The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-02-28
BE,LCIANS As FERTILIZER.
Belgian Dead Transported Across the
Rhine to BE Crushed.

Frederick G. Walcott, an official
representative of the National Food
Administration in Washington, ad-
dressed the Women's Section of the
MARYLAND League for National De-
tense yesterday afternoon in the as
sembly room of the Lexington street
building, his subject being the part
food will play in the war.
Mr.. Walcott, who had been inves-
tigating food conditions in Europe
prior to this country's entrance into
the worlds war, touched upon many
atfgles of the situation, and gave a
realistic description of the suffering
from starvation in Belgium, Servia
and Poland.
He said that more than four mil
lion Belgians had been kept alive
by food furnished them by the Allies
before this country entered the war
and that since last April when war
was declared the United states has
been Furnishing the starving Belgians
with food. In speaking of President
Wilson's appointment of Herbert
Hoover as the National Food Ad-
ministrator, Mr.. Walcott said he had
made wise choice, as no living man
had training and education along
these lines that made him so we'll
fitted for the position as Herbert
Hoover.
During his stay in Belgium shortly
after the German invasion he often
came in contact with Governor Gen.
eral Won Bissing, the Teuton dictator
of Belgium, who boasted to him that
Germany would use the opportunity
of Belgium's plight to further her in
terests toward world conquest. He
described the suffering in Belgium
as pitiable, and said all the food in
the country was taken for the up
keep of the German army.
The condition in Poland was sim
liar. He saw thousands of human
bones beside the roads, and said that
German motor trucks would pick the
bones up and ship them back to Ger
many to be made into fertilizer. One
of the roads that he spoke ofiled to
Petrograd, while the other led to
Moscow. 1t was on these roads that
the great Russian retreat began.
There were 1,O60,0 persons made
homeless in Poland, he declared, and
of this number more than 400,0OOl
have died of starvation, while the re-
naming 100000 were diseased and
covered with vermin. In Serbia, he|
said, 100000 persons were killed by
the Bulgars, Austrians and Germans,
and as a further demonstration of
German kultur the Turks, led by Ger
men officers, murdered 100000 Ar
menians.
He said that the recent Italian de-
feat was due partly to the fact that
Italy, torn apart with German in
trigue, could not feed her army prop
erly as the transportation system in
that country had broken down, and
gave that as the reason why 100000
Italians stood at attention while the
victorio $ Germans and Austrians
marched by them.
Rumania, he said, was cabling to
Washington for food, stating that if !
they were not supplied they would
be forced to seek a German peace;
France cabled that unless the United
States could furnish her cereals she
could not hold out; England sent
word that she must have 75,000,000
bushels of wheat within the next
three months, and the United States
reply to these cables was, eve will
ship your grain on time"
In order to meet the demands of
the fAllies, he then pointed out, we
must consume 25 per cent. less wheat
for the next nine months.-Baltimor
American.