The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-08

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IfIE MISS g
wAi6A u kept fpr prisoners q war.
Martin Luther nailed hiA thesis upon
the door Of one OF the buildings which
il In this camp. And the German
torturers should be nailed In the same
spot.
Russian. French. Engliah and Bel
GUM prisoners were housed in this
camp. The Russians had typhus
fever. A German officer came in one
day and told the officials in charge
OF the camp to better learn the allies
as they came in and to put them in
with the Russians who had typhoid
fever.
'This act was just the same as an
order for the prisoners to be shot
ii meant sure death.
War Far Away Here.
"War seems very far away In this
beautiful valley. wish I could make
You realize the calamity in which this
world has been plunged. Can you
picture line of dead bodies. hand to
foot. which would reach from here to
Butte? You think that a great num-
Der, but If you took the bodies Of those
VINO have fallen in this great war, as
It has already been waged, the line
would reach from New York to San
francisco. then another line back
again. asd then out to Denver.
IMAGINE travelling as you would for
days-over rivers, valleys, mountains
ana plains with that line Of dead bod :
les always with you. Perhaps that will
bring home to you the size Of this
war, what this war means and mayha
you can realize what has been taken
from the countries Of Germany ana
their allies.
No Pity for Helpless.
President Wilson asked me to re-
strain the Germans in wipine out the
Armenians. but the Germans said it
was none of their business.
Until the war is over. we will never
know the toll that the Poland peon,e
have suffered in this war. At the he
ginning OF the war there were II.
100000 Polish people. which has been
now reduced to less than 5000, OoO.
Inc iermans fought for the most i'm
portant city In Poland. That was two
years ago. The conditions now are
frghtful. The children are withont
milk. Old people are dying like flies
IN the camps there are four million
prisoners OF war. And these prisoners
are starving. They are given nothing
70 eat excepting a little thick SOUP,
which Is made from beans and no.
tatoes.
Germany holds two million nrIs.
oners OF war. while Austria holds ons
million.
Civilians Made Prisoners,
civilians for the first time were
MADE prisoners OF war and in Belgium
lheE were carried out onto a racetrack
outside the city. Here lawyers. pro.
lessons, Judges. all alike were mt
ror three years they have been LIVING
there. IN box stalls. They get only
one piece Of bread. and thick SOM
among these prisoners there are 80.
ooo military prisoners and 5000 civil.
lans. These are sent packages from
home. and there is often food in them
Russians Near Starvation.
But the Russian prisoners do NOT
receive packages from home. They
III consequence. are on the point OF
starvation.
i The. Russians receive each, dav =
'1RceAbf bread twU inches thick. once
a week they receive a piece OF meat
anout three inches square, and from
three to five pounds of potatoes a
week. They are given no milk, but
ere allowed one egg in two weeks. and
about as much butter or fat as YOU
would be given on your butter plate
at the hotel for dinner.
The army, however, are well fed
and the rich people fare we'll. Geese
chickens. and ducks were not listed. So
rich man could pay SIS for a duck
and gorge himself and get a little ia,
for the family use.
German People Hate War.
THE German people are not in IA
vor of this war. President Wilson
never made q truer statement thar
when he said they will be a people al
democracy and not of antocracy. They
are so much against autocracy and
ar1stocracy that they would be glad tc
have it all come to an end, Freedom
IN Germany is a plant Of recen,
growth Serfdom of the higher peo.
pie was not abolished until 1919.
Five Centuries Ahead Of Prussia,
take UP your school biographies
and see how far this country had
progressed In 1919. Everybody had a
vote. We are five hundred years ir
liberty ahead Of the Prussians.
Frederick the Great is the great
idol of the Prussian rulers. He left his