The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-28
BtLu,,.'Ne HERDED
IN CATTLE FMS
Participants Testimony of Deg
radiation Accompanying De-
portation From Mons.
SCENES OF FIENDISH CRUELTY
Women Forbidden to Give Food and
Clothing to Men Facing Privation
and CoId-United States
Appeal Unheeded.

Conspicuous among cold-blooded
acts of cruelty committed by the
Germans, TO their everlasting dis
grace, the deportation from Mons is
prominent. Official documents pub
hshed by the committee on public
Information tell part Of the harrow
ing story.
A vivid sketch of the deportations
from Mons, ordered by German author
tiles, drawn by participant, may well
be cited here:
81 will take the 18th of November
of last year [1916]. A week or so be-
fore that a placard was placed on the
walls telling my capital city of Mons
that in seven days all the men of that
city who were not cergymen, who
were not priests, who did not belong to
the city council, would be deported.
AT half past five, in the gray of the
morning on the 18th of November,
they walked out, 5000 men at Mons,
myself and another leading them down
the cobblestones of the street and out
where the rioting would be less than
in the great city, with the soldiers on
each side with bayonets fixed, with
the women held back.
"The degradation of it, The degra-
dation of it as they walked into this
great market square, where the pens
were erected, exactly as if they were
cattle-all the great men of that prov
ince-the lawyers, the statesmen, the
heads of the trades, the men that had
made the capital of Hainaut glorious
during the last 20 years.
"There they were collected no ques-
ton of who they were, whether they
were busy or what they were doing,
or what their position in life. Go to
the right Go to the left Go to the
right' SO they were turned to the
one side or the other.
"Trains were standing there ready,
steaming, to take them to Germany.
You saw on the one side the one
brother taken, the other brother left.
A hasty embrace and they were sepa-
rated and gone.
you saw the women in hundreds
with bundles in their hands, beseech-
ing to be permitted to approach the
trains, to give their men the last that
they had in life between themselves
and starvation-a small bundle of
clothing to keep them warm on their
way to Germany. You saw women APP
! oh xx-ifh ht1p
! purchased by the sale Of the las
Of their household effects. Not
one was allowed to approach to give
her man the warm pair of stockings OF
the warm jacket, so there might be
some chance of his reaching there. OF
they went r'-John II. Gade, in the Ma
tional Geographic Magazine, May
1917.
The Belgian women sent touching
appeal to Minister Whitlock:
Appeal of Belgian Women.
Brussels, Nov. IS, 1916, 46 Rue de |;
Madeleine.
"His Excellency, Mr.. Brand Whitlock
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe
Plenipotentiary of the United State
of America.
"Mr. Minister
From the depths of our well o
misery our supplication rises to you.
"In addressing ourselves to you, W
denounce to your government, as wei
as to our sisters, the women of tn
nation which you represent in on
midst, the criminal abuse of force O
which our unhappy and defenseles
people is victim.
"Since the beginning of this afro
cious war we have looked on impoten
ly and with our hearts torn with ever
] sorrow at terrible events which pu
civilization back into the ages of th
barbarian hordes.
''Mr. Minister, the crime which
now being committed under your eye
namely, the deportation of thousand
of men compelled to work on enem
soil against the interests of their couI
try, cannot find any shadow of excus
on the ground of military necessity, fC
it constitutes violation by force of
sacred right of human conscience.
Called "Monstrous Extremity.
Whatever may be the motive,
cannot be admitted that citizens ma
be compelled to work directly or ind
rectly for the enemy against the
brothers who are fighting.
1.-THE convention of The Hague hs
consecrated this principle.
Nevertheless, the occupying pow'
Is forcing thousands of men to tn
monstrous extremity, which is co
trary to morals and international lay
both these men who have already bee
taken to Germany and those who t
morrow will undergo the same fat
If from the outside, from neutral e
rope and the United States, no help
offered.
"Ohl The Belgian women have ais
known how to carry out their duty
the hour of danger; they have nj
weakened the courage of the soldie
of honor by their tears.
"They have bravely given to the