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Show HON ATROCITIES ARE OFFICIAL AND NEVER CEASE, SAYS MURPHY Red Cross Hero Tells What Americans Must Expect From the Kaiser's Inhuman Soldiery. NEW YORK. Jan. 2?.. Warning of the atroi-ities. horrible, hor-rible, brutal, beastly and consistently official," that American soldiers soon -will be suffering at the hands of Germany's inhuman army, was voiced in an address here tonight by Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, formerly in charge .of the American Red Cross work in France, who returned to tliis country Sunday. Major Murphy resigned from the Red Cross to join the staff of General Pershing. "I cannot describe the horrible things that Germany has done to women and. children and poor, old, suffering people in countries where she has set her dreadful foot,'" Major Murphy said. "British officers lold of scores of wounded English soldiers piled in heaps and then bombarded with hand grenades. It will be but a short time before our boys are going to suffer those same things. You have got to build, and sacrifice, no matter what it costs, to beat that beast." HUNS HOLD 50,000,000 SLAVES. Building up the spirit of the people behind the lines in Europe is the great work of the Red Cross, the speaker declared. de-clared. Contributors to the Red Cross in this country have thus become one of the largest factors in the war, he said. "Up to this day . Germany is victorious in this war," Major Murphy continued. "Any peace that is made on tlie basis of today's conditions would be practically a eomplelc victory for Itcrinany and for the German idea. Germany has lost nothing in this war but blood. She has fought so far on the territory of others. She lias drawn from the ' territory of others vast supplies of materials and vast sums of money. She has had between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 people working for her for practically no wage really as slaves. She has established her cursed hold on Austria, on Turkey and on Bulgaria, and she has at her feet murdered Serbia and unfortunate Rumania. ENGLISH WOMEN CARRIED POISON. "If the war ended today, with France ruined in (lie north, Belgium wrecked, with Great Britain fearfully damaged, dam-aged, with Russia crumbled and disorganized and an absolute abso-lute prey ' to the devilish mechanism and ingenuity of war, the world would not have a chance to live except as Germany said that world should live. In time she would cross the ocean and throw her great military and naval power against us. If we can't beat her now, while fighting with our allies, we can never expect to beat her single-handed. "An English woman told me that when there whs a j threat of a German invasion, the women carried poison about with them to save themselves from what they would face if German troops landed." |