Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-08
Saturday, June 8. 1918.
Grim Famine Aids Allies

FORCES IN France report the capture
of German soldiers who have had nit :
tie or no food. in many instances. for
days. These poor Kaiser driven
devils are nourishcd. disheartened,
ready 10 die because they can see
nothing ahead 10 cheer them. They
know they are fighting a lost cause
before they have been long on the
west front They have been foolod
az home. in tho training camps<and
on the way, but after a stroke" they
begin TO realize. for they have in their
minds and hearts the pitiful stories
of awful necessities at home. where
parents and relatives, young and old,
are dying by inches Of Slow but sure
starvation.
These boys Cfor many of them now
are little beyond tho short pants agc)
OF Germany. know of the terrifying
need of haste. They plunge into the
fray determined to annihilate the al
lied foe and save their fathers,
mothers. brothers and sisters from
starvation. For two or three days Of
q drive those Of them who survive
expect to win. They feel that they
are fighting the last battle; that they
are crushing the foe in their des-
perate, corpse carpeted advance.
Ana ,hor ,ho,. hooir ,o ,rdsrs,.nd
80 hoao,o,..o.s =, - ali &c tho al
,isd ,,ros st,tfo, and enat,v stand lilo
a stone wall all the time pouring In
n relentless shower Of metal and gas
and death.
l. II anv wonder IL tho morale Of
tho Teuton armies is at the point II
colIapse. or that the morale Of the
neonle ,s so low that the military
roastcra baye hecoun sIeepless in
,ho,r ua,cbr,,noss against Ro,sbovik
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central governments
While the L boats in the pirate
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stage where they can no longer be
reckoheu as war asset the u
Months of summer confront the
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Use to ID" so productive of death in
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VIZ ''"''"' ''hp'''7 % !" constitute
reinforccmcnts FOR the allies of scores
Oh divisions
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has interviewed a worker recently
Mail says
The time ~ at hand when famine
STARK medieval famine Will JON the
Entente as = political and military ally
against Germany and Austria. This
conclusion IA drawn from the oral state
ments 81 an authentic witness whose
Obssr1 atoms extended up to the end OF
April The great masses 1.-THE German
and Austrian peoples. tnlS informant
ana their morale ia 80 low that the Gov
crutn,nts IRE fearful OF Rolshevik
uo,cmruts
The narrator tells how he and his
family had lived for weeks almost en-
rather iii the forest. and continues:
The health Of many is such taey can
and thinss are getting worse every day
Even the soldiers do not have sufficient
but thoroughly apathetic regarding it,
The three worst mon ,a la 'u!y
year there was almost nothing to eat in
mos, .' omd d,sentary became epidemic
The people are shudderinE at the pros
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