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Show MURDER OF NATION BY RUTHLESS HUNS How the Poles Were Slain and Starved and Frozen During the German Drive. F. C. Walcott Telia of the Scenes of Horror He Witnessed Along the Road From Warsaw to Plnsk Million Persons Homeless. TITTTTTHTtTTTTTTTTTT'rTTT x This I have seen. I could not ! believe it unless I had seen It ' ' I through and through. For sev- . oral weeks I lived with It; I went all about It and back of it; ' j inside and out of It was shown ) JL to me until finally I came to j , T realise that the incredible was J ' I X true. It Is monstrous, it is un- T thinkable, but It exists. It la X the Prussian system. F. C. T Walcott. ; ; Tg illAJiitiitiiKiAitiilnliili Juliilnlnliiliitnl ijiil ifiii . Tho following Is a stntement liy V-C. V-C. Wnlcott, who served ns nn usslst-niit usslst-niit to Mr. Hoover (ittritiK tho time America was doing nil thnt wns pos-sihlo pos-sihlo to feed the Btnrvlnjr millions of ; Relglum nnd Pol nnd and northern Frnnce. In this work he was brought In direct contact with Gennnn military ' ofllc Inls, and saw the conditions which the flennnn Invasion had created MMM the civilian population : I went to Poland to learn tho facts concerning the remnant of a people thnt had Iwcn decimated by war. Tho country had been twice devastated. First the Russian army swept through It and then the Germans. Along the roadside from Warsaw to Plnsk. the present firing line, 230 miles, nearly half n million people hod dle.l of hunger hun-ger nnd cold. The way wns strewn wltli their bones picked clean by the crows. With their usual thrift, the Germans were collecting the larger bones to be milled Into fertilizer, but finger nnd toe bones lay on the ground with the mud-covered nnd rnlr.-sonked clothing Wicker baskets were scattered n'ong the way the basket In which the baby swings from the rafter In every pent-ant pent-ant home. Kvery mile there were scores of them, each one telling a death. I started to count, but after a little I had to give it up, there were so many. That Is the desolation or.e snw nlong the great road from Warsaw to Plnsk, . mile after mile, more ttann two hun-f hun-f dnd miles. They told me a million people were made homeless in six weeks of the Gennnn drive In August nnd September. 101fl. They told me four hundred thousand died on the iwny. The rest, scarcely half alive, got through With the Russian army. Many of these have been sent to Siberia Si-beria ; It Is these people whom the Pndorewskl committee Is trying to re- Hove, In the refugee camps. 300.000 sur-vlvors sur-vlvors of the flight were gathered by the Germans, members of broken families. fam-ilies. They were lodged In Jerry-built j barracks, scarcely water-proof, un-' un-' lighted, unwarmed In the dend of wln- ter. Their clothes, where the buttons 3 : were lost, were sewed on. There were J no conveniences, they had not even ! beta M to wash for weeks. Filth J and Infection from vermin were I tprvndlnff, They were famished, their j dally ration a cup of soup and n piece Sjj of bread as big as my flat. j In Warsaw, which had not been de- htroyed, a city of one million Inhnb-$ Inhnb-$ j Itnnts, one of the most prosperous clt-$1 clt-$1 of Kurope before the war, the H streets were lined with people In the p.nigM of stnrvntlon. Famished nnd II ruin soaked, they squntted there, with U their elbows on their knees or lenn-H lenn-H lug against the buildings, too feeble H to lift n hand for n bit of money or a morsel of bread If one offered It. peril per-il Ishlng of hunger nnd cold. Clinrlty did what it could. The rich gave ull H that they had. the poor shared their last crust. Hundreds of thousands U were perishing. Pay and night the U pictures Is before my eyes a people 1 starving, a nation dying. H The above statement by Mr. Wnl- i I cott Is n terrible arraignment of the ;j I hm. but no more terrible than he J ileserves. What has happened In I Poland, In Belgium. In northern I Franc and every other country thnt I bus been blighted by the Hun's pres- ence would happen In America should I the allies, by any chance, full to win B this war. It would menu the ouslavo- I ment of American men, the starving nnd death Of American women and chll- I dren. Either the Hun or humanity pi! must perish. |