GERMANS ADD TO WOES OF BELGIANS.
NEW YORK, January 19. A postal censorship affecting deported Belgian workers was established by the Germans, according to a cablegram received from the Belgian Government m Havre, France, by Pierre Mali, the BelLgian consul here. A translation of the [message was made public to-day by Mi Mali. It reads : —
''Official German record of the military /one m Belgium under date of December 15, publishes a set of regulations for the postal service of the deported workers, prohibiting their mentioning to their iamilies their places of work, this seeming to indicate that they were working for the German army. "A new batch of deported working people from Ghent were returned sick and several dying. They relate unheard of sufferings on the German front m France. Considerable mortality occurred owing to exhaustion from forced labor."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 6
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139GERMANS ADD TO WOES OF BELGIANS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 6
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