HORRORS OF BELGIUM.
Brand Whitlock’s Report.
The Foulest of Deeds
(Received April 23, at 8 50 a.m.) Washington. April 22
Mr Brand Whitlock, in a report on Belgium, says tho evidence stamps the deportations as one of the foulest deeds of history. The evidence Buggeals that General Hindenburg was responsible for the deportations. Hindenburg cricioieed Yon BissiDg’a rule as mild, and they quarrelled. Thereafter a reign of terror began by separating families, barbarities committed by brutal Uhlans, and the bungary shivering people made a distressing scene. The Germans proved that their capacity for blundering equals their cruelty. They have impressed the hearts of tbe Belgians indelibly with what German methods mean. They were not atrocities in tbe heat of passion or the first lust of war, but coldly planned, studiously matured, and deliberately and systematically
executed.' The deeds were so cruel and monstrous that even German officers are now ashamed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1917, Page 2
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