BELGIUM'S SUFFERINGS.
.WOMEN AND CHILDREN STARVING.
GHENT, July 19
A correspondent of the "Echo de Beige" says that life is becoming absolutely impossible. Mothers are unable to get bread for their children, and legions go to bed hungry. Numerous deaths have occurred from want of nourishment. Children in the schools are daily supplied with a tablet of chocolate, but many fall down
from inanition
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9050, 21 July 1917, Page 6
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