A GLIMMERING OF BELGIUM'S PLIGHT
PICTURED B\' AN AMERICAN. London, April 12. An American who accompanied a shipload of American flour to Belgium says: "Imagine a densely-populated manufacturing area occupied by a hostile army; suppose that there is a picket of these foroign soldiers at every street corner and every cross-road; conceive the eoasfc to be absolutely blockaded by half Ilia navies of the world, and the land borders lined with five million inon; (he' railways, telegraphs, telephones, .".nd postal services .ill stopped, and people forbidden any movement' outside tlio villages; the fncionV-s rinsed, and f)0 per cent, of the people unemployed ; conceivo further that • rich and poor alike arc reduced to n systematic ration of half the normal consumption of hread, and you cat perhaps a pUiim-. urine of what war means to Belgium."— "TiW and Sydney. -"Sun" services.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 5
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140A GLIMMERING OF BELGIUM'S PLIGHT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 5
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