The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-14
German System Reckoned on Starvation of People to Pro-
 mote Imperial Ends.
WON KRIES REVEALED PLOT
Country, After Population Had Been systematically Done to Death, Was to Be Restocked by Settlers
 From Germany.

~NoCO OY tt1C oC' "tut V1- cuPGtion DGS aS great as that in Bel giun and France. Tue entire heart lessneSS Whicb characterised the kdi- ser,S high officers IS weU Shown in c stdiement by Mr. Vernon Kellogg, prepared for c pamphlet issued by the committee on public informa- tion. which ire copy.
 The systematic exploitation of hu- man misery by the German authorities in Poland followed the general plan laid down by the kaiSer's orders. In order to prove the identity of proceed ure 1t will be enough to present the detailed report prepared specially for a pamphlet issued by the committee on public Information and written by Mir. Frederic c. Walcott. A fuller and In some ways more touching treatment is given in hls article, Devastated Poland" in the National Geographic Magazine for May, 1917,
 "September 1917, "P0land-RnSsian Poland--is per lshing. And the German high com mand, lmbued with the Prussian sys- tenn, Is coolly reckoning on the neces- stiles of a starving people to promote Its imperial ends.
 West Poland, which has been Prus- sian territory more than d hundred years, is a disappointment to Ger ia, Poles. This time they propose swifter measures. In two or three years, by l grace of starvation and frightfulnesS, l they calculate East Poland will he l thoroughly made over into a German province,
 "IR the great Hiudenburg drive one year ago, the country was completely l devastated by the retreating Russian army and the oncoming Germans. A million people were driven from their hou1es. Half of them perished by the l roadside. For miles and miles. when I ! s6w the country, the way was filtered with mudsoaked garments and bones picked clean by the crows-thOugh the l larger bones had been gathered by the I thrifty Germans to be ground into fer I tiliZer, Wicker baskets-the little baS- 1 ket In whfch the baby swings from the rafters in every peasant home-were 1 scattered along the way, hundreds and hundreds, until one could not count l them, each one telling q death.
 Deliberate Policy of Starvation.
 "Warsaw. which had not been de, Stroyed-OnCe a proud city of million people-was utterly stricken. Poor folks by thousands lined the streets 1 leaning against the buildings, Shivering In snow and rain, too weak to lift a | hnnd dying of cold and hunger Though the rich gave all they had and the poor shared their last crust, they were starving there in the streets In droves In the stricken city, the German gov. ernor Of Warsaw issued proclama- ton. All able-bOdied Poles were bid uen 10 go to Germany to work. If any ce1uSed, let no other Pole give him to cal, not so much as u mOuthful, under penalty of German military law.
 It was more than the mind could grasp To the husband and father of broken families, the high command gave this decree: Leave your families to starve; If you stay, we shall see that you do starve-this to a hIgh-strung, sensitive, highly organized people, this rom the authorities of a nation pro- tesslng civilization and religion to mill Hons of fellow Christians captive and starving.
 General von KrIes, the governor, was Kind enough to explain. Candidly, they preferred not quite so much star Vauon; 1t might get on the nerves of the German soldiers. But, starvation being present, 1t must work for Ger man purpose. Taking advantage of this wretchedness, the working men of Poland were to be removed; the coun- 1 try was to be reStocked with Germans It was country Germany needed-rich 1 alluvial SOil-better suited to German | expansion than distant possessions. If the Poland that was had to perish, so much the better for Germany.
 To Make Poland German Province. AhNihCfC llIt ihNLi, iSt llIc SOuIlR ana weak die graft German stock on the women. See how simple it iS with c.afty smile, General vOn Kries con cluded, By and by we must give back freedom to Poland. Very good 1t will reappear as German prOvince.'
 Slowly, I came to realize that this .monstrous, incredible thing was the PrusSian system, deliberately chosen by the circle around the all-highest and kneaded into the German people i'll it became part of their mind.
 German people are material for building the state-of no other account Other people are for Germany's will to work upon. Humanity liberty. equality. the rights of others-all foolish talk. Democracy, an idle dream. The true Prussian lives only for this, that the German state may be mighty and great.
 All the woes in the long count