HUN SLAVE RAIDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 8

HUN SLAVE RAIDS

OUTRAGES,STILL CONTINUE "THIS CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY" Australian-Nuw ZnaJand Cablo Association.' New York, December 1. M. Beyers and M. Dewart, Belgian Ministers, have tabled to the Belgian Consul (M: Hiiveuith) in tho United States that tho deportations aro being continued, no distinction being mado between tho employed and tho unemployed. The deported will soon number a hundred thousand. They aro gathered and transported with groat brutality. .Railway men are especially sought. The Germans are multiplying tho requisitions for machinery and tools, thus stopping industry and..increasing the number of unemployed. When this incredible outrage is known, civilisation will protest against it as a horrible . crime against humanity. 35,00(1 IN THREE DAYS. Amsterdam, December 1. The Germans deported thirty-five thousand people from the neighbourhood of Hasselt aud Turnhout in throe days. GIRLS AND WOMEN FROM BELGIUM. n?<mter'i Tc!°sr<im.} (Rec. December 2, 5.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 1. Besides deporting males from Hasselt and Tanage, between tho ages of 17 and 50, tho Germans are deporting to Germany girls and women possessing sewing machines. A SAVAGE THREAT. Australina-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. December 3, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 3 Several Belgians having escaped'to Holland after having received deportation notices, the Germans have now issued a proclamation stating that in the case of those failing to return, their wives and children will be taken instead.