BELGIAN WORKERS APPEAL TO NEUTRALS.
HALF A MILLION ALREADY ENSLAVED. PREPARATIONS FOR FURTHER DEPORTATIONS. Renter's Telegrams, (Received December 6, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 5. Belgian workmen, who are threatened with slavery, are appealing to tlic world's neutral workmen to move mi their behalf. They point out that half a million workers have been forcibly rendered idle. The deportees are forced to carry out German military work, or mining in Germany. They are paid threepence a day. AMSTERDAM, December 5. The "Telegraaf" states that preparations are afoot to deport at least 50,000 workers from the neighbourhood of Brussels.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 881, 6 December 1916, Page 7
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