BELGIAN INDEMNITY
GERMANY WANTS THE -MONEY. HAVRE, Dec. 14. (Official.) The German Governor of Belgium lias summoned the Provincial Councils to take steps for the payment of a war levy of fourteen millions sterling. BELGIUM'S SUFFERINGS. LONDON, Dec. 14. It is estimated that the devastation caused in Belgium in the first twelve weeks of the war totals over two hundred millions sterling. Liege suffered to the extent of seven millions; Louvain. seven and a-half millons : Naniur. five: Charleroi, two r.'nd a half, and Antwerp twenty millions. BLACKEST FAMINE. LONDON, Dec. 14. The Belgian Relief Committee in England has received a telegram from B.'ankerberglie stating that the situation will be "-rave unless food arrives immediately. The whole region lias been .plunged into tho blackest famine. A GERMAN LIEUTENANT S BOAST. (Received Dec. 16. 1.20 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Dec. 15. Tho "Munich Nachrichten" publishes a. letter from Lieutenant Eberlciii wherein ho boasts that "he placed throe. civilians in front of the German advance at St. Die. French bullets killed the civilians.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 16 December 1914, Page 5
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