Belgium

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 20 November 1916, Page 5

Belgium

\H THE BARK DAYSANTWERP ERE THE FALL. CHURCHILL'S NARRATIVE. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.55 a.m.) London, November 19. Mr Churchill, in the Sunday Pictonal, begins a stirring narrative of the effort to relieve or enable Antwerp to defend itself by means of the promised Anglo-French army of sixty thousand, including two French divisions, until the great battle to the southwards had been decided. He points out that General John French's army was at that moment disengaging itself from the hard-won positions on the Aisne and was about

to begin the northward journey, intending to re-gain certain positions oil the'left of the French line and had marched to Lille. Had the British and French Governments' hopes materialised, the Allies' lines on the west would have drawn through Antwerp, Ghent and Lille. GERMAN TYRANNY CONTINUES. DEPORTATIONS IN CATTLETRUCKS. Press Association. -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Amsterdam, November 18. The Germans captured one of the editors of the Libre Belgiqne newspaper, secretly published at Brussels and sentenced him to ten years. As illustrating the falseness of Germany's contention as to deporting unemployed Belgians only, soldiers

suddenly surrounded Damager's paper milk at Willebroick. crowded the entire staff into 250 cattle-trucks, and transported them to Germany. A similar incident occurred at the potteries at Boon, but a number of the workmen escaped to Holland. Inspired German newspapers state that the deportations, were tranquil and Orderly,' the Belgians being gratified 1 at their good food and prospects of earning money.-,..-,. While the Germans were marching 300 civilians to the station at Turcoino- a soldier struck one for not walking fast enough. A riot followed' and the Germans used their rifles freely, sixteen civilians being killed and wounded. Two Germans were stoned to death. Washington, November ib. ' Germany has acknowledged the United dates', protest against the deportation of Belgians, but has deferred the reply. Jews in the United States are ra.,i flK a fund of sixty million sterling for loans to Jews in beligerent countries for rehabilitation after the W ar They will not charge mterest nor ask for security for any loan.

AN [AMERICAN'S STORY. . ..» , j HEARTRENDING SCENES. Press Assn.-cTpyriglit.-Austraiian and N.Z, Cable Assn., and Router. (Received M 0 p.m.) London, November 19. The correspondent of the Chicago News had an interview with an Amen- , •can businessman, who describes as heartrending the scenes at the deportations in Belgium. The American •Relief Commission had given 100,000 Belgians protection certificates. but this was a small part of the total who were subject, to impressment. The American saw a long tram of cattle trucks filled with deportees, many of whom resisted, only to feel the German bayonets. Women fought for their men-folk, and when the train was departing, i a huge crowd of women and children'ran on the line before the locomotive and threw themselves on the rails. The soldiers prized them loose with bayonets. Frenchmen from the occupied provinces wore forced to work in Belgium to replace the deported Belgians.