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PAGE TWO JHB ROBESQtf IAN. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918. THE ROBESONIAN Publish") MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS By BOBESONIAN PUBLISHING CO- I. A. 8HARPE President THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. A report on treatment of British prisoners of war during their trans port from France and Belgium to Ger many has been issued as a White Pa per in London. It deals with the first months of the war. Great Britain has from the beginning of the war been the object of the fiercest hate of the Germans because England in the Ger man war plan was expected to pass it up as none of her funeral and let Germany overrun Belgium and France. This White Paper is quoted extensively in a dispatch from Lon don published in the Greensboro Daily News. "In almost every case," says the dispatch, "the treatment of the British prisoners was barbarous, but the most striking fact brought out by the testimony given is that this treat ment was deliberate and carried ot by order. For that cruelty the German imperial government was re sponsible." The report shows: Careful neglect to give medical treatment to wound ed prisoners during journeys which lasted 2 to 5 days; overcrowding of of ficers and men wounded and un wounded usually in uncleaned horse and cattle trucks; deliberate depri vation of food and water; that Ger man Red Cross nurses habitually de clined to supply the British prisoners "one officer was compelled by a Ger man nurse to walk naked from his stretcher to the station buffet (used as a hospital)." The behavior of civilians was worse even than that of the military. Long and frequent halts were made and al ways hostile crowds surged around the prisoners threatening them with knives and revolvers and insulting them with the grossest forms of abuse. "Well-dressed women," quoting from the report, "were constantly prominent in these scenes, and often l at wayside stations rows of school children would be found drawn ur chanting choruses of abuse." An of ficer related that as they left the train at a station a well-dressed worn an leaned from the window of a first class compartment and spat in his face. In one instance the prisoners, some of them wounded, were simply put into a wagon and left for 72 hours without any attention whatever. Doubtless their humane captors were not a little surprised and disappointed to find them alive at the end of that time. A party of 350 to 400 British wounded were gathered at Mons, and: "The moment we arrived at Mons we all were taken into the station, where two trainloads of German troops (cavalry) had just arrived. These troops were drawn up in two lines; we were made to march through the lines and were subjected to gros-; i isults and ill-treatment. Curses were hurled at us, the men spat on us and kicked us, we were struck with sabres and bavonets, and Germans were no-, particular as to whether flesh woundr The Standard Family Remedy for Children and Grown-Ups Constipation is a condition that has to be guarded against from infancy to old age. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a com bination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, acts easily and naturally and is as safe and pleasant for children as it is ef fective on even the strongest constitution. All Druggists 50 as. and $1.00 A trial bottle can be obtained, free of charge, by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 457 Washington St., Monticello, 111. ing sticks had these 6natched from them and were beaten with them; very many men with crutches had these kicked from under their arms, and when patients fell the crutches were used to beat them with. Dur ing this episode German officers and N. C. O's were with their men and they, far from discouraging their men, encouraged them, even to the extent of cursing us in German and English in taking part in these cowardly as saults." One of the strangest things about the report is that British prisoners were treated with studied cruelty b fiendish German Red Cross nurses. The German system turns int oa devil even an angel of mercy. WHY THE BOYS ARE BEING SENT TO FRANCE. If there are any Robesonian read ers who wonder why it is necessary to send our boys to France, and why it is necessary for us who remain at home to make sacrifices, let them read the following, from the report in the Wilmington Star of a speech in that town the other night by Captain Les lie Vickers, late of the Seaforth High landers : "There are still some people in your midst who do not see clea:ly for sending your army to France. They argue that your part will be played if you defeat the Germans should they ever come here. There are some cheap politicians who would have you pur chase your munitions in a five and ten cent store. I ask is there one of them or one of you who could pay fcr the damage that would be done on your soil in one half hour's occupation by the Germans ? suppose it was your little child, now so safely asleep in your home, that were to have it? hand cut off a fate that befell the little children of the ravaged country over the sea; suppose it was your lit tle child that we saw bavonetted to a door and under it a notice to re mind the inhabitants of the village that more of their children would be thus treated if the German troops were interfered with in any way in A 1 flit treir career oi blood; suppose your wile or daughter had been amongst those who lay outside a French vil lage. -victims of the peaceful occupa lions of the town for five days by the German troops could you have rais were inflicted or not; men with walk- ed enough money in your whole coun- Catarrh and Bronchitis and Cold in the Head Recommend PE-RU-NA Those who object to liquid medi cines can secure Peruna tablets. Mrs. Rosa A. Kiss, 318 Clinton Place, Kansas City, Missouri, writes: "I was very sick with Catarrh and Bronchitis. I also bad a cold in the head. I used Peruna and am well pleased with the results. It has done me a great deal of good. I do not need any other medicine. I can cheerfully recommend it to any one who is troubled with, catching cold frequently or any