BELGIAN SLAVE GIRLS
:v ; A.prisoner lately returned from: Germany makes' tlio following"report;'on the- condition ;'of certain Belgian women ?T on a-'farm.iiear his' ' working camp in Germany.— .- ,'•','.' . ..' "There ' were about .30 Belgian women on the farm close by and-13 oh tho farm I' worked on. They."were told they,, would get good'; food ' and would "have to work from 6- a.m. to 6 p.m.", ■'; instead of which they had'to work from .iia.m. to 9 p.m., and had to-sleep'-on straw spread pn the,'floor, in a ;rdom just big enough to? hold; them.'..-, The farmer and his,.'son used -to strike: these girls with sticks.'on the slightest provocation, and had'them in L sitch terror'that if ho called them they ■.would;run to him in a body like dogs. Their were terrible, and their treatment most inhuman. ..-■' It. was slavery of the worst kind." .''.
Somej'pf the wooden churches of Norway.'/nre fully, 700 years old f and are still',in aii; excellent .state ot proservation: Their timbers have successfully: resisted the frosty arid almost ; : Arctic'.'':winters because they havo been repeatedly, coated with tar. • . .... ~'•
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 15, 12 October 1918, Page 13
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174BELGIAN SLAVE GIRLS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 15, 12 October 1918, Page 13
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