More Hunnish Devilries.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 December 1917, Page 4

More Hunnish Devilries.

♦ I TALES OF UNSPEAKABLE j HORRORS. |

Ilarry Lauder, on his return to New j York, related some striking sidelight., on recent Hunnisli barbarities. He lias a double purpose in view: first, to raise I a million sterling In the United States | 1 for the prosecution of Y.M.C.A. aetivi- | t ties for the battlefields of Europe; in j the next place, to tell wherever he goes ! the horrible story —in all its luridity— | * the manner in which Germany tried [ i herately to obliterate civilisation i ;he face of the earth. | OBJECT LESSON FOE AMERICANS. | "You Americans do not understand" | he said, "because you are 3,000 miles | away from the scene, and do not com- | preliend the frightfulness of the Germans' acts. When you shall have seen your transports return to your shores, and shall have watched the mutilated and maimed men hobble down the gangways, the blind soldiers led by their mates .and the paralysed and shellshocked wrecks of humanity carried awuy on stretchers t.lien. you "will icalise what- this war means to those who liave been through the fire. Head everything you can, and look at all the pictures obtainable of the havoc that has j been done by earthquake, cyclone, and volcanic eruption in the past, and you will not find anything that will compare with the destruction wrought by the Hun. It is so hellish that it outdoes the elements of God in the might of their wrath. A PICTURE OF DESOLATION. J "I will try to give you a faint idea | of what the destruction in France [ means. You are riding in a military I automobile along a road made all but [ impassable by deep shell holes, pieces of charred wood, and loose stones. The officer who is escorting you explains | ' that you arc passing over the site on j which three months ago there was a j thriving village of 3,000 inhabitants. ] All that remains are a kerbstones that mark the former location of sidewalks. The town with its people have been wiped out by the Iluns as if they had never been. On my visits to the front I saw the men in the trenches, m the hospitals, in the rest cam [is at the rear of the fighting lines, under ail, conditions, and never heard a_ They arc all going to see it because every man there knows that Prussian militarism must be ended be- ■ fore peace can come to the world once more. A SHOCKING MEMENTO. " ' have here a piece of barbed wire which I obtained from a trench before Arras. It is Gin long, and lias 24 barbs, which hold a piece of tartan so firmly that it cannot be torn away except in : oreads. That little shred of cloth is i ::ii that remains of a Highland soldier -, U', was hit by a shell as he struck the entanglements. I could tell of deeds that I have seen and heard of committed by the Hun that would haunt your sleep, and not one word of exaggeration. By the memory of 1113 boy who laid down liis life for the cause you may rely upon it that. I would not tell a lie.''