PLIGHT OF BELGIUM.
THOUSANDS UNEMPLOYED. NO INDUSTRY, NO CREDIT. FEARS OF BOLSHEVISM. PARIS, April 6. Belgium cannot threaten the Peace Conference as Italy can. Headed by her King she merely pleads. M. Vandervelde, one of the Belgian delegates, received the newspaper correspondents to-day. Ho said: "Belgium has 2,b00,000 people receiving State assistance and 750,000 unemployed. It is impossible to re-start industry without machi l.'ry and raw material. We cannot buy this We have no credit. Only the mines are Forking. The E'-lgians plead for the immediate establishment of a credit by a guarantee that Belgium will pet the first £400,000,000 from Germany's indemnity. " We find » large indemnity bill," said M. Vandervelle, " but, of course, we know we won't get much of it. We do plead for an immediate credit." King Albert saw all the Conference leaders and pressed for £100,000,000 now. M. Va.nderreldo seriously fears Bolshevism in Belgium.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17144, 25 April 1919, Page 6
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