The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1917, Page 1

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sestisssssssesssbe lis ti ssf sSi slate tistoitstscsisrtisssistsstissssty DECORATE! The Belgian red. They sh in Seattle S * commission soos bess bee Men are still needed for regular army ¢ units. Why not over with the recruiting building? Tonight and Saturday, colors are black, golden yellow and ambulanc The Seattle Star { GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIF IC ‘NORTHWEST } uid fly from every building and home day and Monday while the Belgain s here Pioneer susgeaeaeaaaearemeaeaiaesteemansngrattste ett WV IY weteie IN APATITES THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT BELGIUM! Violated nti Women and santas: VOLUME 19 WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1917 ONE CENT ‘saeeeseeseeseeseese: | Official Records Show How German Soldiers mayenstell, Tortured, and ¢ war is much older ere ed States miss are our allies ir war ag none ot extend a mor felt cheur, 1 commissi across the press its Ameri hand astated ¢ tude will whole « meetir ans human small cx ered itself in the defense able rights, AND WHOSI MEN AND CHILDRI EVER FORCED MORE BITTER PENALTY, FOR THEIR BRAVERY AND HARDIHOOD IN OP POSING THE WILL OF RUTHLESS FOE When Germany the Belgians to take untry w WOMEN N WERI rO PAY A A tempted h an ¢ arm (where t rhe The ¢ is re " er and cued next day ELEVEN PERSONS HERDED IN GARDEN a erpevetiprereull Phe women dren rest f rother were » whor out ur ‘DRUNKEN SOLDIERS DECLARED TO HAVE BAYONETED arene We quote from Prof. 7 In Malines itself they es from first to last, 1 population soldier saw in the ac ated that was premeditated and carried out Germans) destroyed | Louvain—an enged themselves atrociously | om removed from s precaution—on August 24, 1914 On the m ring of Tuesday, \ugust were hou and 25 25, M Roo the cit dame library t the of library at Father Dupierreux received absolution, and was then ordered to advance toward the wood. Four soldiers were lined up in front of him and 26 prisoners were ordered to face about, in order to witness the execution. Among their number was Father Robert Dupierreux, the twin brother of the condemned. “Father Dupierreux,” states Father Schill, the Jesuit who had been forced to translate the docu- ment, “had listened to the reading with com- plete calm. * * * He kept his eyes fixed on the crucifix. ** * The command rang out: ‘Aim! Fire!’ We only heard one report. The Father fell on his back; a last shudder ran thru_ his limbs.” Then the spectators were ordered to turn ress about again, while the officer bent over the : body and discharged his pistol into the ear. ‘|The bullet came out thru the eye. , | OUTRAGES ARE DECLARED TO HAVE age ee ee PLANNED Pro its out that when Germany declared in z German armies immediately invaded | Russian, Selgian and French territory, and as soon as the frontiers were crossed, these armies began to wage war, not merely against the troops and fortifications of the invaded states, but against the lives and property of the civil popu- war Baron Moncheur, chairman of the official Belgian commission, which comes to Seattie Sunday morning for a two-day stay. path of the weak quiesce in the march sian armies thru fields, it was prou said her id them bayonet an old woman | ma a notary's wife, is said to have heen w 5 ri her to F Belgium t aties ed ‘by lation Outrages of this kind were committed during the whole re and retreat of the Germans thru Belgium and‘France, when open maneuvering gave place to trench all the from Switzerland to the sea. her : t on scraps of 7 BELGIUM SAVED THE WORLD AND BELGIUM HAS HAD TO PAY When the wrmous gray masses the Ger e for Paris, it was the little until Fran per an jes e England ild gettable ns have been made to pay fave been und w. They have been torn and mauled by the legac!” “All his vicious passion, all his bar- barous hatred, all his malignant venom has been felt by the) devoted victims The pe tomfortat BUT WE ARE KAISE RD M rendered They tic. Bless you, ye . YET. JUS! rHIS WAR of the horrible atroc s upon the civil = Boson! Bloody Evidence of Brutal Crime: A woman named Mrs. Mc Donald, living at 2229 Seventh ave., was struck on the head with a hammer shortly before noon Friday, and badly hurt, by a man who made his escape thru a window The landlady woman groaning, and broke into the room, to find Mrs McDonald prostrate and bleed. ing on the floor. She was taken to the city hospital in a deliri ous condition. She may die It was stated at police headquar ters that the woman's and i missing. Efforts were ing inide Friday afternoon to locate him When the attack was discovered, the door to the room had been prop ped shut with a chair An open window indicated the by which her as ant had fled Mrs. McDonald wore a boudoir cap. It red with blood 11 WOMEN JAILED FOR PICKETING WORK WASHINGTON, July 6.—Eleven al woman's party militants tenced to three days in the Judge Mulowny to- da ufter having been convicted of disorderly conduet in “picketing” the White How The women were an alte $25 fine, but isch siikinisdasmisscatnimenieiemans { MASTER SPIES ARE ARRESTED 6.