Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Greatest Brutality Shown When Americans Are Concerned [ARTICLE]

Greatest Brutality Shown When Americans Are Concerned

With The' American Army In France, Dec. 25.—German atrocities against American soldiers are officially reported. An American sentry has been found with his throat cut and it is officially declared “he must have been so killed after capture.” Information concerning German savagery has reached the troops in one of a series of bulletins read to them by the unit commanders and posted on the bulletin boards. Here is what they read: “After a raid by the Germans on trenches held by American troops, a lone sentry of infantry was found with his throat cut from ear to ear. He had been surprised by an overwhelming force of Germans and must.have been so killed after capture. ...» “Such brutality is familiar to old soldiers who served against savages in the Philippine campaign.” Another bulletin tells the men how the Germans in occupied sections of France and Belgium are turning women and children out of their homes into the snows, the buildings being then given over to soldiers, horses and material.