"LAND OF GRAVEYARDS"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 7

"LAND OF GRAVEYARDS"

A PICTURE OP GERMANY. Germany is pictured as "a land of graveyards" -by Lioutonant-G'olonel Searle Harris, of the United States Medical Reserve Corps, who recently returned to Faris after having investigated conditions east of the Rhine. He says that the German nation is bankrupt, the people are actually starving, and that "probably no one will ever know the number of casualties suffered by Germany during the war." There are no eggs, no milk, and only halt a pound of beet sugar for each person a month," he gays, in giving details of the situation. "Shopgirls have lost from ten to forty-five pounds in weight, while everyone shows a lack of vitality. I found children going to school shod with paper sandals or with cloth shoe's to which wooden soles had been attached. No one knows the composition of the black, gritty bread that is being issned in limited quantities by tickets. Tuberoulosis is increasing and skin diseases due to lack of nourishment and lack of 6oap are prevalent. One beneficial result of the low diet which has been enforced upon the German people is found in the fact that it has helped many who were ovcreaters. Bright's disease has decreased and diabetes has disappeared. There, is 'no more gout in Germany, but on. the other hand intestinal diseases have greatly increased. These are attributed to coarse bread. Beer that is being sold has no substance." Condition? which he had found in Germany have led Lieutenant-Colonel Harris to the opinion that many women and children will die or become defectives if not supplied with food. "The Germans who overran Prance," ho says, "should be punished and permitted to starve, but not the women and children. Hungry men and women do not make good neighbours."