New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915: April-September, 1915Various
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New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915: April-September, 1915
Various
World War, 1914-1918
Of course, I cannot here produce the original autograph of General
Stenger, nor am I here called upon to furnish the names of the German
prisoners who gave this testimony. But I shall have no trouble to
establish entirely similar crimes on the faith of German autographs.
For instance, we find in the notebook of Private Albert Delfosse (111th
Infantry of Reserves, Fourteenth Reserve Corps,) (Fig. 13:)
In the woods (near Saint-Rémy, 4th or 5th of September)--Found
a very fine cow and a calf killed; and again the corpses of
Frenchmen horribly mutilated.
Must we understand that these bodies were mutilated by loyal weapons,
torn perhaps by shells? This may be, but it would be a charitable
interpretation, which is belied by this newspaper heading, (Figs. 14 and
15:)
JAUERSCHES TAGEBLATT Amtlicher Anzeiger Für Stadt und Kreis
Jauer Jauer, Sonntag, Den 18, Oktober, 1914. Nr. 245. 106,
Jahrgang.
This is a heading of a newspaper picked up in a German trench. Jauer is
a city of Silesia, about fifty kilometers west of Breslau, where two
battalions of the 154th Regiment of Saxon Infantry are garrisoned. One
Sunday morning, Oct. 18, doubtless at the hour when the
inhabitants--women and children--were wending their way to church, there
was distributed throughout the quiet little town, and through the
hamlets and villages of the district, the issue of this local paper with
the following inscription: "A day of honor for our regiment, Sept. 24,
1914," as the title of an article of some two hundred lines, sent from
the front by a member of the regiment--the sub-officer Klemt of the
First Company, 154th Infantry Regiment.
[Illustration: GENERAL VON KUSMANEK
Whose stubborn defense of Przemysl made it one of the most notable
sieges of history.
_(Photo from Underwood & Underwood.)_]
[Illustration: CAPT.-LIEUT. OTTO WEDDIGEN
Whose submarine exploits have done more damage to England's navy than
all Germany's gunners.
_(Photo from The Photo News.)_]
[Illustration: Figure 14.]
[Illustration: Figure 15.]
The sub-officer Klemt relates how, on the 24th of September, his
regiment having left Hannonville in the morning, accompanied by Austrian
batteries, suddenly came up against a double fire of infantry and
artillery. Their losses were terrible, and yet the enemy was still
invisible. Finally, says this officer, it was found that the bullets
came from above, from trees which the French soldiers had climbed.
From this point let me quote verbatim, (Fig. 16:)
[Illustration: Figure 16.]
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