The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-12-28

The forced the parish priest of Autgaerdn to walk
in front of them shield AS they nearea ed the 9ar
For time the protests of neutral nations and the out
cries of shocked world seemed to cow the Germans DIT ie m
wholesale massacres ootings and burngs ceased But III
the winter of 1916 they perfected form OF deVtry
Their supply of labor depleted the huns m
idea of deportng Belgans and Frenchmen TO Germany ~
make them work for the kaiser in many instances Actually
compelling them to labor in munltlon factories
Whcok Report Tells
Of Belgian DeportatiOns
On JAM 16 1917 while still in Brusses-even tho 1t
Wa n.cupied bv the Germans-Whock made report on
this to the State Department o-..4. >7o+;ono,
The report tells the decision of the Come Natlonal
belgian relief organization in the autumn OF 1914 10 eo
tnue payment of wages to unemployed Beglans as human
itarian and patriotic measure to enable tne 70 1--WE
and to prevent them working for the Germans: ...
Whock pointed out the danger in this policy saying 1t
would put premium dleness and exasperae the ger,
mans But it adopted and the relief wages were pad
to some 100000 men.
Presence of Unemployed
Tempts German Cupidity
''The presence of these unemployed was a constant
Temptation to German cupidy, the report continues
"Fially the military party always brutal and with an
astounding Ignorance of public opinion and of moral sent
ment determined to put these idle men to work
General Won Kissing and the civil portion OF his en-
tourage always been and even now are opposed to TINS
pocv and think have sincerely done what they could first
to prevent adoption and secondly to tighten the rgor OF
S Tben in August Hiidenberg was appointed to the
nreme command He is said to have criticized Won Blsslng
policy as too mild there QUARREL Won Bssng went
to Berlin to protest threatened to resign but did not
more Terrible War
Threat Carried Out
sHe returned and German official here said that Bel
gm would now be subjected to more terrible regime
would learn what The prophecy has been vndl-
Gated Recently told that the drastic measures are
really of Iudendrofs inspiration; do not know. Many
German officers say so.'
Whock gives this picture of the actual deportatlons:
'hey began in October at hent and at Bruges, as my
brief kilograms indicated The policy spread the rich IN
dustria districts of Hainau the mines and steel work
about Charlero next attacked; now they are sezng
men in Babant in Brussels despite some indications
and even predictions of the civil authorities that the policy
was about to be abandoned.
Many DepOrted Men
Suffer From Cold
GAS by one of the ironies of e the winter has been
more excessively cold than Belgium has known it, and
while many of those who presented themselves ade
ouatey protected against the cold of them with
ont overcoats The shverng from cold and fear the
nartng from weeping wives and children the barriers of
brutal Ihans all this made the ptiabe and Distress
ing - ~.,,,.,.-
ure all over Belgium beyond anything had witness
ed since the day the Germans poured into Brussels.
TRANSPORTATION everywhere in Belgium is difficult the
vcna railways scarcely operating because of the
lack of oil while all the horses have been taken The peo
ne who are forced to go from village to another do
50 ON foot drawn by the few miserable horses that
are left The wagons of the breweries the institution
that the Germans have scrupulousy respected hauled