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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 9

WOMEN IN BELGIAN TOWNS • FORCED TO PERFORM HARD LABOUR FOR GERMAN ARMY. Tho correspondent of the London Times at Amsterdam writes: — "At Blankenberghe the Germans forced a great number of servants' to leave their situations and tried to compel them to take up, the work of unloading, docking, and transportation for the army. The young girls refused and were shut up in the hotel Belvedere, which serves as a prison. Most of them persisted in their refusal ''and were liberated; they were requisitioned again and sent to different places, even to the wall of the port of Zeebrugge iv order to work there for the Germans. Daughters of farmers and the bourgeoisio from tho surrounding country havo also been requisitioned. "The military authority does not spare even the disabled and ill. _ Tho Telegraaf correspondent on the frontier reports that a disabled man who happened to remark that ho had only one leg was told that there was work that he could do with his hands. A one-armed man was told : 'We will give you a one-armed comrade and tho two of you can do one man's work.' "Tho communal school at Budzeele has been transformed into a penal colony. The building is surrounded with barbed wire, like a prisoner's camp. The chateau near Bruges is also employed as a penal colony." Tho Rheinischo Wostfalischo Zeitung recently contained a communication emanating from tho labour oxchango of Cologne, which' said in part: "Industry meets with more and more difficulty in procuring artisans, difficulties that oan bo remedied only in so far as the supply of labour permits. The central intelligence office for manual labour asked at once that foreign artisans should bo called on for aid. These artisans will not be able to replace entirely tho German workmen, to say nothing of their demands in- respect to wages, which aro very-often in inverse ratio to their capacities. Experience, moreover, has still to teach us whether tho employment of women'from the occupied territories will be of advantage for the munition industries. Tho demand for women workers in the metallurgie industry, as well as in chemical and explosive industries, is very great, and the supply, according to the figures, Is still diminished." Speaking at Pelmerston North at a meeting of the Second Division League,. Mr. D. Buick, U.Y., remarked that just now was the crucial moment, as our Toes were beaten, and ho thought they realised it. But let them think that even a little place like New Zealand was showing the white feather, and it would hearten the enemy. He was pleased that there had been no white feather shown, and no Bolshevik spirit, such as was shown at Christchurch, and which did the Second Division League a lot of harm. The league had had to live this down, but it had done it. An attractive and seasonable offering of Putl-On Hats, invites your early attention. We have reduced the price to one giiinai, and ladies should not miss the opportunity of securing practical hats at such a'modest cost. These pullons aro in Silk and Velvet in all colours, .trimmed with various, ornaments. Ideal for mid-season wear and wintry weather. Miss:. Abrahams, 356, Lambton-miay, Wellington.—Advt.