The Snowflake herald., 1918-06-07
.iiNEO TO make
POLAND DESERT
,,nan System ReCkOned On
cfavatiOn of People to Pro-
mote imperial Ends.
mn KRIES REVEALED PLOT
-, After Population Had Been
'.....natically Done to Death, Was
a Be Restoeked by Settlers
From Germany.


Tls ertsHt of human misery IN
g.,,l caused By the German oc-
.,,i.or ras as great as that in Bel
~ and France. The entire heart
,.,,,s, rhich characterized the kai-
>, Fi0h officers is weH ShOwn in a
1tement By Mr.. Vernon Kellogg,
.r,qrel for a pamphlet issued By
A, committee on public informaG-
ar rRich ne copy.
Tho systematic exploitation of hu-
man misery by the German authorities
/, Poland followed the general plan
5d down by the kaiser's orders. In
o,dor TO prove the identity of proceed
mo # will be enough to present the
ifaiIed report prepared specially for a
mmpblet issued by the committee on
rrblic information and written by Mr..
Frederic c. Walcott. A fuller and in
0mp ways more touching treatment
i given in his article, Devastated
Poland" in the National Geographic
Magazine for May, 1917.
"SC ,tember, 1917.
POland-Russian Poland-is per-
ibng And the German high COM
nand imbued with the Prussian sys-
tenn, is cOOlly reckoning on the neces-
sites of a starving people to promote
its imperial ends.
"WeSt Poland, which has been Prus-
sian territory more than a hundred
years, is a disappointment to Ger
many; its people Obstinately remain
Poles. This time they propose swifter
measures. In two or three years, by
grace of starvation and frightfulness,
they calculate East Poland will be
thoroughly made over into German
province.
In the great Hindenburg drive one
year ago, the country was completely
dcaStated by the retreating Russian
army and the OncOming Germans. A
million people were driven from their
homeS Half of them perished by the
roadside. For miles and miles, when |
saw the country, the way was Uttered
with mudSOaked garments and bones
Picked clean by the crOws-thOugh the
arger bones had been gathered by the
nFltty Germans to be ground into fer
tIzer. Wicker baSketS-the little baS-
iet in which the baby swings from the
aiterS in every peasant home-were
scattered along the way, hundreds and
nOndreds, until one could not count
uem each one telling a death.
Deliberate Policy of Starvation.
Warsaw, which had not been de-
@Oyed-Once proud city of a million
.tope-Was utterly stricken. Poor
,O@ ny thousands lined the streets,
TalNng against the buildings, shivering
y snow and rain, too weak to lift a
uauu dying Of cold and hunger. Though
u'e Hch gave all they had, and the
..Or shared their last crust, they were
"a,'Ihg there in the streets In droves.
III 'he stricken city, the German gov
auOf OF Warsaw issued a proclama-
y" All able-bOdied Poles were bid
" go to Germany TO work. If any
.llsed let no other Pole give him to
,.,.,' Io' So much as mOuthfUl, under
'-a'y Of German military law.
4 was more than the mind could
sash To the husband and father of
.a'u families, the high command
NV. s,,e 'nls decree: Leave your families
,on o'a''e; if you stay, we shall see that
s.s..a' w Starve-this to a high-strung,
ta.. nsi'lye @ highly organized people, this
tss., % 'ne authorities of a nation pro-
goa gns.ug civilization and religion to mil
Starving. IL '''i'"' o"p'i'' anu
roo USneral e! Won Kries, the governor,
bor ~nu enough to explain. Candidly,
r,9oI peierred not quite so much star
bo |u ~ II might get on the nerves of
bpi0a ''llan soldiers. But, starvation
NAN present, it must work for Ger
Ma purpose. Taking advantage of
poon@!, n@!,e'chedness, the working men of
ty nu n'. We're to be removed; the coun-
Il u. ~oS TO be restocked with Germans.
sIhr,S, country Germany needed-rich
eynona. lo. Soil-better suited to German
he poI slOn than distant possessions. If
npcb Vand u that was had to perish, so
T. .e better for Germany.
"p wake Poland German Province.
Veal, 'ilove 4. the men, let the young and
vomoule mn ule' graft German stock on the
csf, u Zee how simple it is: with a
Godo%a smile, General Won Kries con-
teedo, ny and by we must give back
'O'n to Poland. Very good; it will