HORRORS OF SLAVERY

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 21 November 1916, Page 6

HORRORS OF SLAVERY

RAMPANT IN BELGIUM AMERICAN EYEWITNESS. . TELLS PITIFUL STORY. LONDON, Nov 19. The Chicago News correspondent, in an interview with an American business man, describes heart-rending scenes in connection with the Belgian deportations. - The American Relief Commission has given 100,000 Belgians protection certificates., but this is a small part of the total subject of impressment. The American saw a long train of cattle trucks full of deported persons, many of whom resisted, only to feel the German bayonets Women fought the men folk. When the train was departing a huge crowd of women and children ran on the line in front of the locomotive and threw themselves on the rails. The soldiers prised them loose with their bayonets. Frenchmen from the occupied provinces are forced to work in Belgium to replace the deported Belgians.