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Show VHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY? Once more German official statements state-ments on food supplies are conflicting and confusing. Chancellor von Both-lnann-Hollweg declared beforo the Reichstag yesterday, that the German people will not run short of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, notwithstanding the British blockade. Simultaneously with this announcement announce-ment comes a circular from the German Ger-man committee In the United States, which is appealing for milk for the babies in G-ermany, quoting Jurge Ben Lindsey of Denver as making the following declaration: "Moro than 1,000,000 people who never shouldered a rifle or heard the sound of cannon have already died In Poland and Germnny as a result of this war. I have coupled Poland with Germany "because Germany is trying to help Poland and Poland is now at least temporarily part of Germany. I have every reason to believe that unless there is some relief through the shipment of milk to Germany, there will be no chance to help either Germany or Poland, and by the shipment ship-ment of milk in large quantities to Germany it will open a way at the same time to relieve the children of Poland. It Is about the only practical way that any relief can be furnished to the suffering small children In both these countries. "Of course my knowledge of the situation is based upon my recent personal per-sonal experiences In Germany and upon what was told me by German people themselves. I found a disposition, dispo-sition, more or less, through the natural nat-ural pride of the people In refusing to admit their conditions, to wlth-hold the real truth about the shortage of milk, lest it might be construed as a sign cf weakness among the people, and thuB give some comfort to the enemy. If anyone returning from Germany Ger-many should deny that there is a shortage of milk I could only credit it to such feelings as should not be indulged when it comes to the truth regarding the. milk supply." Judge Llndsey's estimate that one million people In Germany and Poland Po-land have died, presumably of starvation, starva-tion, does not agree with Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's official notice no-tice that Germany has ample food supplies. So long as the central powers pow-ers have the means of warding off' hunger and starvation, they are In duty hound to prevent that condition, either In Germany or in Poland. These Inconsistencies have caused the minds of the American people to be filled with doubt as to the sincerity sin-cerity of the appeals for help and as a consequence the response has been limited. oo |