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Show SERIOUS CHARGES HEITOIMIT Spencer Eddy Relates Incident Inci-dent of Alleged Brutality of German Soldiers. (Special Cable by Arrangement T?Ith London Dally Telegraph and International News Service. ) LONDON, Sept. 14. One. of the most horrifying tales of alleged German atrocities atroci-ties yet brought from the continent was told tonight by Spencer Eddy, whose experiences ex-periences over a period of twenty years In the diplomatic service of the United States Include being, charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg during the Japanese-Russian war, secretary of the embassies at various times at London, Paris, Constantinople Constan-tinople and St. Petersburg and Berlin and United States minister to Argentina and Rumania. Mr. Eddy reached London last night after spending the whole period since the war began in northwestern France, where he assisted In the Red Cross work in several hospitals. "When war was first declared," Eddy said, "I was living at a villa at Deuville. but Immediately all the men servants and later the women left, the former to join their colors and the latter to ' act as nurses. "I was stranded, but determined at least to see something of the hostilities, so I joined the Red Cross as a volunteer. "What I have seen enables me to say that never since history was first written writ-ten have soldiers proved themselves such utter beasts, so utterly devoid of the rudiments or" decency as have the Germans Ger-mans in this war. "This is a sweeping statement. 1 believe, be-lieve, but the atrocities that these troops have perpetrated make the ugliest barbarities bar-barities of the American Indians appear as childish pranks In contrast. "Most of the things I have seen aro too appalling to tell, much less to print but here is one of the least shocking instances of German brutality, about which I find here, in London there still seems to be considerable doubt. "A young French cuirassier with three bullets in his abdomen was brought to a hospital at TrouvMliere, where I was working early in the fighting. I helped carry htm to a cot. He knew he was dying and asked for a priest to administer ad-minister final absolution. "While we waited for the priest to come T asked him if he had seen any atrocities. atroci-ties. " 'No he replied weakly. T did not have much of j& chance. I was wounded the second day in action. The only thing I saw like that was when after a t'orccd retreat we trot a chance to breathe on the bank of a brook. " 'Riirht beside me, banging from a willow wil-low tree, were two cuirassiers suspended bv their feet. Both had their tongues cut out. When we cut them down one was dead and the other dying.' "And it must be impressed on the public's pub-lic's mind that this sort of atrocity Is the mildest kind that the Germnnu ri.ve j practiced. A Brit ish army snn.-1'nn ha s given me his word that the German are inflicting unmentionable mutilations un nil French and British prisoners and the wounded that fall Into their hands. Ninety per cent of the men so mutilated bleed to death on the spot. Most of t he others blow out their brains if thev have a shot left. "Men a re not the only ones who re-i re-i reive the attentions of these brutes. In a London hospital at thi? moment are two Red Cross nurses, young women, whose wounds. If not fatai, are sucii & to make living a hideous mockery." |