THF, BEE: OMAHA. SATTI.DA V, NF.PTKMBKR .Y, lflU.
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GERMAN ACCOUNT
OFBELGIANHORRORS
Newspaper Man Lays Entire Blame
Upon Civilians Who Re
sisted Invaders.
WOUNDED WERE MUTILATED
Hectares Desolation In Ariiij'" WUp.
Intnl. hnt Contend It Wan
Ttrnuaht thool b Trfrh
ITT of Popnlntlon,
n 'nrropnnrtpnt of the AAkn'IMp 1 frr-ssl
HKni.IX. Sfit. 21. "A rry of IndiicnH
llon lins bppn called forth tluoiiRtinut the
world," writes V. Scheuermann, n for-
rrsponilent of several Herman newsp- ,
pet!", who nreompanled the Oeimnn staff.
"1y the stalled cruelty with which the
c.ermans are carrying on this war. In ;
hII countries that get their news throURh I
Knftllsh and French sources, stories of i
Herman barharlsin arc repeated. It Is.
therefore, d'UiMy the duty for a war cor- j
respondent, who can speak of what his ,
r.wn eyes have seen, to report whet he,
saw and what he ran answer1 for before I
the forum of historical truth. .
"I have spent days In the worst Franc
Tireur regions of Kelgluin and France.
My firt Impressions of the horrors of
war wire obtained at Battlce, on tho
road ffom Alchen to l.lero. where fight
ing took )ilnce between Franc-Tlreurs
-.nd our soldiers. Instead of flourishing
vlllna.es. with neat houses and villas, one
eees there today charred ruins stretching
slons t"e highway for a mile.
Tlllaare Kntlreljr Borneo".
- I saw things there that I shall re-n-ember
as long as I live. I passed
through E village that was quite burned
i ut, whet-i' only a few Oerman soldiers
were standing gunrd no other living be
ings visible anywhere. Tint when I cam
to the doorway of. a house that haf
fallen In I saw In what had probably been
the living room, a white-haired woman
with a klUhuii knife raking in the de
bris. I called to her. She did not hear
i:v Her face was like a gray stone, and
her eyes fixed as In death. She looked
rs if she wag expecting to find some
thins tinder the fallen bricks.
"In h front garcen. which had been
Rcurc'ned by the flames, a woman In a
black dress was crouching and weeping.
! h:!ve stood at many an open grave in
the church yard, but I have never heard
anybody weep like that woman. The
sound of it will ring In my ears forever
an one of the most terrible experiences
of my life.
"Kven the petty losses of property ar-
painful to see. In the upper story of omi
bouse everything had been destroyed by
fire, but In one corner hung the discol
ored pictgre of a woman probably long
dead. At one place a blue enameled
hild's bedstead peers out of the smoking
debr s htlll filled with Its scorched mat
tiesses and pillows. Whoever has a child
at home In Its snow white bed
llnrls a torse.
"Hut a curse and thrlec a curse on
thoM who caused all thia misery. For
iliem there Is no punishment in this
world sufficient to atone for their evil
deed. And when they now denounce our
brave warriors as the cause of this deso
lwtion, this latter slander, shameful as it
Is, does nut weigh much In comparison
with that they actually did.
"Our German soldiers and landwehr
men marched Into tho country of the
enemy with the same order and discipline
that they maintain on tho drill ground
and In army maneuvers. Wherever we
came we guaranteed to the inhabitants
security for life and property; we are
waging war with the armies of an enemy,
not with civilians. In Battlce the Ger
man proclamation promising the Belgians
peace end the integrity of their territory
was still seen on the walls of the burned
houses.
Fell on lirrmina la Mbt,
"Now what happened in Battice, Cler
mont, Herve, Fleron and other Belgian
places was, with singular similarity, as
follows:
"The Inhabitants let. the Germans
inarch in. received them with TrlnUnK
friendliness, offered them wine In super
fluity and then fell on them at night. It
goes without sayingfor mere self
preservation demanded ' It that every
murdered German was avenged. When
the murderers could be caught they were
brought before a court-martial and If
their guilt was evident they were shot
or hanged.
"All this was done in perfect order.
How far the self-control of our troops
ex tended .was proved to me by an example
only day before yesterday. At the en
trance to the French fortress of Longwy,
lust completed, I saw German soldiers
bring In a troop of Franc-Tireurs, quite
old fellows, and among them a few com
mon thieves scarcely beyond schoolboy
age, all of them with criminal faces of
the hardest type. I'ity that we did not
photograph them so that the world might
see what hideous scamps are killing our
men.
