AMERICA ORDERS RELIEF WORKERS FROM BELGIUM.
CANNOT TRUST GERMANY TO KEEP HER PROMISES. Australian and K.Z. Cable • Association, / : WASHINGTON/ March 25.' :':' ;: .The State Department announces that it has instructed Mr. Brand ' Whitlock, American Consul at Brussels, who has organised and super- ; vised the distribution of relief in Germany, and all diplomatic and consular agents/ and also all. relief workers, ■:. to withdraw from Belgium and reside in Havre. The Government appreciates the ! seriousness of the step/which/ has been taken after the {fullest con- ; sideration following Germany's sinking of a relie:: ship, which is a' flagranti violation of promises made to America. k The Department adds that although a verbal promise was made that the Relief Commission would be allowed to leave when it desired, Germany's observation of other undertakings has. not been such as to justify America leaving her citizens in occupied territory.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 5
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