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The rights, nations, "'At night, at about two o'clock in the rights of men, the lives and liberties of all people are subordinate the morning, a whole district of the PRACTICAL FURRIER town was invested by the troops of occupation. to the German aim of dominion over ill the world. To each house was distributed Fort Franco, Ollarie Methods of Exponents of German Serman System Reckoned on "FREDERIC C. WALCOTT." a printed notice, of which we give "Kultur" in Carrying Out herein an exact reproduction, preserving Starvation of People to Promote Mr. Vernon Kellogg's statement is as follows: the style and spelling.' (See document, Imperial Ends. Deportation Order. THE OLDEST EXCLUSIVE FUR HOUSE above.) Saw Only Massacre and Ruin. "It was my privilege—and necessity The inhabitants so warned were to —in connection with the work of the IN THE WORLD hold themselves ready to depart an •v... ADD HYPOCRISY TO CRUELTY KRIES REVEALED PLOT commission for relief in Belgium to hour and a half after the distribution of the proclamation.' spend several months at the great headquarters of the German armies in 'Each family, drawn up outside the the west, and later to spend more house, was examined by an officer, who Country, After Population Had Been Officers of "Modern Attila" Gave Attitude months at Brussels as the commission's ^pointed out haphazard the persons wfao of England as Excuse for Systematically Done to Death, Was director for Belgium and occupied were to go. No words can express the Repeating in France Atrocities to Be Restocked by Settlers France. ^It was an enforced opportunity barbarity of this proceeding nor describe From Germany. Practiced in Belgium. to see something of German the heartrending scenes which practice in the treatment of a conquered occurred young men and girls took The extent of human misery in The course of the German armies people, part of whom (the Hasty farewell of their parents—a farewell Poland caused by the German occupation in France was marked with the same French and the inhabitants of the Belgian hurried by the German soldiers provinces of East and West Flanders) who were executing the infamous task was cls great as that in Belgium brutalities that characterized the occupation were under the direct control of —•rejoined the group of those who were of Belgium. Ample proof and France. The entire heartlessness the German general staff and the several going, and found themselves in the which characterized the kaiser's has been produced that the entire German armies of the west, and midaie of the street, surrounded by -W'-' -W high officers is well shown in a proceedings were a deliberate part part, the inhabitants of the seven other other soldiers with fixed bayonets.' Belgian provinces, under the quasicivil of the calculated system of "frightftilnesjs." statement by Mr. Vernon Kellogg, "'Tears of despair on the part of government of Governor General parents and children so ruthlessly prepared for a pamphlet issued by von Bissing. I did not enter the occupied separated did not soften the hearts of In France the German system of the committee on public information, territories until June, 1915, and the brutal Germans. Sometimes, however, forced labor and deportations, with its which we copy. so, of course, saw none of the actual invasion a more liina-hearted officer yielded horrors, was tlie same as in Belgium. The systematic exploitation of human and overrunning of the land. I to too great despair and did not In this article is shown the real identity misery by the German authorities, saw only the graves of the massacred choose all the persons whom he should of German practice in both occupied in Pol followed the general plan and the hiins of their towns. But I aft —by the terms of his instructions— EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF regions. This can be done from laid down by the kaiser's orders. In saw through the long, hard' months have separated^ FURS the official documents and from a summary RAW order to prove the identity of procedure much too much for my peace of mind Herded Like Cattle. by Ambassador Gerard. The it will be enough to present the of how the Germans treated the unfortunates 'These girls and lads were taken harrowing details may be gathered detailed report prepared specially for a under their control after the street cars to factories, where they from the scores of depositions which pamphlet issued by the committee on occupation. were numbered and labeled like cattle accompany the note addressed by the public information and written by Mr. Destruction Complete. and grouped to form convoys. In these French government to the governments Frederic C. Walcott. A fuller and in "As chief representative for the commission, factories, they remained 12, 24 or 36 of the neutral powers July 25, 1916. some ways more touching treatment it was my duty to cover this hours until a train was ready to remove These