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"GOSPEL TRUT1 GERMA* First Fully Detailed Account of Kaiser's Legions-Why Cr ed Were Inflicted upc UV DH. NEWELL , Pastor Plymouth ( Authori/ed Copyright: Tho Keel All Hight "Over tho German troops In tho ? trenches Hame the white stars, ac cusing things to their awed minds, questioning eyes of Cod. Behind them roars tho Haming, wavering curtain of continuously exploding sholls that cuts off succor from their r?serves, lt ls the famous creeping barrage, Their own artillery cannot reply in kind because tho famed Ger man ingenuity cannot supply shells enough for that titanic exj>endlturo. In tho night sky tho Germans soo the faces of murdered infants and ravagod women. it ls ?nly con science, of course, but conscience ls the greatest of all lntimldators." Dr. Nowell Dwight Dillis spoke with a vibrant voice, holding out one of tho volo tues of amVlavits that at test tho truth of oft-repeated chargos of German atrocities in Belgium and Northern France. Tho eminent di vine has but recontly returned from a trip to the battle front, and his lectures upon what he had seen thero bave stimulated American patriotism and determination in all of tho larger eities of tho East. "Tho psychological reaction of German frightfulness is a wonderful thing," continued Dr. Hillls. "The Gormans lack tho Arm purpose to avengo wrongs that has kept the magnificent soldiers of France invin cible. Their minds, quickened with apprehension, rovo back ovor tho scenes they have witnessed, tho dread events thoy have participated In. Small wonder that before thc fury of .the French bayonet attack or the gallantry of tho British chargos they throw down their arms and call ont 'Kamerad.' " 'Frightfulness' is not the creation of Imaginative pro-ally journalists. lt. ls integral with tho German me thod of attaining tho dominion, of tho whole world. Witness the testi mony of lh< Kulgoi*, fained 'si'hlov parino) ol the linn ot inc uu<j Got: 'j i)n t hon sn i K of rtbad Go.i injin' f.-i-! niora has benn found tho f nm ou it in vasion medallion This depicts lim 'God of the Germans'.a bearded dei ty after tho conventional concept - and underneath is an instruction to tho soldier for the treat nient of tho enemy-man woman and child. 'Strike him dead,' it reads, 'the day of Judgment will ask you no <iues t ions.' "Obeying the Kaiser's order and the precept of Gen. von Hartmann, tho invading Germans plumbed the depths of brutality. Forty volumes compiled by the French government are filled with the sworn declarations of people who have witnessed tho un speakable cruelties of tho Invading German armies. This array of evi dence cannot bo gainsaid. It is no doubt true that the excitement of tho war will lend itself to some exagger ation and inaccuracy. "But that idea ls a feeble rebuttal to bring against facts supported by acores of affidavits, sworn to aftor mature deliberation by people whose faith in and fear of their God ls pro verbial. "It is true that German soldiers have impaled babies upon their bay onets. It ls absolutely true that they have nailed ?? Infant's body to the wall of a barn In sardonic imitation of-the calfskin they found already nailed there. "Tho testimony tnkes so many forms that people who have had the task of compiling it aro sickened by the minuteness of detail. Thero are the sworn declarations of eyewit nesses, tho photographs taken and smuggled into tho French lines, the diaries In good, strong, unmistakable German of dead soldiers'; and last, and most grewsomo of nil,"the chem ically preserved bodies of men, wo men and children horribly mutilated and profaned, now kept to overwhelm tho apologists for Germany. Lite rally out of the grave their victims will rise to accuse them when they come to tho triumphant allies seek ing terms of peace. "Terrorism rampant overshot its mnrk. It did inspire awe and terror, as tho philosophers of militarism had hoped. But instead of sickening tho souls of tho defenders so they would lay down tneir arms and surrender in abject submission to tho 'fright ful' Huns, it steeled them to prodi gies of valor. Tho weary French and Belgian troops fought with a disdain for death that was a consequence of 1 their knowledge that all of Franco would bo a shambles if the Gorman <drlvc went through. a ABOUT 4 ATROCITIES." thc Horrors Perpetrated by the uelties Hitherto Unexplain >n Helpless Belgium. DWIGHT IllliLIBi lunch, Brooklyn. Interview. ey-H ad ley Sy ml lc a te. ? Reserved. "They thought of thc crucified mo ther superior of Belgian convents martyred because slic resisted tho officer who was assaulting one of the young nuns. They thought of babies skewered on bayonets and young girls stripped and lied to trees, that all of the ilunnish hordes who wished might ravish them. These incidents have the support of ten thousand proofs. " 'Terrorism is a principle made necessary by military consid?r?t ions,' wrote Von Hartmann. 