Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-06-30 | Page 20 | Brutality of German People

oo BRUTALITY OF. GERMAN PEOPLE WASHINGTON, Juno 30. That the Germans have established "germ factories" fac-tories" to facilitate the systomatic killing kill-ing off of tho French peoplo was af firmed hero today by William Howard Colo, well-known consulting engineer, now hero on a technical mission for tho French government Mr. Colo has constructed railroads, telegraph, telephono, electric light and power, hydro-clectrlc and other systems sys-tems of public utility all over tho world. "German physicians," he said, "have carofully manufactured largo colonies of germs for the prociso purpose of spreading disease among a whole poo-plo. poo-plo. They aro trying to kill a race. No, I am not making this statement merely on tho strength of isolated cases. Frenchmen and women and children have boen taken by the wholosalo and the germs of deadly disease dis-ease havo been injected into their veins by means of the hypodermic syringe. Tho infected ones have then been lot loose at times favorable for tho malignant purpose of the German authorities, and wherever tho unfortunates unfortu-nates have gone they havo spread disease dis-ease " Mr. Colo addod that somo of tho facts in his possession were unprintable unprint-able but were basod on unlmpoachablo first-hand evidence. Ho told of a French soldier who, while under an anaesthetic In a German hospital, had his sound leg cut off as well as ono that was injured. oo