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Show I! AMERICANS BITTER J OVER MISUSE OF ! RED CROSS EMBLEM Officers Say All Stories About German Army's Devilish and Inhuman, Acts Are True Germans Refuse to Respect Red Cross At Any Time Medical Officers Be-: Be-: lieve Anything Against the Hun. " ' I WITH TUB AMERICAN ARMY IK FRANCfi, Nov. l. (M;iil) Misuse of ' ihc Red Cross emblem by the Gcr-) Gcr-) jn.m army is bringing comment from I American officers In position to know ivhat is being done. A lieutenant in 1 the medical corp3 and an infantry o-I o-I Jicer assert that "all Ibo stories told i about German army's devilish and inhuman in-human tactics are true." taught to respect the Red Cross flag, American troops wore led into , manv an ambuscade by Roche trickery in the display of this insignia. And "what has incensed the Americans Iho " moat is the fact that the Germans refused re-fused to recognize the Red Cross cm-, cm-, blem at any time. v "Before going to the front I vrns in- cined to doubt some of the stories being circulated about the Germans," I, said tho medical officer, "but after one F inontb. in tho front lines I can believe ' nnylhing that is said of them. They are so guilty of inhuman and harbar-i, harbar-i, ous acts thomselves that they refuse to respect tho use of the Ked Cross by the Allies. Their use of the Ked Cross insignia is one of the biggest crimes they ought to bo made to answer for after tho war." One of the tricks UBed by the Boche was to plant a Red Cross flag In tho tower of a church of a village in the path of tho advancing Americans, He-spoctiug He-spoctiug it, the infantry would not call for any concentration of artillery firo on theso buildings. The American troops upon taking one particular villago advancod upon a church, from which was displayed a Rod Cross flag, without suspocting any trick. When they were within short range, a murderous machine gun fire was poured Into thoir ranks from tho windows and lowers of tho church. When the Americans finally gained the Interior, they found six machine guns, manned by a platoon of sturdy Boches not a sign of any hospital or dressing dress-ing station. Needless to say no pris- j onors were taken. |