SLAVE RAID IN BELGIUM
CARDINAL -SfERCTER'S PROTEST
AN APPEAL TO THE! WORLD.
.'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 14Tire Telegraaf says ■ Cardinal Mercaer and t-lie Belgian; bishops have protested against the deportations, . which are; a violation of Von der Golt-z's word l of honour that no civilians capable of. hoaxing arms would be sent to Germany tx> make mum-lioni? or engage m forced* labour. . NETJTRAES TO TAKE ACTION. THE POSPE, AMERICA, AND SPAIN. t'-Australian and N-Z. Association.) LONDON, Nov. 14. The Daily Chronicle's Rome ' correspondent. authoritatively states that the Pope, King Alfonso, and' President Wilson are formulating -urgent joint action ■to stop the Belgian deportations. - ' The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent says Cardinal -Mercier's :proTf&b movingly appeals to all souls, believers or (unbelievers, in Ailied, neutral a,nd even- enetny countries, to do -their utmost to secure the abolition of the system of slavery undier -which able-bodaed nnSn are no one 'knows whither, in) -ga<ng9 of 'BOO to 1200 • daily : from; some districts, each deportee -reprepenting' a German .worker -transferred t.o the army. ' -
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Nelson Evening Mail, 15 November 1916, Page 5
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