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I Urged That Inhuman Deporta
tions Be Stopped Because of
Effect on Neutrals.
GERARD SUMS UP SITUATION
"Uermans Will Stop at Nothing, anu
the Only Thing They Respect Is
t-orce” — Huns’ Capacity tor
Cruelty Told by Whitlock.
I roused by the indignation shown
In/ the whole world over the ruthless
deportations of the people in Bel
qiiini and h ranee, socialist deputies
in the reichstag protested against
the continuance of the practice. Am
bassador Gerard’s evidence shows the
extent of the horror.
In the Norddeutsche Allgemeine
Zeirnng of December 2, 1910, the fol
lowing protests against tie* deporta
11,111 ot‘ Belgians to work In German,,
open red. made, respectively, by Ko
i list Deputy Haase and Deputy Ditt
i.’im, members of the reichstag:
"Ihousands of workmen in the oc
cupied territory have been compelled
in lore,-(I labor; we earnestly ask the
government to restore to these work
men (heir liberty, especially in Bel- i
giutn. In truth, we (the Germnns) 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 tied
to Holland returned to Belgium. Gov
ernor General von Blsslng promised
that these Belgian workmen would un
der no circumstances he deported to
Germany. This reassuring promise
has not been kept.”
Ambassador Gerard’s Interesting tes
timony appears in his recent book:
Ambassador Gerard's Evidence,
me president (during my visit to
America In Ifilfit iinnroto-uiii nrtnn mo *
ms great interest In the Belgians <it
ported to Germany. The action of Ger
many in thus carrying a great pnrt of
the male population of Belgium into
virtual slavery had roused great indig
nation in America. As the revered
Cardinal Parley said to me a few days
before my departure, ‘You have to go
hack to the ttmes of the Medes and
the Persians to find a like example of
a whole people carried Into bondage.’
“Mr. Grew had made representations
about this to the chancellor and, on my
return. F Immediately took up the
question.
“I was informed that it was a mili
tary measure, that Ludendorf had
feared that the British would break
through and overrun Belgium and that
the military did not propose to have a
hostile population at their backs who
might cut the rail lines of connumw
cation, telephones and telegraphs, and
that for this reason the deportation
had been decided on. I was, however,
told I would be given permission to
visit these Belgians. The passes, nev
ertheless, which alone made such visit
ing possible were not delivered until n
few days before I left Germany.
Belgians Forced to Make Munitions.
“Several of these Belgians who were
put to work In Berlin managed to get
away and come to see me. They gave
me a harrowing account of how they
had been seized In Belgium and made
to work In Germany at making muni
tions to be used probably against their
own friends.
“I said to the chancellor, ‘There are
Belgians employed In making shells
contrary to all rules of war and the
Hague conventions.’ He said, ’I do
not believe It.’ I said, ‘My automobile
is at the door. I can take you, in four
minutes, to where 30 Belgians are
working on the manufacture of shells.’
But he did not find time to go.
‘‘Americans must understand that
the Germans will stop at nothing to
win this war, and that the only thing
they respect is force."—James W. Ge
rard. My Pour Years in Germany, 191<,
pp. 3951-52.
A similar point of view is expressed
in an article entitled “Vae Vlctis"
from the Hungarian newspaper News
zawa of Budapest (quoted in K. G. Os
slanntlsson. Militarism nt Work in Bel
gium and Germany, 1917, pp. 53-54.)
Mixed Hungarian Opinion.
“Mechanical skill, and especially
qualified mechanical skill, Is for the
moment a more important factor than
usual, and as it must be obtained
where it can be obtained, Belgium has
had to sufTer in accordance with the
old saying which always holds good:
\ne vlctis (woe to the vanquished).
In Poland mechanical skill and the
arms which exist there are mobilized
(inder ‘the glorious and fortunate ban
ners of Polandin Belgium under “the
banner of necessity.’ ”
“• . . The question remains: for
what kind of work will the Germans
use the Belgians? . . . every kind of
work in Germany is war work, wheth
er it Is called agricultural or indus
trial work. As the deported Belgians
have not given their consent, their use
is contrary to internntlonn! law, and
the policy of the Germans in Belgium
and Poland is equally to be deplored.
Instead of aiming at bringing us near
er peace, it serves to embitter our op
ponents and to arouse more hatred to
ward us amongst the neutrals. Mho?
times and more and more we have
hail occasion to observe that the neu
trals show more sympathy for Bel
gium than for any other belligerent.”
Old Men and Boys Taken.
'1 he news dispatches Indicate that
the deportation and forced labor of
Belgians still continue. In a dispatch
from Havre (New York Evening Post.
September lit. 1!I17) it Is stated; “'flic
removal of the civilian population of
Belgium continues, according to ad
vices received here. The town of Rou
lers, immediately behind the battle
line in Flanders, has been evacuated
completely. Ostend is being emptied
gradually, and two thousand persons
already have been sent from Courtral.”
In another dispatch from Havre
(Washington Post, September 24, 19171
it is stated tliat “the German military
authorities at Bruges, Belgium, ore
conscripting forcibly all the boys and
men of that city between (lie ages o’
fourteen and sixty to work in munition
factories and shipyards. The rich and
poor, shopkeepers and workmen, ali
are being taken, only the school teach
ers, doctors, and priests escaping.”
