BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS.
"GREATEST HORROR OF THE WAR." HEAL MOTIVES NOT YET DISCLOSED. = [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.] Keceived this clay at 9.35 a.m. NEW YOltK, February 28. The "New York TimesV Bordeaux correspondent interviewed an American Consul who returned with Mr Gerard. The Consul made a most sig : nificant statement regarding the Belgian deportations. He said: They are the greatest horror of the "war. When the real reason of the deportations is known, which is not the case now, the whole world will shudder in horror.
ABANDONED BY GERMANS. lteeeived ting day p.m. LONDON, February 28. A Maastricht correspondent says: The Germans are abandoning deportations from Belgium because, despite menaces and tortures, 90 per cent of the deportees refuse to work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 March 1917, Page 5
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