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No more graphic description Of the
ravages OF the German soldlery upon
the civilian population of invaded
countries has been given than is con-
tained In the brief and simple state
ments of F. c. Walcott. now connected
with the United States food admins
tration, who was assistant 10 Mr..
Hoover while America was feeding
Belgium, Poland and northern France.
In one of these statements Mr.. Wal
colt says:
Even now find It hard to describe
In comprehensive terms the mind of
official Germany, which dominates and
shapes all German thought and action.
Yet it is as hard, as clear-cut, as real
as any material thing. | saw II in
Poland, / saw the same thing in Bel
GUM, l heard of II in Serbia and Rou-
mania. For weeks 1t was always be-
fore me, always the same. officers
talked freely frankly, directly. All
the staff officers have the same view.
Let me try to tell it, as General Won
Kries told me, In Poland, in the midst
OF a dying nation. Germany Is des-
tined TO rule the world, or at least
great part of it. The German people
are so much human material for build
ing the German state, other people do
not count. All is for the glory and
might of the German state. The lives
of human beings are to be conserved
only II it makes for the sta IS ad-
vancement, their lives are to be sacri-
feed If it Is TO the states advantage.
The state is all, the people are moth
ing.
Conquered people signify little in
the German account. Life, liberty,
happiness, human sentiment, family
ties, grace and generous impulse, these
have no place beside the one concern,
the greatness of the German state.
Starvation must excite no pity; sym
pathy must not be allowed, If 1t ham
pers the main design of promoting
Germany's ends.
starvation Is here" said General
Won Kries. "Candidly, we would like
80 see 1t relieved we fear our soldiers
may be unfavorably affected by the
things that they see. But since 1t is
here, starvation must serve our pur-
pose. So we set 1t to work for Ger
many. BY starvation we can accom-
plish In two or three years In East
Poland more than we have in West
Poland which is East Prussia, In the
last hundred years With that in
view, we propose to turn this force TO
our advantage
This country is meant for Ger
many" continued the keeper OF starv-
Ing Poland. 1T Is rich alluvial
country which Germany has needed
for some generations. We propose to
remove the ahle-bodied working Poles
from this country. 1t leaves it open
for the inflow of German working peo-
pie as fast as we can spare them.
i They will occupy II and work it,"
!. Then with a cunning smile, Cant
you see how it works out? BY and by
We shall give back freedom to Poland
When that happens poasd will appear
automatically as a German province
= In Belgium, General Won BiSsne
j told me exactly the same thing al
Y the relief of Belgium breaks down We
. can force the industrial population in
to Germany through starvation ant
colGnize other Belgians IN Mesopo
II tamla whore we have planned large
> irrigation works; Germans will ther
S overrun Belgium. Then when the wal
Is over and freedom is given back tC
Belgium it will be a German Belgium
that is restored. Belgium will be
German province and we have Ant
werp-which is what we are after"
e That is not all. Removing the men
j. that the land may be vacant for Ger
1 man occupation, that German stool
-. may replace BelgianS, Poles, Serbians
Armenians, and now Roumanians, Ger
many does more. Women left captiv
are enslaved. Germany makes al
u manner of lust its instrumentality.
Is The other day friend Of mine toll
lie me of man just returned from north
)e ern France. 81 cannot tell you the de
l. tails" he said 'man to man, don
1T want to repeat what | heard" Som
al of the things he did tell-shockin
70 mutlation and moral murder. He tol
Va of women, by the score, in occup.t
territory of northern France, prsone
!, In underground dungeons, tethered fc
'h the use of their bodies by officers an
u men.
o. If this is not a piece of the Prussia
ne system, 1t IS the logical product of di
al regard of the rights Of others