A FOUL DEED
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BELGIAN .
SLAVE RAIDS Washington, April 22. Mr. Brand Whitlock (American. Consul), in a report on the Belgian deportations, 6ays that evidence stamps the deed as one of tho foulest in his'tory. The evidence suggests that von Hindenburg was responsible for the deportations. Hindenburg criticised von Bissing's rule, as mild, and they quarrelled. Thereafter the reign of terror began by the separating "of families. The barbarities of the brutal Uhlans towards the hungry nnd shivering people made a distressing scene. The Germans proved that their capacity for blundering equals that of their cruelty. Thoy liavo impressed on. the hearts of the Belgians indelibly what German methods mean—not,atrocities committed in tho heat of passion, in tho first lust for war, but coldly planned, studiously matured, and deliberately and systematically executed deeds, so cruel and monstrous than oven German officers are now ashamed.—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 7
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149A FOUL DEED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 7
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