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Show illlsli ILSIFHIIIILli Miss Kathleen X. Phillips Addresses Large Crowd in Bingham on German Atrocities and States That Germans Cannot Be Trusted-Innocent Babe and Little Children Are Prey of These Brutes Contribution of $125 for the Ambulance Fund She Will Speak in Other Parts of Bingham at Return Date. ', Wednesday evening a large crowd gathered at the Bingham Commercial Club rooms to listen to the address by Miss Kathleen X. Phillips, a British Red Cross nurse who lias spent nearly four years In France at the front. Her story stirred her hearers until at times, they could hardly retain thoir seats. Mayor Q. IB. Kelly presided and John . James of Salt Lake furnished a number num-ber of vocal selections which were greatly appreciated. Eugene Sullivan of the iBoston Con. mine, delivered a short patriotic address, before Miss Phillips spoke., v ' v,i ; Miss Phillips was Invited to leturnx and speak in Upper Bingham Friday evening. She was also Invited to ad-dress ad-dress the residents of (Highland 'Boy ' Saturday evening, the residents of Lark Sunday evening, and the residents resi-dents of the 'Boston Con. Monday even- -ing. "."', Miss Phillips spoke partially as follows: fol-lows: MIbb Phillips told of her utter disgust dis-gust for anything German, and said that she had tried at first to be fair, ; but she had witnessed such awful crimes from the hands of these Hints that it was Impossible for her to trust one of them again. She said they were traitors to their best friends. iien and womeil had been driven niad by the terrible crimes which these. , fiends were committing in Belgium and the towns they had captured along the front. Miss Phillips stated that ''Anything German is indelicate, oh-rcene oh-rcene and abominable", filie told of the many treacherous crimes cotnmit-i cotnmit-i ted by these brutes on the innocent and unsuspecting. She told of a mothr ' er superior, being crucified on the door- ' of -convent In Belgium.- and seven , of the'sisters being killed, and all of them left wlthiut a stltchof clothing s by the German raiders. The British have done bo much that none are left to tell the Btory. Thousands Thou-sands have gone in and given their lives for the cause, Canada sent 38,-000 38,-000 and if you will go to the dominion domin-ion you will see what is left. 'Men, your flag U thieatened, and have you ever thought how many German reservists re-servists there are in America? If these would raise their voice, how much would it do toward winning this war, but they are keeping quiet and waiting for the results. , . Two young men who were exchanged ex-changed as prisoners came back to th hospital in a terribly emaciated con- ' jditlon. They told how thoy wer starved in the German prisons and neglected One day . two women brought some very savory soup and held it near them, and when they reached out to take It the women struck them across the face with a lash. -(Another instance of where a German prisoner was nursed back to-life to-life by one of the Hied Cross nurses, and when he was leaving In exchange for an American prisoner he got the nurse to step outside with him, and he wrung both her hands until the , bones were broken in the wrist Joint. A German had been in busineHs 2 years in London, and when war broker out many-people wanted him interned," but others said "No; he is loyal." But one night when 600 children were In a theatre near his place he went upon the roof near the theatre and sprinkled sprin-kled a powder which gave off colored" . flames so. that Zeppelin raiders could drop theif deadly bombs on the theatre. thea-tre. Over 300 little children were, killed outright and. many others injured. in-jured. This man said that he had -waited 29 years for this opportunity to serve his country, and he only wished he had another opportunity. The nume stated that tho weulthy wom'sn of England had adopted a- rule that they would go shabby until after the war, ,so as to save. Boots and linen are scarce, and these should be saved lor the soldiers. A finelv dresHed woman wom-an is considered - unpatriotic. Today many people in Kngland are going on half rations. A Quarter of a million Women are working in cite munition lactories to manufacture munitions. When the Zeppelins come the lights go out and these women lie fiat on the floor. Many of them work until their finger tips are worn off and bleeding. |