'By steeping himself in military history an officer will be able to guard himself against excessive humanitarian notions.' It ls a roundabout way.of saying that a taste for sheer brutality must be cul tivated. But tho military caste in Germany believed and cultivated it. No element of the population was spared. But those whom civilized society has always given preference where a distinction must be made are tho very ones that Germany wreaked heaviest vengeance upon. "Sex rapacity has free rein in the Hun scheme of things. The diaries of dead and captured Germans prove that conclusively. They boast that the village In which they are quar tered has 'lots of women and young girls.' Their language is unmistak able. Everywhere in letters to friends nt home tho allurements of their location have been catalogued. tom** Chief among these have been good food, champagne and women! "I have heard things in ravaged France and ruined Belgium that have sickened me. 1 have seen their truth attested by scores of affidavits for oach Incident. I went over there wondering if it were'true that Ger man soldiers had ever cut the breasts off a Belgian woman. J know now that it has been done, not once, but scores of times. "1 know that ll ls Hie fearful, ruthless hallmark of the German social pariah who dare not transmit his unspeakable malady to one of the camp women following his own regiment. Because the penalty for spreading of social diseases among other men of tho dorman army is death those men make prey of help less woman and girls In captured territory. "Then-that others in the uniform of tho Hun may know and heed thc warning-they mutilate these out raged women and girls. They arc mutilated strikingly and fearfully, ?46 "Greatest ^ The following letter from an eplstlo since President Lincoln's tion for tho conquest of the world This war ls of God. Soinothi dior's Hf? I? n life of poverty, ob what tho Chilian's lifo is. Hut fo Hu and Vienna, Ixmdon and Paris, within three generations. I once sjKike in your Plymouth if ever again I have that privilege war. I never dreamed that men months I have slept on the stone; teni ; for sift months- I have no! so happy. .?? I that even the Germans drunk $&on ?champagne and careless cob-. (iuence8 cannot disregard th . i lng. "That ls the fearful o l?" - >.oi I that has so long heon den tilled bj , those In this country who Sahl o I u j earlier reports: 'They are |bp,u tl j why should men do these i lu . To understand atrocities ^uh j those perpetrated by thOimaii?g 1 captured territory of Franc? anti ? glum ono must understand . li " j philosophy of war. I "The scenes following tip j occupation of Bailleul, for In i I have never been exceeded i ti lia . i j tty. There are at least thlrt uutln u I Heated cases of outrages o' iv? . land girls recorded from th).- o ? IH ! tie town. The details are .:? i'd< 'inore heinous by tho io *; : daughters were outraged In tho j once of their mothers, and mc I ord j in the sight of their child rt-n. I "When appealed to by thc tor rp r I i/.ed townspeople the Genna n ol ? i merely shrugged their shouldT Something In the town h I genant (inconvenient) for . i tors. That palliated every ni Indeed, there ls no doub" minds of men who have foll' eil til j entire course of the German uv. of Belgium and France that j and rapine were open inducements to , the German troops. I "Letters written before th? V M I.. and taken from the bodies <. < mans killed in the sanguin; . Itt lng that represented th ll n 'nearest Paris' drive promised tlves and friends various i i . . lewels and other loot expect . lit ? Paris had surrendered. '1 will (ti you a handful of diamonds,' > on< letter now in possession > ill French government. ' Other writers' ambition ran t.< watches, to money, to worn n their natures Inclined. OOTtaiilly i an army drillet? ike the Kn Ir.ei.'.- . discipline had been exerted ' pel a respect for internatlc lal Iv. and humanitarian principles, i if) letters would ever have been ) "Fifforts of German apolo? I deny and excuse the outrages nant and elsewhere are, slnguhirl; enough, brushed aside by th. man staff itself. The famous ' net tireurs' canard was cast to the wind Tho German white book coi . I i that l*yge numbers of people I . executed In judging the ai.: tide which the troops of tho Twelfth Corps took against such a population our starting point must be thj ! Gie tactical object of the Twelfth Corpa was to cross tho Meuse with > and to drive the enemy from tho hank of tho Meuse; speedily to o . r como tho opposition of the Iii li tauts who aro working in dire, position to tills was to bo striven fm in every way. * * * Hostages w shot at various places, and thli . cedure is amply justified.' ( "It 'justified' apparently, shooting of old men, women, children, In groups or battues. \ I tho crowning mockery of it all the fact that where no real oppoi ?Var Epistle Since i English surgeon to Dr.Newell Dw i lotter tO Mrs. Blxby." It exempl111 nos lt ls ponce that ls hell. Tin ?ol odience, self-sacrifice; wo knov r tho chustisoment of this war Bei , would have descended into hoi li Church on tho blessings of peace > I .shall speak on tho blessings o i could IK> SO noble. For three for three months twforo that ill a fc l>een In IHMI ; hut I huvo never l>een was manifest tho Germnus thought fully? fabricated or framed', as an American would say, a case against tho people. "One soldier-1 myself have seen tho loller-tells how ho had acted under Instructions from the captain of Iiis company in hiding a Gorman infantry rille under a mattress in a peasant's little cottage. This manoe uvre was adopted after