THE SLAVE-DRIVERS OF HUN-LAND

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2927, 13 November 1916, Page 5

THE SLAVE-DRIVERS OF HUN-LAND

CRUEL RAID ON ANTWERP

Australian-Now Zoaland Cable Asßociatlon. Amsterdam, November 10. Later messages show that twentytwo thousand Antwerp residents from eighteen to thirty years of age have been deported to Germany without luggage. They were hustled into cattle trucks, seventy in each, irrespective of whether they were married or unmarried, well-to-do or labourers, clerics, or in law/ practice. Every family in Antwerp was affected. "Women were seen on the street weeping like children and reviling any German soldier they met ■ Wives and children were often left without means: There were similar scenes at Ghent, where men were thrust into cattle wagons. Women stormed the Central Station, and attacked the . German guards with kitchen knives, sticks, stones, and pieces of iron. Sixty soldiers wore wounded. Hundreds of Belgians fried to escape to Holland, and many wore shot by' the German guards or killed by the electrified fence. Thirty corpses were found on the fence near Puttee.

RISING OF HALE DEPORTEES MANY KILLED IN STREET FIGHTS AT GHENT AND BRUSSELS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. November 12, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, November 11. Tho deportees in Ghent _ rose up against tho German soldiers, who charged repeatedly, killing sixty and wounding hundreds, before the deportees wero rounded up and marched like prisoners under a guard with fixed bayonots. There was a serious revolt in Brussels on Thursday, when the authorities commenced to deport men to Germany. When the firet batch- assembled at the station a Ilun soldier insulted a Belgian. A general fight ensued, the Germans firing ou the mob. ' Thirty Germans were killed or wounded. Many of tlio Belgians, wero shot. The military have closed Brussels.