The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-03-07

must be prepared to fight ten years.
The food situation over there is crit
ical. Our boys are supposed to have a
9O-day supply ahead, but they have
only 50-day supply. Stop feeding
wasting, Germans will murder our
boys to man.
Speaking of German atrocities, he
said he couldn't tell all that he knew,
they are so revolving, and he has the
proof, he says. He knows why the
Canadians give the Germans no quar-
ter. He described wildly a London
air raid, where the Germans are care
full not to drop bomb within mile
of the German prison camps. Bombs
weighing 700 pounds are dropped over
London, uprooting large trees. French
children wearing masks 60 to school
within l 1-2 miles of the trenches.
Germans have poisoned wells by the
most profane methods. They have left
bombs in cupboards so when the old
people return to their homes they are
blown to pieces. French graves are
desecrated, the collins being taken up
and the lead cut out and shipped to
Germany. He told Of German pris-
oner nursed back to health in hos
pital in France, taking the French
nurse by the arm to thank her for her
services, whereupon he broke the poor
girls arm. He was taken out and
shot. The throat of the first Ameri-
can soldier captured was cut.
He spoke of 100000 of the finest
English women working on the farms.
He spoke of the vast lot of supplies
necessary to keep the war going. 1t
takes 1856 train loads of ammunition
to get our boys ready to go over the
top. 1t requires SO train loads of sup
plies for our men in day. He spoke
of the noble French women who are
working their farms, with the help of
crippled soldiers.
Mr.. Culbertson stated that Ger
many needed no greater place in the
sun than she had when she started this
war. He told of the medals that had
been turned out in Germany to be
worn to commemorate the sinking of
the Lusitania two days before that
ship was sunk.
He said if the Germans broke thru
the western line, the war would be
brot to our Atlantic shore.
He told of the Germans carrying
away beautiful French girls from Is
to 20 years of age, to live lives worse
than death. He learned where some
of these girls were chained in dun
geons to become the slaves of German
officers.
He told us why corn could not be
shipped over there because it would
spoil and besides he said bread was
two days old when it got from the
ovens to the front line trenches and
old corn bread is not good.
He said that France had lost in the
war 100000 dead and 100000
wounded and was being bled white.
The patient French people have been
practically without sugar, yet they
were so grateful to America for COM
ing to their rescue that they gave up
their orders for 100000 tons Of sugar
last winter. That's why the French
people had no sugar for Christmas.
He said that Italy had not pound
of coal this winter and patients in
hospitals keep warm only thru bodily
warmth. 1t is up to America to con-
serve it's coal supply.
A million Jews are starving to death
in Poland. Prosperous Poles of a few
years ago are now in the bread lines.
Food is given to the people there ac-
cording to the rate with which they
are losing weight. They say nothing
because they don't want US to become
discouraged. We must send fats, SUI
gar and flour to Europe as fast as we
can and must go short of these foods
ourselves. We must eat more corn,
chickens, fish and game, tho they cost
more.