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AWFUL PLIGHT OF DESTITUTE BELGIANS. By Telegraph—Presa Association— Oojiyri&hi (Rec. September 24, 8.5 p.m.) London, September 23. Tho Lord Maydr, in an earnest appeal to the City of London for funds to assist the Belgians, says that in Belsium there-are over one and a half million people who aro utterly destitute. Their only escape from destitution is to work upon the manufacture of munitions for Germany, but they prefer hunger and death to assisting tho enemy. ".To feed these one ami a- half million at fivepenee a day," lie soys, "costs £218.000 a- week, and I have no doubt that if food is not sent tlio Germans will allow'the Belgians to starve., ftnd shoot' down if huflKor riots break out,'- 1
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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127AT THE MERCY OF THE HUN Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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