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GERMAN WAS
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versity; George C.
of Wisconsin, and
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Issued by the Committee
These ideas, then, were systematically
impressed upon the military andj
official classes. It was necessary,1
I
however, to work upon the minds of
the German people, so that they,
might iend themselves to the inha-j
man policies addvocated by the mili-j
t.ary leaders. To do this was difficult,;
fur ps has been shown above, many
of the civilian leaders of public opm-i
ion. time and again, expressed their j
horror of the nepv spirit which was
animating the military authorities.;
The Reichstag debates give amplo;
evidence of this, and the task of f-nej
military leaders would have been stiRj
more difficult if the Reichstag had;
had any real power (See War Inror-i
mation Series, No. 3, The Govern-j
icent of Germany; see also Gerard'oj;
My r\mr years in Germany, Chap.!
II.) I1
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The military authorities and those:,
in sympathy with them have done all ;
in their power tc stimulate a hat.edi
of other peoples m the minds of tr?:
Germans. A campaign of education 1
before the war was carried on with!
the object of impressing upon the!
of the Germans the treacherous nature
of the peoples against whom the
military leaders were anxious to j ]
wage war. Not only were the Ger- (
mans gradually led to believe that it
was necessary to fight a defensive '
war against unscrupulous foes, but!,
also that these foes would violate
every precept of humanity, and con- <
sequently must be crushed without '
mercy as a measure of self-defense, j
The fruits of this campaign of sus- j
picion and hatred became evident :
when almost at the outbreak of the j
war many Germans became possessed ,
Koli'of fhot thp whole nnnil- 1
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lation of Belgium, the first country to '
be invadec? had violated every rule
of honorable warfare, that the francstireurs
(guerillas) were everywhere
present doing their deadly work in
secrecy or under the cove of dark- ]
nes's; that women and even children i
3?* '
were mutilating and killing the 1
wounded or helpless prisoners.
The effect of the fables upon the ,
popular mind may be seen in the fol- i
lowing extracts from German letters: '*
Extract from a letter written by a *
German solder to his brother. (This ]
letter, now in the possession of the ;
United States government, was ob- 1
tained for this pamphlet from Mr. j
J. C. Grew, formerly secretary to the j
United States Embassy at Berl|n.) <
"November 4, 1914. 1
"The battles are everywhere ex- s
tremely tenacious and bloody. The i
Englishmen we hate - most and we <
want to get even with them for once. 1
While one now and then sees French <
prisoners, one hardly ever beholds 1
French black troops or Englishmen. J
These good people are not overlook- i
ed by our infantrymen; that sort of 1
?J irifVinnf mor. I 1
P?OpiC IS XliUWCU Ul^nu tuuivui uiv>
cy. The losses of the Englishmen
must be enormous. There is a de- 1
sire to wipe them out, root and all." 1
Extract from another letter to a 1
brother:
"Schleswig, 25, 8, 14 (Aug. 25, '14). j
''Dear Brother, * * You will j
shortly go to Brussels with your regi- j
ment, as you know. Take care to
protect yourself against these Civi- j
lians, especially in the villages. Do ,
not let anyone of them come near ,
you. Fire without pity on everyone
of them who comes too near. They
are very clever cunning fellows, these
Belgians: even the women and children
are armed and fire their guns.
Never go inside a house, especially j
alone. If you take anything to drink
make the inhabitants drink first, and
keep at a distance from them. The
j newspapers relate numerous cases
in which they have fired on our soldiers
whilst they were drinking. You
soldiers must spread around so much
fear of yourselves that no civilian
will venture to come near you. Remain
always in the company cf others.
I hope that you have read the i
newspapers and that you know how
to behave. Above all have no com- i
passion for these cut-throats. Make I
for them without pity with the butt- !
end of your rifle and the bavonet. * * j
" 'Your brother, WILLI." |
The Emperor gave his sanction to;
the reports of the brutal acts of thej
Belgians in a telegram to President!
Wilson.
"Berlin, via Copenhagen, Sept. 7, *14.
"Secretary of State, Washington.
Number 53. September 7. I am re-!
quested to forward the following tele
gram from the Emperor to the President:
" 'I feel it my duty, Mr. President,
to inform you as the most prominent
representative of principles of humanity,
that after taking the French !
