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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1914)
THF, BEE: OMAHA. SATTI.DA V, NF.PTKMBKR .Y, lflU. 5 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 i it..... . ... i ..r, , ,,...,-. iirinam ..pen, amr , I llrlloiv from lecrtel llama and I 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 (f 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. IfiMf 1111 a W 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. mm. t a IV ' Tk " . laifiBi iinin iiian nil smimi '&.&jf'limmmmmmmmwmmmHmmBHmun 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. 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