Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-13
evade transportation will be punished
without mercy.
"Mappen- Kommandantur"
Ollie, April, 1850
Youno Girls Carried or,

uille, April, 1850
Young Girls Carried or.
In the protest Of Bishop Charost of
Lille there is the following:
Young girls or irreproachabie life,
who have never committed any worse
offense than that of trying to pick up
some bread or few potatoes to feed
numerous family, and who have boz
sides paid the light penalty for such
trespass. have been carried off. Their
mothers, who have watched so closely
over them and had no other joy than
that of keeping their daughters be-
side them.i in the absence eof father
and sons fighting or killed at the front
these mothers are now alone"
1.-The injustice and arbitrariness OF
this decree" declared Cardinal nier
cier. exceed all that could be imagined,
Forced labor. collective penalties and
arbitrary punishments, all are there.
1t IS slavery neither more nor less"
Cardinal MERCER was in error, 70;
the German authorities were ahlei to
marine a much more terrible meas-
ure. I'm October 1915, when the need
for an additional labor supply in Ger
many had become urgent the German
government established the system OF
forced labor and deportation which has
aroused the detestation OF Chrlstendoh,.
Responsibility on Rulers.
The responsibility for this atrOctous
program rests upon the military rll.
ers OF Germany. who had labored %
xealously to infect the army and the
people with the principles of ruthless.
ness. 1t is significant that the decree
OF Oct s,1S16, followed hard upon tho
elevation of Hindenhlrrg to the sup
RENE command. with Ludendorf as his
chief OF STAFF. In his long report OF
Jan. 10, 1917. Minister Whitlock says:
The DECORATIONS began In October
IN the Etape, NJ Client and at Bruges
The policy spread: the rich Industrial
distrtcta Of 3HainaN, the mines and
steel works about Charlerol were next
attacked; now they are aeising men
In BrabAnt, even In Brussels. despite
some indications and even predictions
OF the civil authorities that the. policy
Was about to be abandoned. !
In an Address to the President OF
France prominent citisens OF Roubaix
and Tourcoing said:
These girls and lads were, taken In
street cars to- factories. where they
were numbered and labeled like cattle
and grouped to form convoys. In
these factories they resnAined twelve.
twenty -four or thirty six hours until.
train was ready to remove them.
The deportation began with the
villages OF Romeo. Halluin, ETC., then
Tourcoing and Roubaix. In the towns
the Germans proceeded by districts. In
all about $4,000 persons are said to
have been carried OF up TO the present.
This monstrous operation has taken
eight to ten days to accomplish. The
departures took place in freight cars to
tho sound Of Tho AAFseillaise..
1T is known from the young mon
and girls, since sent back Ito their
families for reasons OF health. that In
the department OF the Ardennes the
victims are lodged In Z terrible mani
nsr. In disEraceful promiscuity: they
are compelled to work In tho fields"
Starvation In Poland.
The systesnatic exploitation OF hu-
man misery by the German authorities
IN Poland followed the general plan
with which the reader has' become only
too familiar. In order 10 prove the
identity Of procedure It win be enoush
TO present the detailed report specially
written for this pamphlet by Frederic
C. Walcott.
sPoland-Russian Poland-iA perish
ing. And the German high command,
taabued, With. the Pniesian systam, - !
coplly reckoning on the necessities OF 1
starving people 70 promota IT. imperial:
ends s Z,