THE BELGIAN DEPORATION.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14395, 24 April 1917, Page LI

THE BELGIAN DEPORATION.

OXE OF THE FOULEST DEEDS

IN HISTORY

H-INDENBURG RESrO^SIBLE

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S lIEPORT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association;

Washington, April 22.

Mr' Brand Whitlock, formerly American Ambassador at Brussels, in a report on Belgium, says that the evidence stamps the deportations as one of the foulest deeds in history. Evidence sug-/ gests that Hindenburc; was responsible :for the deportations. Hindenburg criticised Yon Bissing's rule a.s mild. They quarrelled, and thereafter a reign, of terror bepjan. with the separating ol families and baa I>aritic& coniiTiticd by brutal Ulilaiift. The hungry and shivering people made a distressing scene.