The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-01-11
says: con fle In state d.par,menr,

mRnd. He is said 10 have criticize
Won Bissing'S policy as too mild; ther
was quarrel: Won Kissing went I
Berlin 10 protest, threatened TO resigr
but did not. He returned. and a Ger
man official here said that Belgium
would now be subjected 70 more ter
rible regime--would learn what wa
was. The prophecy has been vindicat
ed. Recently was told that the dras
nc measures are really of Ludendorf'
inspiration; do not know. Many Ger
man officers say So"
IL Won Bissing had opposed the pol
Icy of deportation when his own judg
ment was ovcrruled he consented L
become the devils advocate" and de
Tended the system in public. Espe
ciaily instructive is the following con
! versation reported by Mr.. r. c. Wal
! colt:
II went TO Belgium 70 investigate
conditions, and while there i had op
| portunity TO talk one day with
Governor General Won Kissing who
| died three or four weeks ago, man
| SeventytwO or Seventy-three years
old, a man STEPPED in the system,
born and bred to the hardening of the
heart which that philosophy develops
There ought to be some new word
coined for the process that mans
heart undergoes when il becomes
steeped in that system.
81 said to him, Governor, what are
you going to do If England and France
stop giving these people money TO pur-
chase fOodY
Won Kissing Relied on Starvation.
"He said, 'We have got that all
worked out and have had IL worked
out for weeks, because we have eX-
pected this system 10 break down at
any time.
He went on to say, starvation will
grip these people in thirty to sixty
days. Starvation is a compelling fore,
and we would use that force to compel
the Belgian workingnen, many Df
them very skilled, to 90 10 Germany
to replace the Germans, so that the
could go TO the front and fight againf
the English and the French
GAS fast as our railway transpoi
tation could carry them. we woul,
transport thousands of others tha
would be fit for agricultural work
across Europe down into southeastern
Europe, into Mesopotamla, where We
have huge splendid irrigation works.
All that land needs is water and II
viii blossom like the rose.
"'The weak remaining, the old and
the young, we would concentrate oppo7
site the firing line, and put firing
squads back of them. and force them
through that line. 80 that the English
and French could take care of their
own people
at was n perfectly simple. direct,
frank reasoning 1t meant that The
German government would use any
force IN the destruction of any people
not its own 10 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.
"The deportations began in October
in the Etape, at Ghent. 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 seizing men in
Brabant. even in Brussels, despite
some indications and even predictions
OF The civil authorities that the policy
was about 10 be abandoned
1.-THE etapes were the parts Of Bel
gium under martial law, and included
the province of western Flanders, part
of eastern Flanders, and the region
OF Tournai. The remainder of the oc-
cupied part Of Belgium was under
civil government
Pitiabe and Distressing Scene.
During the last fortnight men have
bppn imprpSSpd here IN BruSSplS hut