THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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GERMAN BRUTALITY
i
Systematic, deliberate exposure of
British prisoners of war to the fire
of their own and their allies artil
lery on the part of the Germans,
while employing these prisoners at
forced labor close behind the YVest-i
ern front, is described in an official
report of the Committee on Treat
ment by the Enemy of British Pris
oners of War”, made public through
the British Information Brueau.
Not content with this brutality,
with its involved mental torture, the
Germans also kept these prisoners
on rations less than half those al
lowed German soldiers, deprived
them of adequate clothing, over
worked them, deprived them of mail
from home, including food parcels;
struck them, whipped them and gen
erally treated them so badly that
even some Germans were ashamed
of the conduct of those in charge.
Publication of the report, writes
an Associated Press correspondent,
brings to light an appalling record
of inhumanity. As usual, this car
ries the interlineation of trickery
and double-dealing which has come
to be expected in any affairs in
which the German government fig
ures.
Evidence in the hands of the
committee forces it is to the con
clusion ‘‘that as early as the month;
of August, H>16, the German com
mand were systematically employing
their British as well as other pris- ]
oners in forced labor close behind
the Western firing line, thereby, de
liberately, it must be so said, ex
posing them to the fire of the guns
of their own and allied armies.”
Later than this, the report says, on
January 24, 1017, to be exact, the
German government in a note ver
bale alleged that German prisoners
were employed behind the British
lines in France and threatened re
prisals, to begin February 1, 1917..
At the time the threat was made,
the threatened measures already,
were in force, the report shows.
In an appendix the report gives
both the text of the note verbaie
and extracts of statements made by,
escaped prisoners showing the Ger
man statements to be false.
The report shows in detail, back-'
ing up the showing, with document-’
ary evidence, how the Germans
failed to report the names of pris
oners detailed in labor camps near
the front lines as required by in- (
ternational law for all prisoners,'
thereby causing needless anxiety on
the part of their families and their
friends. At some prison camps the
British were allowed to write letters
and postcards home but as one es
caped prisoner said “we gave up
doing so, because after a week had
elapsed from the time we wrote our
letter or card they were returned
to us with the information that the
address to which a reply should be
sent had' altered. This happened;
week after week until we got tired
of writing letters.”
As for mail addressed to the sol-,
diers, another prisoner says: “Two'
men saw thousands of English par-|
cels. A great many were broken j
and lying on the floor. Most of
th -n were addressed to Canadian 1
soluiers.
Of the men in labor camps near the
front lines, '-.e report says the work
the men were forced to do on insuffi
cient food, po> rly clothed, exposed
to the wi. Cier,'’ was not only for
bidden by the k.ws of war, but was
excessively hard.” It continues:
“Two instances are given in the
evidence of men who weighed 13
stone when captured. One was sent
back from the firing line too weak
to walk, weiging 8 stone only: the
other escaped to the British lines
weighing no more. Another man
lost two stone in six weeks. Such
was their hunger that we hear of
them picking up for food potato
peelings that had been trampled
under foot. One instance is given
of an Australian private who, starv
ing, had fallen out to pick up a
piece of bread left on the roadside
by Belgian women for the prisoners.
He was shot and killed by the guard
for so doing.”
Extracts from the affidavits of
two escaped prisoners, continue:
“The prisoners’ quarters were so
crowded it was impossible for them
to lie on their backs. No soap,
blankets or great coats were pro
vided.
“At Ervillers the raiii leaked thru
the prisoners’ hut. Athough there
was a stove in the hut they were
not allowed to light it. The unter
offizer was seen on two occasions
to strike men with a transport
driver’s whip.”
Every phrase of an annex to the
Hague convention concerning pris
oners of war, to which Germany
was a party, is shown by the evi
dence attached to the report, to
have been broken.
UNHUNG CLUB
The usual weekly meeting of the
Nenana Knitting dub was held yes
terday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. M. V. Tyler, on First street,
nad was largely attended. Consid
erable knitting- was done for the
boys in the service, and a very pleas
ant afternoon spent. Light refresh
ments were served by the hostess
during the course of the meeting,
which broke up shortly before six
o’clock.
The meetings of the Knitting club
have been postponed until after the
holidays, and due notification of the
date and place of the next meeting
will be given.
At the meeting held at the Pres
byterian manse on Thursday last,
Mrs. W. A. Ryan acted as hostess,
the use of the manse being placed
at her disposal for this purpose by
Mrs. Diven.
NOTED YANKEE ACE
HAS GERMAN PARENTS
PHEOXIX. — Lieutenant Frank
Luke, of Pheonix, who is unofficially
credited with bringing down nine
German airplanes and eleven German
aalloons, mostly in the fighting near
3t. MihieJ, is an example of patriot
ism of some American sons of Ger
man parents. Luke’s f/.her is a
aative of Germany.
