The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 29, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 2S. Xo. 22.
Thursday, May 29, 1919.
"Now I Know What a German Is."
A prominent citizen of Roubaix,
France, who was held for a long
time in Germany as a hostage, one of
200 taken from that city for that
purpose, has recently been able to
communicate for the first time with
relatives living in New Jersey. In
the course of the intimacy of a family
letter addressed to one of his American
kin, this Frenchman has given,
with no thought that his words would
ever reach the public, some account
of the hardships endured. From that
letter, omitting the purely family
portion, we are permitted to publish
a brief account of the barbarism of
the Germans. In the course of his
letter, this Frenchman said:
"There has been nothing and there
is no language able to tell all the
barbarism that the fierce enemy has
made us endure. They took our supplies
such as rice, coffee, lard, chocolate
and flour and they gave us in
return filthy, slimy, sour cabbage cut
fine like tobacco. When a member i
of our supply committee rebelled for
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the people, he was put. m ynsuu auu
when he was given any food to eat
or drink it was always a piece of hard j
bread and some water. The bread
that they gave us has no name; it
was terrible. The Germans had taken
all of our flour. The cabbage they
gave us had to be cooked for a long
time before we could eat it, but they'
did not give us any coal to cook it
with. One time we had been for I
seven weeks with only raw cabbage,
f It was terrible.
"We were not able to go from one
city to another to get a^y provisions
without penalty of prison or punishment.
If one was given special permission
to leave Roubaix he was given
a pass which he had to turn over
to the police upon his return. The
use of meat was forbidden under the
penalty of two years in prison and
10,000 marks of a fine. The recovery
of all this deprivation and cruelty is
almost impossible. In leaving our
poor country devastated the Boche
took and destroyed the bridges, all
the railroad lines and all the waterways,
making it impossible for us to
reach our neighboring cities, and
here and everywhere is always the
same system of destruction. In the
newspapers the Germans demanded
the inhabitants to form their habits
and their ways under penalty of pun-|
ishment in prison. One could not
have more than two pairs of shoes?
one pair on their feet and one pair,
in reserve. The leather had all disappeared
entirely, and one wondered
where there was any to be had. Many
times during the day throughout the
occupation of the enemy each sqirad
of soldiers had to demand different
things at a time, in a manner that
the taking of the things from the
people was absolute uncertainty.
They took the rugs from our floors,
and after that the linen, then the underwear,
and the balance in succession.
The metals?copper, nickel,
silver, lead, zinc, etc.?are all gone.
At one time they would come and
take away the works of our clocks,
and later the clocks. For $20 worth
of copper they did not hesitate to destroy
things that were valued at $2,000.
From the inhabitants they demanded
all the objects of art. One
time it was all the ornaments of the
parlor, the artistic objects of bronze
or copper; another time it was the
candlesticks, tne religious anicies,
and all the heirlooms of the family,
large and small. Just to satisfy their
wishes to get a handful of copper
which were found on our furniture,
pianos, on the doors, on the windows
and other mountings, they destroyed
everything. The excuse was
made that they cut down the fruit
trees for fuel, and they took and cut
down even all the trees in our gardens.
One could not have any chickens
without being obliged to furnish
the enemy almost all the eggs. Horses
had to he taken care of and kept in
good condition under penalty of prison.
They did not give us during a
period of six months any food, grain
or straw for the horses. All this and
what I have written is nothing,
nothing, nothing.
"Besides this, they came at 2
o'clock in the morning and took away
all of the young girls and hoys of 14
years of age. This was done in all
the houses without distinction, and
the children were deported to Germany
and put to work. The young
girls who did not want to work were
hung up by their hands. The work
they were forced to do was tc fill
bags with earth for the enemy to use
in their trenches. The Germans took
200 hostages from Roubaix, the most
prominent among the priests, ministers,
lawyers and architects, and interned
them in a prison camp in Germany.
I have been a hostage with
them and now I know what a German
is.
' They took over all the factories,
'mo^hinerv. mnls. etc. Thev even
took away all of our knives and forks
from our homes. But the most brutal
and cruel thing which they did was
to take away all of the beds. They
took the beds and cots from the old
and from the sick in the hospitals
and from the inhabitants, and would
not permit the use of straw for us to
sleep upon because it was needed in
the trenches."
Here is a story of inhumanity
which, while it does not deal with
some of the crimes committed by
Germany, shows the \pleness of the
campaign of that nation of looters as
it looted Roubaix and forced its people
to endure privations and sufferings
which were enough to have
broken the hearts and destroyed the
lives of almost any people on earth.
What was done in that town was
only in keeping with the definite plan
of the German nation to loot wherever
^hings could be looted and carried
back to Germany, and to destroy
wherever looting was not profitable.
Let it be borne in mind that a similar
story could be written by a million
Frenchmen, and even things far
worse could be told by many tens of
thousands. It was not simply the
German government that carried on
these crimes?it was the German soldiers
backed by the government and
by the people back at home, men,
women and children who gloated in
having their sons and their husbands
and fathers in this campaign of murder
and looting. And shall we let
such people go unpunished??Manufacturers
Record.
Blackville Personals.
Blackville, May 24.?Mr. and Mrs.
