| Show POLES DRIVEN TO WORK hun commanders brutal order issued to conquered and helpless people every able bodied man forced to leave his starving family and labor under shocking conditions for the oppressor m H M t this I 1 have seen I 1 could not believe it unless I 1 had seen it through and through for aca acv ev 44 eral weeks I 1 lived with it I 1 went all about it and back of it inside and out of it was shown to me until finally I 1 came to realize that the inc recil q ble was true it Is monstrous if it is unthinkable but it exists f it Is the prussian systems C walcott 3 ta t H V F C walcott a member of the united states food administration a and nd during the tinte time america was feeding the civilian populations of belgium serbia and northern france an assistant of mr hoover in these invaded countries has pictured la ill a graphic vay ay the conditions ha found among the people it was his duty to help after describing the terrible conditions in poland in 1918 1910 the millions that were dying of starvation the hundreds of thousands of defenseless that had been ruthlessly cut down by the sword of the german conqueror be says in that situation the german commander issued a proclamation every able bodied pole was nas bidden to germany to work if any refused let no other pole give him to eat not so much as a mouthful under penalty of german military law this is the choice the german government gives to the conquered pole to the husband and father of a starving family leave your family or the die or survive as the case may be leave your country which Is destroyed to work in germany tor for its further destruction st if you are obstinate we shall see that you surely starve staying with his folk he Is doomed and they are not saved the father and husband can do nothing tor for them he only adds to their risk and suffering leaving them he will be cut off from his family they may never hear from him again nor he from them germany will set him to work that a german workman may be released to fight against his own land and people he shall be lodged in barracks behind barbed wire entanglements entangle ments under armed guard he shall sleep on the bare ground with a single thin blanket he shall be scantily fed and his earnings shall be taken from him to any tor for his food that Is the choice which the german government offers to a proud sensitive high strung people death or slavery when a pole gave mo me that proclamation I 1 was boiling but I 1 had to restrain myself I 1 was practically the only foreign civilian in the country and I 1 wanted to get food to the people that was what I 1 was there tor for and I 1 must not for any cause jeopardize the undertaking I 1 asked governor general von beseler can this be true really I 1 cannot say he be replied 1 I have signed so many proclamations ak general von kries so I 1 asked general von kries general this Is a civilized people can call this be truel true yes he said it Is true with an air or of why not hotl I 1 dared not trust myself to speak I 1 turned to go wait he said and lie explained to me how germany germany regards the state of 0 subject peoples it Is hard for us to imagine such IL a condition in america as mr aft walcott lias I lis described as existing la in run hun rid 1 len den poland and yet that Is just what would exist should our boys and the boys of our allies now fighting in france fall to defeat the soldiers of this murder empire this fair country of ours would be made into a gernan province our people would be the I 1 lie slaves of the junkers of germany abject to the beastly whims of the officers of the german army in no to var ivar in which america has ever engaged have the stakes been so great as in this present conflict should we liy by any chance lose should the hun by any chance win our liberties Ubo our happi happiness nebs everything americans hold dear would be lost As A the government reveals the of money germany on a tow few newspapers here some pub 11 hent are going to kick themselves tar for giving their space for nothing perhaps the love potion we used to use oll oa the horse will fall all to lo the lot of 0 man when sugar conservation runs its course |