are on file in the state department, is given in his article, "Devastated whole territory repeatedly in long moI Highest Cash Prices Paid on them.' and have also been translated, Poland," in the National Geographic tor journeys in company with the German along with the official documents, in 'The deportation began with the Magazine for May, 1917. officer assigned for my protection Raw Furs "The Deportation of Women and ullages of Roncy, Halluin, etc., then "September, 1917. —and for the protection of the German Girls From Lille." (New York, Dor an.) Tourcoing and Koubaix. In the towns "Poland—Russian Poland—is perishing. army against any too much seeing. As the Germans proceeded by districts.' He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs'from the United German Proclamation at LiUe. And the German high command, had opportunity also to cover most of I "The attitude of England malies the 'In all about 8O,50O persons are said imbued with the Prussian system, Belgium in repeated trips from Brussels States and pay as high a price for them as any provisioning of the population more to have been carried off up to the present. is coolly reckoning on the necessities into the various provinces, necessarily I and more difficult. This monstrous operation has house in the United States. of a starving people to promote had opportunity to compare taken eight to ten days to accomplish. "To reduce the misery, the German its imperial ends. the destruction wrought in the two regions. It is feared, unfortunately, that it may authorities have recently asked for "West Poland, which has been Prussian begin again soon. volunteers to go and work in the territory more than a hundred BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY "I could understand why certain country. This offer has not had the 'The reason given by the German years, is a disappointment to Germany towns and villages along the Meuse and F\ C. ROGERS success that was expected. authorities is a humanitarian one. ,its people obstinately remain along the lines of the French and English They have put forward the following "In conseqtience of this the inhabitants Poles. This time they propose swifter retreat were badly shot to pieces. pretexts: provisioning is going to will be deported by order and measures. In two or three years, by There had been fighting in these towns break down in the large towns in the removed into the country. Persons grace of starvation and frightfulness, and the artillery of first one side and north and their suburbs, whereas in deported will be sent to the interior they calculate East Poland will be then the other had worked their havoc of the occupied territory in Prance, far the Ardennes the feeding is easy and thoroughly made over into a German among the houses of the inhabitants. behind the front, where they will be province. But there were many towns in which employed in agricultural labor, and It is known from the young men The Press Office "In the great Hindenburg drive one there had been no fighting and yet all not on any military work whatever. and girls, since sent bac£ to their year ago, the country was completely too many of these towns also were in By this measure they will be given families for reasons of health, that in devastated by the retreating Russian ruins. It was not ruin by shells, but the opportunity of providing better the department of the Ardennes the army and the oncoming Germans. A ruin by fire 'and explosions. These for their subsistence. victims are lodged in a terrible manner, Stationery Store million people were driven from their were the famous 'punished' towns. in disgraceful promiscuity they "In case of necessity, provisions can homes. Half of them perished by the Either a citizen or perhaps two oi are compelled to work in the fields. It be obtained through the German depots. roadside. For miles and miles, when I three citizens had fired from a window is unnecessary to say thgt the inhabitants Every person deported will be saw the country, the way was littered on the invaders—or were alleged to of our towns are not trained to jtllowed to take with him 30 kilograms with mudsoaked garments and bones have. Thereupon a block, or two or such work. The Germans pay them of baggage (household utensils, picked clean by the crows—though the three blocks, or half the town was 1.50 m. But, there are complaints of clothes, etc.), which it will be fell to larger bones had been gathered by the methodically and effectively burned or insufficient food.' GEORGE P. WATSON, make ready at once. Proprietor thrifty Germans to be ground into fertilizer. blown to pieces. There are mdny of "Barbarity of Slave Drivers." "I therefore order that no one, until Wicker baskets—the little bas.ket these 'punished' towns in occupied further orders, shall change his "'They were very badly received in in which the baby swings from the France. And between these towns and place of residence "No one may absent the Ardennes. The