The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-18

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Then. Ia August, Won Hlndenburr
was appointed TO the supreme com.
mand. He Is said 10 have criticized
Won Bissings policy as too mild there
was a quarrel: Won Kissing went TO
Berlin 10 protest. threatened to resign.
but did not He returned, and Ger
man official here said that Belgium
would now be subjected 10 a more ter
rible regime-would learn what war
was. The prophecy has been vindicat-
ed. Recently | was told that the dras-
tic measures are really of Ludendorf's
inspiration; do not know. Many Ger
man officers say So"
IL Won Kissing had opposed the pol
icy OF deportation when his own judg-
ment was overruled, he consented TO
become the devils advocate" and de-
Tended the system in public. Espe-
ctally instructive Is the following con
versation reported by Mr.. F. G. Wal
cott
II went TO Belgium 10 investigate
conditions. and while there I had OPP
portunity 10 talk one day with
X
died three or four weeks ago, man
Seventy-two or seventy-three years
old, 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 1t becomes
stepped In that system.
Il said to him, Governor, what are
You going to do II England and France
stop giving these people money TO pur-
chase foodT
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 TO break down at
any time
He went on to say, Starvation win
grip these people In thirty to sixty
| days. Starvation Is compelling force
and we would use that force 10 compel
the Belgian workingmen, many OF
them very skilled, to go 10 Germany
10 replace the Germans, so that they
could 20 TO the front and fight against
the English and the French
LAS fast as our railway transpor
tation could carry them, we would
transport thousands OF others that
would be fit for agricultural work
| across Europe down into southeastern
! Europe, into Mesopotamia, where we
have huge, splendid irrigation works
All that land needs is water and IT
Will blossom like the rose.
"'The weak remaining. the old and
! the young, we would concentrate oppo-
site the firing line, and put firing
! squads back Of them, and force them
through that line so that the English
and French could take care Of their
own people
ut was a perfectly simple, direct.
! frank reasoning. II 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 Whtlock.
The deportAtions began In October
! in the Etape, AT Client. aud 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 selling 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
GUM under martial law, and included
the province OF western Flanders part
Of eastern Flanders. and the region
Of Journal. The remainder OF the oc-
cuplcd part of Belgium was under
civil government
PitiabIe and Distressing Scene.
During the last fortnight men have
been impressed here In Brussels, but
their seizures here are made evidently
with much greater care than In the
provinces, with more regard for the
Appearances. There was no public an
nouncement Of the Intention 10 dcport.
but suddenly about ten days ago Ger
tain men IN towns whose names are
on the list OF chomeurs received sum
mons notifying them 10 report M one
Of the railway stations on given day:
penalties were fixed for failure 10 re-
Spond 10 the summons md there was
printed on The card an offer Of employ
meut by the German government, eI-
Their in Germany or Belgium On the
first day out Of about ! 800 men or
dered 10 present themselves AZ the