" 'What did these men do?' demanded
an officer. 'They put on Red Cross
scarfs, then went on the battelfield md
mutilated our wounded. We caught them
in the act,' was the reply.
" 'Why didn't you beat the Bcoundrels
to death at once?' 'Wo dare not do that.
They must be brought before a court
martial.' Hyenas of BattlefteJa".
"The reader should know what was the
character of this mutilation. The" eyes
of our wounded men, lying helpless in
their pain on the battlefield, were cut out
with knives. But this was not by far
the most cruel thing these beasts in
vented. Old and young men and women
were caught as hyenas of the battlefield I
and they received their reward. J
"At Vise a 16-year-old girl had to be
shot because she was caught In the act
of mutilating our wounded.
"There is no mercy for such deeds, and
there can be none. I should like to know
vi hat other people In the world possess
the same self-restraint In the presence of
such thameful crimes, to wait and bring
the criminals before a court.
"Beyond all doubt, this Franco-Tiieur
warfare against us was organised, other
wise it would be Impossible to x plain
the uniform character of the mutilitlons,
ct tacks on field hospitals, where physi
cians, tho wounded and even the nurses
fell victims of these predatory rascals;
in the attacks In villages and cities, the
same tactics were repeated over and over
gain. Suddenly the entire village Is in
-possession of unns and In two cases even
ut machine guns.
Priest Dlatribates Arms.
"In Ktalle, between Arlon and Sedan,
tlie priest was caught in the act of dis
tributing arms and ammunition to his
isrishoncrs. In Clermont, on the other
band, the priest tried in vain to dissuaue
the citizens from listening to the mayor.
tn j simc them s'ni" and inMtgat
inj tbrm h. f;i no the Germans from
embtish. But ccn where the j.eopi
Cited front th.- icr on our columns us
they msr' heil tlirntuh. v. e ilnl not ;nk
tbn bole t It :i Kn re;ions iM Put only
totmeil and Inn red the bouse from
Ahich hot were fired.
"In lierbe. Fleron and other villages
there are Ikiii.km standing between others
that wet- burned down. On thel- l ot s
are written !n chalk, such wc.nl
these: i louse searched, everything in or
il.T." 'Good people, spire tlirm," 'Inmates
absent, spare house," "Husband Is soldier
In the field, spit re house.
"Such chivalry Is practiced towards an
ahsent enemy Inhabitants of houses
which did not rise im.iltist us srf en
joying security. Our landwehr men, that
are 1I1M.-I upon the inhabitants, sit be
fore their doors and ""hat with them, or
play with their child! en and think
doubtless, of those tiny left nt home. I
saw one of our soldiers feeding the stock
of the lonclv woman with whom he
lodged. Another held the baby in order
that its mother mlvlit do the cooking.
"Such are the Germans here in a hostile
country, good natured and ready to help.
What vllllanles must have been committed
to convert these good fellows Into raging
avengers of their fallen nnd muMlated
comrades. Certainly It was not the will
of our soldiers that death and fire should
hold, carnival in the houses of civilians
What they did, they .'an answer for. and
so can the German nat' n answer for its
sons bearing themselves with nonor in
this war."
Swedish Government
Sells Stock Locally
for New Steamships
! A direct steamship line between Sweden
j and America is soon to be realized, ac
cording to Henry Sknnt7.n of Gothenburg,
Sweden, who is in Omaha making ar
rangements through th Swedish Noon
day club for the sale of some stocks In
the project. He talked before the Noon
day club, slating the proposition. The
SweMlsh government has subsidized the
company to the extent of IIIB.OOO per an
num, and 19 also arranging a loan of
S10.K:0. In return the ships of this line
are to serve as emergency cruisers for
the navy. Stock to the sum of SI, "00.000 Is
already subscribed in Sweden, according
to the statement of Mr. Skantze.
"I have already secured $:i"0,0O0 In
America." b said, "and have the work
i so organized that it may now go ahead
here. 1 shall have to go back now, as ire
company is to incorporate October IB."
Two fast steamers are to be. built for
the line, each of about 19,000 tons. It Is
the hope of the Swedish business men and
the Swedish government that many tour
ists can In this way be drawn to Sweden,
w here, there Is much scenery of note.
