A FIENDISH ACT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 259, 20 July 1918, Page 8

A FIENDISH ACT

YET ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE HATED HUN DOCTOR'S CRUELTY fin "Gunner Denew," Albert N. DeptfW, itli American who was in Belgium at llio Oiltbmik- of Uie war, tells sumo of llln cxueriuiiceis both as a neutral iliid n ljcllii(crent. Here is a ghastly stury of linn brlllality.] Jfy wound was just: a clean, {filllshot wound, and not very serious, so, ;(!- though it was not completely hraled, they ■lei; me K<> liftor three wesks. Hut before ■1 went, J Hii.fr rimifitliiiiß that :in man of us will otft foritL'l. fiomn of tliein took vows just like live men of Hit- Legion 1 told you about. One of I lie patient* was a German doctor, who had been picked up in No Man'it Land; very setfously wounded. ITe was given the same liTiif* , meiit Us nny of us; that is, tho very best, Imt liiiiilly Hie doctors (rave him up. They he wmiid die slowly, i.and that'it might lake several weeks. But there was a nurse I hero wlm took Especial interest in liis tm, and she Stayed up day and night for soluo time, nml fin.iHy brought, him through, "ihi ease was very well kiiorn. and everybody said she' had' performed a miracle, lie'got belter slowly. Then a few weeks later, when he rns out of danger, and ■was able lo walk, nnd it was only a ((nestion of time before , he would be released from the hospital, this nurso :\vns transferred to nnothnr hospital. Everybody knew her .and liked her. nnd iwhen she went to say gond-bye, ■nil Hie men were sorry, and gave her little presents, and wanted her to ivrito to Hipm. She vim sni"?! to set a imr«e the ki'wv- in the other hospital to turn Imr letter? into English, so that _ slie rnuld write to me. I gave her a ring I had made from a piew of but T irucps she had hundreds of them at that.

But the German doctor .would not sny pind-by" tn her. That would not have nmrio mo i*. bur Ibis French girl feel very bad, and 'be be*an tn cry. One of the' French officers saw her, and found out about the doctor, and the officer went up and srcoke In the German. Then the French officer left, and the German called to the nurse, and she went over to him and stopped crying. They talked !nr :i liH-'p nil h>. and 4Vn she put out her hands as if she was (join? to leave. Ho put out his hands, too, and took hold of hers. And. then he twisted her wrists and broke them. We heard the snap. Thero wero men in that ward who had not been on foot since the day they came to the hospital, mid one ot them was eupposed to bs dying, but it is an absolute fact that when we heard her scream there was not a man left in bed. I need not tell you what we did to the German. They did not need to shoot him, after we, got through with him. They did shoot what was left of him,,to make sure, though.

_ Now, I liave heard people say that it is not the Germans we are fighting, but the Kaiser and hie system. "Well, it may be true that some of the Boohe soldiers would not do 'these things if they did not have to; myself, I am not so sure. But you tako this doctor. Here Ift was, an educated man, who had been trained all his' life to help p?ople who were in pain, and not to timse it. And he was not where lie would have to obev the Kaiser or any other German. And this nurs«t had saved his life. So I do not see that there is anv argument about it. He broke that girl's wrist J because he wanted to; that is all there is to it. Now, I say this German doctor was n dirty cur and a scoundrel. Eut I say that-he is a. fair sdniple of most of the Germnns_ I have met. And it is Germans of this kind we are fighting—not merely the Kaiser.

It is like going to collese. I have never been there, but I have heard some people say it did not do a man any good fo go. But I have never heard a man who went there say that. Probably you have not been over there, and ninVbc you think wo are not lighting the German people, but only the Kaiser and his flunkeys. Well, nobody had better tell 'me that. Because I have been there, and I have seen this. And I know.