The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-18
HUMAN BONES USED
TO MAKE FERTILIZE
Government Agent Tells 0i More
KultuI-Iieard Won Bissing Boast

Frederick c. Walcott, an Uflicia
representative of the National Food
Administration in Washington, ad.
dressed che Women's Section of the
Maryland League for National De
fense Friday afternoon Iii the as
sembly room of the Lexington street
headquarters, in Baltimore, his sub
ject being the Fart food will play in
the war.
Mr.. Walcott, who has been inves-
tigating. food conditions in Europe
prior to3this country's entrance into
the world war, touched upon many
angles Of the situation, and gave a
realisticE description OF the suffering
from starvation in Belgium, Servia
and Poland.
He saad that more than four mil
lion BeSgians had been kept alive
by food Furnished them by the Allies
before 6ais country entered The war,
and thar since last April when war
was declared the United States has
been furnishing the starving Belgi-
ans witR food. In speaking of Presi-
dent Wilson'S appointment of Her
bert Hoover as the National Food
administrator, Mr.. Walcott said he
had made a wise choice as no living
man haH training and education
along these lines that made him so
well fitted for the position as Her
bert Hopver.
During his stay in Belgium short
ly afteri the German invasion he Of
ten came in contact with Governor
General Won Bissing, the Teuton
dictator of Belgium, who boasted to
him thai Germany would use the op
portunify of Belgium's plight to fur
ther heS interests toward world con-
quest. He described the suffering in
Belgium as pitiable, and said all the
food in the country was taken for
the upl.eep of the German Army
The condition in Poland was SIM
liar. He saw thousands of human
bones beside the roads, and said that
German motortrucks would pick the
bones up and ship them back to Ger
many To be made into fertilizer One
of the foads that he spoke of led to
PetrogrRd, while the other led to
MOSCOW 1t was on these roads that
the great Russian retreat began.
Thert We're 100000 persons
made h5meless in Poland, he declar-
GO, anu VI ILLS uulIlDSI IIOIe Iudu
O.O0N have died of starvation,
while the remaining 100000 were
diseased and covered with vermin
In Serbia, he said, 10000 persons
were killed by the Bulgars, Austri-
ans and Germans, and as a further
Of German kultur the
Turks, lied by German officers, mur.
dered 100000 Armenians.
He sRid that the recent Italian de-
feat w&s due partly to the fact that
Italy. torn apart with German in
trigue. eould not feed her army
as the transportation sys-
tenn irl that country had broken
down. and gave that as the reason
why 900 Italians stood at atten-
tionf the victorious Germans
I'm y6nta, he said, was cabling to
WashiIt gton for food. stlting that
if theyf were not supplied that they
would tbe forced to seek a German
peace; France cahled that unless the
Unitedf States could furnish her ce-
reals She could not hold out; Eng
land sent word that she must have
rs, 100000 bushels of wheat within
the NEXT three months, and the Unit
ed States reply to these cables was
We will ship your grain on time"
In order to meet the demands of
the Allies, he then pointed out, we
must consume 25 per cent less wheat
for th9 next nine months.