BELGIUM'S POSITION GLOOMY.
ALLIED HELP SORELY NEEDED.
THE KING'S VISIT TO PARIS.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association! (Received April 7, ,11.30 a.m.) PARIS, April 6. M. Vandervelde, Belgian Minister for Justice, informed the press that the position of Belgium was of the gloomiest nature. The country Wa_ matching to disaster. Unless assistance was* promptly given owing to lack of raw materials 750,000 will be without employment. Two and a-half millions are relying on the State for bare necessities of life, providing a rich soil for the spread of Bolshevism. . Belgium desires the Allies to soon guarantee four hundred millions sterling, pending . Germany's reparation. With such credit the country could obtain raw materials and machinery to resume her industry. The King's visit was made m order to emphasise the matter to the Peace Conference. Although he met with the utmost sympathy, he did not receive a definite promise of immediate assistance. The Allies must give a solemn promise m the matter of reparation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14880, 7 April 1919, Page 3
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