350,000 TO BE DEPORTED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2936, 23 November 1916, Page 5

350,000 TO BE DEPORTED

"FOR HUMANITARIAN RBASONSI"-A.ust™lian-New Zealand Cable Assooiation.' (Ecc. November 22, 11.20 p.m.) London, November 22. ' Tho horrors of the enslavement of Belgians increase daily.' Reuter's agent learns that Germany has openly; declared her intention to deport 350,000 "for humanitarian reasons." Soma- ■ have already been sent to • Rumania.The plan seems to bo to remove every able-bodied man, rich and poor, from; the ago of eighteen years upwards. THE POLISH FARCE Australian-New Zealand Cable Association, Amsterdam, November 21. : After an angry debate, tho Prussian Diet, by 180 votes to 104, agreed that' ; Poland'must give Germany permanent, military and eeonomio guarantees; and' also that the German character in ther eastern provinces of Prussian must ba maintained. _ Tho minority included Poles, (Progressives, (Socialists, and Danes. Herr Stroebel, Socialist, declared that the so-called liberation was merely annexation and would intensify tho war. POLISH NATIONAL COUNCIL. | Copenhagen, November 21. '\ ' Tho German newspaper "Frankfurter! '■ Zeitung" states that at Warsaw ai. Polish National Council has been form- . ed, representing all parties, for the organisation of tbo new kingdom. , CONSCRIPTION OF CONQUERED PEOPLE London, November 21. A wireless message from Berne states that tho Bulgarians are conscripting the Serbians in tho same way as the Germans aro doing in Poland. Thai . Government is protesting to neutrals. Tho Archbishops of Warsaw and Cracow ,havo ronounced the recruiting in. Polaiid. Tho priests generally preach! opposition to it from tlie pulpits. A LITHUANIAN PROTEST ; Australian-Tfew Zealand Ca-blo Association*. (Rec. November 22, 11.20 p.m.) London, November 22. , 'A. wireless message from Berna states that the Lithuanian National-, ists have issued a. manifesto protesting against "this grave violation oE tlie rights of man,, equivalent to a revival of slavery." It declares that al! able-bodied Lithuanians have been . dragged from their homes and deported to Germany and compulsorily Gilrolled in labour battalions. The German Government announced its intention of proclaiming Lithuania; : a kingdom within the Empire, with a' status similar to that of Bavaria and Saxony. Its. future King will be the Kaiser's son, Prince Eitel. The German General Staff hopes td. incorporate 150,000 Lithuanians in tlia army.