INVADERS IN BELGIUM.
YOUNG MEN' FOR FA KM WORK CARE TAKEN OF SOLDIERS. TROOPS IX KING'S PALACE. 'Received Oclobcr 25, 8.20 d m.) London, October -24. A correspondent says that the Germans arc making a house-to-house canvass throughout Belgium, seeking for all the remaining young men, who are. to be taken to Germany to work farms or be drilled. As an example of the care taken of German soldiers, the correspondent says that he saw tired men going in parties of 150 to enjoy a Turkish bath or a swim before going to sleep. When they are in a fit condition, they are sent back to the frontor, as they say. ''On the way to London.'' j German troops occupied Palace Laeken, King Albert's summer residence. They paid for their dinner with bills signed with King Albert's rubber stamp, taken from the King's desk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15749, 26 October 1914, Page 6
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