Germans had told rafters in every peasant home—were along the roadways are innumerable himself from his declared legal the Ardennais that these were "volunteers" scattered along the way, hundreds and isolated single farmhouses that are also residence from 9 p. m. to 6 a. m. (German who were coming to work, and hundreds, until one coulcj not count in ruins. It is not claimed that there time), unless he is in possession the Ardennais proceeded to receive them, each one telling a death. This is the best place to trade for was any sniping from these farmhouses. of a permit in due form. them with many insults, which only They were just destroyed along Deliberate Policy of Starvation. SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME "Inasmuch as this is an irrevocable ceased when the forcible deportation the way—and by the way, one may "Warsaw, which'had not been destroyed—once measure, it is in the interest of the of which they were the victims became say. When the roll of destroyed villages a proud city of a million STATIONERY SUPPLIES population itself to remain calm and known.' and destroyed farmhouses in occupied people—was utterly stricken. Poor obedient. 'Feeling ran especially high in our folks by thousands lined the streets, Fnance is made known, the towns. Never has so iniquitous a world will be shocked again by this evidence "COMMANDANT. leaning against the buildings, shivering measure been carried out. The Germans "Lille, April, 1916." of German thoroughness. in snow and rain, too weak to lift a have shown all the barbarity of Notice Distributed in Lille. hand, dying of cold and hunger. Though Found Neutrality Impossible. slave drivers.' the rich gaye all they had, and the "All the inhabitants of the houses, "But the horrible methods of that Pens 'The families so scattered -are in poor shared their last crust, they were with the exception of children under deportation were such that we, although despair and the morale of the whole fourteen and their mothers, and also starving there in the streets in droves. trying to hold steadfast to a Pencils population is gravely affected. Boys of old people, must prepare themselves "In the stricken city, the German governor rigorous neutrality, could not but protest. of fourteen, schoolboys in knickerbockers, of Warsaw issued a proclamation. for transportation in an hour and a Mr. Gerard, our ambassador tc Tablets young girls of fifteen to sixten half's time. All able-bodied Poles were bidden Berlin, happened at the very time ol Rubbers have been carried off, and the despairing "An officer will decide definitely to go to Germany to work. If any this protest to make a visit to the protests of their parents failed refused, let no other Pole give him to what persons will be taken to the great headquarters in the west and the Mucilage to ttiuch the hearts of the German officers, concentration camps. For this purpose eat, not so much as a mouthful, under matter was brought to the attention Letter Files or, rather executioners.' penalty of German military law, all the inhabitants of the house of certain high officers at headquarters "One last detail: 'The persons so must assemble in front of it in case on the very day of Mr. Gerard's visit "It was more than the mind could Carbon Paper deported are allowed to write home of bad weather they may remain in and in his hearing. So that he added grasp. To the husband and father of once a month that is to say, even less Library Paste his own protest to that of Mr. Poland, the passage. The door of the house broken families, the high command often than military prisoners.' must remain open. All protests will gave this decree: Leave your families our director at the time, and further Fancy Stationery be useless. No inmate of the house, "Such are the declarations which we to starve if you stay, we shall see that deportations were stopped. But a terrible have collected and which, without commentary, mischief had already been done. Typewriter Ribbons even those who are not to be transported, you do starve—this to a high-strung, confirm in an even more may leave the house before sensitive, highly organized people, this Husbands and fathers had been taken 8 a. m. (German timeL striking way the facts which we took from their families without a word of from the authorities of a nation professing the liberty of laying before you. good-by sons and daughters on whom "Each person will be permitted to civilization and religion to millions perhaps aged parents relied for support take 30 kilograms jof baggage if anyone's "We do flot wish here to enter Into of fellow Christians captive and baggage exceeds that weight, it the Question of provisioning in the Invaded were taken without pity or apparent starving. WRITING PAPER CHEAP will all be rejected, without further districts others, better qualified thought of the terrible consequences. "General von Kries, the govegioi. consideration. Packages must be separately than^ ourselves, give