FAMINE & DEATH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1942, Page 3

FAMINE & DEATH

BELGIUM UNDER THE NAZIS DETERIORATION IN GERMAN TROOPS. NOTED BY OPPRESSED PEOPLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 12. “Famine is sweeping Belgium; the health of the people is lamentable through lack of food and fuel, and the concentration camps and prisons are overflowing,” said M. Antoine,Delfosse, Belgian Minister of Justice and Information, who recently escaped from Belgium, when making a statement in London. “For every one executed, 100 rise. The Church stands in the van of the resistance, and Belgium is loyally attached to her monarchy. All eyes and ears are turned to London, whence victory must come. “From Cologne and other cities of the Rhineland came streams of German civilians seeking refuge, and this just turning of the scales has aroused no pity among the Belgians, who jump for joy when they hear British aircraft overhead. The Belgians _ are quick to notice signs of German disintegration. “With the exception of the coast, there are only old and tired German soldiers in Belgium. I was living in Belgium a few days ago with and under the Boche, and I tell you that the German soldiers, who were formerly smart and alert, are no longer enthusiastic. They are dull and depressed, and they complain in the streets and cafes about the length of the war.” More patriots have fallen to the bullets of firing squads in Belgium than in the whole of the last war, declared M. Delfosse.