UNFORTUNATE BELGIAN GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 84, 2 January 1918, Page 3

UNFORTUNATE BELGIAN GIRLS

According to an authoritative report that has reached Washington from an American official, with the British Army now operating on the war front in Belgium, Belgian women and- girls , are heing compelled to build concrete dug-outs under artillery fire. This statement was made in the diary of a German soldier who was recently captured. He belonged to a. Landwehr division, and was personally in charge of a large number of these unfortunate Belgians, who were daily herded together and taken to a zone near tho German liues to perform manual labour of the hardest kind in constant danger of death. The soldier's diary tells-the story as follows:—"I am goiricr to give another instance of the efficiency of tho German authorities. Since the 18th inst.. nO women and {rirls hare been working at concrete dug-onts at Leke. As Loko is in the zone of /ire, and was shelled no later .thai! yesterday, this is another , case in which wo cannot understand the action of the authorities. IF this isn't taken by way of reprisal, then it is a shameful deed on the part of Germany, which cannot ho surpassed in imagination even. The civilian popu-' lation of Leke evacuated three or four weeks ago, and now women and children are compelled to work a.t the conciete dup-outs of thn village. I am sure of the facts that I fitato, for it is my duty to take a gang of 47 women to Leke every morvmig and bring them hack in the evening."

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