IS GERMANY EATING UP BELGIUM?
Mi H. J. Uarntun-Fraser, sounds a sonorous note of alirm in the "Westminster Review" as to what he crlls the peaceful panetrati iof Belgium by Germans. Some of ijis figures are rather remarkable:—"A serious German authority recently put at between 75,000 and 80,000 the number of Germans of various kinds who inhabited Antwerp. His estimate coincides with that of a distinguished Belgian officer, who has published a study on this question. Nine of the most important banks in Antwerp are partly or wholly controlled and managed by German directors and German capital. More and more the important positions in . the world of commerce, banking, shipping, education, industry, are falling into the hands of Germans. Foreign consulates in Antwerp are in no small part occupied by Germans. Germans are invading even the controlling positions in the churches; they manage the.theatres, restaurants, and places of popular entertainment. In some streets of Antwerp, ou some
days in the Exchange, as much German is heard as Flemish, and infin*itely more than French.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9697, 22 January 1910, Page 4
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173IS GERMANY EATING UP BELGIUM? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9697, 22 January 1910, Page 4
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