UNDER THE HEEL OF THE SLAVE-RAIDERS
4WFUL SUFFERINGS OF DEPORTED I BELGIANS. New York, October 3. j The Belgian Government has given the ■', New York "Times" an official report.of ..: the sufferings of the deported Belgians, i The report sats: "It is no exaggeration, ; to sav that the deportees are ) .starved. Despite their utter weakness,, j they are driven like slaves to the heav- i iest work The guards use clubs on 6ick ,' and exhausted men. One man complaiJi- ; cd that he was being beaten to death j with a rifle butt. The treatment had ren- < dered many hopeless •■imbeciles. Hungry j men were taunted and maddened by the • sight of food which they were not allow- ;. cd' toWt."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •■ -. ;j
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 5
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121UNDER THE HEEL OF THE SLAVE-RAIDERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 5
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