The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-30

says: Ton file In state Department.
I 'Then, in August, Won Hindenbure
was appointed to the supreme COM
mand. BE is said to have criticized
Won Bissing's policy as too mild; there
was a quarrel; Won Kissing went to
Berlin to protest, threatened to resign,
but did not. He returned. and a Ger
man G. ial here said that Belgium
would now be subjected to more ter
rible regime-would learn what war
wa. The prophecy has been vindicat-
ed. Recently was told that the dras-
tic measures are really Of LudendOrf's
Inspiration do not know. Many Ger
man officers say So"
If Won Kissing had opposed the pol
icy of deportation when his own judg-
mcnt was oycrruled. he consented to
become the devils advocate" and Do
fonded the system in public. ESpe-
cially instructive is the following con-
versation reported by Mr.. T. c. Wal
cott:
II went to Belgium to investigate
conditions, and While there ] had Op-
Iortunity to talk one Cay with
Governor General Won Kissing. WHO
died three Oh four weeks ago, d r.aa
Sevcnty-tWO or Seventy-three years
old, man STEPPED III the system
horn and bred to the hardening of the
heart which that philosophy develops
There ought to be some new word
coined for the process that man S
heart undergoes when it becomes
stceped in that system.
II said to him. Governor, what are
you going to do if England and France
stop giving these people money to pur-
chase food"
Won Kissing Relied on Starvation.
"He said, we have got that all
worked out and have had it worked
ont for weeks, because we have e>--
pected this system to break down at
any time
"He went on to say, Starvation will
grip these people in thirty to sixty
days. Starvation is compelling force
and we would use that force to compel
the Belgian workingmen, many OF
them very skilled. to go to Germany
to replace the Germans, so that they
could go to the front and fight against
the English and the French
"As fast as our railway transpor-
tation could carry them, we would
transport thousands Of others that
would be fit for agricultural work.
across Europe down into southeastern
Europe. into Mesopotamia, where we
have huge, splendid irrigation works.
All that land needs is water and IT
will blossom like the rose.
"The weak remaining, the old and
the young, we would concentrate Oppo-
site the firing line, and put firing
squads back Of them, and force them
through that line, so that the English
and French could take care of their
own people,
ut was a perfectly simple, direct,
frank reasoning. It meant that the
German government would use any
force in the destruction of any people
not it's own to further its own ends. -
Frederick c. Walcott, in National Geo
graphical Magazine, May, 1917.
A brief general view Of the character
of the deportations can perhaps be
gained best from the report of Minis
ter Whitlock.
saThe deportations began in October
in the Etape. at Client, and at Bruges,
as my brief kilograms indicated. The
policy spread; the rich industrial dis
tricts Of Hainault. the mines and steel
works about Charleroi were next at
tackled; now they are Selling men in
Brabant, even in Brussels, despite
some indications and even predictions
of the civil authorities that the policy
! was about to be abandoned.
1.-THE etapes were the parts of Bel
GUM under martial law, and included
the province Of western Flanders, part
Of eastern Flanders, and the region
of Journal. The remainder of the oc-
cupied part of Belgium was under
civil government
PitiabIe and Distressing Scene.
During the last fortnight men have
been impressed here in Brussels, but
their seizures here are made evidently
with much greater care than in the
provinces, with more regard for the
appearances. There was no public an
nouncement Of the intention to depoft.
but suddenly about ten days ego Ger.
tain men in towns whose names are
on the list Of chomeurs received sum-
mons notifying them to report. at one
Of the railway stations on given day;
penalties were fixed for failure to re
spond to the summons and there was
printed on the card an offer Of employ
ment by the German government, e
Their In Germany or Belgium. On the
first day out OF about $500 men e.
! dered to present themselves at the
Care du Midi about $50 responded
These were examined by German ply.
sicians and 800 were taken. There
| was no disorder, q large force
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