DEPORTATION HORRORS
' BELGIANS IN THE DANGER ZONE . Havre, January 3. . Four hundred Belgians, deported? from Cambrai, are being forced to fell trees in the Avricourt Forest, which is . under bombardment by the Allies. Theyt j are badly fed and exposed to tha . weather. Many suffering from pneu* I monia are forced to "leave hospital be« j fore recovery. Those refusing to sign, j' working contracts are ordered to stand i in the open air, naked to the waist* j and are ill-treated. ...... The plight of three thousand a 6 Cassel- is no belter.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable* . Assn. . . . ........ BURGOMASTER FINED REFUSING A HUN REQUEST Amsterdam, January 3. } The Germans fined the Burgomaster* " o£ Antwerp 10,000 marks beoause ha s refused to supply a list of unemployed " preparatory to their deportation. The "Echo Beige" states that 301 of those' deported from Quaregnon in« eluded 227 who were employed.. Seventy per cent, of the staffs of the blast furnaces and factories at La. Lou« viere have been deported, the sum.monses arriving while they were work-ing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2969, 5 January 1917, Page 5
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