AN ORGANISED TRADE IN MEN.
BELGIANS FORCED INTO VERITABLE SLAVERY. MINISTER APPEALS FOR AMERICAN HELP. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 5, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 4. M. 11. Carton de Wiart, Belgian Minister of Justice, in a special cablegram to the "New- York World,"' says that the deportations are the result of barbarity. Bad faith by Germany caused an aggregation of German marks in the Belgian banks, and then Germany seized 500.000,000 marks (over £20,000,000), "which was compulsorily invested in Germany. The invaders planned the ruin of Belgian industries, and had forced the deportations in order to release Germans for the army. Belgium supplied four-fifths of the Western Army's needs. The total German profits during the period of occupation have been 2.000 ; 000,000 marks. Salaries are paid only to workmen who sign engagement registers. They are obliged to work in virtual slavery. M. de Wiart concludes: —"Will the country of Lincoln remain passive in the presence of an organised trade in civilised men?"'
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 880, 5 December 1916, Page 7
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166AN ORGANISED TRADE IN MEN. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 880, 5 December 1916, Page 7
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