| Show I I j I I I I I I I HORRORS OF WHITE WHITED TERROR TOLD BY D BYS S WRITER Prisoners Starved to Death by Pro-German Pro Fin- Fin landers By fly Carl Sandberg N. N E. E A. A Staff Correspondent Who Has Just Returned From Northern North North- ern Europe The Tho death rate in the Finnish White guard prison camp at during two months last year ear kept going up till it was per thousand per week Most of ot them died because they I got only half halt as much to eat as they needed to live That is to say they were starved to d death ath This is no cheer up story If the population of ot Chicago got the s same me medose dose at the same Bame rate rat the undertakers undertakers undertakers under under- takers would be hauling people a week t to the graveyards DELI DELIBERATE ERATE CRUEL CRUELTY TV t For ghastly and deliberate cruelty during the world storm the prize must go to the Finnish junkers who under General l established their White guard government and overthrew overthrew overthrew over over- threw the peoples people's republic of Finland by the use of German battalions withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn from the western front during the first six months of 1918 On percentages counting the fact that Finland has only people the record of firing squad execl executions of civilians not accorded trial estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated above and the record of oC men women and children starved in prison camps estimated above surpass all records of frightfulness contained in evidence concerning Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium glum or Serbia It may be Armenia Armenta dripped with more mOle innocent blood and listened to more human creatures dying with a acry acry cry of Bread Bread on their white mouths But it is doubtful Whether from any other country has come such specific and absolute evidence of the starvation o of thousands of prisoners prisoners- as a method and because that method was vas the most convenient for Cor the killing killing kill kill- ing of people the Finnish l junkers wanted dead Cad rath rather r than alive PROVED BY BV REPORT 1 In support of these serious allegations allegations allegations allega allega- 1 I would submit first of all and andas andas andas as only one of ot a series of relevant memoranda a report by Professor Robert to the Finnish pro- pro German White government Someone secretly copied the report and sent it to Hjalmar Branting at Stockholm who published it jn the daily labor paper Social Branting a a. strong Bolshevist anti openly condemns the White terror of ot Finland as far more bloody and cruel than the Red terror of Russia After its publication in Stockholm Professor wrote the Hel- Hel declaring the report as printed was correct but was intended only for the information of ot the this Finnish 1 g government Professor Protessor whose hooks on physiology are used in some American colleges was head physician of the prison camp at near Helsing- Helsing fors the Finnish capital His points filled three and a half newspaper col col- DEATH RATE GROWS Here is an attempt at summarizing the report which covers a period when there was a total of men women and children in the Finnish prison camps of the White terror From Irom June 6 G to July 31 the death rat rate rate- among prisoners at has been very high Per thousand per week have died June rune 6 12 June rune 19 13 June 20 26 23 June 27 to July 3 3 1460 July ruly 4 10 1887 July ruly 17 11 2676 July ruly 24 18 July 31 25 The total of prisoners Y varied ried from to In this period 1347 prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- died and the death rate rose to In the last week of July ruly the death rate was seven times higher than the second week in June Typhus patients in hospital averaged averaged averaged aver aver- aged forty to fifty per day Deaths from smallpox averaged three to thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen per day and from measles two to six per day The reason for the high death rate rale therefore must be ascribed to other causes causes namely to unsatisfactory unsatisfactory unsatisfactory factory hygienic conditions In the prison Cubic air space per prisoner was one half to to tenth one-tenth the dimensions required by factory laws in the United States according to figures on seven seven I barracks A special group roup of prisoners set apart for workhouse punishment are are not permitted to leave their quarters at night Filthy odors fill the at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere at- at of ot these rooms In some barracks they sleep steep in inI wooden bunks of two three four tiers I In one the bunks are five stories high No mattresses or even straw sacks for beds There is a great lack of ot water The food is salty and prisoners are all the time thirsty A A man in complete rest needs 1900 calories of food to sustain life A man employed at manual labor with oc ocI occasional occasional oc- oc I rest periods needs from 2400 to 2600 calories I According to this reckoning the prisoners should have at least 1400 to 1500 calories of food per day though the publicly known fact is that they do not receive more than SOO 00 to 1000 calories It is therefore absolutely necessary that the food should be immediately improved both in quality and quan quan- quanI I Otherwise the death rate will willi continue its upward movement Among the prisoners whose relatives relatives relatives rela rela- I. I tives and friends have supplied them with food tood it is noticeable the death I i rate ate is lower lowerA lowerA I A death rate of per 1000 per I week n is enormous It has not occurred I in the prisons of the czars czar's empire except except ex except ex- ex I during epidemics of ot cholera and smallpox |
