AMAZING STATEMENT
FOOD IN .MY IN BELGIUM
(Rec. April 2, 10.45 l»Jn.) • London, April 2. .Mr. Whitaker states' in the ."Times" that the Germans are- remarkably leni« out in Belgium. Brussels and Antwerp, are well supplied' with food, which has boen ■ produced -in Belgium as plentifully as before the war. The shops ajid theatres, are crowded with fashionabla ■women. ■! The statements have produced a sen-, sation, because all the world lad understood that Belgium' was-starving. The Belgian Embassy does not deny, , the truthfulness of the statements, but tho secretary of the r Belgian-'.Belief Committee writes , generalising upon the hardships experienced/.during the German ocoupation^JJmted-Serijce. [Tho abovo message, as cabled, gave no indication whatever of "WMtakerV-. identity. There arc several "IVhita- : kers" in "Who's Who," ,but none can be associated with the author of tho above statement.] ' \
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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135AMAZING STATEMENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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