CHOP SUEY
Chicken Noodles
at the
Northern Cafe
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—
With the British-American Forces
in France.—That Germany expected
j to occupy for a long time, and per
. haps permanently, the northern part
I of France, is shown by the fact that
the Hun military authorities changed
i the names of all the important
j streets in the larger towns which
| fell into their hands. There is
| scarcely a village where a distinctly
j German designation was not given
! to a road or street.
i
j Such names as “Kaiser Wilhelm
jStrasse,” “Bismarck Strasse,” “Von
i Hindenburg Strasse,” took the places
, of the French names. When the
I American troops operating with the
British entered these towns they
took particular delight in destroying
j these signs and replacing the origi
. nal French markings.
, The Germans told the French in
habitants of these towns that in
‘ future France would be divided in
to two parts,—North France, which
would belong to Germany and South
: France, which the French would be
, permitted to keep. They put the in
habitants under severe discipline and
required them to stand at attention
and salute whenever one of their
I officers addressed them o- passed
them on the street.
When the German < fficers entered
i any of the homes, the whole family
; was required to stand at attention
until they left. Breaches of this
order were severely punished. The
| Boches had the population thor- (
ioughly cowed and permitted them,
I only the most ordinary privileges.
When the Americans and British i
: came in the people wept with joy |
; at their deliverance from their op-'
; pressors.
BANDIT TRICKS
FEDERAL CHIEF
.
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex.—Fran-!
cisco Villa and his band again have,
been on the warpath and have left
a trail of death, destruction and de-1
solation in their wake. With the
departure of General Francisco Mur
sruia,, the northeastern zone com
mander, for Mexico City, Villa re-:
sumed his guerella warfare on the
towns and small settlements in Chi
huahua state. Making: a feint on
Chihuahua City to draw in federal
troops from outlying garrisons, he
then dashed at Parral, was driven
off, and attacked Jimenes juction.
He held Jimenez for 12 hours,
during which time his men looted
stores, killed soldiers and civilians,
poisoned one family ar.d hanged
another including an eight-year-old
girl. Driven out by General Joaquin
Amara, the Durango Indian, with his
cavalry, Villa attacked Jimenez the
second time. Before he could re
enter the plaza General Murguia ar
rived from the south with reinforce
ments and drove Villa into the hills.
One of Villa’s typical tricks was
executed against a federal force gar
risoning Parral. The garrison com
mander received a letter written on
official government stationary and
signed with the name of General
Pedro Favela, ordering him to pro
ceed to Pilar de Concho to form a
junction with Favela’s force in pur
suit of Villa. A signal fire on the
pillar of the Conchos river was to be
the signal for the juction of the two
forces. The federals marched to the
appointed place, the signal fire ap
peared on the limestone pillar and
the Parral commander advanced,
without advance guards or flankers, j
They were ambushed and almost
annihilated.
'Mila had written the letter on'
captured federal stationary, had.
copied Favela’s signature from an!
old order taken from a prisoner and i
had set the trap for the government!
force.
1
I
RUSSIAN MAKES
STRONG APPEAL
FOR ALLIEO AID
—
ARCHANGEL.—“Russia is fast
bleeding to death through a reign
of terror which is worse than that
of the French revolution, and it is
time the nations of the earth came
here to put down one of the world’s
greatest evils,” President Nicholas
Tschaikovsky of the Provisional Gov
erment of the North, toid a corres
pondent of the Associated Press re
cently.
“It is no longer a question of
politics," he continued. “Inside the
Bolshevik lines the situation is
worse than the French reign of ter
ror. Victims executed now must be
counted by tens of thousands. All
hair-splitting political reasons aside,
the world must know that the Bol
sheviks are no longer even a party,
but merely a group of men deter
mined to hold what they have seized
by the merciless slaughter of those
who oppose them.
“It is now only the question of
putting down an evil. Persons es
caping from Moscow, Petrograd and
Vologda and reaching here bring in
disputable stories of the executions.
The situation seems beyond the con
trol of some Bolshevik leaders who
themselves are revolting at the
bloodshed.”
President Tschhaikovsky said he
recently cabled to President Wilson
urging the immediate dispatch of
more troops..
“Nothing can bring Russia out of
this chaos until the Bolsheviki
terror has been quashed by the force
of arms, said Tschhaikovsky. “The
force now here is unable to do this
quickly. Meanwhile hunPfreds are
dying daily.
‘ I he world must understand that'
Bolshevism, like imperialism, is a foe j
to democracy. It is in Russia a
mere dictatorship, a group of men
holding sway by force of arms. They
seize every straw, falsifying logic
to justify themselves As an ex
ample they now declare that the
proposed league of nations is only
another scheme to give power to the
bourgeoise against the working man.”
“Perhaps the world will naturallv
ask what Russia is doing to help
herself,” said Tschhaikovsky, “and
I can only answer that we are do
ing our best. A recent example is
the reorganization of the govern
ment of the North. Now every
party and every class is represented.
Forgetting politics, they are turn
ing their efforts toward putting down
the Bolsheviki evil. We are mobil
izing our forces but the Allies must
help.”
President Tschhaikovsky is a So
cialist.
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Bardy, W. A.
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Boyd, John
Carroll, Frank
Friday, Henry
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Greve, Arne
Harkins, Fred
Heene.v, Geo.
Hogan, „M A.
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Maresh, John E.
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Osborn, G. P
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