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Show CRUELTY AKD LUST WEAPONS OF HUNS Conquered Peoples Shamefully Treated for Advantage of the German State. Prussian Officers Callously Tell How Starvation and Abuse Are Made to Serve Their Purpose Cap- ( tlve Women Made Slaves. JThl I have seen. I could not J , believe It unless I had seen It j- 51 through and through. For sev- T era' weeks I lived with It; ' T i .j, went all about It and back of , It; Inside and out of It was j 4, shown to me until finally I T came to realize that the Incredl- ble was true. It is monstrous, k. T it Is unthinkable, but it exists. It Is the Prussian system F. 2 C. Walcott. No more jrraphlc description of the ravages of the German soldiery upon the civilian population of invaded countries has been given than is contained con-tained in the brief and simple statc-. statc-. roenta of F. C, Walcott, now connected with the United States food administration, adminis-tration, who was .ssistent to Mr. Hoover while America was feeding l'.elglum. Poland and northern France, In one of these statements Mr. Walcott Wal-cott says: Even now I And It hard to describe In comprehensible terms the mind of ofiiclal Germany, which dominates and shapes all German thought and action. Tet It Is as hard, ns clear-cut, as real ns any material thing. I saw It in Toland, I saw the same thing in Bel-Slum, Bel-Slum, I heard of it in Serbia and Eou-manla. Eou-manla. For weeks It was always before be-fore me, always the same. Officers talked freely, fraukly, directly. All the staff officers have the same view. Let me try to tell it, as Ceneral -von Krles told me, In Poland, in the midst of a dying nation. Germany Is destined des-tined to rule the world, or at least a great prrt of It- The German people are so much human material for building build-ing the German state, other people do not count. All is for the glory and might of the German state. The lives of human beings ura to be conserved only If It makes for the sta'. j's advancement, ad-vancement, their lives are to be sacrificed sacri-ficed If It is to the state's advantage. The state la all, the people are nothing. noth-ing. Conquered people signify little In the German account Life, liberty, happiness, human sentiment, family ties, grace and generous impulse, these have no place beside the one concern, the greatness of the German state. Starvation must excite- no pity ; sympathy sym-pathy must not be allowed, if It hampers ham-pers the main design of promoting Germany's enda. "Starratlon Is here," said General von Krles. "Candidly, we would like to see it relieved ; we fear our soldiers may be unfavorably affected by the things that they see. But since It Is here, starvation must serve our purpose. pur-pose. So we set it to work for Ger- many. By sturvnUnn we can accomplish accom-plish in two or three years In East ' Poland more than we have In West Poland, which Is East Prussia, In the last hundred years. With that In view, we propose to turn this forco to our advantage. I "This country is mennt for Germany," Ger-many," continued the kivpcr of starving starv-ing Poland. "It is a rich alluvial country which Germany has needed far some generations. We propose to remove the Itble-bodlod working Foles from this country. It leaves It open for the intlow of German working people peo-ple as fast as v can spare them. They will occupy It nnd work It" Then with a cunning smile, "Can't you see how It works out? By and by we shall give back fri-edom to Poland. I When that happens Poland will appear automatically as a German province." In Belgium, General von Eisslng told me exactly the same thing. "If the relief of Belgium breaks down we j can force the Industrial population ln-I ln-I to Germany through starvation and ! colonize other Belgians In Mesopo-i Mesopo-i tarala where we have planned large j Irrigation works ; Germans will therj j overrun Belgium. Then when the wat j Is over nnd freedom is given back to j Belgium, it will bo a German Belgium I that Is restored. Belgium will be a j German province and we have Antwerp Ant-werp which Is what we are after." That Is not all. Removing the men, that the land may be vacant for Ger-t Ger-t man occupation, that German stock ! may replace Belgians, Toles, Serbians, Armenians, nnd now Roumanians, Germany Ger-many does more. Women left captive are enslaved. Germany makes all manner of lust Its instrumentality. The other day a friend of mine told me of a man just returned from northern north-ern France. "I cannot tell you the details," de-tails," he said, "man to man, I don't want to repeat what I heard." Some of the things he did tell shocking mutilation and moral murder. He told of women, by the score, In occupied territory of northern France, prisoned In underground dungeons, tethered for the use of their bodies by officers and men. If this Is not a piece of the Prussian system, it 13 the logical product cf disregard dis-regard of the rights of others. |