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Show ' 1 ; ; . - The German Appeal German women are NOT appealing to American women to . supply them with shiploads of free food. ";-. Read their appeal. It is for the release of railway cars and locomotive to be surrendered to the allied powers under the armistice terms. "'" The German women argue that unless these cars and engines ire left in German hands food supplies canno tbe brought from German farms to German towns and cities for distribution, in which case starvation is likely for hundreds of thousands half-famished on t that scientific wir diet which we were told ,a, while back was such ! a good thing for the overfed -peoples of the world. . The long four-year war taught us all that you can't trust any- tningthaTlFomes ouT 6f Germany: tt's all camouflage. Nothing is true, nothing is holvTnothing has good faith. v What cunning scheme is behind this appeal of the German women, an appeal sent to America, ignoring Commander in Chief Foch? The cars and locomotives requisitioned from Germany by the terms of the armistice are the same cars and locomotives that moved .' German troops from front to front and up and down the lines in bewildering numbers and with bewildering speed all through the , war,. The same cars and locomotives that carried to the millions of' ..' Gfrman troops their enormous supplies of food, clothing, camp : .: fnulni.f ammunition and runs. The same Cars and l"Comotivf ! that hauled from France and Belgium and Russia huge loads of lumber, lum-ber, coal and iron ore to make shells and guns and airplanes. The " same that bore billions of dollars worth of loot from invaded ter- ritories back into Germany. j: These-ars-and -locomotives did Tiot carry food from the farms to the towns for four years, and yet the. populace didn't starve. Where are the cars and engines that performed that service for, four years? The allied war council that dictated the terms of the armistice also adopted a resolution to provision Germany against starvation ' . this winter. . '. President Wilson in his speech to congress said that the allies and America are already organizing to feed Germany as they organized or-ganized to feed Belgium. ' Herbert Hoover is today en route to Europe to start this humanitarian work. If he finds that those cars and locomotives - are needed in his task you can depend on it that he'll get them. Enough said. Some day we may forget how tickled were the German people women included when the Lusitania was carried down with its ' precious burden of our women and babes. Some day we may forget for-get the pleasurable thrills the people of Germany felt when hun-. hun-. dreds of women and children were blown to bits in London and Paris by Zeppelms. ' . But we're not chumps enough to be taken in any more i German propaganda and cunning. We're not quite certain what's the game in this locomotive-and-car appeal, but r know it's a rick. ; I |