German Atrocities in Southwest Africa
THE PORTLAND, ORE., "CATHOLIC SENTINEL" declares that the colonial report of Germany is equal in its cruelty to that of Belgium. These cruelties were committed by the German soldiery in German Southwest Africa. They tell of a case that after a village had been captured and all its inhabitants slaughtered, fifty-two children were placed in wicker baskets and thrown into the rapids. Three natives of a certain village were mutilated most horribly by the mistake of a sergeant charged with punishing three natives for sustaining too intimate relations with the officer's concubine. The bestiality of some of the soldiers exceeded that of the natives themselves. No wonder the Psalmist, looking upon the wickedness of man, was forced to cry out, "How long, O Lord, how long?" There will come a time when "God will arise and do His strange work and bring to pass His act, His strange act," and men who seem to be completely immune from civil punishment will meet the just reward of their deeds.