Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-09-12

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! a went all about il and back of it; Z
INSIDE and out Of it was shown <
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the Prussian system.-F. C. !
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e he following is statement by r.
Walcott, who served as an assist
to Mr.. Hoover during the time
erica was doing oil that was pos
Re to feed the starving millions Of
Z GUM and Poland and northern
nee. In this work he was brought
lrect contact with German military
iais, and saw the conditions which
4! German invasion had created
ng the civilian population:
went to Poland to learn the facts
,erning the remnant of a people
had been declmated by war. The
iltry had been twice devastated.
t the Russian army swept through
nd then the Germans. Along the
ID lside from Warsaw to Pinsk, the
ent firing line, 230 miles. nearly
million people had died of hun
: and cold. The way was strewn
! I'm their bones picked clean by the
J rs. With their usual thrift, the
mans were collecting the larger
/ IS to be milled into fertilizer, but
'r and toe bones lay on the ground
the undiscovered and rain-soaked
hing.
ECKER baskets were scattered along
way-the basket In which the baby |
gs from the rafter in every pens
home. Every mile there were
es OF them, each one telling a
t.fh. I started to count, but after a
~ had to give IL up, there were
ANY.
tat is the desolatlon one saw along
great road from Warsaw to Pinsk,
after mile, more than two hun
miles. They told me a million
lie were made homeless In six
rs OF the German drive in August
September, 1916. They told me
Il hundred thousand died on the
The rest, scarcely half alive.
through with the Russian army.
IL of these have been sent to ST.
~; it Ia these people whom the
rewskl committee is trying to re-
the refugee camps. 100000 sur
IS OF the fight were gathered by
"a Germans, members of broken fam
4 They were lodged in jerry-bullt
acks, scarcely waterproof, I'M
ed, unwarmed I'm the dead of win
Their clothes, where the buttons
lost, were sewed on. There were
,onveniences, they had not even
l. able to wash for weeks Filth
n Infection from vermin were
lding. They We're famished. their
rstion q cup of soup and piece
'ead as big as my fist.
K Warsaw, which had not been de-
J led. city of one million inhab-
$, one OF the most prosperous cit
Ii " Europe before the war, the
rs were lined with people in the
k of starvation. Famished and
soaked, they squatted there, with
elbows on their knees or lean
against the buildings, too feeble
I a hand for bit of money or
ei of bread If one offered 1t, per
!. g Of hunger and cold. Charity
What It could The rich gave all
they had. the poor shared their
crust. Hundreds of thousands
!, perishing. Day and night the
res is before my eyes-a people
ing, a nation dying.
e above statement by Mr.. Wal
ls terrible arraignment Of the
bur no more terrible than he
ives What has happened in
nd, IN Belgium, in northern
co and every other country that
,een blighted by the Huns pres
would happen in America should
HES by any chance, fail to win
var IT would mean the enslave-
of American men, the starving
leath Of American women and chill
Either the Hun or humanity
perish.