The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-24

feet people, the Armenian massacres,
frightfulness, sinking the
Lusitania, the submarine horrors, the
enslavemept of women-all piece into !
the monstrous view. The rights of ma
tons, the rights of men, the lives and
liberties of all people are subordinate
TO the German aim of dominion over
all the world.
"FREDERIC c. WALCOTT."
Mr.. Vernon Kellogg's statement is
as follows:
Saw Only Massacre and Ruin.
1t was my priyilege-and necessity
in connection with the work of the
commission for relief in Belgium to
spend several months at the great
headquarters of the German armies In
the west. and later to spend more
months at Brussels as the commits
slon's director for Belgium and occu-
pied France. 1t was an enforced op-
portunity to see something of German
practice in the treatment of q con-
quered people, part of whom (the
French and the inhabitants of the Bel |
gian provinces of East and West Elan |
ders) We're under the direct control of
the German general staff and the sew
eral German armies of the west, and
! part, the inhabitants of the seven other
| Belgian provinces, under the quasi
! civil government of Governor General
| Won Kissing. l did not enter the occu-
| pied territories until June, 1915, and
| so, of course, saw none of the actual in
vasion and overrunning of the land. |
saw only the graves of the massacred
and the ruins of their towns. But ]
saw through the long. hard months
much too much for my peace of mind
of how the Germans treated the I'M
fortunates under their control after the
occupation.
Destruction Complete.
"As chief representative for the COM
mission, it was my duty to cover this
whole territory repeatedly in long mo,
tor Journeys in company with the Ger
man officer assigned for my protection
and for the protection of the German
army against any too much seeing. As
/ had opportunity also to cover most oil
sells into the various provinces, | nee
essarily had opportunity to compar,
the destruction wrought in the two re
gions.
Il could understand why certain
towns and villages along the Mouse ant
= along the lines of the French and Eng
:, lish retreat We're badly shot to pieces
| Tbprp hoH h0aro Grb IN
: and the artillery of first one side ant
=, then the other had worked their havo
among the houses of the inhabitants
But there We're many towns in whic
: there had been no fighting and yet a
: too many of these towns also were /
- ruins. 1t was not ruin by shells, bu
% ruin by fire and explosions. Thes
Il were the famous punished towns
Either a citizen or perhaps two c
! three citizens had fired from a windo,
- on the inyaders-or were alleged I
2 have. Thereupon block, or two {
X three blocks, or half the town Wa
~ methodically and effectively burned {
I blown to pieces. There are many
> these punished towns in occupie
II France. And between these towns al
re along the roadways are innumerab
~ isolated single farmhouses that are al.
~ in ruins. 1t is not claimed that the
was any sniping from these farr
houses. They were just destroyed alor
.e- the way-and by the way, one ms
on say. When the roll of destroyed V
or lagos and destroyed farmhouses in Q
IS cupied France is made known. Il
ne world will be shocked again by this e1
a dcnce of German thoroughnesS.
sh Found Neutrality impossible
ne But the horrible methods of tn
re deportation were such that we,
e. though trying to hold steadfast to
'F- rigorous neutrality. could not but pl
NJ test. Mr.. Gerard, our ambassador
Iu- Berlin, happened at the very time
ny this protest to make a visit to t
u great headquarters in the west and t
'ei matter was brought to the attenti
of certain high officers at headuuart(
lld on the very day of Mr. Gerards vi
OF and in his hearing. So that he add
ma his own protest to that of Mr. Polar
les our director at the time, and furtI
NAT denortatiOnS were stopped. But q t
M. rible mischief had already been do
his Husbands and fathers had been tax
no from their families without a word
nil good-by; sons and daughters on VIII
ana perhaps aged parents relied for s
port were taken without pity or app
lor, ent thought of the terrible con
Ily quences. The great deportations
tar Belgium have shocked the world.
of these lesser depOrtations-tha
ion lesser in extent, but not less brutal
Ter their carrying out-are hardly kno
of Germany Must Be Civilized
/ of II went into Belgium and occur
,un- France neutral and | maintai
ans. while there q steadfastly neutral
rich hayior. But | came out no neutral
nan cannot conceive that any American
:. If joyfng an experience similar to II
&. 50 could have come out a neutral.
would come out, as | came, with
e. ineradicablc conviction that q pee