fortress of Longwy, my troops discov- j
ered there thousands of dumdum |
cartridges made by special govern- j
ment machinery. The same kind ofj
ammunition was found on killed and j
wounded troops and prisoners also |
on the British troops. You know
what terrible . wounds and suffering'
these bullets inflict and that their use
is strictly forbidden by the established
rules of international law. I therefore
address a solemn protest to you
against this kind of warfare, which,
owing to the methods of our adversaries
has become one of the most
^PRACTICES
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University
August C Krey,
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on Public Information
barbarous known in history. Xot
only have they employed these atroc- i
ious weapons, but the Belgian Gov-1
? jt j I
eminent has openiv encourageu ami
since long carefully prepared the participation
of the Belgian civil population
in the fighting. The atrocities
committed even by women and
priests in this guerilla warfare, also
on wounded soldiers, medical staff
and nurses, doctors killed, hospitals
attacked by rifle fire, were such that
my generals finally were compelled
to take the most drastic measures in
order to punish the guilty and to
frighten the blood-thirsty population
from continuing their work of vile
murder and horror. Some villages
and even the old town of Loewen
(Louvain), excepting the fine hotel
de ville, had to be destroyed in selfdefense
and for the protection of my
troops. My heart bleeds when I see
that such measures have become unavoidable
and when 1 think of the
numerous innocent people who lose
their home and property as a consequence
of the barbarous behavior of
thise criminals. Signed. William,
Emperor and King.'
"GERARD. Berlin."
Lorenz Muller in the German Catholic
review, Der Fels, February, 1915,
made the following statement in regard
to the Emperor's telegram:
Refutation by a German.
"Officially no instance has been
proven of persons having fired with
the help of priests from the towers
of churches. All that has been made
known up to the present, and that
has been made the object of inquiry,
concerning alleged atrocities attributed
to Catholic priests during this
war, has been shown to be false and
altogether imaginary, without any exception.
Our Emperor telegraphed
to the President of the United States
of America that even women and
priests had committed atrocities during
this guerilla warrare on wounded
soldiers, doctors and nurses attached
to the field ambulances. How this
telegram can be reconciled with the
fact stated above we shall not be able
to learn until after the war."
The Vorwarts, of Berlin, October
22, 1914, said:
Kefutation by Vorwarts.
"We have already been able to es:ablish
the falseness of a great number
of assertions which have been
made with great precision and pubIshed
everywhere in the press, concerning
alleged cruelties committed,
by the populations of the countries
with which Germany is at war, upon
jerman soldiers and civilians, We
are now in position to silence two
athers of these fantastic stories.
"The War Correspondent of the
Berliner Tageblatt spoke a few weeks
ago of cigars and cigarettes filled
with powder alleged to have been
?iven to our soldiers with diabolical
n+an* 11a oron nrnton rl Of? that h P
UlUlXl. iig VV^/U **w
lad seen with his own eyes hundreds
of this kind of cigarettes. We learn
from an authentic source that this
story of cigars and cigarettes is nothing
but a brazen invention. Stories
)f soldiers whose eyes are alleged to
have been torn out by francs-tireurs
ire circulated throughout Germany.
Vot a single case of this kind has
oeen officially established. In every
instance wffiere it has been possible
;o test the story its inaccuracy has
been demonstrated.
"It matters little that reports of
this nature bear an appearance of
positive certitude, or even vouched
for by eye-witnesses. The desire for
aotoriety, the absence of criticism,
md personal error play an unfortunate
part in the days in which we are
living. Every nose shot off or simply
bound up, every eye removed, is immediately
transformed into a nose
or eye torn away by the francstireurs.
Already the Volkszeitung of
Cologne has been able, contrary to
the very categorical assertions from
Aix-la-Chappelle, to prove that there
was no soldier with his eyes torn out
in the field ambulance of this town.
It was said. also, that DeoDle wound
ed in this way were under treatment
in the neighborhood of Berlin, but
whenever enquiries have been made
in regard to these reports, their absolute
falsity has been demonstrated.
At length these reports were concentrated
at Gross Lichterfelde. A newspaper
published at noon and widely
circulated in Berlin printed a few
days ago in large type the news that
at the Lazaretto of Lichterfelde alone
there were 'ten German soldiers, only
slightly wounded, whose eyes had
been wickedly torn out.' But to a request
for information by comrade
Liebknecht the following written reply
was sent by the chief medical
officer of the above-mentioned field
hospital, dated the 18th of the
month: 'Sir, Happily there is no
truth whatever in these stories.
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44 'PROF. RUTENBERG.' "
German Soldiers Protest Against
Atrocities.
Thus the teachings of the German
War Book and of the German apostles
of frightfulness, suspicion, and hatred,
had now begun to bear their
natural fruit. But the voice of protest
was not entirely silent. A considerable
number of German soldiers
who were shocked by the German
atrocities were sent to Ambassador
Gerard, because he was the representative
of the United States, the leading
neutral nation. The three letters
which follow, in translation, were received
by the American ambassador
from German soldiers. They were
obtained for the pamphlet from Secretary
Grew; they illustrate both the
system and the horror of it, which
| the writers felt.
i Here is the protest of a German |
i soldier, an eye-witness of the slaugh!
ter of Russian soldiers in the Masu1
! rian lakes and swamps:
"It was frightful, heart rending, j
as these masses of human beings were j
driven to destruction. Above the ter-1
rible thunder of the cannon could be
heard the heart rending cries of the
j Russians: 'O Prussians! O Prus-1
sians!?but there was'no mercy. Our!
captain had ordered: "That the j
whole lot must die; so rapid fire.' As j
1 have heard, five men and one officer
on our side went mad from those
heart rending cries. But most of
nnnirorloc fl n H tll?? nffipprc iflkprf
as the unarmed and helpless Russians !
shrieked for mercy while they were |
being suffocated in the swamps and j
shot down. The order was: 'Close |
up and at it harder:' For days afterwards
those heart rending yells followed
me and I dare not think of
them or I shall go mad. There is 110
God, there is 110 mortality and no
ethics any more. There are no hu-!
man beings any more, but only
beasts. Down with militarism.
