BELGIUM
. A BURGOMASTER FINED. • Amsterdam Jan .1. i, The Germans fined th»';j)urgonisister of Antwerp 10,000 marks because hj" -r----fnsed to supply a list of unemployeds preparatory to tbeir deportation. Thfe Echo de Beige says that 304 deported? at Quaregnon included 227 employedg and 70 per cent, of the staffs of blast furnaces and factories at Lalon.viere, whose deportation summonses arrived while they were working FURTHER CRUELTIES TO DEPORTEES. Havre, Jan. 3. : Four hundred Belgians deported from C&mbrai are being forced to fell trees in Avrieourt forest, under the Allies' bombardment. They are badly fed and exposed to the weather. Many are suffering from pneumonia, and are forced to leave the hospital before they have recovered Those refusing to sign working contracts are ordered to stand in the open air naked to the waist and are illJrented. The plight of 3000 at Cassel is 110 tetter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1917, Page 5
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