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Show GE11 UN PROTEST GIHIN6 Mothers In Fatherland Say Their Children Need Milk to Keep Strength SURRENDER OF 800.000 CATTLE CALLED FOR Death Rate From Tuberculosis Blamed to Lack of Necessary Neces-sary Fluid BERLIN, Dee. 20 iSurrender to j the allies ot" S00, 000 milch cows, which have been demanded undeV the. terms of the Versailles' treaty would have disastrous results In Germany, anya a letter to the women of Fre nee from a committee of German women. Continued Con-tinued deprivation or" the Gorman peo- i pie of the milk supply represented by these cow.s would result in weakening' public stamina und individual resist-) unco and, therefore, operate to reduce tho ability of Germany to fulfill treaty obligations through necessary production, produc-tion, it is aald.a in t KNDI its OF t EIJ3 DREW "As women are defenders of the! rights of children," the letter declares, "we embrace with equal sympathy, suffering children of all nations 1 ur sympathy goes out Jn fullest measure to children In the devastated regions) in i-ranee wnero it appears to us to be urgent that help should be granted as speedily aa possible. n tbe other hand, wo see the need of even part of Germany is so great that further, reduction in the milk suppl.. would be equivalent to the death Sentence foi hundreds of thousands of children. Instead In-stead of the twenty billion liters f milk which iiern,n;i prodio ed annually annual-ly in peace times, the country is now producing o i !v 8, 800, 000,000-" in; vnr rt i ft ifox BL1 t For nearly six years the populations of German i Hies have not had milk, the letter asserts and, owing to this foot, the death rate from tuberculosis has doubled since 1913 and as.ooo more children died In 191S than in 1913. In Prussia alone there has been an increase in-crease In child mortality of 100 per cent The letter declares these facts are not known to the French 'because the press has not permitted tbe information in-formation to be mado public " Tlie whole question is not one of Oerman (rood will, the letter says, hut of a Ufa and death struggle for Oerman parents, par-ents, and French women are asked to realise "it Is not the right way to save children of one country by destroying destroy-ing those of another." Tho letter wns framed by a committee commit-tee of 20 women deputies representing represent-ing the bourgeois and majorltv Socialist Social-ist parties In the relehsta.T : i 1 was In reply to an open letter addressed to them by th. Women Suffragist Union tif France, discussing the German pro-lest pro-lest against the surrender of German milch sows. |