Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1918-01-20
SOCIALISTS SAW
GERMANYs ERROR
Urged That Inhuman Deporta.
tons Be Stopped Because Of
Effect on heutraIs.
GERARD SUMS UP SITUATION
Germans Will Stop at Nothing, an.
the Only Thing They Respect Is
Force" - Huns Capacity for
Cruelty Told by Whitiock.

Aroused BY the indignation shown
By the uhole uorld orer the ruthless
deportdtions Of The people in Bel
GUM and France. socialist deputies
in the reichstag protested against
the continuance Of the practice. Am
baSsddor Gerard's eridence Shows the
ertent Of the horror.
In the Norddeu,sche Allgemeine
Zeitung Of December .. 1916. the fol-
lowing protests against the deporta-
uon of Belgians to work in German,
appeared. made. respectively. by So
cialist Deputy Haase and Deputy Dit
mann, members Of the reichstag:
Thousands OF workmen in the &C
cupled territory have been compelled
TO forced labor: we earnestly ask the
government to restore to these work
men their liberty, especially in Bel
GUM. In truth. we (the Germans) find
no sympathy in neutral countries even
the pope has made a protest against
this procedure. and several neutral
states have done the same. Common
sense itself demands that we abandon
this procedure which moreover is in
opposition TO the Hague convention TO
which we have agreed"
In opposition to the secretary OF
state. I must recall that when former
ly the Belgian workmen who had fed
to Holland returned to Belgium. Gov
ernor General Won Kissing promised
that these Belgian workmen would I'M
Germany. This reassuring promise
has not been kept"
Ambassador Gerard's Interesting tes-
timony appears in his recent book:
Ambassador Gerard's Evidence.
Inc president during my visit to
America in l9i6) impressed upon me
his great interest in the Belgians de
ported TO Germany. The action Of Ger
many In thus carrying a great part Of
the male population Of Belgium into
virtual slavery had reused great indig-
nation in America. AS the revered
Cardinal Farley said to me few days
before my departure. You have TO 20
back to the times OF the Modes and
the Persians to find like example OF
4 whole people carried into bondage
"Mr. Grew had made representations
about this TO the chancellor and. on my
return. I Immediately took up the
question.
II was Informed that II was a mill
tary measure. that Luiendorf had
feared that the British would break
through and Overrun Belgium and that
the military did not propose to have q
hostile population at their backs who
might cut the rail lines OF commun.
cation, telephones and telegraphs, and
TINT for this reason the deportation
had been decided on. I was. however.
told I would he given permission TO
visit these Belgians. The passes. new
ertheless. which alone made such visit
Ing possible were not delivered until
few days before left Germany.
eeioians Forced to Make Munitions.
Several Of these BeIgians who were
put to work In Berlin managed to get
away and come TO SCENE They gave
me . narrowing account Of how they
had been seized in Belgium and made
to work in Germany at making NUM-
lions to be used probably against their
own friends.
II said TO the chancellor. There are
Belgians employed In making shells
Hague conventions He said. I do
not believe it, said. My automobile
Is at the door. ! can take you. In four
minutes. to where 30 Belgians are
working on the manufacture Of shells
But he did not find time 10 go.
Americans must understand that
the Germans will stop ut nothing to
win this war. and that the only thing
they respect is force."-James w. &C.
rard. My -Four Years in Germany. 1911.
PIP. 3951-52.
A similar point Of view Is expressed
IN an article entitled "vae victis"
from the Hungarian newspaper News
zawa Of Budapest QUOTED in X. G. Os-
siannilsson. Militarism at Work in Bel
GUM and Germany. 1917. pp. 53-54)
Mixed Hungarian Opinion.
Mechanical skill. and especially
qualified mechanical skill. IL for the
moment q more important factor than
where II can be obtained. Belgium has
had to suffer in accordance with the
old saying which always holds good
Vac vicfis (woe to the vanquished).
In Poland mechanical skill and the