you, as we The great deportations of was kind enough to explain. Candidly, We have a large amount of the best made up for each person and know, frequent information. It is Belgium have shocked the world. But they preferred not quite so much starvation these lesser deportations—that is, grade bond paper in white and various must bear an address legibly written enough for us to describe in a few it might get on the nerves of and firmly affixed. This address must words the situation from this aspect: lesser in extent, but not less brutal in colors, in tablet form but without the German soldiers. But, starvation contain the surname and the Christian Entire Population in Misery. their carrying out—are hardly known. being present, it must work for German covers, that we are selling out Germany Must Be Civilized. name and the number of the identity "The provisibning is very difficult purpose. Taking advantage of at 5 cents each—a third of a pound card. food, apart from that supplied by the "I went into Belgium and occupied this wretchedness, the working men of of good paper in each one. Also a "It is absolutely necessary that each Spanish-American committee, is very France a neutral and I maintained Poland were to be removed the country large number of scratch pads at 5 person should, in his own interest, provide while there «a steadfastly neutral behavior. scarce and terifbly dear. People was to be restocked with Germans. for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. But I came out no neutral. I himself with eating and drinking are hungry and the provisioning is inadequate It was country Germany needed—rich utensils, as well as with a woolen by at least a half our population cannot conceive that any American enjoying alluvial soil—better suited to German blanket, good shoes, and body linen. an experience similar to mine is suffering constant privations expansion than distant possessions. If Everyone must carry his identity card and is growing noticeably weaker. The could have come out a neutral. He the Poland that was had to perish, so on his person. Anyone attempting to would come out, as I came, with the death rate, too, has increased considerably^ much the better for Germany. ineradicable conyiction that a people evafle transportation will be punished To Make Poland German Province. Subscribe for THE PRESS -The Popular Home Weekly without mercy." or a government which can do what the "Sometimes inhabitants of thex infaded "Remove the men, let the young and "ETAPPEN-KOMMANDANTUR. Germans did ahcl are doing in Belgium territories speak with a note of weak die, graft German stock on the (Lille, April, 1916.) and Trance today must not be allowed, discouragement, crying apparently: ONLY SUM PER YIAR 'R women. See how simple it is: with a Belgian Address to French President. 'We are forsaken by everyone.' We, if there is power on earth to prevent it, crafty smile, General von Kries concluded, "To Monsieur Raymond Poincare, on the other hand, are hopeful, Monsieur to do this a moment longer than can be 'By and by we must give back President of the French Republic, helped. And they must not be allowed le President, that the energetic freedom to Poland. Very good it will Paris. ever to do it again. intervention on the part of neutrals, reappear as a German province.' $ $ SACRIFICE $ $ Majestic Hotel "Sir: We have, the honor to express "I went in also a hater of war, and I which the French government is sure "Slowly, I came to realize that tills again our most sincere gratis came out a more ardent hater of war. to evoke, will soon bring to an end monStrpus, incredible thing was the tilde to you for your most kind reception, But, also, I came out with the ineradicable these measures, which rouse the wrath FOR SALE CHEAP Prussian system, deliberately chosen a few days ago, of the deputation conviction, again, that the only of all to whom humanity is not an empty by the circle around the all-highest, Cor. Sevanth Stmt and HraiMpia Av*nu* which went with feelings of legitimate way in which Germany under its present MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA word. 1 and kneaded into the German people ONE FORD KAR—Including kwh emotion to inform you of the rule and in its present state of "With all confidence in the sympathy ,j till It became part of their mind. THE ONLY .MODERN all Tools, Chains, Jack, Pump, deportation of lads and girls, which of the government we venture to address mind can be kept from doing what it "German people are material for POPULAR PRICED HOTEL Side Curtains, good as new, 3 the German authorities have just car* has done is by force of arms. It. cannot a new and pressing appeal to building the state—of no other account. Within one block of t«jn theatre* and principal Innertubes, All'New Tires, J.916 be prevented by appeal, concession ried out in the invaded districts. your generous kindness and far-reaching department store*. 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