Show TELLS OF BRUTALITY OF HUN 11 L 1 U N 0 OFFICERS pj H C 11 32 J R S german D deserter c s a r t e r describes brutal treatment inflicted on men in army FATHER CRIPPLED FOR LIFE crimes will darken history of kaiser lm ism forever when people of the world learn the whole x story marion arlon Al 0 0 curt n young niec mechanic hanle employed in locel shops shop onetime one time aviator in the german army soldier of fortune and finally nn an american Americ nn citizen not only believes the stories 0 of german brutality that have como come front from iacross seas but lie he thinks when the whole story tins hns been be told crimes that will darken tile pages of tile tho history of kalser ism forever will vill come to tho the people of the world will vill be ba told not only by victims but by tho the very soldiers of the kaiser him self lInd liedlich lich thinks ile iio Is a erter from tho the german briny benaime of treatment lie could not stand ills ilia fattier father Is it life cripple from tho the indignities even of pence peace tiLlI cs tho the soldier 1 iq treated rented iiii 0 o n dumb luina on linal says lind liedlich lich ile he must grin erin and bear it there Is no ill I 1 story perhaps la is tho the more interesting because lie he tins lins traveled enough seen enough and learned enough outside tho the confines of oer trinity to appreciate conditions condl tlona that orist exist there father crippled for life my father Is it living example of the effects of oc german militarism lo lie 10 suld after tho the war it lie ho still Is living I 1 expect to have him come to tills this country to live na its gott flod intended people should live lie ile too call tell stories of how brutal jerman off leers nrc are to tile tho so soldier tillers tinder them like till nil young youn g germans lie ho entered military service when lie ho wits was twenty ono one day hla his company was scaling sen ins ile iio fill wen been ill and was unable to get over a fence tit nt which pro e lice was being held an struck 1 him with a sword ile iio fell and ills his arni wits was broken it was not properly cured cared for unit that arm tins has been useless I 1 a since I 1 n c e while I 1 was stationed nt at the tort torti i nt laetz and I 1 diw saw things happen myself that would make on an american soldier think that the he discipline lie he sometimes complains about la Is heaven in comparison the soldiers sold lera get sunday off at certain periods and look forward to them because they can visit home 1 I have seen it happen time and time again that officers kept some of the men in barracks apparently merely nursing a slight grudge of a personal nature perhaps merely to have a n bit it of sport tit nt tho the privates expense these same officers would think up all kinds of punishments for their men often putting a fellow at some task on ills his day off while several hundred other soldiers were idle and could haye have dono done tho the same work just keep them busy iliavi seen oft leors order men to curry carry water tram from tho the big barrels kept in III barracks sometimes three or four stories high merely to give them n task tn after they lind find emptied the bar aels they would bo be forced to carry the witter vater back up and fill them ngali 1 I have seen privates put to work on sunday morning with n bucket of water tin and a tooth brush and ordered to scrub the floors ill it a private does not shoot or march advell as aa the thinks ho he should lie ho li Is certain to bo be punished one favorite treatment then was as to require n private to stand erect then kneel to the ground repenting repeating tho the performance for tin nn hour or more ive seen officers beat and kick soldiers who be cattle exhausted from this task it happens that a three days strenuous drill on bread tint und water diet fallows ch tins lias taken out ills first ant papers and although regis derod as nn all enemy allen alien Is listed in tile tho aviation reserve corps and hopes to bs be able to enter tile the american army aviation al atlon section in the near future |