Notes from Beatrice
and Gage County
BF.ATIUCE. Neb., Sept. 25. (Special.)
i Kobhers paid a visit to Wymore Wednes
I day night and entered the safes in the
offices of the f armers jierciianm num
ber company and the Searle & Chapin
dumber company. At the former place
they secured fcii In cash, but were evi
dently frightened away from the latter
office, as they obtained nothing for their
trouble. Two men were arrested at
Odell. supposed to be implicated in the
deal. They are supposed to 1e the same
parties who rcbbefl the lumber office at
Odell Tuesday night.
Ben Hagerman, Who was seriously In
jured Tuesday afternoon In the explosion
In Black Brothets' mill, is slowly Im
proving and it is now thought that he
will recover.
Mrs. rtena Brown died suddenly at He
witt Thursday, aged t:l years. She Is
survived by no family except her hus
band. The remains were taken to Klm
woorl. Neb., for interment.
Mrs. C. C. Wells of Kllis, her mn and
his wife, were badly bruised Wednesday
night when their touring cap ran Into a
ditch Wft of the city and turned over.
Mr. Wells, who was driving the car, es
caped unhurt.
Judge V aldn was called out of bed
Thursday morning at T o'clock to issue a
marriage licence to Walter Hlchnrds of
this city and Miss Ethel Weddle of I'iller.
The judge responded and tted the knot.
RUIN IN WAKE OF GERMANS'
At Intervals Are New Made Graves
Without Cross or Stone.
HORSES TAKEN FROM FIELDS
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I llrlloiv from lecrtel llama and
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al One Place Dost t.nard
tlmndnnril llnelllna..
! r.nTTK.HIAM. Sept. II -t Correspond- !
ietue ol ,he Associated Press. -My j
imagining the sweep of a flood tide up a'
broad, tidal river, one can picture the !
jiiinance or the German army tMrotigh
i IteUium now creeping, now racing, It de
! fled resistance with each forward lunge,
j Temporarily deflected at such points as
i. uge and .Nanitir. the body of It moved
Irresistibly forward, engulfing what It
could not Immediately destroy.
The result is a rumpled, depleted coun
try, slrewn with the flotsam of this pass
ing tide scattered French epaulets and
torn uniforms ground Into the soli, shal
low trench, r tilled with French guns
broken at the stock, and French knap
sacks with their contents spilled over the
landsc apt .
Al intirvals there are new made graves
without a cross or stone to mark them,
and In even village, hospitals, churches,
villas and chauteaux, crowded with the
wounded. Fields which have escaped
the scourge and whose harvests still
stand in giant haycocks, only emphasise
the surrounding waste.
The Impression Is not to be given, how
ever, that the greater part of Belgium
or even the section over which the Ger
mans have pahsed, has been left In cin
ders and rtilny. it the sudden flight of
the Inhabitants that has given the coun
try Its chief appearance of desolation.
In bay fields, mowing machines nnd csrts
arc to bc found in the exact position In
which they wcro left by the farmers in
the midst of n il iy g work, with the prints
of tho hoofs stiowing where the horses
bad Keen led away by German soldiers.
loors or houses still remained open,
cattle nellowed from deserted barns, and
half fliiUin; glasses of weak Belgian
cognac marked places where groups had
gathered and hastily dispersed.
In this area not a human soul moved
or hreatite.l. n WHS like the unearthing
of an ancient city like Pompeii, stricken
in the midst of its dally occupations with
out a sign of impending catastrophe.
in one house a neglected canary pecked
at the bars of its cage and a Belgian
shepherd dog solemnly guarded the door.
Teutons Lose 25,000
Men at Verdun
PA HIS, Sept. :B.-(::5 a. m.)-The
Matin publishes a dispatch from Basel,
Switzerland, credited to the Fournler
agency, which says that Germans In
flight from Lorraine declare that during
the attack on the entrenched camp at
Verdun the Austrlans and Germans had
10.0CO dead and 15.000 wounded. Many of
the wounded died where they fell. It Is
stated, owing to a lark of prompt treatment.
DEADWOOD MAN ARRESTED
ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
Sl-PKItlOR, Neb., Sept. 25. (Special
Telegram.) George I. McClellan of Desd
wood, S. I, was arrested by the Superior
Police late Monday night. He was taken
to Headwood, where he Is wanted on a
charge of embeizlement.
McClelland apparently was not In the
least concerned and Is reported to have
paid for his own guard at the hotel dur
ing his stay, Instead of being taken to
the city jail while waiting for the sherlrf
to arrive.
Snffraare TalW at Plattainnnlh.
P1.ATTSMOCTH, Neb., Sept. 2i.-(Spo-clal.)
