The Holbrook news., 1918-10-11

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 No more graphic description of the ravages of the German soldiery upon
 the civilian population of invaded
 countries has been given than Is con- tained in the brief and simple state ments of F. 0. Walcott, now connected with the United States food admins
 tration, who was assistant to MT. Hoover while America was feeding Belgium, Poland and northern France. In one of these statements Mir. Wal colt says:
 Even now I find 1t hard to describe in comprehensible terms the mind of official Germany, which dominates and shapes all German thought and action. Yet 1t is as hard, as clear-cut,, as real as any material thing. I saw it in Poland, I saw the same thing in Bel gium, heard of 1t in Serbia and Rou- mania. For weeks it was always be- fore me, always the same. Officers talked freely, frankly, directly. All the staff officers have the same view.
 Let me try to tell it, as General von Kries told me, in Poland, in the midst of dying nation. Germany is des- tined to rule the world, or at least a great part of it. The German people are so much human material for build ing the German state, other people do not count. All is for the glory and might of the German state. The lives of human beings are to be conserved only if 1t makes for the states ad- vancement, their lives are to be sacri- feed if it is to the states advantage. The state is all, the people are noth- ing.
 Conquered people signify little in the German account. Life, liberty, happiness, human sentiment, family ties, grace and generous impulse, these have no place beside the one concern, the greatness of the German state.
 Starvation must excite no pity; sym- pathy must not be allowed, if it ham, pers the main design of promoting Germany's ends.
 Starvation Is here," said General yon Kries. "Candidly. we would like to see it relieved; we fear our soldiers may be unfavorably affected by the things that they see. But since it is here, starvation must serve our pur- pose. So we set it to work for Ger many. By starvation we can accom- plish in two or three years in East Poland more than we have in West Poland, which is East Prussia, in the last hundred years. With that in view, we propose to turn this force to our advantage.
 '"This country is meant for Ger many" continued the keeper of starv- ing Poland. 'It is a rich aIluvial country which Germany has needed for some generations We propose to remove the able-bodied working Poles from this country. It leaves 1t open for the inflow of German working peo- pie as fast as we can spare them. They will occupy it and work it.'
 Then with a cunning smile, Cant you see how it works out? By and by we shall give back freedom to Poland. When that happens Poland win appear, automatically as German province"
 In Belgium, General von Bissing told me exactly the same thing. If the relief of Belgium breaks down we, can force the industrial population in- to Germany through starvation and colonize other Belgians in Mesopo- tamia where we have planned large irrigation works; Germans will then overrun Belgium. Then when the war Is over and freedom is given back to Belgium, it will be German Belgium that is restored, Belgium will be German province and we have Ant, werp-which is what we are after"
 That is not all. Removing the men, that the land may be vacant for Ger man occupation, that German stock may replace Belgians, Poles. Serbians, Armenians, and now Roumanians, Ger-i many does more. Women left captive, are enslaved. Germany makes ali manner of lust it's instrumentality.
 The ether day a friend of mine told nie of a man just returned from north ern France. q cannot tell you the de-, tails," he said, "man to man. I don't want to repeat what I heard" Some of the things he did tell-shocking mutilation and moral murder. He told of women, by the score, in occupied