NATION WITHOUT A HOME

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13754, 13 November 1916, Page 5

NATION WITHOUT A HOME

SLAVE RAIDS CONTINUE WITH BRUTAL PERSISTENCY, BRAVE BELGIAN WOMEN FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS, (Australian and -New Zealand Cublu Association and Renter), . AMSTERDAM, November 10. A later message says that 22,000 citizens ol: 'Antwerp, between the age of eighteen and thirty years, have been deported to Germany without luggage. Tiny were hustled into cattle trucks, seventy in each, irrespective of whether they were married or unmarried, well-to-do or labourers, clerics or law practitioners. Every family in Antwerp was affected. Women were seen in the street weeping like children, reviling any German soldier they met. The wives and children of the men deported are often with'out means. Similar scenes were seen in Ghent. Wjien the "men were thrust, in cattle wagons, the women stormed the central station and attacked the German guards with kitchen knives, sticks, stones, and pieces of iron. Sixty soldiers were wounded. Hundreds of. Belgians tried to escape to Holland, and many Avcre shot by the German guards or killed by the elcctlic tcncc. Thirty corpses have been found along the fence near Puttc. GERMANY'S LOST COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. .BELGIANS PREPARING FOR OCCUPATION. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association and Reuter). HAVRE, November 9. The Belgian Government is preparing to formally occupy the conquered territory in East Africa.