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Show WOMEN. CHILDREN AND SOLDIERS MISTREATED. In his diary of events while he was in Berlin, James W. Gerard, American Ameri-can ambassador to Germany, up to February 4, 1917, wrote: "British prisoners say they are badly bad-ly treated when" they are first captured but we know only of their treatment in the camps. I do not believe all the atrocity stories, but one of our servants ser-vants in this house came back from tho oast front recently and said the orders or-ders were to kill tho Cossacks. Our washerwoman reports that her son was ordered to shoot a woman in Bcl-I Bcl-I gium and I myself havo heard an officer of-ficer calmly describe tho shooting of a 7-year-old Belgian girl child, tho excuse ex-cuse being that sho had tried to fire at an officer." Evidence multiplies in proof of tho repeated charges that indescribable outrages havo been perpetrated. In a letter from Camp Johnston, an Ogden boys says a lecturo'r, who has had experience ex-perience in tho trenches in France, gave tho soldiers first-hand Information Informa-tion of the horrible brutalities inflicted inflict-ed by the Prussians, and, as a result, the troops are not only ready to do their part but are eager to go across the ocean to avenge the barbarous crimes. A visitor from Illinois inforyns us speakers, under direction of tho national na-tional council of defense, are proceeding proceed-ing through that state, informing the people as to tho outrages which have come under their personal observation. One of tho witnesses is an assistant to Hoover who saw tho body of an American whoso throat had been cut after ho was taken prisoner, and was present when Canadians, who had been held by tho Germans, were rescued res-cued and found to be mutilated. Nothing so fires tho fighting temper of tho Americans as these stories of German atrocities. At first the reports re-ports were somewhat discredited, bo-cause bo-cause tho Germans in tho United States stand high in morals and are not recognized as Huns, but the stories stor-ies of brutalities havo come from so many different sources and from so many reliable witnesses as to convince tho people of tho United States that the allies are battling against not only Germans, but Huns of tho kind that followed Attila. |