— Federal heard the trusted axent , 4 one of t n German and n the or. interned for federal mst able author route was cove for rom the and means to ob ition from the kho by has P tive of tment of |? trict or te explain that they were on orde except {from Washington, en made, various “in the second|a or to ha file, noo aside and drove his bayonet with HANDS TIED BEHIND BACK; both hands into the child’s stomach. He lifted saint med HE RUNS hatin STREET the child into the air on his bayonet and carried f ‘ siat Tone it away, he and his comrades still singing. The _six igmen, returning from their work, were st child screamed when the soldter struck it with\” oman. hot as she beating for lhis bayonet, but not afterward. This incident was reported by two witnesses. |'BOY’S HANDS CUT OFF AS HE KNEELS TO ASK FOR MERCY Ss were “A man,’ id the witness, ave exclaimed ave MAN AND STREI HAD HI \ THE) HANDS SHO hrED AS HI BI RAN HIND HIS BACK DOW Another One id/fare against the civil population in the ying dead man, and a carried t here 14 who ha German ved him t Hofstade pins trean ue the h time s revi himself nteau ian walking by Adjoining the ‘bl: ja cafe. Here a middle-aged woman land a boy of about 16. | The boy was found kneeling, in an attitude | | lof supplication. | ; Both his hands had been cut off—‘one |") (ney OMe te Oe s on the ground, the other hanging by a put the trick was fortunately seen by a ing by Ir His face was smeared with blood. Papists’ He was seen in this condition by 25 separate priests PRIESTS : SEE witnesses, whose testimony is reported in the re-|CQMRADE SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD port of Lord James Bryce, former ambassador| Then field, and ito the United States. ja guard with’ loade rtille ti-| About 140 eccle the pri American of the carry had to put dow ortima hurry i -ksmith’s house _ was | wh in the o lay dead, | oa; then toc Here earched » re bottom Another er, anc k the the One to be a packet lip a cartridg a other “ suit monk stand la |bit of skin.” hem—“Swine” fire on us.” ult driven into a rifle iastic they ere urrounded by collected altogether, uze, the rector of Louvai r rsity; fessor of hist the emimary ; lemsen \meri college were includ Canon with idier te houses were “T went I wen ing parents in “to d hi | fied, to fin he: fateh oate pe oaths tae | Cauchie burning excep he one 'w % " of the WHOLE FAMILY SLAIN; GIRLS ident HARGED, TAREP, id TREE On formerly pre an r they taken up ag her were their that dutio marched backs “one ting to be shot abse Liting Seven or eig field As the going to two An room on wh opene 1 the father motl and Each of them had both feet cut off just above the ankle) them wa and both hands just above the wrist. The poor boy rushed The straight off, took one of the horses and his gun and rode in| but were vic ently the direction of the German lines. Then Father “We never saw him again— led them Devastation spread th the called retreat had bec At Capelle-au-Bois the Belgian The paper wa hanging naked fre tree and dosen libes} “compared t ‘house, caught as they were making preparetions to flee ‘vain to the conduct of Genseric ther ister marched, a dier muttered be shot howe nd t era erican d their passports to ¢ rebuffed tud and one of Dupierreux, a Jesuit guard inslate aloud Dupic 23 years under their nur wa before ru whole forward into ana n found on lather rreu mem half found two (it men t girl in a troop ma two w meted he nduet of the and of the Saracen jun |carr pocket, | “Beastly | principal | paper and the! outrag panied the simultaneous advance t Russian Poland, and the autumn incursion of the Austro-Hungarians into Serbia,-which was turned back at Valievo There Simila into the Wes was rmity in the crimes com- theatres war, and s within which they urred d the first three m« e that per tho outrages been of the same remarkal these w an fell. of the ntinued, same kable lit character admittance } 5 » the immobili ue that the ritories on the West ions than ever in been marked by f the Germans fronts, have bi they have Russia the the and | Balkan outrages of ame spectit ! This seems to show that the systematic war- ; 1 ‘ cam- |paigns of 1914 was the result of policy, delib- (Continued on page 14) There’s Room for Food Saving in Seattle’s Hotels —ECHO JU NE ZAHL the ‘ ing which By Echo June Zahl Yesterday 1 visited the ho d favorite eating places the food pa tle is as con other phases of b “budd He ordered tenderloin lettuce French pastry And when the waiter cleared table afte course carried away two-thirds of (Continued on page 5) ITALIANS START FIGHTING AGAIN Altho no major developments any of the European war fronts were recorded in news dispatches today, indications pointed toward a resumption of the offensive on the Italian front, and minor raids against the British and French. believed that Austrian om the Russiaa agai the Ital. hurriedly sent the Slav of- replied his eat a crab cocktail, pak with potatoes, coffee and our finds he iti bread, meat are mixed with oth | e in an in nnot They must all go ) p ner waste Europe, starvation is t entacles about children be down into the wray | hundred and uniforn’ len, ed men on | I lunched in the no ‘oon the New Washi watched — the men and wome menu card Then I noted length of ti tell the waiter Ww ed—how well critic it to iat they they rem to want stop much really nd how k to the or two. nuch was kitche u kitehen aft Realty Realty fer icential districts of |at approximately $9 Deals Pop At two. e trans », the man of} Hunger 1 heard one

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