WHO ARE THE HUNS?

98 Violations of Red Cross Rules.
The original lies before me and I should be glad to place it at
the disposal of neutrals with the approval of the government.
Here we find a mass of legal exhibits and protocols, especially
those of German doctors and medical corps men. There is a
crushing amount of evidence to prove that the French troops
systematically maltreated the German sanitary units that fell
into their hands in outrageous violation of the Geneva Convention
of the 6th of July, 1906. The articles that are especially
called into question here are Nos. 6, 14 and 9.
This entire official document is an exposure of the most
amazing kind, laying bare the incredible brutalities, the outrageous
tortures and the deliberate assassinations to which the
German Red Cross doctors, soldiers and nurses were subjected
by the French military and civil authorities. Every instance is
borne out with dates, names and facts plainly given, as well
as the places in which the atrocities occurred. The beautiful
emblem of the Red Cross, the symbol of humanity, of mercy
and help for the helpless, was wantonly disregarded. Men
occupied in the merciful and humanitarian errands of alleviating
the woes and agony of their comrades or even of the enemy,
were seized, imprisoned, insulted, robbed, starved and slain in
cold blood. In appendix 23 one may read how a German Army
Doctor was shot from his horse, killed as he lay on the ground,
after which his eyes were gouged out with sticks. Wounded
men in ambulances were shot to death at a distance of a fewsteps.
There were no such excuses for these barbarous acts as
those justly afforded a German artillery company forced to
dislodge a French battery that had sheltered itself close to a
French bandaging station. The French seemed to be deliberately
bent upon annihilating not only the material but also the
men of the German Red Cross.
Robbery was rife. Field-glasses, electric pocket lamps,
photographs, underwear, decorations, cutlery, watches, cuffbuttons
and money were seized and stolen. Nor did various
French officers refrain from casting a further blot upon the
honor of their nation by taking part in these robberies. The transportation
of these prisoners, prisoners in violation of every rule
of civilized warfare, was conducted with the most revolting
brutality. 40 to 50 men would be packed into a filthy cattle-