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Page 12
Consul Frost Calls Germans
“Jackals of the Sea!”
Says the Sinking of the Lusitania Was Foulest Outrage of
All German Crimes—Pays Tribute to British Navy.
Wesley Frost, former United States
consul at Queenstown, Ireland, who came
into international prominence when the
Lusitania was torpedoed by the German
U-boat, and who knows more of German
frightfulness on the high seas than any
other man living, in all probability, was in
Augusta last Wednesday and made two
addresses before the Rotary Club in the
afternoon and al Partridge Inn in the
evening before the Chamber of Commerce.
This account deals with the evening ad
dress.
President .Tames M. Hull, Jr., president
of the Augusta Y. M. C. A. and a mem
ber of the Chamber of Commerce, intro
duced Mr. Frost, whpjproved to be a tall,
slender young man, with a seriousness of
manner and earnestness of utterance that
is undoubtedly due to the series of sea
horrors which he has witnessed and heard
from the lips of survivors, as they landed
in open boats on the Irish shore.
Without any effort at oratory; with no
effort at inspiring hate; without mention
ing the very important part he has played
in securing evidence to convict the Ger
man of piracy and murder, he spoke for
an hour and after relating many instances
of German frightfulness, concluded with
the sinking of the Lusitania—"the foulest
outrage of them all.”
Three Killed By Shell Fire.
On a single day in Queenstown he lias
seen the crews from six torpedoed ships
landed and in the three years of his of
ficial duties lie has had reported to him
the sinking of eighty-one ships by Ger
man submarines, on which American lives
were either lost or imperilled. This is due
to the fact that the Atlantic ocean south
of Ireland is the greatest ocean highway
on the face of the globe and is an ideal
spot for submarine operations. In many
cases, the only warnings given the crews
and passengers of these ships was the
shelling and bombing of the Germans and
very recently, three persons were killed
by shell fire while the Germans were in
open boats. Oen day while at the dock,
he saw the remains of the commander
of the California carried by him in a
gunnysack.
Taunted Drowning Men.
Mr. Frost stated that the commander of
the Carnhill was ordered to take his nine
teen men to the submarine and while they
were standing on the deck of the subma
rine, she dove under the water, leaving
th nineteen men struggling in the heavy
sea. Many times, men have been held in
small boats alongside submarines, while
the Germans taunted them and shouted
insulting epithets at them. Some of the
crew's of submarines watched men drown
ing in the ocean and took photographs of
them. Mr. Frost said: "Only the relent
less avalanche of facts, week after week,
month after month, convinced me that
this is America’s war.”
Murder In First Degree.
“The U-boats skulk up at night, with
out warning, and in one instance, but one
out of thirty-nine were saved, while in
another, four were saved out of thirty
two. Ships have sunk in the darkness of
night in sixty seconds, and fifty per cent,
of all the ships sink in ten minutes or
less. Murder in the hrs-, degree is the
verdict of the world. It is said that to
day the subs fire their torpedoes by mi
crophones and do not rise to the surface.
The torpedo strikes amidships, causing
the boilers to explode and many brave
fellow-s are blown to ribbons or boiled to
death in the steam. One-third of the
casualties are due to exploding boilers.
Germany says war is a rough game, but
that is no reason why it should be foul.
‘Ruthlessness’ is the only word that con
veys any meaning of the outrages, but
the attempt to turn the waters south of
Ireland into a marine inferno is failing.
Tribute to British Navy.
“Two boatloads of British muletteers
who had been given up for :ost were saved
by a British tug and I want you to join
with me in saying: ‘All honor to the Brit
ish navy, which night and day has been
hunting down the jackals of the sea.' It
was my privilege to receive the Amer
ican flotilla and I found the ships in tine
trim, ready to go into action at once. In
fact, the United States officers put into
effect four practical suggestions imme
diately after their arrival and surprised
the British with their efficiency.
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FRENCH AND CAMP
“A British captain who was a prisoner
on a German submarine for three hours
got on amicable terms with his captors
and learned from the commander that
the officers of the submarines have no
choice in the treatment of their victims.
Some German commanders had been put
to death in slow agony because they had
compassion on their victims and the
crews had ‘jeached’ against them.
“I do not think the German people are
given over entirely to the powers of dark
ness. When the war is over, the Germans
will contribute largely to the welfare of
the world. The fetid atmosphere in Ger
many is caused largely by the density of
population, where there are 300 people to
the square mile, in comparison with only
30 to the square mile in the United States.
This over-breathed atmosphere engenders
spiritual disease and moral contagion.
Submarine Will Be rermanent.
“The submarine will become a perma
nent addition to the armament of the
world. The marvelous of it
compels us to use it and we must not
condemn the German because they were
the first to use it. The bill of indictment
against the Germans has four counts:
“First. Torpedoing shops without warn
ing.
“Second —Refusing to tow small boats
laden with the passengers and crews of
sinking vessels.
’ “Third—Following ships by day so as to
torpedo them at night.
“Fourth —Mangling their victims with
shell fire.
Remember the Lusitania.
“The crowning infamy or the Germans
is their war against women and children.
War against women is the quaintessence
of crime. It has never been practiced by
barbarian nations. The sinking of the
Lusitania, with nearly 2.000 on board, was
the most appalling catastrophe ever rec
orded. There were 1,200 dead —800 men,
300 women and 100 children, of whom 35
were infants. The Lusitania crime is giv
en prominence over all others because it
portrays the spiritual cataclysm of the
German nation. The Germans needless
ly and deliberately are using the subma
rine, to make it horrible. Every month,
there is an average of 800 to 900 lives
lost through the submarine and the toll
last week was the heaviest since April.
It is still a grave menace and rough
weather prevailing now defeats the use
of the depth bomb and aeroplane.
“I ask you to remember the Lusitania,
not to arouse hatred or vengeance, but
that you may determine to put a stop to
it, so that it shall never happen again.”
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