Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-18
ASSASSINATION
Of POLAND But
step BY KAISER
TO rule WORLD
Prussian System Planned to
Conquer and Enslave All
Mankind by Force and
Brutality.
One Who Has Travelled
ugh Devastated
Country Gives First Hand
Information of Terrible
Work Wrought.

The United States food administra
tion issues the following article on
~The Prussian SYSTEM" as told by F.
G. Walcott at conference of field
men. Mr.. walcott introduces his sub
ect with this preamble:
This l have seen. l could not be-
lieve it unless I had seen IT
through and through. For sew
eral weeks 1 lived with it; I went
all about 1t and back of it: inside
and out of It was shown to me-
until finally ! came to realize that
the incredible was true. 1t is
monstrous, it is unthinkable, but ii
exists. 1t is the Prussian system.
A year ago I went to Poland to learn
Its facts concerning the remnant of a
people that had been decimated by war.
The country had been twice devastat-
ed. First the Russian Army swept
through 1t and then the Germans
Along the roadside from Warsaw to
Pinsk. the present firing line $50 miles.
near half n million people had died of
hunger and cold. The way was strewn
with their bones picked clean by the
crows. With their usual thrift the Ger
mans were collecting the larger bones
to be milled into fertilizer. but finger
and toe bones lay on the ground with
the mud covered and rain soaked
:lothing.
Wicker baskets were scattered along
The way-the basket in which the baby
swings from the rafter in every peas
ant home. Every mile there We're
scores of them each one telling a
death. ] started to count. but after "A
little i had to sive it up, there were so
many.
DIED BY HUNDREDS OF THOU
SANDS.
That Is the desolation one saw along
the great road from Warsaw to Pinsk.
mile after mile, more than 200 miles.
They told me a million people were
made homeless in six weeks of the
German drive in August and Septem-
ber 1915. They told me 400 900 died on
the way. The rest, scarcely half alive.
got through with the Russian army.
Many of these have been sent to ST.
IBERIA. 1t is these people whom the
Paderewski committee is trying to re-
lieve.
In the refugee camps 300, 900 sur
vivors of the flight were gathered by
the Germans, members of broken fam
lilies. They were lodged in jerry built
barracks. scarcely waterproof, un-
lighted, unWarmer in the dead OF
winter. Their clothes, where the but
tons were lost were sewed on. There
were no conveniences, they had not
even been able to wash for weeks. Filth
and Infection from yermin We're
spreading. They were famished, their
daily ration cup of soup and a piece
Of bread as big as my fist.
DESOlATION IN WARSAW
II; l.
stroyed, q city of 100000 inhabitants,
one of the most prosperous cities of
Europe before the war, the streets
were lined with people in the pang
of starvation. Famished and rain
soaked. they squated there with their
elbows on their knees or leaning
against the buildings. too feeble to lift
hand for a bit of money or a morsel
of bread il one offered it, perishing of
hunger and cold. Charity did what it
could. The rich gave all that they had
the poor shared their last crust. Hun
dreds of thousands were perishing. Day
and night the picture is before my eyes
"a people starving, q nation dying.
In that situation, the German COM
mander issued proclamation. Every