Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-11 | Page 18 | Children Virtually Starved to Death

CHILDREN VIRTUALLY STARVED TO DEATH AMSTERDAM, July 27. The death of six children at the German Reform school in Tiefenort, Saxe-Waimar, from what practically amounts to starvation, although al-though it is politely called "undernourishment" "under-nourishment" in the official reports, has caused widespread comment in Germany. Assailed in the Grand Ducal parliament parlia-ment for tolerating such conditions, the government put forth the diverting excuse ex-cuse that the children died from "tuberculosis "tuber-culosis brought on by? deficient mental conditions." This, says Vorwaerts, in 1 a scathing editorial, is "a disease that is ! likely to prove more serious and more : mysterious than the influenza epidemic in Spain."