New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1917, Page 7

s fiEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 101 7. GERARD TELLS OF | GERMAN ATROCITIES Recalled Ambassador Describes SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., Chicago, Iil. Gentlemen: Please send me at once your free illustrated,descriptive booklet about the “Handy Volume” issue of the new En- cyclopaedia Britannica, printed on genuine India paper. . New York Sample Shop ; 357 Main Siree Independence Héll )igain Rings Out Glad Tidings Proclaims Liberty Throughout the WORLD One hundred and forty-one years 1880 & bell affixed in the tower of the old state house in Philadelphia struck the message of freedom to the people of thirteen undeveloped prov- inces. Now, in the same tower of the same state house, now called Inde- pendence hall, another bell has spok- en—has spoken a message of even a greater moment than the first, send- ing In vibrant tones a message that carried to all corners of the earth. 1%he message of freedom for all the world! The agents of this message are shown in the picture. The new bell of liberty and its ringers—Sam- uel H. Knox, guard of Independence hall (right) and Yeoman J. H. Harned, U. 8. N. The city of Philadelphia notified its citizens of the signing by the pres- ident of the war resolution by ringing the bell at Independence hall. The liberty bell’s deep toned suc- cessor was rung at half minute in- tervals for thirty minutes. Horrors of War Across the Sea New York, April 10.—James W, Gerard, recalled American ambassa- dor to Germany, told the members and guests of the Canadian club of New York at a dinner in the grand ballroom of the Biltmore last night of inhuman treatment of prisoners of war by the Kaiser’s military authori- tles. The 1,500 diners received with groans of indignation and shame the former ambassador’s recitation of how the German authoritles imprisoned townsfolk for giving food and drink to starving Canadian prisoners of war; how German sheep hounds were trained to bite British soldiers; how small German boys were allowed to shoot arrows tipped with nails into the bodies of prisoners, and how when typhus broke out in a camp of Rus- sian prisoners they sent Frenchmen and Englishmen to live with them. - It was the first time since he re- turned from Germany that he had told of any of these things he had seen. He saw them on visits to the prison camps in the capacity of the official representative of the British and Canadian governments. Mr. Gerard began his speech by referring to Germany as “that country where they were so fond of me that they kept me a week after I said I wanted to go home.” “I want to tell you Canadians to- night,” he said, “some of the things I saw your fellow-countrymen endure in the German prisoner of war camps. You, sitting here in the Biltmore, can- not imagine the horror of living two and a half years in a German prison camp. I know, because I saw. “One day I read in the North Ger- man Gazette a paragraph which told that a number of the inhabitants of a northern German town had been gullty of improper and unpatriotic conduct toward prisoners of war, and that they had been jailed for varying terms and their names printed in the North German Gazette, that their names might be exposed to shame and their falsity made known to gen- erations of Germans to come, “I said to myself, ‘Good,’ at least some of these Germans are to be punished for maltreating prisoners of war.’ I directed the American con- sul there to make a report on the matter. He sent back ward that a trainload of Canadian prisoners of war was being taken through the town when it was necessary to put the train on a siding. Some of the prisoners communicated to curious townsfolk gathered about the train that they were starving and had nothing to drink. The townspeople | had given them food and drink and | that was the crime for which they were imprisoned and held up to shame. 5 . “I had seen small boys, with Ger- man simplicity and kindness, march about the prison camps armed with bows and arrows, shoot arrows tipped with nails at prisoners, but I had be- fore heard of such a thing as thie, “I had read in history that at the beginning of the Reformation Martin Luther nailed his thesis to the door of the cathedral. After this you know who I would like to have nailed to that door. “Another time there was typhus fever in a camp where Russians were interned. Saying that all the Allies should stick togther, the Germans placed English and French prisoners with the Russians in the typhus camp, thus condemning numbers of them to certain death, - “At another camp I visited they had trained German sheep ‘dogs to bite British, and when the guards went through the camp they took the trained dogs with them, and it was seldom that they failed to bite British soldiers, I complained to Berlin about the matter, and for a long, long time my complaint was unnoticed. Nothing was done until T tol the commandant that I was a very good pistol shot, and that I felt like going out and shooting some trained dogs and sdeing what they would do about it. Shortly afterward the com- mandant was removed.” Mr. Gerard said that in visiting some of the prison camps he found that many of the Canadians talked with an accent that sounded like New York. He said one day a Highlander approached him and said: “Hello, Judge." ‘What sort of a Highlander are he said he asked. “‘From the Orange Highlands—of ; New Jersey,’ " was the reply. Major General Wood Speaks. Major General Leonard Wood, the next speaker, was enthusiastically re- celved. ‘“We of the United States and Can- ada,” he said, “are now together for | a great effort. It is an effort which | we are going to carry through suc- cessfully. It's guing to mean sacri- fice, sacrifice other than money. It's ! going to mean the sacrifice of life—in large numbers. It is a sacrifice we shall make cheerfully because it is a sacrifice for a .principle. “We have a lot of work to do, but | we can do it. It ijs the duty of every . man to place himself squarely behind | the government, for it’s no good now talking about the water that's gone under the bridge. “For my part, I think I speak the satisfaction of all our people wher I say that we are glad we are with you. 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We are glad we shall wage the war with our brothers to the north of us. I repeat, let's get behind the government and put this | thing over.” In introducing General Wood, Pres- jdent Neeland of the club said: “If his ! advice had been taken we would not be where we are today.” Sir 'William Howard Hearst, pre- mier of Ontario and the guest of honor, expressed his joy that the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes were to wave together in the fight for liberty. “It is our life or the life of the enemy,” he said in #lling of the task before the Allies. Hands Across the Border. He said that the events of the past few weeks had done more to unite the Canadians and Americans than anything that could have happened. “I have often prophesied,” he said, “of the day when if need be for the preservation of democracy these two great nations would unite. Now this is an accomplished fact that no more significant event has ever occurred than the union of these two nations in the cause of freedom. 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