"This was the experience of a Prussian
soldier. At present wounded;
Berlin, October 22, 1914.
"If you are truth-loving man',
please receive these lines from a common
Prussian soldier."
The Door Called John.
A few weeks ago the Youth's Com- ;
panion reported two or three stange
and amusing courtships of New
England tradition. A reader was
moved to add another to the list?
this time a Quaker one. In a small
town, of which about half the population
were Quakers, two blethers,
John and Joseph, shared a farm that
adjoined the property of Sarah, a
spinster in early middle life. Both
brothers in their youth had been
obvious suitors for Sarah's hand;
but they were slow and diffident,
and neither/ ever reached the point
of proposing. Then an enterprising
and audacious young woman, who
belonged to "tlie world's people,"
somewhat extracted a proposal from
Joseph?or dispensed with one? and
married him. After several years of
matrimony she died, leaving him
with two little girls. As soon
as propriety permitted he betook
himself to his spinster neighbor's,
and, according to local traditions,
spoke thus:
"It is borne in upon me, Sarah,
that thee would make an excellent
wife."
"I have no leading to contradict
thee, Joseph," replied the lady demurely.
"Also, Sarah, I believe thee competent
to be an admirable mother."
"Thy judgment is to be respected,
Joseph."
"Thy housekeeping is well esteemed,
Sarah. The worfien say there is
no better housekeeper in this place."
"I ' am assured thee would not
listen to light gossip, Joseph."
"Then, Sarah, will thee marry
me?"
"Nay, Joseph, I am not moved to
consent. But?thee may repeat thy
kind words about me to thy brother
John if thee thinks best."
"So that thee will enter the family,
Sarah, and care for the household,
I care not by which door thee comes 1
in. I have no further inclination to- *
ward the married state for foolish i
reasons."
"Whether my reasons are foolish 1
or no, Joseph, I will only come if I ]
am bidden by the door called John." ,
It was by the door called John j
that she was soon welcomed, to rule 1
gently and to order wisely a double (
family.
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JP ford's ^Black-Draught^as
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SUSPECT YOUR KIDNEYS
Too Many Bamberg People Neglect
Early Symptoms of Kidney
T rouble.
If your back is lame?if you fee.
dull, tired and all-worn-out?
If you have hard headaches, backaches
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If the kidney seeretiens are disordered?
Suspect your kidneys and "take &
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Use Doan's Kidney Pills, the timetried,
home-endorsed kidney remedy.
It may save you from some serious
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Make use of the experience of Mrs.
Bessie Atteberry, Railroad Ave..
Bamberg. She says: "My kidneys
were weak and I had headaches;
when I got up in the morn'ng 1 could
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spells. Sometimes dark objects
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I knew from other symptoms my kidneys
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that I have very little kidney trouble
now."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
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High Soap Prices Arouse
interest in Home Made Soap |j
jj
Women all over the country are H
saving money by making their own jj
soap. Try this:
First, set a large can or jar in your S
kitchen; throw into it all meat skin, I
waste grease, bones and other kit- I
chen scrap that has any grease in g
it or on it. jj
I When the can or'jar is full, render
it (by boiling) and you will obtain
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| batch of dandy soap, cheaper and
purer than any you can buy.
With Grease and Red Devil Lye
You will find home soap-making
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making soap by the cold process
or by boiling.
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other ingredients are actually saved
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TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
:or the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
L5th day of October, 1917, until the
L5th day of March, 1918, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
L918, until the 31st day of January,
L918, a penalty of one per cent, will
)e added to all unpaid taxes. From
:he 1st day of February, 1918, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
:o all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
lay of March, 1918, until the 15th
lay of March, 1918, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
;axes.
THE LEVY. v
Por State purposes 8% mills
For county purposes 7^ mills
Constitutional school tax....3 mills
Total 19 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
rhree Mile, No. 4 2 mills
Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
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DUiora s Jtsnage, i^o. < & mmo
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
Salem, No. 9 4 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 8 mills
Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills
Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Oakland, No. 15 8 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills
Colston, No. IS 4 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6!? mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills
Loes, No. 23 4 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate veterans and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of Jan
uary, 1917, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1918.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the loth day of October, 1917, until
the 1st dav of March, 1918.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect the Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE
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