one who has a chronic cough or chronic catarrh. Those wishing further particulars concerning my case may write me. Be sure to enclose a stamp and: I wiu answer." i m 1 - try to nave paid ior tnose precious lives? And yet some ask why the boys are being sent to France. "For this war, munitions cannot be bought with a dollar, but with mil lions of dollars; for this war sacri fices have to be made, not on the smallest possible scale but on the greatest; for this war we need, not the individual efforts of every man and woman within the nation but the united efforts of every man and wo man here. Only when we drop our differences, be they political, indus trial, religious or domestic, shall we set our feet firmly on the road to suc cess. "This is a time of crisis and we ask you to loan your reserves to the gov ernment, thatthe boys who are fight ing ior you, the boys whom you have sent to the trenches to give every thing that you might eniov vour lib erty, the boys who are asked to go tnrougn a living deatn every day for you, the boys who tonight are lying in wet dugouts that vou mitrht en joy the comfort of home, the boys who tnemseives tonight are slaves that the world may be made safe for democra cy we ask you to loan your money to the government that they might be clothed and fed to carry on the war they are waging for you. No sacri fice that the civilian can make is com parable to the sacrifice that your boy maKes every day over there in the trenches, and so it is, without any apology for our cause that I camp tn you to beg you to stand behind your government in this time of need." WE NEED VISION. Hon. William Mather Lewis, one of the speakers at a patriotic meeting in Wilmington Monday night, said some things, as did the other speakers on the occasion, that all of us need to think more seriously about, iie is quoted by The Star in part as follows: "We need vision for the nroner an- preciation of the problem that con- ironts us. We must remember that we are, by all the rules of war, fight ing a victorious nation. Germany is not torn by internal strife and" all their enemies are held at bay from without. The nation is held together by an artificial morale. This is a time when we must banish every thought of self. We have got to wake up to the terrible thing that is in Europe, and if you can't wake up to what war means in Europe, for God's sake wake up to what it means here. "People who say that it will be all right if the Germans do gain domin ion over the world, because they are the most efficient people in the world are traitors and should be stood up against a brick wall. People who ce ride England as a slacker in this war, deride them as a nation that has stood by and let France do the fighting, are pro-German. They are liars and trai tors. It is England who stands and wno has stood between us and the Hunnish hordes. These lies should be traced to their source, and the source put where its source will lie no more. "The thing that we have got to face is the fact that an inconclusive peace will mean that our children will have to do the thing over if we are negli gent now. The real test of this war for us is not in France with our boys. It is here at home. 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A display that will appeal to men cf particular taste in matters of dress. You are cordially invited to see all these latest fashions. Although ycu do not obligate yourself to make a single pr.rchc.Le in accepting, this invitation, you will find every price so moderate that anything you may buy now will be a good investment for the future. It will be worth your while to pay this store an early visit. Very sincerely yours, R.D. Caldwell & Son INCORPORATED. (LUMBERTON S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE.) thing in our civil life that would mean death if committed by a soldier. It is death for a soldier to go to sleep on his post. It will be the death of the nation if we at home go to sleep on our post." o Delightful Meeting of St. Pauls Book Club. Correspondence of The Robesonian. St. Pauls, March 25. The members of the book club had a most delightful meeting Thursday evening, March 21, with Misses Effie Smith and Rowena Odom, at the home of Mrs. Jas. Cal lahan, on main street. After the business of the club was finished the meeting was given over to the hostesses. Four tables had been arranged for carroms and quite an interesting game was played. Miss Laura Jones and Mr. Duncan McGre gor progressed the greatest number of times. The hostesses, assisted by Mrs. Cal lahan, served cream and wafers. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT, ETC., REQUIR ED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 of The Robesonian, published twice-a-week, at Lumberton, N. C, for April 1, 1918. Editor, J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton, Managing Editor, J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton, N. C. Business Manager, F. Grover Britt, Lumberton, N. C. Publisher, Robesonian Publishing Co., Lumberton, N. C. Owners: J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton, N. C; Mrs. J. A. Sharpe, Lumberton, N. C; W. K. Bethune, Lumberton, N. C. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of uonas, mortgages, or other securities: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., New York City deferred payments on linotype machine. Average number of copies of each i F. GROVER BRITT, Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of March. 1918. F. L. NASH, Notary Public. My commission expires Feb. 12, 1920. Despondency Due to Constipation. Women often become nervous and despondent. When thi sis due to con stipation it is easily corrected by tak ing an occasional dose of Chamber lain's Tablets. These tablets are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Ugly, Unsightly Pimples Are Signals of Bad Blood Give Heed to the Warning. Pimples on the face and other parts of the body are warnings from, Nature that your blood is sluggish and impoverished. Sometimes they foretell eczema, boils, blisters, scaly eruptions and other skin disorders that burn like flames of fire. 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