Show NEWSPAPER APER MAN AN TELLS TILLS OF Or GERMANYS GERMANY'S BRUTAL ATROCITIES r C. C C. C Lyon Lon a newspaper man attached at attached attached at- at to Gen Con Pershing's army is isnow isnow isnow now in this country on a furlough and writes concerning German atrocities atrocities atrocities atro atro- cities as follows The American public can believe anything and everything it reads or hears henrs concerning German ties During m my year France hi-France France while I was with the American French and Belgian armies a number of ot instances of ot German mistreatment of helpless men women and children me ea-me came under under my notice For a n fe few days s several months ago while an nn American Infantry Infantry- regiment to which I was was attached was in reserve In a little French village a few miles behind the tho firing fir fir- ing In lino I was was' billeted in a n house formerly occupied h by a Catholic priest On the mantle in n tho the 1 where I slept was waa a photo of oC a fine- fine looking man man of of about 40 and lean lean leaning lug ing against the tho photo was a shattered shattered shattered shat- shat shat shat- crucifix crucIfix- The old woman who owned the house told me this story That is the picture of m my broth broth- er or For some years he was a priest of oC this parish The German army came through here in 1914 in their ad d. vance yance on Paris and they began shelling shellIng shell shell- ing our village when they came within a few miles of ot itIn itIn itIn it In his priestly robes my brothel brother went out to protest to the German general My Iy 1 brother was ordered shot on the spot by the German general They stood him up along the road road- side He lie held his crucifix up before him and the bullet that ended ende his hiE life lite struck it glancing off ort and entering entering entering en en- his heart In another er French community community is IE isa Isa a n. little blind boy between 3 an and 4 who would grope his way about pathetically trying to play with the theother other oer children H Here re is his story During the German advance in in- 1914 a young wife was about to be delivered of ot a child but there was wa no native physicians in the village So request was made that a German surgeon attend the mother He did so and a baby boy was born The grateful young mother and her r relatives thanked the German surgeon profusely But some time later when 1 the German regiment had moved on the mother received a letter from the surgeon and in it he said You thanked me too soon I am ama ama a German and Germany is at nt war with your country so I took good care that your son should never become become be be- come a 3 soldier He will never see The unspeakable cur had blinded that boy baby by putting something in its eyes Another day I visited a town to Inthe inthe in inthe the area that was evacuated by Hindenburg Hin- Hin Hindenburg denburg a year ago last spring when he was forced to shorten his western line It was a beautiful town of ot people The Germans the day the they left lert it it systematically dynamited every building In the little city except except except ex ex- those in three blocks at one edge This story was told me by an anold anold anold old man I found wandering about Before they began their dynamiting dynamiting dyna dyna- he be he said they picked out of ot the civilian population all the bodied able-bodied women and girls girls girls' and sent them to Germany leaving only old people and little children Then the they put us in three thre blocks and told us htoy W were r going to blow up the town but the three blocks we were wore in would be bo spared From our places in tho the spared nr area a wo we saw them tl destroy stroy all the this rest of ot the tho town Then they re reo re- re tired But Dut when they had gone two or three miles outside the town th they Y turned their cannon on the three blocks where the old folks and children were sheltered and more than a hundred were killed |