IRELAND CONTRIBUTES 61,000 RECRUITS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12727, 22 December 1915, Page 6

IRELAND CONTRIBUTES 61,000 RECRUITS.

An account of recent events in Belgium fiom a reliable source is published ly the London Daily Telegraph. The German authorities, in spite of the Hague Convention are* taking eveiy opportunity of making the Belgian petiole work for them. They ordered the muni- . ij'.dity of Ghent to repair the manoeuvre ground in the neighbourhood of the town. whiih is used by the German airmen. Tie- municipality "lefusid, mi the grouuti that the work was of a military character. Tl!e German authorities* repaired the ground thtms'-ives. but sent the account to the municipality, who refused to pay t. The result may be that Ghent wii! be fined. A few- weeks ago seventeen passengers l>v tiie train ff-m Tiilemont were fined s:.\ marks each because one of the travellers jumped out of the railway carria.;before the tiain had stopped. It is now e.st:. | .li.shed. as the result of an iuquiiy made with particular tare by very reliable, persons, that in the province of f.eige aioiie 1559 civilians, including iium'"v;s of women and children, were killed by to-iuian soldiers.

A correspondent says: "'You can f"Uii ::•. idea of the maiiciou* ragt- wiiich stimulat -s the German* again.sl England. The German authorities "take eveiy opportunely of trying to make Belgian people bvljVve that England is the cause of the v:.a\ and above all of Belgium's misfortune They post bills everywhere reproducing vague fragments of speeches or of pamphlets" trying to compromise youi nation. "In the Brussels Palais des Academies ate now a few hundred German. Belgian and English wounded soldiers. The German:- and Belgians alone have the privilege of receiving visits. Chaiitable persons .ue desirous of bunging dainties and clothing to the wounded English soldier.-..' hut, the German authorities have forbid- •:!• :i :'r.is favour, ■-'- liicii is. however, gsaiited to other wounded! "You have beaul that the Goveiuoi-(-ri-ral of Belgium has imposed a tax on those Belgians v '»• had not retiirn-d to t'nc country before March Ist, 1915. Tti.-v number 5'l)10. and will have to pay ahogwhei th- .sum <>f A.2f>l.a(Yi fraius, or over £toß,Goo. The tutuiber of families v.im iuive come back to Belgium as the t . -ul' ot the notice .•.mounts t-o 18,900. T'r-e German authoi ities will s-11 by alto-ti-u ;he fnrtiitiiie of those who do not."