to
realize that the incredible was
true. It la monstrous, It is un
thinkable, but it exists. It Is
the Prussian system.—F. C. Wal
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At a conference of field men of the
United States food administration held
In Washington, F. C. Wnlcott pictured
conditions as ho had found them in
the countries Invaded by German
arms. Mr. Walcott served with Mr.
Hoover on the Belgium relief commis
sion when this nation was attempt
ing to feed the starving civilian pop-
nlation of Belgium, Poland and north
ern France. In his address he had
pictured such conditions as he said he
could not believe unless he had seen
the situation through and through, nnd
had lived with It for weeks.
He
showed these terrible conditions to be
the result of deliberate plans on the
part of official Germany, and in sum
ming up he said :
“Such is the German rnlnd as it
was disclosed to me in several weeks'
contact with officers of the staff.
Treaties are scraps of paper, if they
kinder German- alms. Treachery is
condoned and praised, if it falls in
with German Interest.
Men, lands,
countries are German prizes. Popula
tions are to be destroyed or enslaved
so Germany mny gain. Women are
Germany's prey, children are spoils of
war. God gave Germany the Hohen-
zollern nnd together they are destined
to rule Europe and, eventually, the
world—thus reasons the kaiser.
“Coolly, deliberately, officers of the
German staff, permeated by this mon
strous philosophy, discuss the dena
tionalization of peoples, the destruc
tion of nations, the undoing of other
civilizations, for Germany's account.
“In all the world such a thing has
never been. The human mind has
never conceived the like. Even among
barbarians, the thing would be Incred
ible. The mind can scarcely grasp
the fact thnt these things are pro
posed nnd done by a modern govern
ment professedly a Christian govern
ment in the family of civilized na
tions.
“This system has got to be rooted
out. If it takes everything in the
world, if it takes everyone of us, this
abomination must be overthrown. It
must be ended or the world is not
worth living in. No matter how long
It takes, no matter how much it costs,
we must endure to the end with agon
ized France, with imperiled Britain,
with shattered Belgium, with shaken
Russia.
“We must hope that Germany will
have a new birth as Russia Is being re
born.
We must pray, as we fight
against the evil that is In Germany,
that the good which Is in Germany
may somehow prevail. We must trust
that in the end a Germany really great
with the strength of a wonderful race
may find Its place as one of the broth
erhood of nations in the new world
that is to be.
“The responsibility of success or
failure rests now upon our shoulders ;
the eyes of the world nre anxiously
watching us. Are we going to be able
to rise to the emergency, throw off our
Inefficiency, nnd prove that democracy
Is safe for the world?”
The tank seen in this French official photograph was captured by the
French in the recent heavy fighting on the western front. The tank was de
molished by the heavy French gunfire and it took these crafty Frenchmen
twelve days of work under enemy fire to put it in order again. The photo
graph shows the French crew which repaired the tank and which- ta operating
It with great results against the enemy.
YANKEES RESTING BETWEEN FIGHTS
Here Is a detachment of the American troops that did such brilliant
fighting on the west front, converting the Hun offensive Into a Hun disaster
nnd retreat. They are resting by the roadside, smoking, Joking and light
hearted, and ready to Jump into the fight again.
HEAVY WORK ON THE FIGHTING LINE
»These powerful American artillerymen, with huge crowbars, are working
fast to get their heavy gun Into position to hurl its shells at the retreating
Huns. It is a difficult Job, for the earth is pitted with shell craters.
BRITISH WOUNDED PASSTHROUGH FRENCH LINE
Tn the shove statement Mr. Wnl
cott has described a condition that
must he changed if America. If the
world, is to remain a “fit place to
live In.” And the only way by which
this change cnn be effected is the de
feat of German nrms In this wnr. '
Nothing good, nothing but evil, can
come out of Germany so long as the
German people are controlled by a
military autocracy, and the German
people cnnnot be made to realize this
until this s.itocrncy is crushed. The
spirit of militarism that has made of
the Germans a robber and a murder
nation must be utterly crushed if the
world Is to remain free, and to accom
plish this those of us who cnnnot fight
in France must lend our support to
our men who are fighting for us.
FLIER
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MADE
CHEVALIER
Quyn«mer*a Friend and Pupil
Seven Victories to His
Credit.
Has
Parts.—Sous-Llentenant Rozon-Ver-
duraz, recently made a chevalier of
the Legion of Honor, following his
seventh officially recorded aerial vic
tory. was the Intimate friend and pupil
of Guynemer.
He accompanied Guynemer Septem
ber 11, 1917, when the latter met his
fate. His one thought since, it Is ts-
serted. has been to avenge the great
ace. One of the new chevalier's feats
was to shoot down three planes in four
hours. He was a cavalryman until
transferred to the air service.