Miss Jane Thompson, one of the
orators working under the auspices of the
Nntlonnl Association for Woman Suf
frage, addrtsKeil a large audience in the
First Methodist Episcopal church In this
city this afternoon. Miss Thompson while
here was the guest at the home of Dr.
T. V. Livingston.
The Clothes Berg Sells
Are the verv hmcrhtnf r.lnsc refinement, stvln
and quality, regardless of price. They will add yf,
tone to any man's appearance, and they offer a
cHtiuuo living uuaiuc.
Today wo emphasize and specialize two prices to?"?
to and.
We are anxious to have you know and wear our
clothes and invite you here especially to view the new
models and patterns and remarkable values we offer
for one day (Saturday), at $15.00 and $18.00.
You won't sco anything in Ihnnhn liko them, wo Kiiarnntoo that, ami also
that you can easily save a neat sum by taking advantage of this opportunity
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For those who are not Interested in J 15.00 and I1S.O0 Suits, we want to mention the furt
that we have a splendid assortment at f.7.50, f.10.00 nnd 9l2.no and at $20.00, $2il.r0, $'J."V.OO,
S.IO.OO, $;?.VOt and 9I0.OO, RiM-menta of rttra ordinal-) high class.
Berg s
Hats. raps.
H h 1 r t s,
blouses,
underwe n. r
from 4 B e
up.
Sweat era
from $1XK
to $4.00.
Boys' Suit Special
Parents who have not a'-
eaily taken advantage
of this special of
fer should do so at
once.
Those suits have
two pairs of pants
many of wlneh are t til I
lined and made up in the
new model Xorfolks. Don't delay.
.Join the erowd and buy the boy's suit
Saturday.
Fine Selection of Overcoats for Boys
and Children Chinchillas, Scotch and
English Tweeds fabrics, $2.50 to $15.
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Fall Furnishings
Xew Shirts, $1.00 up.
Swell Neckwear, 50c up.
rnderwear, $1.00 up.
Xew styles in Sweaters,
$1.00 up.
Gloves for street and
dress, $1.00 up.
Hosiery, 25c, 35c, 50c.
Balmacaans
For stylish, skillfully tail
ored Overvats, properly
priced, that will fit all
manner of men, our coats
surely fill the bill--Haglftn
HlioulderH, silk yoke
nnd ttleeves, noft roll patch
pockets, cloth and velvet col
lars and shower nroof checks,
plaids, Scotch mixtures
$7.50 to $25.00
A Stylish Hat
Showing grace and good taste in
ovorv line is hound to be admired.
Present dav stvle, attractive colors
and band combinations and fine
materials are found in choice selec
tions here. We recommend them
because we think they are the best
Hats in town -$2.00, $2.50, $3.00.
Stetsons $3.50 to $5.C0.
It Your Xew Kail Hnt be from llerg's.
3n
(liiehlliiu's I, on Kelt.
The Io.hs of Southpaw Joe PoehlitiR Is
a severe blow to t'lark Griffith's Wash
ington tfani. Joe will be out of the frame
during the remnlnder of the season on
account of un Injured Unee.
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Food For M Growing Children
f v rr
not give them too much
meat. Meat overheats the
system and, besides, a lot
of meat is not necessary,
for there are other foods
that are just as nutri
tious and some
more so than
meat. One of
the finest ex
amples of a
meat substi- .
tute is (
Now is the
time when
your children
should be eat
ing whole
some, nutri
tious foods,
so that they
may develop
and grow to
strong man
and woman
hood. Be
sure you do
CUT MACARONI
A single 10c package of this wholesome food contains four times the
nutrition of meat. It builds up. makes bone and muscle. It is
the food that is very rich in jluten. You should five your chil
dren Fsust Macaroni often. It makes an excellent dinner snd.
when cooked njht. it is appetizing and delicious to the last
oibci. omu mr iiee recipe dook. ana una out now many
different ways this economical food can be prepared.
5c and 10c packages buy today
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$7,000 for Invalids
Any Publication
Kvery Order or Heaewsl Karns
no eeats. Tin Year Offers Caaat
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Woman's Home
Companion .... $1.50
American 1.50
Either Two Years . . . 2.00
Both to any address . 2,00
Cosmopolitan $1.50
Hearst's 1.50
Good Housekeeping.. . 1.50
Either Two Years .. 2.00
Everybody's $1.50
Delineator 1.50
Either Two Years . . . 2.00
Both to same address . 2.00
Mava
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The Ladies Home Journal . . $1.50
The Saturday Evening Post . 1.50
The Country Gentlemai ... 1.50
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