[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER XVII: Paint 3/4
The troops she sent captured Neue Chapelle.
From first to last they fought in many places for the Cause of England. What do words, or propaganda, what does anything count in the face of such facts as these? Agreeable Germany!--who addresses her God, "Thou who dwellest high above the Cherubim, Seraphim and Zeppelin"-- Parson Diedrich Vorwerck in his volume Hurrah and Hallelujah.
Germany, who says, "It is better to let a hundred women and children belonging to the enemy die of hunger than to let a single German soldier suffer"-- General von der Goltz in his Ten Iron Commandments of the German Soldier; Germany, whose soldier obeys those commandments thus: "I am sending you a ring made out of a piece of shell....
During the battle of Budonviller I did away with four women and seven young girls in five minutes.
The Captain had told me to shoot these French sows, but I preferred to run my bayonet through them"-- private Johann Wenger to his German sweetheart, dated Peronne, March 16, 1915.
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