The Republican journal., 1917-11-01
Germany Has Denmark's Scalp.

mark and the cruelty of the Germans
compells us to give it credence:
"Denmark's scalp is dangling from the
German belt, and the little nation is gasp
ng its last breath.
''For six months not an electric light
has cleaned in the homes or stores or
streets of Denmark; not car wheel has
turned, not an automobile has moved;
there is no grain in the land, no flour, no
edibles of other kinds; not lump of coal
or stick of wood, or drop of oil can be
bought for love or money; the nation is
on ration of rutabaga three times day,
and the entire population of the country,
about three million souls. faces certain
death by starvation or freezing unless
Germany is whipped or the war is ended
some other way before the extreme cold
OF the winter sets in.
"And in addition to all these inevitable
horrors of the future the government of
Denmark has Just issued an order saying
that two-thirds of the stock in the land
and two-thirds of the fowls in the yards
must be killed in order that the people
may survive and use what little grain
they have for planting.
The speaker was young man jul:
turned his twenty-tirst year, says the
Portland (Ore.) Telegram. Despite the
hardships through which he h assed
and the hardships his par may yet
undergo in their war - ken country,
his eyes cleaned with he hope of those
who have left disappointment behind and
set foot upon a new land of promise.
He is Einar Jantzen and he has Just
reached America from his home in Den
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northern frontier of Germany. He left
journey which took him past Greenland
U-boat zone he landed thirty days later
his way to Portland to Join his cousin, c.
Portland Knitting company.
Twice the vessel which bore young
Jantzen was stopped and searched by
British warships and allowed to go after
it was found she carried no contraband
of war.
Germany does as she pleases with
Denmark" he said, "and we dare not
raise our voice. A German warship will
put into a Danish port, stay as long as
she likes and help herself to whatever
she can find, and all we can do is look on
in approval
Before the United States put an en-
barge on food importation, we got along
very well, but had to divide our stores
with the Germans in order to keep them
from crushing US outright. Then the
embargo went into effect and we were
caught like rats in trap-without food
or fuel
'Denmark is flat country without
minerals or waterfalls or forest, and we
had to depend for our power and fuel on
Germany or England. For a while we
agreed to send our men over into Ger
many and work her coal mines in ex-
change for fuel, but our workers had no
sooner gone to work than their provisions
were confiscated for the German army
and our workers left to starve to death.
Those of them who could got back past
the frontier.
The consequence is that we have no
fuel for heat or motive power. What
forests there are in Denmark are private
preserves and wood is sold there in arm
fuls at prices which only millionaires can
pay.
Last winter the young and the old
stayed In bed to keep warm, and this win
ter, with conditions infinitely worse,
thousands will starve or freeze to DEATH
There are no lights anywhere. Our
stock of candles long since gave out, and
there is no material out of which to make
more. A few people have glimmer of
light in their homes for short periods by
burning rag in fish oil.
eve who live right next door to Ger
many cannot understood how she has
held out so long At the first of the year
we predicted that she could not last
through the summer, but the Russians
upset this by running away and giving
up territory which has yielded a vast
quantity of stores and grain. 1t is on
this that the German army is fighting.
The German soldiers are being given all
the food there is to give, but the civil
population in the interior is subsisting on
an invalid's diet
''No one in Germany dares raise his or
her voice in protest against anything
done by the government. 1t would mean
instant death. There is positively no
hope of revolution so long as the pres
sent Kaiser remains in power. He con-
trolls the situation with an iron hand. An
incident near the Danish frontier illus
trates this. A traveller was aboard a
train that carried German troops. The
traveller asked one of the soldiers aloud if
the troops were getting enough food.
No; some of us are starving to death.
My regiment for one hasn't had meal
for fourteen days, was the reply.
That is lie,' screamed German
officer who had overheard the statement,
and whipping out his gun shot the soldier
dead.
IF the war ever ends Russia will be
the country to which the young men of
Europe will turn, providing, of course,
that the autocracy is kept out of power
and the nation becomes republic"