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Show I IGNORE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Making a second tour of the United States in aid of the Liberty bonds, Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, who was in Ogden Og-den a year ago, is now on the Pacific coast lecturing on the war. During an address given in Oakland, Dr. Hillis. Hil-lis. who recently returned from the western front, confirmed the almost unbelievable stories of German brutalities brutal-ities He says he has reached the conclusion con-clusion that the ten commandments are a great burden in war Explaining the advantage of discarding honor, ho said of 2,000.000 ally troops at the front. 1.000.000 will be in the trenches and the other 1.000.000 occupied with the drudgery of road building, transport, trans-port, trench digging and the other menial tasks of war: but that of 2.-000.000 2.-000.000 Germans troops. 1.000.000 will be resting while prisoners are forced to do the hard work close behind the lines, in direct contravention of treaty obligations. Dr. Hillis, who has made a thorough thor-ough investigation on the ground of German atrocities, says that the un- speakable conduct of German soldiers against civilian populations is by order or-der of their officers and for a carefully careful-ly considered purpose "Germany herself claims," Dr. HJI-lis HJI-lis says, "that she has stolen $30,000.-000.000 $30,000.-000.000 of property from looted countries. coun-tries. English bankers tell me they will admit that what she has taken amounts to $20,000,000,000. or nearly her entire war debt, and this estimate 4bei not take account of the labor of captured peoples, who are now work Ing to provide food for German soldiers. sol-diers. "Germany could well afford to give up Belgium, and pay for all the sub marined ships, if she might be allowed to keep the oil fields of Rumania and southern Russia, the iron mines of France and the rich lands of the Ral kans; for. stripping every captured country clean of materials and machinery, machin-ery, she has takon a loot that is practically prac-tically equal to ber entire war deot. The allies have no such method for discharging their obligations." oo |