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Show SOLDIER OF KAISER HACKS HAND OF HUNGRY BOY French Poilu Fresh From Front Describes Brutality Toward the Belgians. By Milton Bronner NEW TORK, Juna 1. "It waa near Charlerot, In Belgium. I didn't aee but comradea of mine In the Eighteenth French Infantry regiment of the line vouch for It. "The Belglana were irtarvtng. Children Chil-dren were clamoring for food. One Oarman aoldiar waa throwing blta of bread, enjoying himaelf watching little gtrla and boys acramMIng for them. Juet when one little boy had hla hand outatretched another German eoldler with one blow of hla aharp bayonet hacked off tha ehlld'a hand." Tha apeaker waa Charles Nicole, one of the t. 004.000 pollua who thua far have helped aave democracy. A M-year-old veteran of tha Homm. of Verdun, Ver-dun, of tha . Argons, he la In New York to recuperate and vlalt hia family. Nicola la a eorporartn rtiaige uf-st hand srenade aauad. the flrat part of I the regiment to leap forth when attack la ordered. With the Indomitable spirit of the French Woman hia pretty wife has established es-tablished a successful millinery buel-ness buel-ness for the duration of the war. "Monsieur, do you realise why we take very few prisoner? "I will tell you. Back there In the villages of northern France many of my comrades of the Eighteenth left wives and mothers and little sisters. Tha Germans came, took those villagea and turned northern Franca into a hell for our women folk. There la nothing nothing gross, and bestial, and cruel that tha German soldiers, have not dona to those hapleas onea. "One of my trench mate, a fine fellow, fel-low, went crasy and had to be sent to an Institution. Do vou know why? His wife and daughter were In one of those villagea. Bad newe travels, monsieur, mon-sieur, and word came to Henri X There are things one doesn't prtnt In newspapers Henri went Insane, and we, we, monsieur, went mad. We took no prisoner! that day." "The German soldiers under the direction di-rection of their officers are not what you call square. One day we saw a bunch of them holding up their hands In token of surrender, coming toward ua with what looked like knapsacks on their shoulders "When they came Into our lines whisht -whisht there was a sound like thst. and we saw thoae fellows manipulating pipes that were scattering scatter-ing liquid fire, on our man. The knapeacks were really tanks with that terrible stuff In them. Nowa- days w tags ao chances. "Let m glv you another Instance. In th great fights around Douaumont a strong redoubt was turned over te th Red Cress ao It could ear foe our wounded. Th Germans attacked and took it on day, but w drov them out. Now after they had been In there, the Germans Ger-mans knew what It waa for.. They aaw stacks of bandage and gausee and mdlclna and knew this was a field hospital. "Later In the day the redoubt was filled with men of our regiment badly wounded. Most of them had first aid bandages on. We aaw a German aeroplane aero-plane hovering over and a little later w saw smoke from that redoubt. "Tha Germans had hurled shells which scattered liquid firs over the poor fellows They wer burning to death suffering horrible agonies. Not even th Red Cross had been re- . spectsd." - He paused. His blue-grsy eyes , glinted like points of ateeL 'That evening w took a deadly toll of Germans" |