THE HUN IN BELGIUM.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1917, Page 5

THE HUN IN BELGIUM.

"INCREDIBLE" DEPORTATION II SCENES. .In a despatch to bis paper the London ci-rrespondeiit of th« Cnieago Daily News says that, according to an Americi'i' business man who reached London from Belgium, Germany intends to "deport and impress into her labor ranks the whole of Belgium's available manhood." The correspondent's informant, "v.l:oae intorgrity and judgment, are esteemed both in Europe and in America,' - describes the deportation scenes in Belgium as "incredible- and heart-rending." Already between 30,000 and 40,000 men. I have been torn from their homes and forced into.cattle trucks-and conveyed. to Germany. No discrimination, hesays, is made between employed and an-1 ! employed, iCnd unless Germany can be : induced to abandon her present policy; between 200,000 and 300,000 Belgians; will bo deported. Tne American Relief; Commission hava thrown around 100,000Belgians the protection of certificates of employment on relief work, hut this is only a small part of the population. Hie American cyo-witnm continue*i' Naturally the scenes attending theforcible removal of fathers and sons; would wring the hardest hearts. I'sawi one long train of cattle trucks loaded, i Mmiv of the men had resisted, only to' feel the German bayonet. Women and'children had fought for their men folk with desperate fierceness, and their cli.thes were tattered, their eyes stream-' iug. their voices screaming and shouting, until they were hoarse. When the t'ain was loaded the women and child-rc-p were standing about In a. huge crowd. Suddenly they ran on to tho. line in front of the engine, and threw themselves on the vails, v.hcie they chiEg, shutting their eyes a- N l mt'Jin-S loud lamentations. Dctaehn\ l< ol' soldiers prised them lose with bn\ ' -. a'Ul forced them clear of tho' t:**y end the train moved og tpwudi tLK Germin frontier, ' * "