Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-10-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


L. G. Waleott, a member OF the
United States food administration, and
during the time America was feeding
the civilian populations of Belgium.
Serbia and northern France an assist
Art OF Mr.. Hoover in these invaded
countries, has pictured in a graphic
way the conditions he found among
the people 1t was his duty to help
After describing the terrible condi-
lions In Poland In 1916, the millions
that were dying of starvation, the
hundreds of thousands of defenseless
people that had been ruthlessly cut
down by the sword of the German con-
queror, he says:
In that situation, the German COM
mander issued Il proclamation. Every
nble-boded Pole was hidden to Ger
many to work. II any refused, let no
other Pole give him to eat, not so
much as a mouthful, under penalty of
German military law.
This Is the choice the German gov
ernment gives to the conquered Pole.
to the husband and father of starry
Ing family: Leave your family or die
or survive as tile case may be. Leave
your country which is destroyed, to
work in Germany for its. further de-
struction. Ii you are obstinate, we
shall see that you surely starve.
Staying with his folk, he Is doomed
and they are not saved; the father and
husband can do nothing for them. he
only adds to their risk and suffering.
Leaving them, he will be cut OFF from
his family, they may never hear from
him again nor he from them. Ger
many will set hlm to work that a Ger
man workman may be released to fight
against his own land and people. He
shall be lodged In barracks, behind
barbed wire entanelements, under
armed guard. He shall sleep ON the
bare ground with single thin ban-
ket lie shall be scantlly fed and his
earnings shall be taken from him to
pay for his food
That Is the choice which the Ger
man government offers TO proud,
sensitive. high-strung people. Death
or slavery.
When Pole gave me That proclama-
ton, / was boiling. But l had to re-
strain myself. l was practically the
only foreign civilian In the country
and wanted to get food to the people.
That was what | was there for and l
must not for any cause jeopardize the
undertaking. | asked Governor GEN
eral Won Beseler, Can this be trucT
Really, cannot say" he replied,
81 have signed so many proclamations;
ask General Won Kries."
SO / asked General Won Kries. Sen
eral, this is civilized people. Can
this be truef"
"Ycs," he said, 'lt is true"--with an
air Of adding, Why not?
| dared not trust myself 20 speak
/ turned TO go. "Wait," he said. And
he explained to me how Germany.
official Germany, regards the state OF
subject peoples.
1t is hard for us TO Imagine such Il
condition IN America as Mr.. Waleott
las described rs existing in Hun-rid-
Ten Poland. and Vel that Is Just what
would exist should our boys, and the
boys of our allies, NOW fighting In
France fail to defeat the soldiers of
this murder empire This fair ooun-
try OF ours would be made into Ger
man province; our people would be
the slaves OF Tie JuBEers Uf Germany,
subject TO the beastly vhims of the
officers OF the German army. In no
war in which America has ever en-
gagged have the stakes been so great
us in this present conflict. Should we,
by any chance, lose; should the Hun,
by any chance, win; our liberties our
happiness, everything Americans hold
Iaar would he IoSt