Evening star., 1922-02-26
Harden Says Nothing Short
of Conference Here Can
Save Nation.
CHILDREN SLAIN, FLESH
STRIPPED FROM BODIES
Witness Counts Twenty-Three
Butchered Bodies Floating Down
River Within Five Minutes.
BY MANIMILIAN HARDEN.
Germnny,s Foremost Publlcist.

Germnny's Foremost PuDiacast.
BY Cable to The Star.
BERLIN. February 25.-CondHions
in bolshevist Russia are more terrible
today than they have ever been.
Nine-tenths of the non-bolshevist
intellectuals have been exterminated.
Not twenty. but forty. millions Of
human beings are threatened with
death by starvation.
Cannibalism is daily occurrence
in the districts where the famine is
most severe. Formerly the pretext
that human flesh was being used only
to feed the dogs was resorted to, but
now all pretexts have been abandoned.
Dead Bodies Roasted.
Pieces are being cut from dead
bodies and roasted for food.
Children daily are being slain. the
flesh stripped from their .odies and
the carcasses thrown into the rivers.
An industrial director. who fled
from the famine, tells me that with
watch in hand he saw twenty-three
bodies of children float past in five
minutes.
He says that the voice of a child
is seldom heard in the district now.
Thirty-six millions of souls, on the
verge of starvation, are turning to
cannibalism.
4 Night OF Horror.
The Apocalyptic prophecy Of mothers
eating their own children is fulfilled
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kets and resources in all the world.
Conscience, seif-interest, humanity
and profit call with unanimous voice
TO those who hold the worlds fate
in their hands. Russia is in the black
ness of night of most terrible
horror. ...x-,-z
And what can be done?
The reconstruction of this land.
ruined beyond precedent. but intrinsi-
cally rich, is all humanity's task to
undertake. 1t is task which calls
for an arm!ess crusade and it de-
mands urgently special conference far
from Eurepe's intrigues. Genoa will
not do.
Washington the One Place.
There is but one place for this spe-
cial Washington. The
stars of Americas flag could and can
shine nowhere more brightly than in
Russia. Meantime Germany con-
tinues to negotiate with the bolshe-
Wiki and these negotiations are far
more important than the Wirth cabi-
nets troubles. The ways of Ger
many's Russian policy are more in
scrutable than those of Providence.
What Bismarck's visionary genius
never forgot, namely, that Germany
needs strong. friendly Russia. not
dependent politically on western Eu-
rope nor economically on overseas
raw stuffs. was obliterated when the
second Wilhelm dismissed the iron
chancellor like footman.
Russia Proved Invulnerable.
The treaty of assurance with Russia.
so useful to Germany and world
peace, was not renewed in 1890 be-
cause the czar disapproved Of Will
helms effeminate vanity. Folly sum-
nit was reached when to bring the
decadent but older and superior
Hapsburg dynasty under the vassal-
age of the Hohenzollerns. Austria
Hungary was encouraged to war on
Russia. though if the war had been
successful it would have resulted in
an impossible Berlin khalifate and
dealt imperial Germany severe
blow.
But, as in Napoleon's time. immense
Russia proved invulnerable. So our
rulers imported bolshevism into Rus
sia and forced the Brest-Litovsk
peace, which was even more cruel
than that of Versailles. Then. after
defeat in the west at the hands of the
allies, instead of seeking an honest
understanding with the young giant,
Russia, then capable of quick re-
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