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sheltering themselves beh w • « »"u women and MU Ebcrlein d b "l made th e m 8it "0 „ * * rsb the middle of the street th «y had put in the same way in the middle of th< French bullets. I saw their dead bodies As to killing prisoners, I have already quoted General Stenger. ars about their conduct, I statement of their military German. As to the deportation of civilians, and the restoration of Calmuck statements of your own Ambassador and other Americans who their conduct of the war, listen to the testimony of one of our own distinguished fellow-citizens, Mr. F. C. Walcott. one of Mr. m A year ago I went to Poland to learn its facts concerning the remnant of a people that had been decimated by war. The country had been twice devasSt t h e R u s s i a n «£ *u S army swept through it and tnen tne Germans. Along the roadside from Warsaw miles million people had died of hunger and cold. The way their bones i c k e d ean fe

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