The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-14
HOW GERMANY MAI les WAR:
Story of the Horrors to Which the
Kaiser Would Resort to

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Win Conquest.
In the May issue of the National
Geographic Magazine M :. Frederick
Walcott gives some facts in regard to
the way in which Germany makes war,
startling in their horror If we have
not already reached a point where
nothing that Germany does a star
tie us. In the course Of his article
Mr.. Walcott says:
! I went into Belgium to investigate
conditions, and while ther l had op-
portunities to talk with the leading
German officials. Among Others I had
a talk one day with Cove nor- General
Won BLESSING, who died three Of four
weeks ago, a man u or 70 years old,
J a mar stepped in the System" born
and bred to the hardening Of the heart
which that philosophy develops. There
ought to be some new word coined for
process that a mans heart undergoes
when it becomes 'steeped in that sys-
TEN. ,
l said to him: Governor, what are
you going to do if England and France
stop giving these people money to
purchase food?"
He said: eve have got that all
worked out and have had it worked
out for weeks. because we have ex-
pected this system to break down at
any time" ..t f.
He went on to say: starvation will
grip these people in thirty to sixty
days. Starvation is a compelling
force. and we would use that force to
compel the Belgian ~workingmen, many
very skilled, to go into Germany and
replace the Germans, 50 that they
could 60 to the front and fight against
the English and the French.
"As fast as our railway %transporta-
tion could carry them, we would trans
port thousands of others that would
be, fit for agricultural work acros
Europe, down into Southeastern Eu-
rope, into Mesopotamia, where we
have huge, splendid irrigation works.
All that land needs is water and it
will blossom like a rose.
-. Kidding the Land Of the Weak.
THE weak remaining, the old and
the young, we would concentrate OPP
posite the firing line, and put firing
squads back of them, and force them
through the line, so that the English
and French could take care Of their
own people,"
It was a perfectly simple, direct,
frank reasoning. It meant that the
German Government would use any
force in the destruction, Of any people
not it's own to further it's own ends
l had never thought in such terms.
l had read Won Bernhard and others,
but I did not believe them, and the
whole point of view, was new, but
gradually the truth Of it all began to
dawn upon me.
Going from Belgium to Poland, Mr..
Walcott tells the story Of the loss by
the Russians of LODI and the horrors
which followed. On this point he
says:
I motored along these roads, the
two running toward Petrograd and the
one toward Moscow. The German Off
GERS and the Poles who were with me.
with whom l consulted, agreed il this
estimate, that in about six weeks
time, a year ago last fall, approx
mately 10000 600 people along that
southern road were made homeless by
the burning of their dwellings, and
of this 1,O0O,0 900 people at least 0 10000
died in the night along that one road.
Of the balance approximately half
were saved and gathered by the Ger
mans later into refugee camps, and
today, according to the Central Relief
Committee Of Poland, approximately
100000 Of those miserable refugees
who escaped with the Russian army
are TO- in Russia, many of them in
Siberia, and more dead than alive.
Human Bones for Fertilizer.
I 1t is those people whom the COM
mittee has been trying to relieve, be-
cause nobody has been able to get
food or help to Russian Poland prop
er, with the exception Of one under
taking of the Rockefeller Foundation.
As l motored along that road, only
a few weeks after that terrible re.
i treat, / began to realize something Of
what had happened. Both sides Of the
road were completely lined for the
whole 23ei niles with undiscovered and
rain-soaked EcIothiinie..ss INT bones had
been cleaned by the crows, which are
in that country byf countless tkola.
ands.., It ii . satiiehi, .lalllqyial country.
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