Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-08 | Page 7 | Other Points of View

Points Othe-Points Other Points of View I It I Ii i t u L r j POOR When hen the German army marched through h B Belgium destroying towns cities looting churches and hom homes killing killing- Innocent noncombatants noncombatant and committing innumerable r- r able atrocities on the excuse that nel Belgium lum dared to resist It was wa argued b by pro-Germans pro In this country countr that it would have ha he been en far wl wiser er for the thc Belgian government to permit the peaceable passage e of ot the German troops troop as the little grand Frand duchy of oC I Luxemburg had done and Luxemburg's Luxemburg's Luxemburg's Lux Lux- emburg's protected d state was ae pointed to In support of or this view slew At it present however ho It appears that In spite o of German German German Ger Ger- man protection J Luxemburg is In no better belter condition than Belgium An article published In a. a paper of ot Berne Switzerland S and written b by a citizen of ot the grand duchy uch contains a bitter arraignment of oC Germany not not only for forts ts violation of Lux Luxemburg's s 's neutrality but for tor Us ts treatment of or the tho people German troops have hn lived ll upon the thc little country countr while crossing crossing- and Its territory territory terri tern tory and Instead of ot replacing thorn them have ha paid for 01 them with loan bank notes nole knowing that tho natives cs cannot obtain supplies for them themselves eh s A card system for tor foods has lon long been In force torce but the rations arc are so small mall that actual starvation threatens Hunger el hits s mode marIa Its Us appearance tuberculosis I Is making alarming progress and the death rate among children and poor persons Is fearfully high Prices for the necessities of oC life are ex exorbitant ex- ex But starvation I Is not the worst In spite of oC the Germ German Ger Ocr m man promise e that tho the personal liberty o of the Luxem- Luxem burgers would not be Interfered with arrests and de deportations do- do go SO on without end I Workers arc taken from factories and deported and public meetings are suppressed ed b by machine guns ms Other victims of or German protection have hl been heen con condemned to prison on or to death for what offense their friends do o not know II From all an of oC which It appears that Belgium would be 0 e no better off ott than it Is 18 toda today If Ie It had lain meekly down and allowed the devastating arm army to march through without opposition Denver Denvel Denver Times Jn