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Show DECLARES GERMANS ARE NOT CIVILIZED Comment Is Made Upon Their Brutality Bru-tality by an American Medical Officer. WTTH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. 9. Compared to the Cer-man Cer-man soldier of today, who before the war was supposed to oe civilized, the American Ameri-can Indian of frontier days is declared by an American medical officer to have been highly civilized. "The Indian never pretended to be anything any-thing but a savage." said the medical officer, of-ficer, "while the Germans have been pretending pre-tending to be peace loving and human for the past century." Deliberate killing by German troops of Red Cross workers engaged in their work of mercy on the battlefields has aroused the wrath of American army officers. It is asserted that all during the Marne battle bat-tle the German aviators ;swept low over field dressing stations, pouring machine-gun machine-gun bullets into the medical units as they tended the wounded and dropping bombs oti hospitals, although the Red Cross insignia, in-signia, was In plain view. The Hun snipers picked off Red Cross stretcher bearers as Quickly as combatant soldiers. "They acted Just like cornered rats." declared an American infantry officer, "except that most of them did not have the courage to fight to the death. When they were surrounded and had no chance, they would come out of their machine-srun machine-srun nests with tears In their eyes and cries of 'Kamerad.1 The German soldier in a pleading attitude is the most loathe-i loathe-i some and despicable lrnginable.' |