BELGIUM.
PLENTIFUL SUPPLIES OF FOOD.
AMERICAN CONSUL'S STATEMENT. CAUSES A SENSATION. Received April 2, 9 p.m. London, April 2.
Mr. Whitaker, United States Consul, withdrawn from Belgium, states in 'the Times that the Germans were remarkably lenient in Belgium. Brussels and Antwerp were well supplied with food, which was produced in Belgium as plentifully as in pre-war times. The shops and theatres were crowded with fashionable women.
The statement produced a sensation, because all the world has understood: Belgium to lie starving. The Belgian Embassy does not deny the truthfulness of the statement, but the secretary of the Belgian Committee! writea generalising upon the hardships during the .German occupation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1917, Page 5
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109BELGIUM. Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1917, Page 5
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