German Officer Rebuked Men.
The following “Order of the Day"
shows how the town of liny escaped
the fate of so many Belgium and
French towns. Drunken German sol
diers were frightened and began to
shoot men and burn houses. The
commanding officer condemned tills be
cause it was not done by his order and
because two German soldiers were
wounded. It is evident that massacres
and arson were permitted only when
commanded by the officers.
“East night a shooting affray took
place. There Is no evidence that the
Inhabitants of the towns had any arms
In their houses, nor Is there evidence
that the people took part in the shoot
ing; on the contrary, it seems that the
soldiers were under the influence of
alcohol, and began to shoot in a sense
less fear of a hostile attack.
"The behavior of the'soldiers during
the night, with very few exceptions,
makes a scandalous impression.
"It is highly deplorable when officers
or noncommissioned officers set houses
on fire without permission or order of
the commanding, or, as the case may
he, the senior officer, or when by their
attitude they encourage tlie rank aud
file to burn and plunder.
“The miserable behavior of the men
caused a noncommissioned officer and
a private to be seriously wounded by
German bullets.
“MAJOR VON BASSEWITZ.”
Report of Minister Whitlock.
“One interesting result of the depor
tations remains to be noted, a result
that once more places In relief the
German capacity for blundering, al
most as great as the German capacity
for cruelty. Until the deportations
were begun there was no Intense ha
tred on the part of the lower classes,
I. e„ the workingmen and the peasants.
The old Germans of the Lnndsturm !
had been quartered in Flemish homes;
they and the Inmates spoke nearly the
same language; they got along fairly !
well; they helped the women with the
work, the poor and the humble having
none of those hatreds of patriotism
that are among the privileges of the
upper classes. It Is conceivable that
the Flemish population might have
existed under German rule; It was
Teutonic in Its origin and anti-French
always. But now the Germans have i
changed nil that.
“They have dealt a mortal blow to
any prospect they may ever have had
of being tolerated by the population
of Flanders; In tearing away from
nearly every humble home in the land
a husband and a father or a son and
brother they have lighted a fire of
hatred that will never go out; they
have brought home to every heart in
the land, in a way that will Impress
Its horror Indelibly on the memory of
three generations, a realization of
what German methods mean, not, as
with the early atrocities. In the heat
of passion and the first lust of war,
but by one of those deeds that make
one despair of the future of the hu
man race, a deed coldly planned, studi
ously matured, and i'<d!h.->nitoiy and
systematically execut'd, a deed so
cruel that German -■oldi-rs ire said
to have wept in Its execution, and so
monstrous that even German officers
are now said to be ashamed.
“WHITLOCK.”
Mr. Hoover's Conclusions.
Mr. Hoover’s mature conclusions on
the German practices in Belgium,
which he wrote for the pamphlet Is
sued by the committee on public In
formation, reinforce the detailed evi
dence already presented:
September, 1917.
I have been often called upon for a
statement of my observation of Ger
man rule In Belgium and northern
France.
I have neither the desire nor the
adequate pen to picture the scenes
which have heated my blood through
the two and a half years that I have
spent Id work for the relief of these
10,000,000 people.
The sight of the destroyed homes
and cities, the widowed and father
less, the destitute, the physical misery
of a people hut partially nourished at
best, the deportation of men by tens
of thousands to slavery in German
mines and factories, the execution of
men and women for paltry effusions
of their loyalty to their country, the
sacking of every resource through
financial robbery, the battening of
armies on the slender produce of the
country, the denudation of the country
of cattle, horses, and textiles; all these
things we had to witness, dumb to
help other than by protest and sympa
thy, during this long and terrible time,
and still these are not the events of
battle heat, but the effects of a grind
ing heel of a race demanding the maa
tership of the world.
( harles K. Gundrum recently pass
ed away at the government hospital
at Nenana from tubercular meingitis.
He came from Heaver Springs, Penn
sylvania in the rush of '98. He was
forty five years of age at the tfme of
his death and is survived by a wife
and four children and mother, sister
and brother in Beaver Springs, Pa.
NOTICE.
United States of America. Territory of
Alaska, ss to A. F. Stowe:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the year 1916
three hundred dollars in labor and im
provements upon the “Big 4,” “Mof
fett and “Crow's Nest” lode mining
claims, known as the Big Four group,
which are contiguous and in one
group, situate on right limit of Chitti
stone river, about eight miles from the
mouth thereof, in Nizina mining dis
trict, Chitina recording precinct, Al
aska, the location certificates of which
are found of record in book 9, pages
142, 143 and 144 in the office of the
recorder of Chitina recording precinct,
at McCarthy, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the l nited States, and the amend
ments thereto, approved January 22nd,
1880, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lodes for the period
ending on the 31st day of Dec 1916.
And if within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or
within ninety days after the publica
tion thereof, you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as a co-owner, which
amounts to seventy-five dollars, your
interest in said claims will become
the property of the subscribers, your
co-owners, w-ho have made the requir
ed expenditures, by the terms of said
section.
J. J. MILLER.
OSCAR HANSON.
First publication January 22, 1918.
Last publication April 2, 1918.
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