Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-10-12
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ahe following is II statement by T.
: Nalcott, who served as an assist
it 10 Mr.. Hoover during the time
America WIS doing all thai WIS pos
lie To feed the starving millions Of
ealEium and Poland and northern
france IN this work he was brought
n direct contact with German military
i3eials and saw ihe conditions which
ae German invasion lad created
among The civilian population:
went 10 Poland to learn the facts
concerning the remnant OF a people
hat lad been deeimaied by war. The
country had been twice devastated.
fifst the Russian army swept through
/ and then the Germans. Along The
roadside from Warsaw 10 Pnsll. the
resent drlne line, 80 miles, nearly
aaf million people had died oil hun
ser and cold Tie way WAS strewn
with fheie bones picked clean by the
Rows with their usual thrift. the
iermHs We're collecting the larger
sores 10 be milled into fertilizer, but
inaef and toe bones lay on the ground
alth lie Undiscovered and rain-soallod
lothing
.Nieief baskets were seatterea along
lie Hay-the basket in Which The babY
wines from tho rafier in every peas
mt home. Every mile there were
cores of them, eaeh one telling
'eath. I started 10 count. but after
title had TO give it up, there were
% many
Thai IS lie desolation one saw along
he great road from Warsaw 10 pinsiz,
nile utter mile more than two hun
ifed miles. They told me million
people vere made homeless In six
weeks Of the German drive in August
md September 1916. They told me
four hundred thousand died on the
way The rest. scarcely half alive.
got through With the Russian army.
AfafF of these have been sent 10 ST.
1arias ii Is these people whom the
Paderewsd committee Is trying to re-
ieye.
In The refugee camps, 100000 sur
1ivors Of the flight We're gathered by
ne Germans, members Of broken FAM
lies. They were lodged in Jerry built
barracks, scarcely waterproof ua-
ighted. unvarmed in The dead of win
er. Their clothes, where ihe buttons
we're lost, were seyVed on. There were
10 eonyenieaees, they lad not even
4een able 10 wish Tor weeks. Filth
md infection from vermin were
Spreading. They were famished, their
lallY ration a eup Of soup and piece
If bread as big as my fist.
In Warsaw, which lad not been de-
sroyed. n city of one million inhab-
llants. ,one Of the most prosperous cit
.es of Europe before the war, the
streets were lined with people in the
panes of starvation. lfamished and
raln-soal1ed, they squatted there, with
their elbows on their knees or lean
ing against the buildings, too feeble
to lift a hand for a bit Of money or a
morsel Of bread if one offered il. per-
ishing of hunger and cod. Charity
lid what 1t could The rich eaye all
that they had the poor shared their
last crust. Hundreds of thousands
were perishing Day and night the
pictures is before my eyes-a people
starving, a nation dying.
The above statement by Mr. Wal
colt Is n terrible awaigument of the
Hun, but no more terrible than he
deserves. What has happened in
Poland, IN Belgium. in northern
France and every other country that
has been blehted by the Huns pres
enco would happen in America should
the allies, by any chance fail TO win
this war. Ii would mean the enslaye-
ment Of American men, the starving
md death Of American women and chill.
dren. Either the Hun OF humanity
.zs.4G -sa-=t=i.