BELGIUM UNDER THE TERROR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7

BELGIUM UNDER THE TERROR

. A VIVID DESCRIPTION. Washington, April 9. A high American official gives vivid reports'"of 'the state of Belgium throughout the German, reign of 'terror. * , The country„-he says, Was a : vast internment camp,, and 'the people-' were not allowed in the streets of' Brussels after 8;30 .o'clock at night. (Rigorous punishment 'was meted out for' trivial offences, and the country was' seething with/hate.' : Tlio deportations' were carried out under 'a guard 6f ; Uhlans, with madhine-guns. Two'hiin--dred and-thirty-five were returned "from Ghent in an exhausted and dying conclition. .The deported men were un■derfed and transported in open 'trucks' in the hitter cold. Many were'engag-' ed in military work. ,"'•■■■•' ,AN AMERICAN INVESTIGATION. | . New York, April 9. 1 The New York "World" sent Dr.' .Theodore Bebbt to investigate the -al-, leged innoculation of the. 'prisoners with tuberculosis germs-by the Germans. Dr. Beebt says' that it is high- : Jy 'significant that only the' vaccinated: prisoners developed tuberculosis. Ho did not hold that would 'be too deep', for tlie people to commit such'a crime,, but there must be evidence to support v'such statements. It would have beeir almost more humane if the Germans had killed some of the prisoners who' had been' sent home. . , • .