The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14
MANY IN PARIS DIED
OF HUNGER IN SIEGE
London shines" Recalls Ger
many's Attitude on Block
ade Question in 1870.
MANY CHILDREN DIED

LONDON, April 1.-THE Germans have
striven to prove that the British blockade
Of Germany contravenes the laws @,
civilization, inasmuch as 1t may brins
death by starvation TO innocent women
and children. There are two sides to the
picture. and the Times gives the other
In a brief record Of the siege ~ Paris in
1901, when the Germans SLOWLY
starved a civilian population Of more
than 2.ooo.o 900 into surrender.
They arrived before Paris in the
middle Of September" says the Tunes.
by October : our columns report that
the daily consumption Of horsefesh
within the city had risen enormously.
Nv November 30 no more beef or NUT
ton was to he had. on December s our
correspondent stated that rat hunting is
now vigorously carried on TO meet
the demand of the restaurants When
the freuucnters 81 the restaurants were
eating rats the diet Of other classes must
have been terrible. TN December - tn"
population were put on a ration ot horse
flesh. The allowance WAS 80 erammcs,
or about an ounce.
ION January - the bread ration MS
reduced from SOC TO 900 legs
than 10 ounces, for adults. and T." haif
that amount for children. This bread
was a b,ach and indigestiblc compound
81 rice. barley. ~huckwheat. oats. and
even hay Long files OF women and
children gathered before dawn AT the
bakers shops IN the rain. the cold and
the snow of a winter in which the tenn
peraturc sank 10 II degrees ~ frost.
THE animals IN the Jardiu dies Iiant's
were eaten. Elephant sold a; from 10
francs to - francs n pound, and even
'cotelettcS de tigr' are mentioned. Their"
were markets for docf'csh and Cii'cSh,
and an English writer rartook VI - feast
at which the soc dish was - cat with
mice 'ruund it, There was no fuel
and no light. The people starved from
coid rs well as from hunger.
90 February - one of the English
party who brought food into Paris after
the aimiSti,c told tho Mansion House
Relief committee" what lac had sccu
Some of the persons assisted were l'lrClN
ahlc. he said. to walk TO the place 81
distribution. and when the provisions
were handed them they were uuahl" TO
carry them home Tha; IS how the
ration that r~cpfuhatcS III" brutality ~
our blockade remorselcsslNy exercised
It's strict right Of siege.
"Eut perhaps the French children did
NO, suffer Perhaps the hcsieged
babies had plenty of milk Let MS see
Nnat VAS their fa'c during the German
Investment. Tn" French did their best
for them. To tho very end 3.ono cows
we're reserved To- supply milk FOR the
sick and new born Infants But the
supply WAS altogether insufficient MILK
began to- run short So early AS Septen-
he .. and a month later the scarcity
was affecting children by the second
week in January an English correspon-
f. d-ut says they We're dying off Ike
rotten sheep
What we're the feelings ~ the humane
Germans towar this vast population OF
non-conhatants. the innocent, victims 81
their military operations pld they
regret the sufcrires they caused" was
their pity suppressed only at the stern
voice " duty Let their idolized states
= man SPEAK for them. When Jules Fa'r"
came 70 Bismarck TO arrange for the
armistice the Pruss!an statesman "n-
served that within a fen weeks tn"
French representative had grown muc1
grayer also stouter. probably on horse
flesh while the count cenu"nanlN
stan selected nigh class restaurants la
Paris az a suitable suhjec, for CONVEX
= sation with the t'reuchmau tamlShed
secretary.
Fave told Bismarck that pretty
children were still to I've seen IA the
streets. = am surprised at that, the
genial champion Of prussian h'iltur to-
rlied I wonder you have not w. eaten
them md the Germans knew very
well tina, the siege had cost numbers ot
children their lives. They have been
on very short commons in Paris for some
time past BlsmarCk's toady and Ros-
well records on January 90. and the
death rate last week amounted to about
50oo' For the last week Of December
it had been $3.50 and for the week be-
fore 2.12S.
'"The mortality u humane German
goes on. was especially heavy among
children NJ TO ? years OF age Has ne
any touch Of pity? collins Of these tiny
French citizens he adds, were To hc
seen in all directions Herod might
have TESTED so"