TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS IN BELGIUM.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 867, 20 November 1916, Page 11

TERRIBLE HAPPENINGS IN BELGIUM.

DEPORTATIONS CAUSE HEARTRENDING SCENES.

WOMEN TRY TO STOP THE TRAINS.

THROW THEMSELVES ON THE METALS. 7?i/ Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Ecutci: (Received November 20, 2.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 19. A "Chicago News" correspondent had an interview with ; an American business man, who described heartrending scenes In connection witJi the deportation of Belgians. The American Relief Commission, be says, lias given 100,000 I Belgians protection certificates, but this is a small part of the ■ total population subject to imprisonment. He saw a long train of cattle-trucks, filled with deportees. ' Many resisted, only to feel a German bayonet. Women fought , for their men-folk. i When the train was departing, a hnge crowd of women and ! children ran on to the line in front of the locomotive and threw themselves on the rails. Soldiers prised them loose with bayonets. Frenchmen from the occupied provinces have been forced to work in Belgium to replace the deported Belgians.