thorough search had foiled to reveal any arms whatsoever. The inhabitants had been crowded into the village church and tho captain, triumphantly re turning with the planted gun, dc- ; cia rod that the death sentence had been passed upon the entire village. ; They wore all massacred there. " 'One little girl.' this highly edify- ] lng chronicle recites, 'almost moved , him to pity, ?ho was so innocent.' lt .s a worthy tribute to Gorman theory hat it was 'almost' and not an actu ality. Sbo died with the rest, bc- ; sidle her aged grandfather. No doubt ! his soldier by 'steeping himself in | military history' had been able to ;uard hlmsolf against 'excessive hu- i manltaftan notions.' "1 don't know what history he | .ould have 'steeped' himself in. Noi sier Apache Indians nor the original ?ordes of Attila could rival the thor oughness of his devilish work. In me tow? where a purposely secreted (lin had been 'discovered' by a patrol he commanding officer's revengo was >f a character at once unique and lenionlncal. The twelve most re ontly married couples of the district vere declared rorfeil to vengeance or the hidden arms and were stood ip in a long line and all executed. "Crimes against, age, against vir ile, against the unborn, the helpless, against even nature itself, are all in .luded in the grisly mass of doeu nents, photographs and exhibits that re being preserved for later account ing. Girls stripped on the ground or led to trees, helpless against the rutality of their captors; priests ed to the ground and offended gainst in a fahsion 1 cannot even . ininit in detail to print; old mon d little girls shot in battues be uso of alloyed (Iring by thc civilian nutation. '.Small wonder that the Germans j e in superstitious terror of the euch. 'The French are the great . l soldiers in the world,' said a Brlt I officer to me. 'I am not tarnish ? the glory of the-English or Irish, - otch or Canadians, when I say they . ? the best fighters in this war. H "re is the reason: Our mon are /fectly equipped ; every gun, every 1 every accoutrement Is the same. Tl oy nre well drilled and snappy in i< :ion. Tho Frenchmen often have . ir kinds of uniform In a company.' l'h jy may have good shoes or no '. es. They may nave red trousers m blue-gray or black. They have a ' her looser discipline than we have. : THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR I'l ANCE! Their patriotism is a nderful thing. ' 'Each Frenchman accounts him f already dead in the defense of Iiis ravaged country, Ho counts every ?set as a mere respite granted by iod. Ho has rediscovered a personal Immortality. And when ho fights lt vith a fierceness, with an cxpres i in his eyes, with a consuming don for victory, that awes the I conscience-stricken Gorman private \ soldiers. One of our divisions of . ' '00 mon have never captured coin's Letter to ? Mlllii Is declared by that scholar and tl lilt that has triumphed over G< I have acquired the flue free w <*nr a, metal tag around my neck I bolong when it happens that I H n man engaged in a cause so have' seen n lamb torn by the wolf. Know the explanations the wolf ItH , I only wish that you were your own good: for right hero at derided, just where all tho great d'-rided. lt ls derided already, nmo yet. to (Ind it out. moro than 7,500 boches iii a day's fighting. It is a matter of actual rec ord that a division ot 20.000 French men captured 30,000 Germans. It sounds extraordinary, " But the attitude of the Ger mans \vheri tho poilus go over the top i is no less extraordinary. I think 1 understand the psychology of it. A man (aught robbing his neighbor's house has the worst of the encounter from tlie outset. Ile lacks justifica tion, and racing death without justi (1 ca ti on is a hard thing to do.' "France is tired," concluded Dr. Hillls. "But sho sees tho dawn of victory, lt is our duty to help that dawn broaden into Hie full dny of retribution and restitution. A peace in any respect inconclusive would leave the strange war psychology of tho central powers unchanged. We cannot compromise on the issues of this war any more than wo c.nn coni promise with evil, if we do-if wo pauso long enough to give the unre pentant German a breathing spell he will como again, 'steeped' in the bru tal history of the present invasion and ready to duplicate his crimes If he cannot even descend to greater depths of 'depravity. "Of the atrocities of whi'jt I have seen so many proofs th- ... no reason able man could wHunold utter con viction, I have t ?is io say: They are tho grewsome proof of a sinister spirit and purpose on the part of Germany. I believe that it is really in the hearts of all Germans. After all, the men who have committed these crimes are from the rank and file of the German masses." General 'Quake lu Guatemala. Washington, Dec. 27.-An earth quake, general throughout Guate mala yesterday, caused a loss of from 10 to 40 -Hvcs and extensive property da mago to Guatemala City, Hie State Department was advised late to-day in a cable dispatch from thc American charge there. No men lion was made as to damage in the interior. Tinco Moio Aviators Die in Training. Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 25.