The daily Alaskan., 1918-02-26
Participants Testimony of Deg radiation Accompanying De-
 portation From Mons.
SCENES OF FIENDIsHsCRUELTY
Women Forbidden, to teiVe Food and Clothing to Men Facing PrlVation and coId-pnited states'
 Appeal Unheeded.

y Germans, to their everlasting dis grace, the deportation from Mons IS prominent. Official documents Pub- Eished by the commIttee on public informGtion tell part of the hGrrow- ing story.
 A vivid sketch of the deportations from Mons, ordered by German author ItieS, drawn by participant, may well be cited here:
 "I will take the 18th of November of last year [1916l. A week or so be foresthat q 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 clergymen, 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, 6,200 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 1t 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 lnCe-the lawyers, the statesmen, The heads of the trades, The men that hGd made the capital of HaInaut glorious during the last 70 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 10 the left. Go 10 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- l ing 10 be permitted to approach the trains, to give their men the last that l they had in life between themselves and starvatiOn-a small bundle of clothing to keep them warm ou their way to Germany. You saw women ap- proach with q bundle that had been l purchased by the sale of the last | of their household effects. Not one was allowed to approach to give her man the warm pair of stockings or the warm jacket, so there might be some chance of his reaching there. 0ff they went l"-John H. Gade, in the Ma tiOnal Geographic Magazine, May. 1917.
 The Belgian women sent touching appeal to Minister Whltlock:
 Appeal of Belgian Women.
 Brussels, Nov. Is, 1918, 46 Rue de la | Madeleine.
 His Excellency, Mir Brand Whitlock,
 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
 PlenEpotentIary of the United States 1 of America. Mir. Minister;
 From the depths of our well of misery our suppllcatiOn rises to you. Tn addressing ourselves 10 you, We deHounce to your government, as well as 10 our sisters. the women uf the nation which you represent In our midst, the criminal abuse of force of which our unhappy and defenseless l people Is victim.
 Since the beginning of this atrO- 1 ciOus war we have looked on impOtent- ly and with our hearts torn with every sorrow at terrible events which put civilization back into the ages of the barbarian hOrdes.
 "Ar, Minister, the crime which Is | now being committed under your eyes, | namely, the deportation of thousands of men compelled to work on enemy | soil against the interests of their coun- try, cannot find any shadow of excuse on the ground of military necessity, for 1t constitutes violation by force of sacred right of human conscience. Called "Monstreus Extremity.
 Whatever may be the motive, 1t cannot be admitted that citizens may be compelled to work directly or lndi- rectly for the enemy against their i brothers who are fighting.
 The convention of The Hague has | conSecrated this principle.
 Nevertheless, the occupying power is forcing thousands of men to this mOnStrous extremity, which Is con. trary to morals and international law, l both these men who have already been taken to Germany and those who to- morrow will undergo the same fate if from the outside, from neutral Flu rope and the United States, no help Is offered. "Oh The Belgian women have also known how to carry out their duty In the hour of danger; they have not weakened the courage of the soldierk of honor by their tears.
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