THE GERMAN HEEL IN BELGIUM
POLICY OF STARVATION. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ■ Paris, July iii. A Belgian politician, in a letter to his relatives from Belgium, describes tho starvation conditions in the country and tho ruthlessness of the German regime. Starving people in many towns in Flanders made demonstrations in the streets with -placards reading "Bread or I Death." •
Many riots havo occurred. The Germans sabred tho demonstrators, and are forbidding demonstrations, under a penalty of/five years' imprisonment. Tho Germans continue to make extensive requisitions, ■ and. do not conceal I:hctr intention to pursue a systematic policy of starvation to compel Belgium to raisa her voico in favour of peacti.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2826, 18 July 1916, Page 5
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109THE GERMAN HEEL IN BELGIUM Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2826, 18 July 1916, Page 5
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