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Show . ., 1 r MURDER OF NATION BY RUTHLESS HUNS How the Polts Were Slain and Starved and Frozen During the German Drive. P. C. Waleott Ttlls f ths tesnes ef Horror Ho WltntsMd Along tho Road From Warsaw to Pinsk Million Nraona HotnstMs. iimmiiisTTiiiiiiiiiiii This I havo soon. I oould not ! bolltvo It vnlOM I had soon It ! through and through. For otv- . oral wtoks I llvod with It; I ! : ; wont all about it and back of It j i J IntUo and out of It waa shown . i to mo until finally I oamo to ; roads that tho Inorodlbl waa ', . i tru. It la monstrous, It Is un- ; ; thlnkablo, but It oxloto. It Is J ; i tho Prussian oystonv F, C. ; ; Waleott . J : TiiifiiiiuiimitiitimT The following Is a statement by F. O. Waleott, who sorred as aa assistant assist-ant .to Mr. Haoror darts tke time -Aasorles waa doing all that was, possible pos-sible to feed the starring minions of Botstoja aad Petead and -ortho Trance. Ialhls wortt fc was brought la direct contact with' German military ofldals, and aaw the condltloaa which the Oerma taraatoa had treated among the dTiUin population; I wtat to Poland to learn the facta concerning the remnant of a people that had been decimated by war. The country had been, twice, devastated. First the Russian' army swept" throngh It and then the Germans. Along the roadside from Woroaw to Plnsk, the present firing Mine, 230 miles, nearly half a million people had died of hunger hun-ger and cold. Tho way was strewn with their bones picked clen'n by the crows. With their usual thrift, the Germans were collecting .the larger bones to be milled Into fertilizer, but Anger and toe bones lay on the ground with the mud-covered and-rain-soaked clothing. ' Wicker bnskets were scattered along the way tho basket In which the baby swings from the rafter In every peasant peas-ant home. Every mile there were scores of them, each one telling a death. I started to count, but after a little I had to give It up, there were so many. That Is the desolation one saw along the great road from Warsaw to Plnsk, mile after mile, more than two hundred hun-dred miles. They told me a million people were made homeless In six weeks of the German drive In August and September, 1010. They told me four hundred thousand died on the way. The rest, scarcely half alive, cot through with the Russian army. Many of these have been sent to Siberia; Si-beria; It Is theso peoplo whom -tho Pndcrewskl committee Is trying to relieve. re-lieve. I in the refugee enmps, 800,000 strru 'vlvors of tho flight wero gathered by the Germans, members of broken families. fam-ilies. They were lodged In Jerry-built barracks, scarcely water-proof, un- lighted, unwnrmed In the dead of winter. win-ter. Their clothes, where the buttons were lost, were sewed on. There were no conveniences, they had not even been able to vrash for weeks. Filth and Infection from vermin werej spreading. They wero famished, their dally ration a cup of soup and a piece of bread as big as ray fist In Warsaw, which bad not been -destroyed, a city of jsao Blllon Inhabitants, Inhab-itants, on of the most froaperoaa cities cit-ies of Europe before tho war. tho streets wen llaod with people ta the pangs of starvation. Fasalohed and rala-aoakoO, they aaaatted there, with their, elbows oa their knees or lean-ag lean-ag against the bnlUHngs, .too feeble to Uft a hand for a bit of saeaoy or a ssorsol of bread tf oao offered It, per-taking per-taking of hunger aad cold. Charity did what U could. The rich gave all that they had. the poor shared their last crest Hundreds of thousands were perishing. Day and Bight tho pictures i before aiy eyes- people starving, a nation dying. The above statement by Mr. Waleott Wal-eott Is a terrible arraignment of the Hun, but no more terrible than he deserves. What has happened la Poland, ia Belgium, In northern France and every other country that has been blighted by the Baa's presence pres-ence would happen ia America should the allies, by any chance, fall to win this war. It would mean the enslavement enslave-ment of Americaa men, the starring and death of American women and children. chil-dren. Either the Hoa or humanity must perish. |