| Show 1 HANDS WERE CUT OFF 1 THEIR RIGHT 0 W. W V. V L. L Dean back hack from Topeka tells teUs of two year ten Belgium boys who have ve been b en adopted by Topeka families The little foreigners arrived in the I 1 Ka Kansas city with their right light hands r a- a amputated cut amputated cut oil off by the conquering f Germans that they mig might t never be able 3 to carry carryn a gun against the kaiser w Such reports of German atrocities s have reached the general public but by bJ most people they were considered as possible exaggerations s But it is now pow accepted as no 10 fiction the stories that outside world of the h ha have ye e reached the the barbarities practiced by f- f S 0 that compare in horror with the depredations depre depre- 1 committed in the dark ages andr and r of the crimes perpetrated by the un un I sp Turk T rk And the th report of the French commission that every Belgium youth within the conquered lines ha has had the right light hand cut off is true The two little fellows mentioned by Mr 1 Dean bear living testimony to the awful policy adopted The report of the French commission also al o states that more than 80 per per percent cent of the women in the conquered territory territory territory terri terri- tory has been violated by the he GermanI German soldiers and it is also stated that no nomore nomore nomore I more prisoners are to be taken by the Gc Germans Every man man captured must at once be shot To the best informed men in military circles s tho tho end of othe the European conflict will not be in in sight sigh for for several beveral yearn year Asto As to what the Germans think of the duration of the war war may be guessed at by their in amputating the hands lands of Belgium Germany is still fighting fi on conquered conquer- conquer ed d territory and enemy foot has never yet fet placed itself on her own country That she is absolutely supporting self-supporting roll anti self sustaining must be admitted end nd every foot of the empire that will produce is is under production even to the he gro ground nd adjoining the business lus buildings in the large cities Three T re years ye rs more of fighting at least teems to be the impression among the rest est informed as to the situation Are Aie you y u doing your bit Buy Buy that liberty loan bond n |
