South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-15
More Than 200 Million
Outside of Germany
Are Facing Starvation

lean money was 70 be spent for food
for the Germans. So the English
paid for the food. America fur
nished #, and took English notes TO
pay for it. thus showing that there
are more ways Of killing a cat than
choking il to death on buttermilk.
Moreover the food was at the
gates OF Germany before the block
ade was actually Underwriting for
the gates 10 go up. Hoover saw 10
that also. But the blockade was de-
layed and delayed while people
starved. And it gave Rantzau a
tremendous point against the allies
in his appeal TO the neutrals for a
just peace.
Driven to BOlshevism.
Moreover the delay Of food sent
Hungary into bolshevism. All win
ter long the Hu1garians, who were
kept appealing 20 the allies for food.
But they were in Teuton territory
and hence under blockade and the
food did not come So the bread
riots turned 70 political revolution
and Hungary went 10 Lenine.
In the meantime Germany is hun
CRY. We must not blink the fact.
Austria is in greater need OF food
than Germany. but all the Teutonic
world is underfed. There are no
more fat men and fat women in
Germany. The writer OF these lines
was for two weeks in Germany and
saw not one big paunch. Children
look stunted. The birth rate has
drOpped-has been dropping for
three years. During the war in or
der TO keep it from showing. still
births were reported as births. But
now we know that hunger produced
revolution and that revolution more
/ than the guns of the allies turned
I back the German army. Hunger had
is place in war, though not a brave
place whether it was produced By "a
1 U-boat or by a blockade. But war is
war and murder is murder, and meu
and nations engaged in murder in a
wholesale way may not be over nice
about their methods of their victims
\ Picture of Europe.
But in peace2 Children stormine
the trains in Vienna crying for food
German mobs facing machine guns
charging the cavalry. dismCunting a
soldier. killing the horse under him
ripping il to pieces in the street. and
running bloody 70 their homes with
the first bits Of meat they have had
in a year. German children sent &c
| Switzerland too weak 70 recover.
/ Horrible whispers of cannibalisu
| running about Europe. and grin
/ tales of mothers dying to sucklt
their children What about these
tales for times of peace? They are
true tales.
British soldiers" wrote Mai Gen
I Plumer, Of the British army, Evil
no longer stand guard over starvins
women and children" They are get
ting the Americans home probably
because they have similar scruples
But what are we going to do about
/ it?
In mid-May 10000 middle elias:
English men and women gathered
in Albert hall one night TO protes
against the blockade as an instrU-
ment TO enforce the signing OF the
peace treaty. A British lord pre-
sided a bishop spoke and a ladyshiI
/ addressed the meeting 1t was NJ
rabble. But the speakers denounced
the peace treaty. denounced the gov
eminent, and advocated turninl
England over to the socialists as
remedy for what they considered 8
| wrong
The same amount Of free speecl
in Amsrica would have filed tive
jails.
France Not Excited.
France. however, is not holdinl
meetings For the most part France
is not excited. Nor should she b,
expected 10 be excited. She has suf
fered greatly. Revenge is about al
she can get out Of it. The treaty
provides that even in the midst o
this famine while children are starv
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