The Holbrook news., 1918-10-04
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 The following is statement by F. c. WaIcott, who served as an assist ant to Mir. Hoover during the time America was doing all that was pos sible to feed the starving millions of Belgium and Poland and northern France In this work he was brought in direct contact with German military officials and saw the conditions which the German invasion had created among the civilian population: I went to Poland to learn the facts concerning the remnant of people that had been decimated by war. The country had been twice devastated. First the Russian army swept through 1t and then the Germans. Along the roadside from Warsaw to Pinsk, the present firing line, 230 miles, nearly half million people had died of hun ger and cold. The way was strewn with their bones picked clean by the crows. With their usual thrift, the Germans were collecting the larger bones to be milled into fertilizers but finger and toe bones layson the ground with the undiscovered and rain-soal1ed 1 clothing.
 Wicker baskets were scattered along the way-the basket in which the baby swings from the rafter in every peas ant home. Every mile there were scores of them, each one telling a death. I started to count but after a little I had to give it up, there were so many.
 That is the desolation one saw along the great road from Warsaw to Pinsk, mile after mile more than two hun I dred miles. They told me a million people were made homeless in six weeks of the German drive In August and September, 1916. They told me ] four hundred thousand died on the way. The rest, scarcely half alive, got through with the Russian army. Many of these have been sent to Si- beria; 1t is these people whom the Paderewskl committee Is trying to re lieve.
 In the refugee camps, 100000 sur | vivors of the flight were gathered by the Germans, members of broken fam lilies. They were lodged in jerry-built barracks, scarcely waterproof, un- lighted, unwarmed in the dead CT win ter Their clothes, where the buttons were lost, were sewed on. There were no conveniences, they had not even l been able to wash for weeks. Filth and infection from vermin were spreading. They were famished, their | daily ration a cup of soup and piece | of bread as big as my fist.
 In Warsaw, which had not been de- stroyed, a city of one million inhab- itants, one of the most prosperous cit | ies of Europe before the war, the streets were lined with people In the bangs of starvation. Famished and rain-soaked, they squatted there. with their elbows on their knees or lean I ing against the buildings, too feeble I to lift hand for a bit of money or morsel of bread If one offered 1t, per Ishing of hunger and cold. Charity did what it could. The rich gave all that they had, the poor shared their last crust. Hundreds of thousands were perishing. Day and night the pictures is before my eyes-a people starving nation dying.
 The above statement by Mir. Wal colt is terrible arraignment of the Hun, but no more terrible than he deserves. What has happened in Poland. in Belgium, In northern France and every other country that has been blighted by the Huns pres ence would happen in America should the allies, by any chance, fail to win this war. It would mean the enslave- ment of American men, the starving and death of American women and chill
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