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 IX FRONT OF TFIE BELGRADE MISSION OF THE RED CROSS UNIT IN SERBIA 



German} r , knowing that he could not hear 

 from his family or communicate with 

 them, knowing- that he would be back of 

 a barbed-wire barricade with an armed 

 guard to keep him from escaping, with 

 one blanket to sleep in en the factory 

 floor at night ; knowing that the money 

 he earned would be taken for the food 

 he ate, leaving his family in starvation. 



"STARVATION A GREAT FORCE" 



I took this matter up with the Gover- 

 nor-General and asked him what it 

 meant. 



He said. "I do not know; I have to 

 sign so manv of those things ; but," he 

 continued, "go to the Governor-General 

 of the Warsaw district and he will tell 

 you the whole story." 



I went there in a rage, and when he 

 told me that those were the facts, I got 

 up and said : "General, I cannot discuss 

 this thing with you : it is worse than any- 

 thing I ever heard of. I did not suppose 

 any civilized nation would be guilty of 

 such a thing as this" ; and I started to 

 walk out. 



He said, "Wait a minute : I want to 

 explain this thing to you. YVe do not 

 look at it as you do. Starvation is a great 

 force, and if we can use that to the ad- 

 vantage of the German Government we 

 are going to use it. 



"Furthermore, this is a rich alluvial 

 country. We have wanted it and needed 

 it for a long time, and if these people die 

 off through starvation, perhaps a lot of 

 German people will overflow into this 

 country and settle here ; and after the 

 war, if we have to give up Poland, the 

 question of the liberty of Poland will be 

 solved forever, because it will be a Ger- 

 man province." 



STILL THE "SYSTEM" ! 



Still the reasoning of that "system" ! 

 As I walked out, General von Bernhardi 

 came into the room, an expert artillery- 

 man, a professor in one of their war col- 

 leges. I met him the next morning, and 

 he asked me if I had read his book, "Ger- 

 many in the Xext War." 



I said I had. He said, "Do you know, 

 my friends nearlv ran me out of the 



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