SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 261, 19 March 1917, Page 11

SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

Judge Lindsey, during his visit to Europe with the Ford Peace Mission, made a special investigation in th< various countries into the conditions of the war orphans. Interviewed by the “New York Times,” Judge Lindsey said that the main obstacle in taking care of the war orphans was the necessity for getting both sides to agree to allow milk and other food for children to pass the lines. “More than 500,000 children have perished for lack of nourishment in the fighting countries,” said Judge Lindsey. “In some parts of Poland, practically all children under six years have died, and all through that country few children of three vears or under are still alive.” During the recent deportation and massacre of the Armenians, a German woman in charge of an orphanage en treated that the children at least might be spared. The representative of the Turkish Government answered, “The extermination of the Armenians is ordered, and the children must go with the parents.” In France, in Belgium, in Hungary, in all the warring nations, the children have perished like flies. Even in neutral countries the high price of milk has been fatal to “the poverty baby.” And still the hosts of little graves go on multiplying.—Boston “Woman’s Journal.”