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Show IliS SLAUGHTER HELPLESS CITIZENS WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHOT DOWN IN ORDER TO INSPIRE TERROR AMONG CIVILIANS. I Airplane Attacks and Bombing for the Avowed Purpose of Terrorizing Civilians and Breaking Down the Morale. New York. A German offensive of terror against the civilian population or France and Italy was described on May 111, by Henry P. Davison on hi-return hi-return from a 12.000-mile tour of inspection in-spection of Bed Cross work abroad. "The outstanding feature of German Ger-man methods at the present time,'' he said, "is the efl'ort to terrorizf women, children and old men at home. While the German troops are making mak-ing their drive on the front, airplanes are bombing nearly every night, towns behind the lines, with the deliberate and declared purpose of terrorizing civilians and breaking down the morale mor-ale to such a point that they will importune im-portune their governments for peace It is the most dastardly, unrighteous cruel, devilish plan which could hf conceived.- Theory of the Huns. "It. is based upon the theory that the killing of four children out of five will induce the mother to implore her government to have the war stop lied that her fifrh child may live. It is carried on from the English channel to the Swiss border, and from the Swiss border to the Adriatic, and ba.-resulied ba.-resulied in the maiming of thousand; of women and children, and the driving driv-ing of hundreds of thousands of terror-stricken terror-stricken from their homes. "All of this is accompanied by tin most active possible propoganda, especially espe-cially in Italy." Mr. Davison described the attempt to uphold civilian morale as "one of the great missions of the lied Cross.' adding: "You need have no concern for Gcr man propaganda-where the Bed Cms-is Cms-is working. We have workers all ovei Italy and France." |