DESOLATION ALL ROUND
SAD POSITION OP RUINED ■ / ".BELGIUM. London, December 6. Mr. Waters, representative of the American "Christian World," has returned from a tour,of Belgium. He saw over a thousand poorly-clad women in Antwerp, many snuggling babies to their breasts, waiting in the snow and •slush for doles of food under the shadow of a big hotel where the German soldiers were making merry.
Between Antwerp and Brussels the road ' was full of refugees tramping homewards to their ruined villages. It was like journeying through a ;huge cemetery—graves were everywhere, and always between 'ruined houses. .The graves were marked by bayonets, caps, and helmets, and one by a child's shoe. There was desolation all round. The trees had been felled, wops had run to seed and .were .rotting; women were grubbing in the ruins of their former homes. There is only two weeks'food in Brussels, • • ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 5
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