-Two unidentified aviators were burned to death 5,000 feet in the air at Hicks Held to-day. They fell to the earth with the remnant of the airplane, a mass of wreckage. The cause of the accident is supposed.to have been an explosion of the gasoline tank. The bodies were burned beyond recogni tion. Thoir identity will be ascer tained when a check_of tho machino i and thc men is made. One is sup posed to be a lieutenant and the ' other a cadet in tho Royal Flying Corps. J. Syra, aged 4 4, a member of the aerial gunnery company of the Royal Flying Corps, was instantly killed at Hicks field to-day when ho was struck in the head by the propeller of a ma chine. * German Kiddies Keg Food for Xmas. Geneva, Dec. 27.-'Features of the Gorman Christmas, according to news from across the frontier, were women an<l children openly begging in the snow-covered streets for food to appease their hunger, and riots in some of the towns. Only the rich enjoyed a good, but ordinary dinner, and for this they paid high prices, as much as $50. Most of the churches in Germany were closed, owing to lack of coal. Ars. Bixby." J? teologian to bo "tho greatest war irmany's forty years of prepara doin of a dog, and, like a dog, I so that they may know to whom can no longer speak. And never noble. I have seen Kelglum; 1 I am on the side' of tho Iamb. I lia? to ofYor-tinny do not interest liere with nie at this battle for this western front this war will lie wars of history have always boen hut it will take tho enemy some (J IO UM AN MASTER SPY II IO LI). Woman Accomplice Has Made Good , Her Escape. San Francisco, Dec? 2T.-A woman designated only as "H", and said to be prominent in the German secret service, directed the activities of Kran/. Schulenberg, alleged master spy, held here on a Presidential war rant, according to information di vulged by Federal oillcials. Schulen berg ls said to have been active in plans- to destroy bridges and public buildings in Canada and shipping and warehouses in Pacific ports. Oillcials said tho woman barely escaped arrest here four weeks ago, the day before Schulenberg was captured. The clue to her part in Schoenberg's c?pera tious was revealed in a letter found among his effects, lt instructed Schulenberg to meet her in Los An geles. Investigation showed, offi cials said, that the woman had been an agent of Wolf von Igel, former socretary to Franz von Papen, mili tary attache of the German embassy at Washington, and alleged head of the German espionage system in this, country. She was described as a person of birth and education, a bru nette, 35 years old. According to Federal officials, the* woman sent Schulenberg to the Uni ted States in 1914 for the alleged purpose of assisting in the mainten ance of contraband wireless stations, supported by the German govern ment for the purpose of gaining mili tary information and transmitting it to Berlin. Further revelations concerning. Schoenberg's activities disclosed to day showed that In February, 1915, he inserted an advertisement in Spo kane, Wash., newspapers, looking to the purchase of a tract of land on which to colonize several hundred Spanish families. These famille*?. Federal officials said, were Hindus, and the purpose of their colonization was to permit them easy entrance into Canada, where they were to Ob tain m'Mtsrv information and facts concerning the movements of Cana dian troops to assist in raider war fare conducted in the Pacific ocean by tho Germans. The colonization plan did not materialize. Somo of Schoenberg's activities, according to tho authorities, have been traced to Ram Chandra, a Hin du, on trial hero with 30 other per sons, charged with attempting to fo ment a revolution against British rule In India "Ram Chandra tue it ? several na y tn eh is ol in one) of Schul' en berg, oillcials .>>iid. ?ch?leuborg, according, to ?'edefd) officiais, was a de^ertev iron, tho German army and was actuated by the hope of financial gain. They said he would not admit hie connec tion- with the woman agent. To Cure a Cold lu One Day? Take LAXATIVS UROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough mid Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if lt falls to cure? li. W. GROVF/H signature on each box. 30c. SOLDIER KILLED IN ACCIDENT. Lightless Motorcycle Responsible for ' Death of W. C. Todd, of Relton. Greenville, Doc. 27-While return ing from a short visit to his parents, at^Belton on Christmas Eve night. William Claud Todd, an orderly at tached to divisional headquarters AC Camp Sevler, met an almost instanta neous death when the motorcycle upon which he was riding, arid which had no lights, crashed into a Ford automobile driven by two Other sol diers, Henry Watkins arid Gaines, both of the First South Caro lina Regiment. The accident occur red a few hours after midnight ou the Augusta road near the Charles place. According to tho statements . of Watkins and Gaines, who were also slightly bruised in the accident, Todd was driving at a very rapid rate of speed and apparently becume .blinded upon meeting the automo bile. It seems that he was "driving on the outside of the road and that upon becoming dazed by the head lights he dashed head-foremost into tho machine. Byfthe compact the Ford was turned over and the motor cycle was crushed to a mangled heap. Young Todd died a few minutes later. 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