Faust DeWitt, of Washington, D. C.,
are spending a while with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brown motored
over to Orangeburg Sunday.
Mr. Heyward Williamson, of Pensacola,
Fla., is visiting his grandmother,
Mrs. Hammond.
Mrs. Robert Ayer and little son,
Robert, Jr., spent last week-end in
Bamberg wTith Mrs. Ayer's mother,
Mrs. C. E. Simmons. '
Mnrrie "Ri^h rtf OraTH?phnrep
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spent- Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Rika Rich.
Mr. Charles Duncan, of Bath, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. Duncan.
Miss Nanaline DeWitt, of Jackson,
spent last week-end with her mother,
Mrs. Pauline DeWitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Browning
spent several days in Columbia.
The Wednesday Afternoon Book
Club met at the residence of Mrs.
Sam Lowe.
Mr. Charles Lyons, who has been
spending several months at the
Shamrock hotel, returned to his
home/in, New York.
Mrs. Charlie Kearse, of Allendale,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Halford.
Mrs. J. M. Farrell has returned,
after a very pleasant visit to Mt.
Clemons, Mich.
Lieuts. Grones and Lewis, who
have been stationed at Pensacola,
Fla., for the past nine months, have
received their discharge and are now
! with Dr. Grones's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. F. Grones. at the Shamrnr.k
hotel.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, May 26.?We are still
having heavy rains, and the crops
are beginning to look yellow and bad,
especially the corn, but we are in
hopes that the beautiful sunshine will
bring back its green color again.
The Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
B. D. Bishop were Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Clayton, Mr. Sammie Clayton
and Mr. Addie.
Messrs. Marion McMillan and
Dawson Kearse were visitors in Orangeburg
Saturday afternoon and
night.
The many friends of Mr. Jerald
Kearse are glad to see him home
again, after being in Uncle Sam's
service for some time past.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton and
little sons, Johnnie and Ernest,
dined with Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Clayton
Sunday.
Miss Laura McMillan, of Bamberg,,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McMillan.
The friends of Mrs. W. P. McMillan
learn with regret of her illness,
and we hope for her a speedy recov
erv.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Zeigler, of
Ehrhardt, dined with Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Beard Sunday.
Beach Attendant (excitedly)?Do
not go in. There are man-eating
sharks in the water.
Fair Bather (coldly)?I'm not a
man.?Judge.
HOLD CLASS REUNION.
Winthrop Graduates of 1912 Meet at
College Xext Week.
Union, May 24.?The members of
the class of 1912 of Winthrop college
for the first time since their
graduation are planning a reunion at
the college during commencement
week, June 1-3. The president of
the class, Miss Leona Thomasson,
who has been in China as a missionary
since her graduation, is at home
on furlough, and her former classmates
are especially anxious to meet
together this year in order that she
may be with them.
Indications are that a large mini
ber of the class will attend. Miss
Alma Black, of Bamberg, who has
been working up the reunion, has
heard from ttie majority of the class,
most of whom expressed great enthusiasm
and promised to be present.
Some, on account of the longer
school term, will be prevented from
coming. Many interesting features
have been planned. One afternoon
there will be a tea on the rustic
bridge on the back campus, the parting
gift of the class to their alma
mater, at which each girl will give
a brief account of her career for the
past seven years.
All those who are unable to attend
are requested to send to Miss Ludie
Jordan, Union, S. C., a short autobiography,
covering the period since
1912. It is hoped that from these
sketches an interesting booklet may
be made. Those who have not yet
communicated with Miss Alma Black
are requested to do so at once.
To Honor Miss Thomasson.
Miss Leona Thomasson, of Rock
Hill, is to be honored by a reunion
of the class of 1912 of Winthrop college,
June 1, 2 and 3.
During her four college years she
was the popular president of the
Class. Alter ner graduation sue
taught- in Bamberg for one year. In
the fall of 1913 she left the States
for China, where she has worked for>
more than five years.
Miss Thomasson was held in high
esteem by the faculty at Winthrop
college and was beloved by the entire
student body. Her clasmates
take this opportunity to welcome her
back to South Carolina.
Great Demand for Sugar.
The United States sugar equalization
board issued a statement Sunday
warning American distributors
that unless they place orders early
they may not be able to obtain sufficient
sugar to meet the demands of
the canning season.
"Reports from Europe," said the
statement, "indicate an even greater
demand for sugar than was expected.
As soon as shipping is more plentiful
so that Europe may begin importing
its sugar supplies in larger quanti|
ties the demand on American refineries
will be so heavy that they will
find difficulty in caring for orders
that will come in later from American
dealers."
NOTICE
Of Special Meeting of Stockholders of
Bamberg Banking Company,
Bamberg, S. C.
Notice is hereby given that a special
meeting of the stockholders of
the Bamberg Banking Company, of
Bamberg, S. C., is called to be held
at the offices of the said Bank, at
Bamberg, S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m.
on the 20th day of June, 1919, to
consider a resolution determined upon
by the Board of Directors of the
said Bank to increase the capital
stock of the said Bamberg Banking
Company to an amount not more
than One Hundred and Fifty ThouCQtlfl
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By G. Frank Bamberg, President.
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