UNHAPPY BELGIUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2439, 19 April 1915, Page 5

UNHAPPY BELGIUM

DEMANDS OP THE HUNS (Rec. April 18, 3.80 p.m.) Amsterdam, April 17. M, Castelein, President of the Antwerp Chamber of Commerce, in his report on the treatment of_ Antwerp, slates the Germans requisitioned forty thousand tons of cheese, eighteen thousand tons ol' maize, forty thousand tons of barley, and nitrate worth £160,000, oil worth £120,000, rubber £400,000, copper £800,000, wool £240,000, horsehair £460,000, the total value, being £3,400,000, of which £800,000 was paid. The semi-official estimate of all requisitions is over twelve millions sterling. When the Germans increased Belgium's monthly tribute to £1,600,000 in December, it was stipulated that the requisitions should cease, which the Governor-General promised on prompt payment., but, the requisitions have not altered, though the tribute has been paid regularly.?' The German Military Authorities har<. ordered the Brussels Municipality to reconstruct the Brussels high road. The Municipality appealed to the German Civil Authority, on th* erauM lbs —•<) was nafc i municipal work.j the as-

peal was upheld, but the military overruled it, and fined the city £200,000, and ordered it to carry out the work forthwith.