A "SAFE" PASSAGE.
NORTH SEA MINED ZONE.
(Australian and N.Z. etc. and Reuter.)
(Press Assn.—Reed. 8.5 p.m.)
AMSTERDAM, July ,20,
The Dutch Government has declared its readiness to leave a safe passage in order to enable Dutch shipping to enter the original, so-called, "safe" channel granted 'by Germany.
BELGIANS LiAiCX BREAD.
CHILDREN'S' PITEOUS PLIGHT,
IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association - (Prss A^n. —Reed .8.5 p.m.)
, AMSTERDAM, July 19. The Ghent correspondent of the "Echo de Beige" says that life ;is becoming absolutely impossible. Mothers are unable to get bread 'for their children, legions of whom go to bed , hungry. There are ■ numerous deaths due to want of nourishment. Children at the schools are daily supplied with a ta/blet of chocolate. Many of them fall down from sheer inanition.
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1917, Page 3
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130A "SAFE" PASSAGE. Northern Advocate, 21 July 1917, Page 3
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