During the fiercest of the fighting In a battle In France British wounded
on the way to hospitals were carried past the lines of the French. As he
passes the trenches filled with machine gunners in action this wounded
Tommy. Interested, has raised his head to watch his French cousins hely
hold the Hun. Away at the rear In the woods cavalry horses can he seen
cotTaled while their riders waif the command to advance.
At a Disadvantage.
“My friend." snld the philosopher,
“my motto la, 'Stay on the sunny aid*
of the street.’”
"I've tried thnt.” replied the pessi
mist. "but It won’t work.”
"Why not?”
•The minute I brighten up people
who know me ns n man under a cloud
think that'a an opportune time to .
strike me for a loan."
A Departed Treaaure.
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This I have seen. I could not
■ ■ believe It unless I had seen It
i ' through and through. For aev-
1 eral weeks I lived with It; I
i went all about it and back of
’ [ It; Inside and out of It was
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No more graphic description of the
ravages of the German soldiery -upon
the civilian population of Invaded
countries has been given than is con
tained tn the brief and simple state
ments of F. C. Walcott, now connected
with the United States food adminis
tration, who was assistant to Mr.
Hoover while America was feeding
Belgium, Poland and northern France.
In one of these statements Mr. Wal
cott says:
Even now I find It hard to describe
In comprehensible terms the mind of
official Germany, which dominates and
shapes all Germnn thought and action.
Yet it is as hard, as clear-cut, as real
as any material thing. I saw it in
Poland, I saw the same thing in Bel
gium, I heard of It in Serbia and Rou-
mauia. For weeks it was always be
fore me, always the same. Officers
talked freely, frankly, directly. All
the staff officers have the same view.
Let me try to tell it, as General von
Krles told me, in Poland, In the midst
of a dying nation. Germany is des
tined to rule the world, or at least a
great part of It. The German people
are so much human material for build
ing the German state, other people do
not count. All Is for the glory and
might of the German state. The lives
of human beings are to be conserved
only If It makes for the states ad
vancement, their lives are to be sacri
ficed If it Is to the state's advantage.
The state Is all, the people are noth
ing.
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Conquered people signify little in
the German account. Life, liberty,
happiness, human sentiment, family
ties, gruce and generous impulse, these
have uo place beside the one concern,
the greatness of the German state.
Starvation must excite no pity ; sym
pathy must not be allowed, If It ham
pers the main design of promoting
Germany’s ends.
“Starvation*Is here," snld General
von Krles. "Candidly, we would like
to see It relieved; we fear our soldiers
may be unfavorably affected by the
things that they see. But since It is
here, starvation must serve our pur
pose. So we set it to work for, Ger
many. By starvation we can accom
plish In two or three years In East
Poland more than we have In West
Poland, which is East Prussia, In the
last hundred years. With thut In
view, we propose to turn this force to
our advantage.
“This country Is meant for Ger
many," continued the keeper of starv
ing Poland. "It Is a rjch alluvial
country which Germany has needed
for some generations. We propose to
remove the able-bodied wjjjdng Poles
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It U-rt’vTff It open
for the Inflow of German working peo
ple as fast as we can spare them.
Tin y will occupy it and wort Tt.”
Then with a cunning smile, “Can’t
you see how it works out? By and by
we stall give back freedom to Poland.
When that happens Poland will appear
automatically as a German province.”
In Belgium, General von Blsslng
told me exactly the same thing. “If
the relief of Belgium breaks down we
can force the industrial population in
to Germany through starvation nnd
colonize other Belgians in Mesopo
tamia where we have planned large i
Irrigation works; Germans will then I
overrun Belgium. Then when the war
Is over and freedom is given back to
Belghtm, ft will be a German Belgium
that Is restored. Belgium will be a
German province and we have Ant
werp—which Is what we are after.”
That Is not all. Removing the men,
that the land may be vacant for Ger
man occupation, that German stock
may replace Belgians, Poles, Serbians,
Armenians, and now Roumanians, Ger
many does more. Women left captive
are enslaved. Germany makes all
manner of lust its Instrumentality.
The other day a friend of mine told
me of a man Just returned from north
ern France. T cannot tell you the de
tails,” he said, “man to man, I don’t
want to repeat what I heard.” Some
of the things he did tell—shocking
mutilation and moral murder. He told
of women, by the score, in occupied
territory of northern France, prisoned
In underground dungeons, tethered for
the use of their bodies by officers and
men.
If this Is not a piece of the Prussian
system, It Is the logical product of dis
regard of the rights of others.
“Was your boy Josh much of a help
to you around the farm?”
"Yes,” replied Farmer Corntoneel. “I
didn't realize how much of n help he
waa, He didn't do much work. But
ho could piny the Jeweharp an’ tell rid
Germany has limited the amount
dles an' keep the farmhands enter that prisoners may s|>end to $15 a week
tained so that snmetlrtea they'd eUy for officers and $12.50 for privates.
for da ya at a time."
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