WHO ARE THE HUNS?

140 Inhumane Methods of Warfare.
"When I first observed, in the course of my professional
journeys, that great masses of troops were being assembled
in the Vosges, I called to mind the prophecy of Jaurès, that
there would soon be war. This was on the 18th of July. Suddenly,
on the 21st of July, a state of war was proclaimed.
On the afternoon of the 24th of July I received my papers with
a command to leave France. However, travelling by train was
already forbidden to civilians. In the afternoon I was arrested,
and, together with 179 Germans, Austrians and Hungarians,
confined in a cellar. The next morning we were taken under
guard to Toul. On the way through the city the populace,
pelted us with stones, gravel and dirt. In the evening we were
put in an ice-cellar to sleep on straw. At Toul, from the 2nd of
August on, we were compelled with blows to dig trenches and
fortifications and erect barbed wire. The trenches, which had
a breadth of 1.30 metres were covered with barbed wire.
Among our number there was a certain Paul Schambach,
business manager of the German wool-factory of Schlumberger
in Belfort, who had about him 80,000 francs belonging to his
firm.
When he complained of the seizure of the money, he
was taken behind a citadel and obliged to dig his own grave.
He was then shot out of hand. On the 10th of August wè heard
the thunder of cannon, and shrapnel spattered on the roof.
During the next few days we were particularly roughly handled
and badly fed. We had to give up all our money, which in my
case alone amounted to 800 francs in wages, and 28,000 francs
in paper securities."
The "Berliner Morgenpost" publishes the following cry of
distress from German prisoners of war in France under the
date of September 14:
Report of a German doctor:
"I beg you to make known the unbelievable brutality with
which the German prisoners of war were treated in France.
I declare to you on my word as a physician, that no person,
however healthy, could endure such treatment for more than
8 days without collapsing. I can state these facts with the
greater assurance, since I was myself a prisoner of war. in Brest."
Armin H. Strobel, M. D. Berlin.