THE HUN SLAVES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2992, 1 February 1917, Page 5

THE HUN SLAVES

APPALLING REGIME OF MISERY

THE DEPORTATIONS IN

, POLAND

(Rec. January 31, 8.30 p.m.)

London, January 30.

All the industries in Poland are dead. Tho factories aro closed, and the dismantled machinery has been sent to Germany. All the church bells have gone. Besides the daily shooting o£ Poles, them arc constant imprisonments for the smallest offences. There are harrowing scenes in connection with the deportations. Every night cordons of armed troops surround the workers'quarters in Warsaw, and the people are' forced to stand herded in tho streets • while officers select tho most suitable, separating fathers,.mothers, sisters and brothers. Children aro compelled to stand all night long in the hitter iriiiter weather, till they aro herded! like cattle into trucks and sent to Germany; The likeliest men are offered their release, if they enlist in the . Polish Legion, but few respond. An eyewitness says that one hundred- thousand people in Warsaw slone have, been seat into slavery. A regime of misery exists in Poland which no civilised-peo-plo would dare to impose on the worst criminals.—The "Times." ENFORCED LABOUR OF ENEMY ALIENS, t Copenhagen, January .30. German newspapers announce that tho Ninth German Army Corps Comniandor lias ordered the enforced labour of enemy aliens.—Reuter. ENSLAVED BELGIANS REFUSE TO WORK. ; -.. : Amsterdam, January 30. The "Echo-de Beige", states tha 6 11,000 deported Belgians at Soltau ate refusing to work.—Ane.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . '